Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-01-06

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much suppressed laughter. -
"Boots" promeEaded up and down
the hall with his feet into the air, and
his hands performing their Office, ma
king hideous faces at himself, and in.
dulging in ear-splitting sbrieks of de.
light. The entire company were gath
cred on the lower stairway, and listen-
ed breathlessly to Mr.. Burns order,
Mrs. Jones went quickly upstairs, and
was only seen once again, when she
thrust her head over the balastrade,
and called for the piano cover to be
brought TO her. In . fine state of
amaze. q rush was made to the parlor,
and . scramble for the cover ensued.
Boots got between the legs and pulled
it OF ut the back, and before any one
could catch him. had crawled from
among them, and was half way up to
her. Not bit Of use was the strate.
~, however; for she coolly motioned
him down before she opened the door.
Merry laughter and the sound of NOV.
I, ing furniture came at intervals from
the mysterious room. and quite made
them sick with the efforts Of imagina-
tion.
At last the welcome summons was
heard, and even William forgot his dig
nifty in The hurried rush upstairs.
Round-eyed and silent they fled in,
aud at Mr.. Burns request took the
seats that were ranged in order at one
side of the room. Before a door, a
throne had been erected, and on it was
perched a tiny queen, with golden curls,
and blueeyes brimming over with mirth.
The library steps had served for q
throne, and the piano cover was flung
gracefully over it to answer the place
Of drapery. The silver handled poker
had been turned into wand by strength
of her majesty to wave it properly in
the air. The blue msrino dress and
red stockings of Mabel were rather
earthly; but a crown had been impro-
sised from the gil1ed rim of . lamp
shade, and, with the white feather from
her hood. gave quite an air of splendor
to the make up.
A large table stood near, and on It
were piled goods that made the domes.
ties smile and nudge each other signifi.
cantly. Dress patterns for the women,
each lace handkerchief, and a set of
furs, were side by side with fur caps,
muficrs, nittens, glass di.hes. chess.
board, a ruhler overcoat, and an i'm.
mense dish of candy, with bali of
stiff book-cov for ladle. Over the
queens head was suspended a huge
bunch Of bananas with q fruit knife
sticking in one. An ivory chess board,
hastily borrowed from its appropriate
table, did duty as cake plate, and
held a marvellous specimen Of the ha-
ker's art, with two wonderful figures
joining hands on the top Of il.
A large card case was piled high With
tops, marbles, miraculous iack-knife,
and two or three balls Of colored cord,
suggesting an immediate union with a
Chinese kite hat Law serenely uphold
ing veivet-and-gilt PRAYER book
Standing near the throne was Harry,
with his face all aglow with mischief:
and waving his arm above bis head, he
cried:
Three cheers for our fairy godmoth-
er, Mabel Snow"
"And a tiger. tool" "Boots" man.
aged to shout, before William laid an
iron grasp on his arm, and looked
threateningly in his face a. q common
mode of extinguishment.
They took up the cheer with q will,
and made more noise than 80 email
number Of people would have seemed
capable of achieving. Harry gave the
articles to Mabel, telling her in each in.
stance the one to whom to give il; and
she gently spoke the different names.
they took their Christmas gifts from
her wee white hand. "Boots'> >bepau IN
think that be had l,eeu too hasty in
selecting the toys a. bis share, and sat
up on the back of his chair, with his
feet in the seat, and made Intellectual
attempts to keep from whistliug and
clapping his hands. Such quality a.
respect Was entirely wanting in him,
and where the bump of veneration
ought to have been, there was lamen-
tally large depression-a fault for
which be was Of course not accountable.
Susan forgot TO pinch him when he
pulled out all her hair r-pins. and let her
hair down over her face; aud this anus
ed him so much that he tambled head
hrst of his chair, and walked feet up
warI round in front Of her, said -Cricky,'
and still retaining the upside-down
position, arrived at chair on the other
side Of the room. where be could get q
better view OF the elegant couple on the
cake. William sat petri6ed, and even
kindly Mrs. Jones held up her hands in
horror; but Mattel laid down the gloves
that had Just been sAnded her, and
eravely watched the performance
When he had managed to seat himself
sideways on one corner of the chair, the
child called out in her sweet baby voice:
''Boy. do that againI You walk like
. monkey, splendid r.
Tom needed NO second bidding. but
walked TO the middle Of the room, turned
sdo7bble somersault and arrived back at
his chair. scarlet aad puffy. but trium-
pAace. 4abel hid "Thsrk ycg," and