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They couldn't keep a top or a ball or marble or any plaything to save their lives. Annie would cry for 'em jest for pure meanness, and whatever it was that Annie cried for they had to give it up or git a whippin'. She'd break up their rabbit-traps and their bird-cages and the little wheelbarrers and wagons they'd make, and they didn't have any peace at home, pore little motherless things.
A little movable pen was provided for this favorite, and the youngsters fed it several times a day with warm milk from a nursing-bottle, like any other motherless child. The pig loved its foster-mothers, and squealed for them most of the time when it was not eating or sleeping; fortunately, a pig can do much of both.
How beautifully our Saviour's words "Give, and it shall be given unto you," are illustrated in this story! How clearly we see here, that "Giving is God's rule for getting!" I have just one other illustration before closing this subject. We may call it: "The Miser and the Hungry Children." In a village in England were two little motherless girls who lived in a small cottage.
Frau Christine drew her compassionately to her heart, pressed the motherless child's head to her bosom, and let her weep her fill there, whilst the magistrate said to Sir Boemund: "And Eva Ortlieb also witnessed this hideous scene, yet the delicate young creature endured it?"
But the women had a tender feeling for him, because, although motherless and very poor, he yet contrived to be always clean and neat. He took the greatest care of his poor clothes, washing and mending them himself.
"Oh, no! You must stay with me," said Ellen, clasping both arms around her. There was a long silence, during which they remained locked in each other's arms. "Ellen, dear," said Alice, at length, "we are both motherless, for the present, at least both of us almost alone: I think God has brought us together to be a comfort to each other. We will be sisters while He permits us to be so.
There is no such class in America, but there is almost always a lady who will gladly perform the task of chaperoning motherless girls without remuneration. It is not considered proper in England for a widowed father to place an unmarried daughter at the head of his house without the companionship of a resident chaperon, and there are grave objections to its being done here.
But one thing I will say: If omniscient justice sends me for this to eternal punishment, I can endure it gladly, like a man, knowing that so I have redeemed my Marian's motherless girls from a deadly tyranny." It was the only sentence in which he ever alluded to her. I sat down by his side and watched him closely. Mechanically, methodically, he went on with his dressing.
It was when he was a-splittin' fish, and Aunt Stanshy came out, and didn't she walk into Tim! I never see an eel skinned more purtily than she dressed Tim for temptin' a poor, motherless boy, as she called your father. 'Don't! your father would go, tryin' to pacify her; 'don't! It had no more effect than tryin' to fan out of the way a tornader.
He, too, was skilled in the art of singing, and as my other brother, my playmate Kunz, had also a liking for music and song, there was ever a piping and playing in our orphaned and motherless house, as if it were a nest of mirthful grasshoppers, and more childlike gladness and happy merriment reigned there than in many another house that rejoices in the presence of father and mother.
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