The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-02

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fail Of hearing, "the truth of the mat.
ter was we got tired of 'em. There
was their clothes to SEQ to an their
stockin's to darn an their. boots tQ
black an buttons to sew on, an their
collars to fix of Sunday mornin', an
their meals to cook three times q day,
so we hadn't no time for nothin' else
and we just putour heads together and
declared war on the whole tribe, an 8
sorrier lcokin' set you never saw thar
they was as they took their carpet
sacks and went sover the hills and fai
away" And the speaker paused tc
execute = gyration Of delight as she
recalled the scene. n,,c7
"But the children-what did YOU dc
with the poor little children?" inquired
Mrs. Wonder, her eyes unconsciously
filling with tears at the thought of the
little ones crying after their fathers, as
they must have done when they saw
them going sway, likely to never re-
"Oh, we bundled the boys Of with
their fathers, an the girls we kept with
us. Some If 'em have, run away
though, an when they do chat we never
let 'em come back-though it's fact, "
uttered the speaker in reflective tone,
"none Of 'em ever attempted to-"
"Well, now," said Mrs. Wonder,
"can you tell me how came here,
and, moreover, how 1 can get away
for have husband and two dear lit.
tie children at home, and L can never
be happy away from them. l want to
go back Immediately.
Why!" exclai ned half dozen
voices. eve were looking in at your
kitchen window the night we decided
to bring You away and you said you
wished there wasn't man or q child
on the face of the earth;' an we
thought this would be just the placefor
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'll 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 a persua.
sive tone, "you better make mn your
mind to stay here. We live the easiest
life imaginable. Each one has nobody
to please but herself. We don'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
that" replied Mrs. Wonder. "rd
rather be slave and work on nv hands
and knees for those that l love than to
live here or anywhere else away from
them"
just then it appeared that she saw
Mr.. Wonder great ways of, leading
the children, and they appeared as Il
searching for something or some one
that was lost. She gave a 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
dreaming about?" said Mr.. Wonder, as
he looked kindly into her flushed face
and held her feverish hands moment
in his. ....
"Oh, nothing" she answered, eva
sively, but to his unhounded 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 q bumped nose.
Mrs. Wonder didn't spank Johnny,
as she usually did " hen he was SO care
less 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 be-
side his sister. Little Mittie had cried
herself to sleep, and the mother, with
deep contrition, gently bathed off the
tear stains with water, and some tears
not the chilus were left on the little
cheeks instead, and many kisses on the
soft red lips.
Then Mrs. Wonder went out and 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 abed and
asleep, and for half hour after his re-
turn was undoing parcels with the
slightest noise possible, and tip-toeing
around in his stocking feet in the mosi
ridiculous manner you could imagine,
and looking as pleased, and silly, and
happy as a boy who had been com.
mended for The act which he had till
then expected would bring him whip.
ping. And we haven't any business 70
tell what they did and said the next
morning, or why Mr.. Wonder wasn't
seen at his Office until most noon, OF
how many told him he was looking un.
commonly well, or why he was in 8
hurry to get home at night, and wha,
the reason was that he didn't go dowr
town again after supper. This pryine
into family matters isn't at all becom
ing, and if anyone wants to know what
was done with the skeleton that was
dragged out of the closet of the Wonder
family that New Year 8 Eve they'll have
to inquire of somebody else, that's all.
Mrs. c. NJ. Fairchild, IN Burlington
Hasok-Eye. atl E.s 2sE.
Bound to Die-A Singular Suicide.
BOARDERs at 318 West Twenty.
second street heard Rowland Levine