tongue, and clime, and color? to
love your dear Native Land, as she sits happy among the nations, but to
remember this, our natural home, is but the ground-nest and cradle from
which we spread our wings to fly through all the earth with hope and
kindly wishes for all men. If the air is cheerful here, and the
sun-light pleasant, let no barrier or wall shut it in, but pray God,
with reverent hope, it spread hence to the farthest lands and seas, till
all the people of the earth are lighted up and made glad in the common
fellowship of our blessed Saviour, who is, was, and will be evermore--to
all men guide, protector, and ensample. May He be so to us and ours, to
our beloved home and happy Fatherland, in all the time to come!"

The old man bowed his head in presence of his reconciled household, and
fell into a sweet slumber; not one of all that company but echoed the
old man's prayer--"May he be so to us and ours, to our beloved Home and
happy Fatherland in all the time to come!"

On this, on every day of Thanksgiving and Praise, be that old man's
blessed prayer in all quarters, among all classes and kindred,
everywhere repeated: "May He be so to us and ours, to our beloved Home
and happy Fatherland in all the time to come!"

And when, like that good old man, we come to bow our heads at the close
of a long, long life, may we, like him, fall into a gentle sleep,
conscious that we have done the work of charity, and spread about our
path, wherever it lead, peace and good-will among men!

THE END.

Transcriber's Notes:

Author's name is not given in the text but other editions give it as
Cornelius Mathews.

Contents Page. In the original text, some chapter titles were wrong;
these have been corrected as follows:

Chapter IV. Title was "The Children." Corrected to "The Fortunes of
the Family Considered."

Chapter V. Title was "The Fashionable Lady and Her Son." Corrected
to "The Children."

Chapter VI. Title was "The Fortunes of the Family Considered."
Corrected to "The Fashionable Lady and Her Son."

Inconsistent hyphenation of words in original text has been retained
(daylight, day-light; fireside, fire-side; headway head-way; and
neck-cloth, neckcloth).

Inconsistent spelling of contractions in the original text has been
retained.

Page 27, added missing quote mark. ("Three, all of brick)

Page 33, changed comma to fullstop. (speech. "Expect to see)

Page 35, changed comma