Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
Two Days at the Centennial,


Henry, our boys do want TO 60 to the
Centennial so much"
g" And you told them you'd ask father 2"
"Why, dear, how did you know Yes,
thought if you and | talked it over we
might manage it. Win is so good and
thoughtful and, much as he loves to read,
attends TO all his duties so well, that feel
very anxious to give him this pleasure and
you know it would be very poor pleasure
without Frank to share it,"
Yes, yes, think both boys ought TO 90
but hOo-that is the question. We need
every cent we can make, and more too aud
really mother, | set my heart on your spend
ing a couple of days at the Exhibition. You
can stay at your brother Wills"
Thank you, dear, but don't want TO 20
| should be sure TO see some mother with
her little girls hand in hers and couldn't
bear it. Home is best all the time now"
Mothers eyes were full of tears and
AS Mr. Waring thought of the dear little
daughter they had buried beneath the snow
IN January, his heart aehed with sympathy
Well, We'll say no more. II you wish il
so much, go they shall. IL will cost them
two dollars TO get there, another dollar each
for entrance fees, and cannot possibly spare
more than five dollars"
That will be plenty, dear, have little
hoard to help along"
Father laughed at woman's "miserly
ways" and not till weeks afterwards did he
know that the " little hoard " was the con
tents OF their Nellie's bank.
She wanted 10 give her brothers some
thing nice, and surely this will be best, ."
thought the mother and though her tears
fell fast as each nickel and cent seemed 10
recall the day when Nellie slipped it into her
bank, yet she counted them carefully and
gladly, finding that her boys would have one
dollar aud a half each, besides the two dol
lars aud half from father.
The boys We're told the next day that
they could go, and received the news accord.
ing to their different temperaments Wills
| first thought in the midst of his own de
| light, was, know mother is thinking of
| Nellie" and he, boy of fifteen as he was,
stopped aud kissed the dear face, and said (.
81 know you have managed it, mother
mine"
IIurrah three cheers win, how can
you stand still z What train shall we take {?
Mind, we 60 through the Kansas building,
Tom Brown says and remember the Swe,
dish school-house, and-oh, mother, its so
Jolly must turn somesaultsl" and head
over heels Frank rolled again and again.
There could not be much expected from
either of the boys till the promised holiday
had been enjoyed, so Mr.. Waring told them
they might start by the earliest train in the
morning only STIMULATING that each should
write some account of what he had seen and
learned when they returned.
win and Frank decided TO walk two miles
to the nearest town, where the express train
stopped, as they could then reach the
grounds much earlier and so at six O'Clock
on Tuesday morning they started. Each
had four dollars and well filled knapsack,
the dear mother having even baked biscuit
before six that they might be fresh for them.
They talked every minute of the way, both
agreeing that father was just as good as he
could be, and as for mother Frank said