The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04

thought of the lost horse, and of Mr..
| Gilbert, the principal of the institution,
| kept her from feeling just right but 1
| cannot think the petted child, accus-
| toned a. home to have her own way
almost entirely, had as clear q sense of
the wrong in the case as an ordinary
child of eleven would have.
Then, the dinner was splendid, and
mother Pettingill looked so happy, and
piled their plates SO full, and the dea-
con cut such big slices of turkey for
| them, and laughed and made such
| amazing signs, that they couldn't help
laughing and having good time, to
save their lives. They knew he didn't
make single sign right, and that was
why they laughed.
But the deacon not understanding
that it had to be any particular motion
of the hands, or that they really had
language of the hands at all, thought
he was enteri aiming them in the most
appropriate manner.
"Don't, father, don't throw your
hands up SO silly said mother Pet
tingi1
That's the way to talk to 'em, moth
err" making his hands fly wildly into
the air.
But you look as if you'd lost your
senses,' said his wife.
However, as Nettie and Mamie laugh
ed and ate heartily, and seemed to en-
Joy it ali, she let fether make fool
of himself to his hearts content.
When Miss Peabody marshaled the
girls in the study hall, ready for dinner,
the places of the two little runaways
were empty. A messenger was sent to
the dormitories to look them up, who,
being rather hungry, did not make a
very thorough search. When Mr.. Gil
bert was notified, he only laughingly
said:
so, let them alone, they will get in
soon enough, never fear, and then he
fell to carving turkey, and everybody
else fell to eating it, and the little alb
sentees were forgotten.
When Just before dark, Deacon Pet
tingill set them down in the large front
hall of the institution with kiss apiece,
aid big bundle of doughnuts and car
away cookies, they ran slyly up stairs
and hid the bundle under their pillows.
Coming into the study hall, the girls
buzzed around them. They were sum-
moned to Miss Peabody, who, however,
was so deeply interested IN the book
she was reading, that she did not take
proper notice of the offenders.
you cannot have any dinner at all, :"
she said In signs, i" for not being IN
your places"
Nettie and Mamie hung their heads,
and csc aped to a retired spot behind the
door to have a good laugh. They were
full to the throat" as the deaf and
dumb express it what lucky punish
ment to tell them they could not have
any dinner And I'll en- hadn't they a
| big bundle of cookies and doughnuts
Deacon Pettingil1 had driven home i'm
mediately, as a heavy snow was falling,
and no one had seen him.. Nobody
found the girls out, and the doughnuts
and cookies didn't dry up.
The following is copy of the letter
which Nettie wrote home few days
after Thanksgiving. It is true copy,
and she composed every word of it her
self you will see that she never said 9
word about her ride, but she told hel
mother the whole story the next vacation.
Nettie's letter:
/ DEAR MAMMA: We had, thanks be unto
God, turkey and mince pie, and many othel
| kinds of fruit, last Thursday. I love my
! father and mother. There are three hundred
| pupils in this institution, IT'S boys, 1875 girls
| All the pupils are we'll but some are sick.
Your loving daughter, NETTIE.
| Little Corporal,