Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-25


passed. he explained. so this IL
your Edith. Are you still girl enough
to kiss an uncle p
Edith held up her lips with o
smile, and soon the carriage rolled
away bearing very merry party.
A beautiful Thanksgiving day
dawned upon Edith when she
awoke the next morning, thrilled
with happy consciousness of being
in the real country, and eager to
begin her two weeks of play with
her no less happy cousins. Even the
bleak November view from her win
dow she declared to be perfectly
beautiful
Long before noon delightful
fragrance filled the air, and, as she
ran through the breezy hall it seem
ed to Der that to visit ones rela-
tions and to catch the odor of cook.
ing turkeys, pies and plum pudding
was one of the royal pleasures of
earth.
1t was a fine Thanksgiving din
ner. Papa said 80 uncle said so =,
aunty said 30; the children said so,
and even pussy, looking wistfully
up at the table, said 30 as plainly as
she could new.
But We cannot go through every
moment OF the time Edith spent in
the country. There was not q single
drawback TO her pleasure excepting
that her father left Der on Friday
morning.
'Oh, papa 7 che said, why do GU
go away 2 Right after Thanksgiv.
ing, too! Don't you like to leave
business q while, just as l have left
my lessons? Papa with very
grave face), Il think you need ton.
ing up Now, do come two whole
days, before you mean TO take me
back to New York
Papa half promised and the hope
helped his daughter 10 let him 20.
There was 50 much to be done that
there was no time to fret. The
chickens had 10 be fed, tho pony
had to be petted, the kitten r0mped
With, the little terrier taught new
tricks and, above all, the old fnery
in the garrett trunks had TO 30 tried
on by The gi.ls. They dressed mp
and acted imprmptu plays at every
opportunity, and after the perform.
ances, ah, the joy in rummaging
that old garrett Such treasures as
were brought forth from their hid
ing places Edith thought it the
most wonderful place she ever saw.
She was never weary of opening
the drawers and 'cubby.holes' of a
broken old cabinet and she would
stand for ten minutes at time
gazing in silent awe at the old era.
die in which grandfather was rocked
when he was baby.
The day after Thanksgiving Aunt
Kate gave them each basket of
dainty scraps that had been left
from the Thanksgiving dinner.
There was half chicken 10 Edithis
basket, cold potatoes, a bowlful of
cranberry sauce, pieces of pie, halves
of oranges and nice dish of ssewed
apples.
why. auntie, said Edith. Il
watched you laying aside every
thing that was left ON the dishes so
careful and thought it was SO
mean; but now 1 think it is q good
way. Who told you about it?'
THE Savior. child
Edith flushed. That name was not
often mentioned OF home. Her
mother was strict church member
and the little girl listened Sunday
after Sunday to services and ser.
mon, but though she often thought
OF Christ, it seemed strange TO talk
OF him in such a natural, every. day
tone.
Perhaps Aunt Kate saw little of
what was in her mind, but she only
said j:
Now trot along; you may give
your baskets to whom you please,
and as Edith does not know our
poor people, girls, you may let her
choose whom she will give it to af.
ter visiting few of them.
The three girls went off delight
ing in the SLOW that had fallen.
Edith, tall, and dressed in grown up
clothes, as the girls said, was con.
trast to her cousins, who were big,
healthy children yet, thou yh Mary
was fourteen and Kitty twelve they
were as strong as young colts and
thought nothing OF carrying the
baskets, but Edith grew very tired,
and thinking they would never stop
she said:
Look, Mary, there is house in
that lot; they don't seem very we'll
off. Let's go there
On, it's no use going there said
Kitty, "a man lives there all alon g,
and he fairly frightens yon, be talks
so strangely. He looks cross, too
But Edith could not carry her
basket further and was ashamed to
confess it; so concealing her fear
though her heart beat fast, she 10.
sisted on knocking ct the door OF
the little brown house. Mary and
Kitty, waiting in the road. were as
tonished to see woman open the
door, who smiled with delight, and
talking faster than one could think
as Kitty said, drew Edith into the
room. She bad happened upon her
French family, and a little embar.
rassed for how could she explain
in French ?-she opened her bask ct
and offered them its contents. The
man, who was sitting by the fire,
looking rather gIum and cross, said
8 few sharp words to bis wife. Tie
woman, speaking carefully and
slowly that Edith might understand
said that her husband wished to
know who had sent the things; that
they were no. bsggars.
Edith understood the tone If not
the words, and saw that the man
had taken offense. She thought bur
riedly:
'Who shall say sent them. Per-
haps they do no. know Aunt Kate
Suddenly she remembered what
her aunt had said; would it be
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