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MARTIN CRAGHAN.
[AKE care of the lad, Martin! 'tis but
| a little one."
' Mrs. Craghan sighed as she spoke,
looking up into Martin's face, and then smiled
down into little Martin's bright eyes.
"Never fear, mother," whispered the boy,
" only think of this evening, and the wages —
the first wages, mother!"
His father looked proudly and tenderly on
the eager, happy face, and then across to the
hard-worked, toil-worn, pretty woman, who
was his wife.
"Never fear, lass," he said, echoing the
hopeful words, " what makes thee down-
hearted this morning'?"
"He looks so young," said the woman,
plaintively, " and it is such hard, rough work,
Martin ; all day long I sit and fear for the
child."
"What a foolish little woman, 1 ' he said,
kissing her. "Good-bye, lass; Martin is half-