Show the tho black sheep A portentous house in a genteel up town street 1 et anda and a stylish lady lade very fashionably dressed wore were the home and the mother of fred vincent A showily dressed maid answered tue thu summons ot of ber her mis mistress tres I 1 arii are arti the in from school yet Alart martha hs ivo ko maam yeb yea I 1 should say eay for master charlies chariles ring no now w 9 weil weli well keep them down stairs until dinner I 1 want to finish this bp book ok in quiet before martha could get down stairs the bounding steps of the romping roby rosy z children two boys boya and a girl were heard on the stairs and despite Mart martha bess bits they trooped into their moth mother erya presence mamma Is dinner ready im nearly starved l and bate hate straps and blates slates were thrown hither and on bed and chair mercy children you make me nervous do go down and play in ja the uhe yard yam until IL dinner but fj ajen 1 9 oo 00 deptin kept in again of course 21 said will that boy will worry a saint said mrs vincent iles lies hns cont cout continually inu getting into difficulties and he land never can be made to bee see h his hib a faults faulta either elther 31 14 17 his hia fault 21 spoke tip U p charlie who was freds champion when others blamed him 69 walter waiter brent was taken ill in echo school 01 ao bo III ill that he could hardly walk and fred helped him home when he pame baa baek back he was too late for recitation in la astronomy and he was kept in iu for an ah hour as punishment elg eig He gewont wont beg onn off aa as we dowhen do when were called palled up uj and conever ha ho nover never either elther but he be feels reels badly badis know ow for he turned paid pale iri irl and fairly trembled but never said ii avord ayes eyes yes J h hes P P a too stub Dorn to olner offer an excuse that boy will worry oue out yet jet hes ees so uncommunicative munica tive ao so reserved never comei comes and tells me his hia troubled iet let like ilke other child children ren reh ali ah well there thero always mutt mut t be olao oue black bep in every flock they ibey say aa As these thoughtless words fell from the mother lip ered tred who had just come in wag was passing I 1 tho door iso one but bul the sensitive boy knew what a pank pang they gaye gayo him hild 1 il I 1 not the tho arst timo time thal that he bad heard beard the fhe remark andrad and had gone to hla hia room his heart sadly badly and aberi with burning braw he made hia hla ape aph apt arance at tha the tabie table bis bid te to licence was pronounced sulkiness evs a and kii iii he was often re reprimanded d foi magl nary aults faults oyes oyos yee I 1 am the dlack black sheep p rire pitre lire ly obi why do not my loy love meag meas me as they do chaille Ch alile atlle ano ani will and sister bister ii elter citer sut they never lever take halt half the pains to plea e that thal I 1 do jepthey yel yet thuy they are always petted antl aoa excused it they do noc nov want to do a thing but DO no one careb cares fur tor me noone no one oue joves loves me fm so miserable J so n u adap n happy py 1 thua thus ye yuon jeor aralle after r year passed away dway awa and the in IX aided ded parents continued to utter their complaints about freds fredn bad disposition still called bi him in tb the 0 llach black sheep she ep ano predicted that his career lu in life nou would id be discreditable he gre grew and aeed reckless as his bin re luffa anu slights at home continued ullo until ai be grew iu up ip to manhood wit with h such training j he joet his and became a morose ungracious cynical misanthrope hta hla iem lem st gifted ft brather brother e popular and also successful lil lii ill in business while people held aloof from fred he never was under stood until too late to remedy the mistake heart broken and dispirited he sought to bury in oblivion the knowledge of his wrongs by deep draught of the intoxicating bowl he died and a poor miserable drunkard As the last ricker flicker of his bis life lite was dying out he roused from hla hia stupor and quite unstrung his mothers nerves by exclaiming well weli mother the black blacksheep sheep will ston soon sion be out of ot your wy gott ghi forgive you for the cruel word worda 4 but they have been be n my ruin had you encouraged me given me mo your Pym sympathy pathy or let lot words of kindness cheer my pathway aa as you did my brothers I 1 bad not lain here dying of intemperance I 1 had no love for the draught but it brought oblivion of my wron wrong gsand sand L drauk drank it drank it to drown my de despairing 4 pairing thoughts need we depict the agony and ani ant remorse of those parents as they consign eoln coln sign eign to the grave the mailas remains re of their lostion lost son fathers mothers take warning watch carefully and tenderly the temperaments and disposition of jour your children to conid confide de to your will willing in g ear ears all their trials and perplexities make no disparaging remarks to grieve grievo or chill the sensitive nature wisdom and discretion tempered with love are necessary to the proper training of your children but above ail all aily aliv have a care that partiality be baul banished shed from the hearthstone hearth stone the well doing and salvation of the precious charge committed by providence to your care depends on your discharge of these duties louie glenn |