Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-04

They had poached eggs and toast ana
repentant Jasper, hanging on the VIII
dow-sill, thought: -gt.
..How good poacfied eggs and toast
do look when a fellows been and run
away to the fire. and don't dare go IN
when he's just a-starvlng!
And then he devout1y wished again
that he hadn't gone to that fire. -
Jasper was q great boy for Wlshlng'
YOU see: but if he had studied ''Mother
Goose as thoroughly as l have DONE
he would know that ,4, ,,-t afHG
Beggars might ride. II 81
And that is only poetdcal way Vi
saving: There no use in wishing.
JASPER looked on hungrily until he
had seen the last egg disappear from
the platter. and then he felt more
hun ery than ever. He noticed that his
mother kept looking at the clock, and
once he saw her lips say:
81 wonder why that boy do'7t
comet
Then she got up and went to the
door to look for him, and Jasper hastily
retreated into the dog-kennel- he
snugglcdup against old Rover. cried
little, and wished again he hadn t gone
to that old fire; and then he stopped
wishing, and went sound asleep.eE5
But all this while. Jasper's mother
was suffering, as well as Jasper. AND
she began to wish, too. She wished
she hadn't threatened him, but had
held hold of his hand instead, when she
was talking with Mrs. Coleman on the
sidewalk. Then he never would have
run away. saa5r r.. 4esfusIl,t az
1T was all her fault" she thought.
with deep self-reproach, that she
hadn't looked after him better. -
After while she got SO worried th3t
she lit the lantern, and she and jasper
father started out ON Il search Tor Their
runaway son. .ssa4..lfi., IT a. &. In~ +-tt
1--WE had better look, around the yard
first said the father, who did not seem
very much alarmed himself. Perhaps
he is here somewhere, and don't Ike to
come ir.'' t 'si RI DE-
So they looked there, and of course
they found bim-for the dog-kennel was
not much of place to hide ill.,. There
he was, fast asleep, with his head on
Royer's leg, and grimny tear-maarks on
his cheeks. .'-...-.,...,. p ..fs.
"Well, do declare! The poor, tired
little darlingn' said the forgiving
mOtner. ~ atz At'fs.tE'f
And the father picked him up and
carried him into the house, and the
mother gave him three poached eggs on
toast and a glass of milk, and never
even scoIded him. 49,, ,.,.......
Jasper was soon in bed and asleep
again, though he had thankfully won
dered why he didn't Is catch it." But
if he had heard the conversation be-
tween his father and mother, before he
came in that evening. he might have
understood better. He would have heard
something like this:
Mother anxiously-"I am mortally
afraid he'll get killed some Of these
times, running off to fires and things"
Father Pshaw! Boys will be boys!
Ill tell you what, Sarah Jane-you
needn't expect you can keep in boy
us big as our Jasper from fire. Let
him 90 to the fire. 1t don't hurt boys
does 'em good"
Mother signing, and giving up the
peint--s'I don't see what they want to
go for, though" e@
Now, wasn't he a really splendid
father? .5lasf.4.a
But the reason of it was this:
You see Jasper's father had been a
boy himself once, and Jasper's mother
never had-and that makes all the diff
ference in the world, you know. ''
But it seems to me that Jasper ought
to have been punished for his disobedi-
ence, and then, the next time there was
fire, his mother could say: - tio
You must not go. to the fire,
Jasper'' ...s.,t. go.
And I'll warrant that he would obey
her.-Golde,s DAYS. aust nt'' ~