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| LII tIlc lHlOImdtlou WIS gwen mlSuG no
| fail of hearing, "the truth of the matter
was we got tired Of 'em. There was theil
clothes to see to an their stockin's te
darn an their boots to black an buttons
to sew on, an their collars to fix of q
Sunday mornin, an their meals to cook
three times day. so we hadn't no time
Tor nothin' else; and we Just put oul
heads together and declared war on the
whole tribe, an a sorrier lookin' set YOU
never saw than they was as they took
their CARPET sacks and went over the hills
and far away" And the speaker paused
to execute gyration Of delight as she
recalled the scene.
"But the children-what did you do
with the poor little children2" inquired
Mrs. Wonder, her eyes unconscIousl y
filling with tears at the thought of the
little ones Crying after their fathers, as
they must have done when they saw
them going away, likely never to return.
ooh, we bundled the boys off with
their fathers, an the girls we kept with
US. Some Of 'em have run away though,
an when they do that we never let 'e1n
come back-though its a fact,'' uttered
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EN- ever attempted to-
swell, now," said Mrs. Wonder, "can
you tell me how I came here, and more
over, how I can get aways for l have q
! husband and two dear little children at
home, and can never be happy away
from them. I want to 60 back imInedi-
ately."
"Why!' exclaimed a half dozen voices,
1--WE were looking III at your kitchen
window the night we decided to bring
you away and you said you wished there
wasn't man or child on TIE face of the
EARTH; au' we thought this would be just
the plsce for you, SO we waited till you
had got your husband off down town and
the children in bed, and when you went
to sleep in your chair we took you up
and came away. ''You will have to stay
here now, for if we should let you out
you'd tell Of US and then them men might
hunt around and break into our territory
and in time get US back and make US
wait on 'em just as they used TO. Come,
now," they began to assume 8 persuasive
tone, .syou better make up your mind to
stay here We live the easiest life mag
Unable. Each one has nobody to please
but herself. We dor't have to make or
wear fine dresses, YOU see, cause there's
nobody we care for. It's great saving
OF time and bother"
IL don't care anything about all tnat''
replied Mrs. Wonder. "I'd rather be a
slave and work on my hands and knees
for those that I love than to live here or
anywhere else away from them"
Just then it appeared that she saw MI.
Wonder a great ways off, leading the
children, and they appeared as if search
ing Tor something or some one that was
lost. She gave loud shrek of joy and
was springing away from the hands that
would have detained her when she
awakened and found the arms of a. real
live man about her as he lifted her back
to the chair from which she had fallen.
why, Hannah what was you dream
ing about?" said Mr.. Wonder, as lie look
cd kindly into her flushed face and held
her feVeTish hands a moment in his.
"Ob. nothing" she answered. evasively,
but to his unbounded surprise she bent
over and kissed him as she started away
to pick up Johnny who at that suspicious
moment had fallen out of bed and was
crying Justify with the pain from
bumped nose.
Mrs Wonder didn't spank Johnny, as
she uaua}ly did when he was so careless
as to fall out of bed in his sleep, but
brought him out in her arms and sat in
the big arm chair and rocked him till
his head and heart were healed, then
gently laid him back in bed beside his
sister. Little Matte had cried herself to
sleep, and the mother, with deep con-
triton, gently bathed off tie tear STAINS
with water, and some tears not the child's
were left on the little cheeks instead, and
many kisses ON the soft red lips.
Then Mrs. Wonder went out aud sat
down beside her husband and told him
her dream, and though there were few
comments on either side when it was
done, yet it paved the way for the hap
piest New Years Day that family had
ever seen. Mr.. Wonder slid out Of the
house after his wife was ahed and asleep,
and for halt hour after his return was
undoing parcels with the slightest noise
possible, and tip-toeing around in his
stocking feet in the most ridiculous man
ner you could imagine, and looking as
pleased, andl silly, and happy as a boy
who had been commended for the act
which he had till then expected would
bring him q whipping. And we haven't
any business to tell what they did and
said the next morning, or why Mr.. Wond-
er wa Mt seen at his office until most
noon, or how many told him he was look
ing uncommonly we'll, or why he S in
a hurry to get home at night, and wha the
reason was that he didn't go down town
again after supper. This prying into
family matters isn't at all becoming, and
il anyone wants to know what was done
with the skeleton hat was dragged out
of the closet of the Wonder family that
New Years eve they'll have to inquire of
somebody else, that's all.-Mrs. @. III.
FaSrchiId, IN Burlington Haaok- Eye.
How Man Goes to Bed.
Speaking of how man goes to bed, an
exchange says: "'There's wnere man
has the advantaoe He cap un6rooo IN