The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-07-08

while / was gone for loaf the kettle boiled
over''
at won't do that this time said Mr.
Blake, lifting the tilted vessel from the
fire.
"Why?"
"See!'
Then they both laughed; Will had for.
gotten to put in the water.
But the blunders were soon remedied
there was no one to scold over them.
Father and son were chatting pleasantly
over the end of their meal, when a bright
young voice was heard on the landing out
side, calling, "Willie, Willie"
"Made friends, already asked Mr. Blake
looking UP surprised.
"No, it is somebody that lodges overhead
her little brother has run off down stairs.
He seems to give her a deal Of trouble,
but she never speaks any sharper than
that"
Doesn't she now? It's wonderful
pleasant sounding voice"
BY and by it seemed that the cuIpIt was
hunted up the stairs home again; a merry
hunt, with much laughter on both sides ,and,
as they passed willis door, a queter CIVIL
lie, Willie"
Mr.. Blake looked strangely reflective. II
haven't heard anybody say Willie in just
than cooling, careful way, not since my Sis
ter that died; she was just like mother to
me; It's terrible long time ago.
"These two are much the same. They
live alone; she minds hila and keeps HIM,
and sends him to school"
"1ou seem to know all about her.
VIII"
"All l am likely. to know. l have not
seen her. There are no strangers like fel
low dodgers, and she is not the kind of girl
to meet one on the stairs, accdentIy, for
the purpose
THAT was how your mother and ! got
| acqrainted.'
Il did not know that, father"
III
apology that was understood and accepted
but silently.
Dreamily. in the rush of old memories,
the father walked away to his work.
Will sat down before the window, 20 finish
some drawings, but the thick SQUARE mcneil
made idle marks, while the ewes TINT should
have guided it sought the only bit of nature
within slght-the strip of changing sky
between the housetcps. MANY bold de
sign hai come from those sweeping cloud
kaieid0soopcs. Meme came now. rf-Jii 'sas
mus'ng. low could man work with that
sweet lmFeiions "Nillle, Willie ringing
III bis ears! it was a verse distraction
thah his mother scoidins' ior ne couiG
not be sure that he really wanted TO forget
tins.
am sslau ha'e never seen her' ne
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IKE content neh nc 'fieu 70 say IL
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ali 100 sooh' AS " III came nome sue met
oim IN the passage h''le' s"iit- gliding
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Zoe was TOO strong lor h'm'
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