Finally to discover that he had only been dreaming of
old age,--that he was really young, and could live such a life as he had
pictured."
A newspaper, purporting to be published in a family, and satirizing the
political and general world by advertisements, remarks on domestic
affairs,--advertisement of a lady's lost thimble, etc.
L. H------. She was unwilling to die, because she had no friends to meet
her in the other world. Her little son F. being very ill, on his
recovery she confessed a feeling of disappointment, having supposed that
he would have gone before, and welcomed her into heaven!
H. L. C------ heard from a French Canadian a story of a young couple in
Acadie. On their marriage day, all the men of the Province were summoned
to assemble in the church to hear a proclamation. When assembled, they
were all seized and shipped off to be distributed through New England,--
among them the new bridegroom. His bride set off in search of him,--
wandered about New England all her lifetime, and at last, when she was
old, she found her bridegroom on his deathbed.
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