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Entered according to Act of Congress, in Juno, 1867, by J. W. Burke & Cos., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the So. District of Georgia.
Vol. I.
CHARLEY IN THE COUNTRY.
HARLEY was glad to
learn one morning that
he was to go for several
months, to his uncle’s, in
ntry, to remain while his
were absent on a journey,
spent sometime there be
iY fore, and knew
yy what a dear old
place it was, and what a
good time ho would have
fishing in the pond above
the mill, to say nothing of
the blackberries, peaches
and water melons, which
he knew were abundant.
Charley’s uncle met him
at the railroad station,
and sent him home in a
light wagon, drawn by
two stout horses. The
road led thro’ a pleasant
part of the country. The
corn fields were in a blaze
of sunlight, the cotton in
full bloom, the fruit trees
loaded with fruit. On
their way they met a
farmer, with a load of
peaches and vegetables,
carrying them to the
nearest town for sale.
He was a jolly-looking,
hale, hearty old man, and
as he was an acquaint
ance of Charley’s uncle,
he stopped and filled
Charley’s lunch basket, with some of the
finest peaches from his wagon.
Little Charley spent two months very
pleasantly at his uncle’s, when one even
ing a letter came, telling him that his
father and mother had returned to their
home, and were anxious that their little
boy should join them. You may be sure
MACON, CA., JULY 13, 1867
that he lost no time in doing so, for plea
sant as he found the county, he had often
been home sick, and was glad enough to
get back to his city home, and to see his
dear parents again.
Quite a load of good things were stow
ed away beneath the seats of the wagon
that carried Charley to the railroad sta
tion. There was a large basket of elegant
Tinley peaches, and another of rosy
apples; a bucket of golden butter, eo'vei
cd with green leaves, was carried as a
present from Charley’s aunt to his dear
mother. Charley was brimful of news
for his parents, and had many wonderful
stories to tell his school-mates, for weeks
after his return to the city.
MAROONER’S ISLAND ;
OR,
Dr. Gordon in Search of His Children.
BY REV. F. R. GOULDING,
Author of “ The Young Maroonem,”
CHAPTER 11.
PREPARATIONS AND DELAYS.
turned from the bluff to
the house, his first effort
was to devise for him
self some employment
.s engrossing as possible.
j. b »us no part of his faith or
TP rac^ce t 0 mope or mourn need
-4# lessly over misfortune. He be
lieved that he could best serve his God,
his loved ones, and himself, by cultiva
ting at all times and in all things a cheer
ful spirit. True, he could not always be
cheerful, sometimes by reason of sickness,
and sometimes (as now) by the pressure
of dreadful misfortune; but he could al
ways try to be so, and in the very effort
he would be apt to find a refuge from dis
turbing thought.
Alas for him, however, on the present
occasion his preparations for leaving
home with his bright-faced children on
their proposed maroon of a week, had
been so complete that it was not easy to
devise anything more that was suitable
to his circumstances. This, however, he
did: he called before him his two remain
ing servants, Judy and Peter. Judy was
his cook. Her skin was almost as black
as the tea-kettle and the pots that she
so skilfully used, and her iace was as
homely as African faces ordinarily are ;
but she was as faithful and loving as she
was black, and no one could hear her soft
musical voice, or see her face, all radiant,
as it usually was, with native kindliness,
without feeling drawn towards her. Pe
ter, her husband, was some years her
junior, and was also a good and faithful
No. 2.