DEATH OF MRS.

GASTON'S CHILD .-- A MOTHER'S ANGUISH.
ON the next morning, at the earliest dawn, Mrs.Gaston arose.

She found Ella's fever still very high.

The child was restless, and moaned a good deal in her sleep.
"Poor little thing!" murmured the mother, as she bent over her for a moment, and then turned away, and commenced kindling a fire upon the hearth.

Fortunately, for her, she had saved enough from her earnings during the summer to buy half a cord of wood; but this was gradually melting away, and she was painfully conscious that, by the time the long and severe winter had fairly set in, her stock of fuel would be exhausted; and at the prices which she was receiving for her work, she felt that it would be impossible to buy more.