It would have been some comfort to her if they could have brought back the child's remains, and buried them where her mother had slept for years, and where the body of her father had been so recently laid; but to leave her alone in the wild region where they had buried her, was something of which she could not think without a pang.
On the small sum of money which he had brought back from his western adventure, Parker recommenced his old business in the very town where he lived, and in the store that he occupied at the time of his marriage.

As his means were more contracted, he could not do as good a business as the one he had been so foolish as to give up several years before, and he soon fell into his old habit of complaining and perhaps now with more cause.

To such complaints his meek-tempered wife would reply in some words of encouragement and comfort, as-- "You do the best you can, and that is as much as can be expected of any one.

You plant and sow--the Lord must send the rain and the sunshine." Back in the old place and among her loving sisters, the heart of Mrs.Parker felt once more the warm sunshine upon it--the gentle dews and the refreshing rain.

But a year or two only elapsed before her husband determined to seek some better fortune in another place.
Without a complaining word his wife went with him, but her cheek grew paler and thinner afterward, her step slower and her voice even to the ear of her husband sadder.