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46 IRELAND.
across his brow, “but she who had stood out so manfully against 3“, “0(:::l‘:
-when the hard, bitter, cruel trouble was 1n it-failed xx'l1en(;‘31i]c:,
better off. She’d bring our dinner down to the works, and bid ,0( f die
our labour, with as bright a smile as the sunbeam on the ,wate1s,o, Om
‘Mourne-and yet the tears would be in her eyes; and shed gut “'1 qs
little ragged girls round her, and tell them what turned out as pue f-or
gospel--that in two or three years they'd be able to earn better clot res ,1
themselves than ever their parents wore; and one evenin’ after she hadIsft11<
this, the youngest, who now earns her five shillings a-week of Mr. I err:
man’s money, clung her arms round her neck, and ‘My own (la1‘l1n’,n1a1nIII,h1
cries the Poor child, ‘ the first coat I earn shall be for you.’ ‘Darlmly ‘lnswclu
the mother, ‘I shall have a coat of green before that,’ and there wasnil
meaning in her face when she said it which they could not read, but I cou L,
. . e l l
and to lnde my grief Iwent out of the house and prayed, hut the Lola (K
not see fit to take the sorrow from me,
and by that day twelve months: “he”
the power of the watersthat had wa
ndered idly through the lands fol‘ 50
many years-like ourselves, able and willing to ‘work, if we were only P11‘
in the way of it-turned the spindles; and two of our girls had C0“5i‘“‘t
employ, and put their earnings to mine after I returned to field W01'h; tl‘0“'3h
we had plenty, and I could bring her a bit of fresh meat and a cake of Wlmc
bread from Strabane, yet by that day twelve months she was gone. I 1"“
proud the children all remember her, and the zcccnock who wanted to bu)’
her the gown laid her money by and gave me a Sunday hat; and instead Of
poverty we have plenty, and the boy that got the learning is an 0VC1'5CC"7
and the other might have done as well, but he never would go to the Sunday -
school, so hard labour is before him, but not the labour I went tl11'011Sl'2 for
it is just as if the Lord had put away hunger and misery from all around the
mills. My children are employed and happy, and each has something -10
give, instead of taking all-not that we ever grudgcd it,”-and there spoke the
true Irish spirit,-“ but that we hadn’t it. If the Lord took me to-m01'1‘0“'2 I
would bless him, for I should go to joy, and leave no sorrow behind me? my
coat will be as green as liars before very long, and my last p1'I1)‘01' will be for
the prosperity of the Sion Mills.”
Certainly an establishment
many advantagese-situated as
district-sever a f:
clitferencc consists
value is seldom att
tion of moral Zeal;
such as we have endeavoured to describe 1135
the Sion Mills are, in a healthy and 0,130“
ictory pent up, as it were, in a populous town. llhe
not only in the healthier atmosphere, to which sutt'1Cl9"t
aehed; but the people have opportunities for the cumm‘
7% which enables them to be more efficacious, because more