The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-22

: strange "my fathers called Jack
e Lewis, if that's him."
"All right, here's these Ioaves for
D him."
care they paid for2" said Sally.
. eyes, " said the boy "come, make
: haste"
> "Well, I'll take 'em in. being as
! how they are paid for, but we never
, have such big lOaves as them, and
1 am sure you will have to fetch 'em
: back again; there's a mistake some
: where.
"There, that's all fudge, said the
boy, and off he went.
Saint them busters ?" said Tom
my asee, sister, they are new and
well baked, too, amt they? Only
fancy if they was ours, wouldn't we
| make hole in them soon?"
And again he started off with
dance and a shout, in the midst of
which another rap at the door was
heard.
"Here they are," he said, 81 will
bring them to the door,"
But upon the door being opened,
there was a lad with parcels of tea,
sugar and coffee, and the same ques-
tion was asked. But Sally, by this
time, had decided to take all that
was paid for, at the same time tell
ing each one, "They must not be
surprised if they had to fetch them
back again"
The grocer sent potatoes and cab
bages; the butterman eggs, bacon
and butter; and few other articles
from different shops arrived, until
the table began to be quite full.
II wish father and mother would
come home" said Sally; suppose a
policeman was to come and find all
these things here, what should we
do ?"
81 wonder, said Tommy, "wheth-
er fathers going to keep a shop?"
"Don't be silly, Tommy; it would
make you still, I know, if we all
had to go to prison" said Sally.
In the midst of this dialogue,
much to the joy of the children,
father and mother returned, and
soon told them the things on the
table were for the coming week, and
that all of them would have a share
if they were good and giving them
a piece each of the new loaf and a
bit of cheese, of they were sent to
bed, and told to be very quiet. But
quietness was out of the questions:
no sooner were they up stairs than
they began to talk of the morrow's
feasting, and their tongues made
such noise that it woke the other
children; and then Tommy had to
tell them that down stairs there was
such a whopping leg of mutton, and
such big loaves, and lots of other
things, and they soon set up a shout
which brought the mother to the
foot of the stairs, and she said:
"If you children don't be quiet,
you shan't have any pudding to-
morrow"
"Pndden, pudden," said the little
ones, "what's that?" And again
the voice of Tommy was heard tell
/ ing the others that downstairs
there were -four and currants, and |
that on the morrow mother had |
promised to make them plum pud-
ding. OF course, with this addition
al piece of news, was it any wonder
that their eyes were not much troub-
led with sleepiness, and that long
before the time for getting up had
arrived, Tommy was showing them
by the aid of the pillows, how big
the loaves were, and how mother
would make pudding, and then
they wished for the time to arrive
when they might be able to exper-
ience in reality that "the proof of
the pudding is in the eating"
However, the day was at length
fairly ushered in, and to the aston
ished eyes of the children, the whole
of the articles displayed; and it can
be more easily imagined than de-
scribed how the day passed away,
with so much to talk about, and so
many things to enjoy. And when
in the afternoon while all were seat
ed around the table, mother brought
out a plate of nice rOsy-ripe cherries,
was it any wonder when the chill
dren set up a shout Of joy, that
Mary's heart was too full to contain
its emotion?- that while the
children were making earrings Of
the cherries she drew close to John, .
and kissing him quietly, as the tears
trickled down her cheeks the mean
while, she whispered in his ear, l
awe may be happy yet"
And so it was; for in a short time !
John found that he could buy t
clothes for his children, and then Il
for himself and wife: and then it be- d
gan to be whispered that he was get u
ting proud, for he moved into a bet
ter neighborhOOd, where he only
had to pay about the same rent, d"
Aud soon after he IL
began to put by his savings in the o.
Building Society, and this enabled ~
him to build cottage for himself. tn
Meantime the master, finding
lin him more than ever attentive