The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

on, an their collars to fix of Sunday
mornin', an their meals. TO cook three
Stimss asday,soz We hadn't no time for
4 l1pthlps Ae eaaddsvs estppt our heads
1together and declared war on the whole
tribe, an a sorrier lookin' set you new
er saw than they was as they took their
carpet-sacks and went over the hills
and far away" And the speaker
paused toexecute q gyration of delight
as she recalled the scene.
"Bus - chil0ron did you do
with the poor little childrenP" inquired
Mrs. Wonder, her eyes unconsciously
filling with tears at thought of the little
ones crying after their fathers, as they
must have done when they saw them
going away likely to never return. e
90, we bundled the boys off with
their fathers, an the girls we kept with
us. Some of them have run away,
though, an when they do that we new
er let 'em come back-though it's
fact" uttered the speaker, in a reflect
i've tone, none of 'em ever attempted
to-"
"Well, now," said Mrs. Wonder,
"can you tell me how came here, and,
moreover, how can 1 get away; for l
have q husband and two dear little
children at home, and can never be
happy away from them. 1 want to 60
back Immediately"
"Why," exclaimed a half dozen
voices, "we 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 child
on the face of the EARTH an we thought
this would be Just the place for you, 30
we waited till you had got your husband
off down town and the children in bed,
and when you went 10 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 be-
gan TO assume q persuasive tone, "you
better make up your mind to stay here.
We live the easiest life imaginable.
Each one has nobody to please but her.
self. We don't have to make or wear
fine dresses, you see, cause there's mo-
body we care for, It's q great saving
of time and bother H'Nt " \
81 don't care any thing about all
that, - replied Mrs. Wonder. "Pd
rather be a slave and work on my
L
than to live here, or any where else
away from them" s.-.s'
just then it appeared that she saw
Mr.. Wonder q great ways off leading
the children, and they appeared as if
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 rnanabout her as he lifted
her back to the chair from which she
had fallen. ....-......-v
why, Hannah, what was you
dreaming aboutP' said Mr.. Wonder, as
he looked kindly into her flushed face
and held her feverish hands q moment
in his. ~
go, nothing |" she answered evasive-
ly, 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 q bumped nose. 4
Mrs. Wonder didn't spank Johnny,
as she usually did when 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 chair and rocked him until 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 contrition,
gently bathed off the 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. onder went out and sat
down beside her husband and told him
L.. e.,
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 an hour after his
return was undoing parcels with the
slightest noise possible, and tip-toeing
around in his stocking feet in the most
ridiculous manner you could imagine,
but looking as pleased, and silly, and
happy as q boy who had been COM
mended for the act which he had till
then expected would bring him q whip
ping. And we haven't any business to
tell what they did and said the next
morning, or why Mr.. Wonder wasn't
seen at his office until noon, or how
many told him he was looking unusual
ly well, or why, he was in q hurry to
get home at night, and what the reason
was he did not 60 down town again
after supper. This prying into family
matters isn't at all becoming, and if
any one wants to know what was done
with the skeleton that 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. C.
II. FGirchild, in Burlington Has0k- Eye.
A Practical Russian PhilanthrOpist.
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