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SARAW JONES IN MANITATTAN. | : 69
CHAPTER. IX. .
“She long'd for her mother’s loving kisg,
. And her father’s tender words,
; ‘'. And her little sister’s joyous mirth, ¢
“ Like the song of summer birds. k->
Her heart went back to the olden homo. | -*™&
That her memory knew so well, ° 9.
Till the veriest tritle of the past
Swept o’er her like a spell.” ; rs
_ Sanam: Jones went to Manhattan at the appointed time, with a
small trunk of clothing and a,large basket of, provisions; for a sloop
in those days was a long time in coming down the Iudson, even
with a fair wind, and its approach to a settlement made more com-
motion than the largest Atlantic steamer could produce at the present
day. So the good mother provided her pretty pilgrim with a lading
of wonder-cakes, with biscuits, dried beef, and cheese, enough to keep
a company of ‘soldiers in full ration for days. :
Besides all this plentcousness in the commissary department, the
good lady brought out wonderful specimens of her own: handiw rk
in ‘the form of knit muftles, fine. yarn stockings, snd colored wrist-
lets, that she had been years in knitting for Sarah’s outfit when she
should be called upon to undertake this perilous xdventure into the
great world. - an : Pe yee Poe,
Beyond all this, Sarah. had’ keepsakes from the children, with a
store of pretty: bracelets and fancy. baskets from Malacska, who
parted with her in tenderness and sorrow; for once more like 9 wild
grape-vine, putting out its tendrils everywhere for support, she was
gast to the earth again. . vs Fe
After all, Sarah did not find the excitement of her journey so very
interesting, and but for the presence of her father on the sloop, she
would have been fairly homesick before the white sails of: the sloop
had rounded the Point. As it was, she grew thoughtful and almost
sad as the somber magnificence of the scenery unrolled itself. A
settlement here and there broke the forest with smiles of civilization,
which she passed with proud consciousness of seeing the world; but,
altogether, she thought more of the »sv mother and riotous children
at home than of new scenes or new people.- 0
At last Manhattan, with its girdle of silver waters, its gables and
its overhanging trees, met her eager look. _ Here was her destiny —
here she was to be taught and polished into a marvel of gentility.
~The town was very beautiful, but after the first novelty gave way,
she grew, more loncly than ever; every thing was so strange— the
‘Winding streets, the gay stores, and: the quaint houses, with. their
peaks and dormer windows, all sceming to her far too grand for
-comfort,
_ To one of these houses Arthur Jones conducted his daughter, fol-
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