The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-10-19
THE CL0AK-C'UBBY AND
THE BLUE-R00M.:. =.
49, :. :. - -.
HOW WE LOST AUNT FANNY,

HOW WE LOST AUNT FANNY.
CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK
Whereupon 4, threatened her with
dire punishment if she dared omit even
a conjunction. Then che won't on.
g. The picture aatters. hers.
'ambrotypes always do.2* She don't look
handsome much, in my way Of think
ing ; there isn't meat enough to her
Just take look at her picture, 50 you
can compare it With her if she comes
io. always carry it in my pocket
here tor the tun Of it,
"Mr. Hooper must have snatcheo
1t, for heard struggle, though 1 did
not dare look, and my champion cried
out, 4 shall knock you down if you
make Unnecessary, AMI tell Or. Draper
tho ~hole story but this picture you
shall never touch again with my con-
sen:.'
''Just then father came bursting in.
'Dear me! Haven't you seen Fanny
yet? The Staceys knew nothing of her,
but I went down to Mrs.: Thompson's, :,
and she said she was coming home
more than an hour ago. Where can
the child be But what an intoler
able odor Something ust be burn
iog;' and opening the kitchen-door, he
inhaled in all its intensity the last ex-
piring breath Of my beautiful mullins,
which l had poured into their rings
With such proud expectation only an
hour before!
''The pupgent odor penetrated my
key hole, so that l thought l should
have strangled, while the others were
forced to opea doors ard windows.
"Poor little tather"-(Grandiather
Diapers weight was plump two hun
dred pounds, but Auntie aud he were
such friends y "tben set himself to
serve tea. I knew there was only the
last end of a stale loaf in the house (the
mullins were my piece de resistance for
tea, aud that he finally found, With j.
large loaf of rich truit-cake.; He also
made tea 10 the coffee-pot, which was
fortunate, when you consider his rate
of measurement-'a Tablespoonful tor
each person and one for the pot,' as he
told me afterward, and very proud Of
his house1ifery be was, too.
"You can hardly believe me, Puss,
but there was not;a quarter Of that
great fruit.cake left, and father declared
he had not himself eaten . crumb Of il
So these Two theological students must
have deVoured the whole mass of init.
gestibility. have no doubt Mr.. Leg.
gett took the hons share, aud, quite
likely, filed his pockets besides.
"They did not remain long after tea.
Father was obviously di,traa on ac'
count Of my mysterious disappearance
MI. Hooper scarcely spoke, but Mr..
Leegett mumbled sanosinonious phras-
es, generally with bis mouth full, Wind
Ing up with : oold:blooded: monologue
on tne state Of the wicked after death
bv way OF digestive. 49,
''The moment the door closed behiud
the departing guests l ahrieked ia
ther!' with the little strehyth that re-
mained to me, and tell ANS the door
iu dead-faint. .:..l:-
"Of course he had TO be told how /
came there but l spared him The story
OF what bad heard, only telling him
that he must never ask, me to receive
Mr. Legze.t IS my guest .s.in. =.
"But bless vour dea, heart ! How ,cl.
fish l an! I ought no. to have let YOU
stand there, brushiog ny hair all the
time, when you were 81 weary aud heat
ed. Lie down quietly till te..time,
darling. No, not single word more p
eyes, Auntie, I must just FAY that
DR.. Hooper is . dear old love, and 1
should like to kiss him this very .mio-
ute. Did he neve, come to your house
again ?"
Eyes, three or four times but the
Fates forbade out meeting. Once l
was i'll, and his other calls we're made
when was not At home"
20, Auutie, just look in the glass,
and view the prospect o'cr now; you
are the very qsintesseuce of cinnamon
roses, your own dear selt."
And so she was ,4;ese =.
:: 1had seized the opportunity given
BY: her absorption in her own remins
oences to rob my own disheveled orimps
Of . pair Of little topsies, and rolled hs'