his hand.

She placed the bond of his transference to Isom Chase in it, and those
old heart-wrung tears of hers, which had been dry upon her cheeks now
for many a happy day, welled, and flowed down silently.

Joe folded the paper.

"I'll keep it, Mother," said he, "so that it will stand as a reminder to
me in prosperity that I was once poor and in bondage; and in my
happiness that it may tell me of the days when I was forsaken and in
prison, with only my mother's faithful hand to comfort me.

"I'll put it away and keep it, Mother, lest in my prosperity some day I
may forget the Lord; forget that He giveth, and that He taketh away,
also; that His hand chastiseth in the same measure that it bestows
blessings upon us. I'll leave it up here, Mother, on the old shelf;
right where I can see it every time I take down the Book."

W. B. C.

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