The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-23
DID SIZE love TRULY
A story For the Girls.

Ida don't you know papa is not
rich?"
81 cannot help it if he is rich or not; l
want it"
Eyes. but we want lots of things
''And we cannot get everything. of
course, but can and will have party"
"What! even if papa cannot afford it,
'Of course. He cannot afford to give
us new bonnets, but then he has to, and he
cannot afford to do lots OF things, and yet
he makes out to do them"
"Ile tries TO do everything for US and
everybody"
well, he can give me party, then"
ale would have to buy heaps Of
things"
Il know. People always do"
."Candes and cakes and -
"Of course"
Papa said he could not pay the bread
bill this morning"
"Oh. he meant to-day"
II do not know. bat he seemed very
sad"
''The little ships Of things won't cost
much. don't want great party, YOU
know, only the girls 1T school and every
body nice around here, and Sophie and
Rosy Moss, frGm Middleton, and, let me
sce-Matlda and Josie; and for hoys-Oh
my, cannot tell about them. but mamma
will know"
Don't you think it will make q lot when
you count them all up
mo, Of course not believe | kroW
about big parties as well as you. Won't
it be nice. | know papa will not say no.
Hes awtuly good, don't YOU think 50,
Ida?"
"les.'
81 love him moren tongue can tell.
so do |, Janet"
II don't think ! could ask him anything
TO give Kim trouble"
You seem TO think you are very good
yourself, Janet.
mo. was only thinking about what
Louise Oracle said-lhat if you loved peo-
pie truly, like we love papa, we ought 70
show our love,
"Well, oh dear, cannot wait to philos-
ophize, as Aunt Roney would call it /
am going to write cycrybody's name on Il
piece Of paper.
Maybe it won't he any use"
Yes, but it will be use; for If papa says
no. III cry and cry till he says maybe,
and that Is just the same as saying yes
Maybe it won't he any use"
~ es, but it will be use; tor ii papa says
no, I'll cry and cry and cry TIL he says
maybe, and that is ust the same as saying
yes
Janet tied dollys sash and looked down
in her pretty face, saying nothing, but
wishing to herself that | conld Glove papa
truly enough not to ask just then to have
party. and wondering to herself if il
would make him sigh as sadly as he had
done at breakfast time, when the baker
had demanded the amount of his bill.
"What did tell you.' cried Ida, rush.
ing up stairs and into the room, holding
her heart and painting for breath, "whal
did tell you! pnched his cheeks and
pulled on his slippers and told him my
heart would break if did not have par.
~, and he told me to have it,
''Didn't he mind it,"
'Of course not"
What will mamma say, wonder!'
''She won't care, it papa does not; she
will never say no, after he has said yes"
''We VIII have great fun ] expect,
sand Janet, fixing n feather in dollys hat
and holding it off to look at, thinking
however, of papa, and wondering why he
was so sad about the baker, if he did moi
mind having party.
Mamma shook her head grayely wher
she heard lhat papa had consented to ldai
wish, and coaXed papa to take back hi
words, and told Ida afteward that for rea
sons she knew nothing about, she was sor
ry tor the promise; but after all the list Of
names OF all the "nlce people" and The