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    forbids you to meddle with him , and to came any more to see what trouble we are in . " M . instantly rose to depart . ** I will not remain with you against your will , " be said , " and it is my rule never to interfere between parents and children . But nothing can prevent my feeling for you , or keeping an eye upon your son , with the liope of giving you assistance or comfort when you will ber more willing to receive it . If y © u wish to see me again you will

    find me according to this address . " When M . had laid bis card on the table , Mrs . Harris exclaimed , " O George ! it was but yesterday you said that nobody in the world cared for us , and that no good came to us from living , as people boast , in a Christian land . And now you send away the first friend that has come near us these many days . "

    M . paused a moment to see the effect of this expostulation ; but as Harris still stood in an attitude of sullen gloom , he hastened away . As he left the alley , he spoke a few words to Ned in a tone which convinced the boy that the stranger had not been , as he supposed , * ' set against * ' him by his parents .

    M . was not much surprised at meeting Harris , within a week afterwards , coming in search of him . The man looked awkward , and began a kind of apology , which M . cut short with a smile and a few kind words . Harris came to say that his boy ' s curiosity seemed to have been excited by M . s visit . He had asked two or three times what the gentleman came for , and whether he would return ; and , as he had obtained no satisfactory answer , the incident seemed to have made more impression upon him than was usual . His mother fancied that the reappearance of the stranger might produce a yet further effect , and therefore humbly requested the favour of another visit , which M . gladly promised . He determined that Sunday morning should be the time , as the whole family would then probably be at home ; but he made no appointment , lest Harris himself should take care to be out of the way .

    As M . entered the district in which Harris ' s house was situated , there was . nothing to remind him that it was the Lord ' s-day but the church-bell , which the wretched jn spirit would fain have silenced . No man was more averse than M . to the sight of evil over which he had no power ; and he therefore pushed his way hastily through the groups of slatternly gossips who were abroad to buy their potatoes , and made a wide circuit to avoid the sound and smell of the crowded gin-shop . When he reached the place of his destination , he found n& drunkenness , but almost every evil short of it . Harris" was' out , in search of Ned , who had just made his escape , as he was for ever trying to do on the Sunday morning . The younger boy was leaning half-naked out of the window , watching a fight which had been got

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    The Early Sowing . 737

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 737, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/13/