Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-02-10

are so full of life and fun, and L can
not bear to quiet their merry voices,
All. the cares of this world will do
that too soonv'
81 declare, Mary, you take every
thing SO seriously. | only want them
kept quiet when am about. Why, last
summer, when you were in the coun-
try, 1 would not have known there
was a child in Moreton's house, the
two months | boarded there l never
heard his boy shout, or laugh and
scream as ours. He is the best child /
ever saw"
George would you wish our boy like
Willie Moreton?'
"Well, no-not exactly! | should
not like him in such poor health"
THAT is why the poor boy is 50 quiet.
He is grieving, too, constantly, for the
little sisters that have been hushed to
sleepw
"How? | have forgotten"
George, the scarlet fever left VIII
lie as he is now, and deprived him of
his little sisters love and company
And the mothers face grew pale as
she breathed that dreadful name, which
strikes terror to so many mothers
| hearts.
a few moments after, George re-
turned with Mary to the sitting-room.
For awhile the children were kept
ina measure quiet baby put to sleep,
and George and Rosie diverted from
teasing the cat, which occasioned the
great noise heard by the parents while
in the supper room.
After while perfect calm va, OBJ
tained, and George was putting at his
meerschaum, and feeling quite comfort
able. The quiet was ominous. They
might have knO1On it. 1t would have
been utterly impossible for George to
have remained SO still five minutes, un-
less he was plotting some new mis-
chief.
Mary, taking advantage of the quiet,
slipped away to put her youngest to
bed. Scarcely had the door closed after
| her, when George stole round to his
mothers work basket, and began pull
ing over the contents for something
that he soon found Then taking up
his slate and pencil, he seated himself
on the carpet, near his father, and be-
gan to amuse himself but not just in
the way that we might think.
Fifteen minutes elapse, when the
father was aroused by Georgie's cry
ing out:
look look, papa! Rosie is mark
iIg all over your new boollV
Glaneing quickly up, sure enough her
father beheld Rosie, with a lead pencil
Scribbling over the leaves of beauti-
fully illustrated volume of poems, from
which he had been reading to Mary the
evening before, and neglected to put it
up again in the bookcase.
George sprang, or rather attempted
to spring forward, to take the book
from Rosie; but his progress was very
much impeded by the chair, which
chung so closely to him that he found it
quite impossible to get from it.
Just then George broke out III a
peal of laughter, huzzas and shouts;
and his father, on eXaming his situa-
tion, found his coat fastened to the
chair with ut least a dozen large pins.
Rosie stopped her marking and joined
in the laughter, and Notwithstanding
their fathers demand to be released,
the little ones continued to enjoy their
fun, and call for mamma to "come see"
The noise soon brought Mary down
and seeing the cause of their merri-
ment, she could not resist q smile,
which endeavoring to conceal, she be-
gan removing the pins, and at the same
time scolding George-the latter SEEM
ing not to make the little teaZe feel in
any WAY diScOnCprtpl