Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-03-24
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WAS one OF tuosc LALiSS-
1--WE will have dinner ordered for II
O'Clock, as it used 10 be when was a
boy. We will have roast turkey, with
cranberry-sauce, and mashed potatoes
and turnips, boiled onions and celery,
and all on the table at once. For des-
sert, pie, cheese and cider, and nothing
more. Marguerite, shall | give the or
der to Lorton, or will you attend to it?"
Mrs. Mayberry twisted her diamond
rings almost roughly.
..Oh, don't ask me TO give such an
insane order TO him! have no wish
to appear as 3 laughing-stock before
my servants, Mr.. May berry. 1t will be
as severe strain on my endurance as
am capable of to be forced to sit at a
table with such people as the Hurds
and the Masons, and that Thyrza Green
and her lame brother, and that little
old Wilmington and his granddaugh-
ter, and -"
MIR. Mayberry, interrupted her gent
"Old Mr.. Wilmington was friend
of mine long before he went to India.
Since he came home with his sons
orphan daughter and lived in such OBJ
security-comfortable although plain,
for Winnie earns enough as daily gov
eaness to support them both cheaply-
regard him as more worthy than
ever. Ernest, my boy, shall depend
upon you to help entertain our guests,
and especially at table, for | shall have
no servants about to scare them out OF
their appetites."
And MIR. Mayberry dismissed the sub
ject by arising from the table.
Would 1 like to 60? Oh, grandpa,
[ should! Will we go, do you think T'
The little, wizened old man looked
fondly at her over his steel-rimmed
| classes.
$50 you'd like to accept Mr.. May
berry's invitation to dinner, eh, Win
ME You wouldn't be ashamed of your
old-fashioned grandfather, eh, among
the fine folk Of the family. Remark
ably fine folk, hear, for all l can re-
memember when Joe was a boy to-
gether with myself. Fine folk, Winnie,
and you think we'd better go?"
II wonld like to 60, grandpa.
don't have many recreations-l don't
want many, for l think cOntented hon.
est labor is the grandest thing in the
world, and the best discipline-but,
somehow, l can't tell why, but do
want to 90. / can wear my black cash,
kmere, and you'll lie so proud OF me. y
"rroud of you, indeed, my child, no
matter what you wear. Yes, we'll 60"
And thus it happened that among
the ten guests that sat down at Josiah
Mayberry's hospitable, overfowing
board that cold, blue-skied day, Win
ME Wilmington and the little old man
were two-and two to whom Ernest
Mayberry paid more devoted attention
than even his father had asked and de-
sired.
o. course it was grand successful
excepting the cold hauteur on Mrs. May
berry's aristocratic face, and that was
failure, because no one took the least
notice of it, so much more powerful
were the influence of Mr.. Mayberry's
and Ernest's gentlemanly attentions.
81 only hope you are satisfied" Mrs.
Josiah said, with what was meant to
be whitening sarcasm, after the last
guest had gone, and she stood mo.
ment before the fire :" only hope you
are satistied-particularly with the at
tention Ernest paid to that young
woman-very unnecessary attention,in-
Decd
Mr. Mayberry rubbed his hands to-
gether, briskly.
Satisfied? Yes, thankful to God
had it in my power to make them for
get their poverty, if for only one little
hour. Did YOU see little Jimmy Hurd's
eyes gllsten when Ernest gave him the
second triangle of pie? Bless the young,
sters' hearts, they won't want any thing
20 eat for a week"