The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-21

'Bc GU ze min'ster?" she INQUIRED,
looking up at him critically.
/ Il believe | am, he answered. smiling
into her plump little face And who
may you be!7
"Oh, I'm Prue," she answered. "An,
I be .ou ze minister's wifeln to the pretty
! little woman who stood at the window
! looking so pleased and amused.
"les, think am" was the replv.
Nv on you let Inc take of your bonnet
and shawl!"
''Es 1 dess I'd better" answered Prue
who liked the looks Of boa of them, and
/ began to feel at ease.
Dis is my muzzer's new bontit. She
said might tate it. l tum a tallin'"
Bless your pretty, svcet face. I'm 50
clad you dId, cried the minister's wife,
/ kissing Prue's rosy Cheeks as she took
/ off her bonnet and shawl. I've got a lit
tie sister at home Just about as big as you
are, and I've been wishing all day l
could see her Your coming will keep
me from getting homesick, maybe"
"Aunty Tanny"-Prue's language for
Aunt Hanna-"said she dessed -ou was
/ homcsick, an she said she liked 'ou lots.
an she said we orter tall on 'ou, so l tum.
An l brought some p0sies,' and Prue
/ presented her chrysanthmums and car
| nations.
You brought these to me?' cried the
minister's wife, with sparkling eyes.
"Ah, you sweet little thing, you Do
you know my mother has some like
these growing close by the doorstep and
its almost as good as a visit home to see
them" and she held the feathery white
flowers with the scarlet carnation glowing
among them like a bit of flame, up to
her face. when she took them away and
bent TO kiss Prue, the sparkling eyes
were dim. and there was something In
the heart of one of the chrysanthemums
very like a dew drop.
Then she arose and got a little vase and
put t e flowers in it, and set it by the
window, where she could see it all the
time. And then sat down on a little seat
by the minister's side and cuddled
Prue up close TO her, and told her all
about her little sister at home
whose name was Susie, and the minister
smoothed her yellow hair softly, and pat
fed her dimpled check, and smiled down
into her eyes so pleasantly that Prue was
sure she liked him better than any other
man she knew except her papa.
BY and by the minister's wife started
up, declaring it was tea-time, and she put
Prue in her husbands lap while she set
tie table He told her little stories and
it didn seem to Prue that more than two
minutes had gone when his wife said sup
per was ready. Prue never once thought
Of declining the invitation to eat and took
her seat between them quite as much at
home as if she belonged there.
'I'ln going to have my flowers where 1
can see them better the minister's wife
said, and brought the vase of chrysanthe-
s.You don't know how glad am that you
brought these little Prue"
and lust then there was a knock.
Tie minister went to the door and
opened It,
Have you seen anything Of . little
oirl." asked some one, aud PTu" screamed
ct:
sITere I be, mamma. I'se tallen on
'em. Tum in an have some upper"
Then the minister and the ministers
U;fc and Prue'S mother laughed, and Prue
looked on wondeTingly. That laugh was
the best kind of an introduction.
II missed her, and when | came to
think of it | remembered that she asked
something abeus sailing on you, and after
that she said something about a bonnet
and cloak; and as | found my bonnet and
shawl were gone l concluded she must
have come here. hope you didn't mind
it
"I'm delighted with her visit, answer
ed the minister's wife. Take off your
bonnet and shawl and have tea with US,
please
Were neighbors, you know; and
neighbors shouldn't stand too much on
ccremeny,1 added the minister, and Prues
mother accepted the invitation, and sat
down opposite her little girl.
1t was a very pleasant time for all OF
them. Prue was sorry when the meal was
over, for she knew she would have to go
home.
you mustlet hercone over real otten,'
the minister's wife said, as she put the
new bontit' on and adjusted the shawl
over Prue's shoulders. Il like such call
ers very much
I'll bring Gu some more posies, salG
Prue And then she kissed the minister
and his wife good-by, and she and her
mother went home from her first tall"