Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-08-25


generally as merry as o cricket, and
goes about the house singing like q
4 lark."O si}BDa JSJ
LET the young woman bide, Harry, y
said his father quietly. "She's eating
her meal, and behaving nicely enough.
What more do You want?" ~ -df-ei
"a. II don't want her to be glum, as girl
with the tOothache," said Harry, "aAd
want you TO see her as she really is. "
Oh" We can see plainly enough, Harry,
said his mother, in rather a cold way
and, OF course, all this made me more
. uncomfortable than was before, 20 that
when, twice over, Harry began joking
and making fun of me again, I looked at
him SO appealingly, silently asking him
to leave of, that old Mr.. Smith noticed
it and frowned while an hour later.
when I was quietly talking to Harry's
mother as sat by her side doing some
needlework, Harry was really 80 fool
ishly bent on making me chatter and
sing or laugh, that old Mr.. Smith, who
was smoking his pipe by the window,
said sharply:
:" Harry, lad. I think you ought to try
and get some more brains before thou
takest wife,"
1 looked appealingly at Harry, but he
jumped up in passion, snatched his
cap from peg in the passage, and went
out and banged the door.
"Ah, said old Mr.. Smith sharply,
that's Harry all over, and just what
he wanted-an excuse to get out"
Mrs. Smith looked sharply at me as
the tears gathered in my eyes, and, evil
IDENTIFY on my account, said quickly:
Don't be so hard on Harry, father"
Hard -? who's hard on him ?" he
cried angrily; "isn't he always getting
hold OF some excuse or another to shirk
what he ought to do. He might have
stopped in the night he brought. his
sweetheart"
"You're too hard on him, father"
said Mrs. Smith again.
Yes-yes-ye s-indeed, you are," I
cried, Indignantly, in passion of weep
ing, for could not bear to hear him
speak of Harry like that, and not say
word on his behalf. "You don't know
him, Mr.. Smith, as 1 do, for he's one of
the best and truest of men, and, if you
would only be little kind to him, am
sure lie would try so hard"
saw the old man flush with anger,
and shrank back in alright at what I
had said, and read, as thought, that
Harry's mother also looked very much
put out.
81 don't behave half hard enough to
him., said Harry's father; "and as to
not knowing him, seeing that 1 nursed
him when he was a BARN. and his
mother sits there, 1 think, young
woman, that we ught to know some
thing about him"
L felt so hurt that got up and wanted
to put on my things and go, ut the old
people wouldn't hear OF its md, as
Harrys father cooled down, he lit his
pipe again, and begged me to come and
sit by him mt the window, and wouldn't
let me work any more, while Harry's
mother came and sat on the other side,
and held my hand till it was time to get
ont supper, but still Harry did not come
back.
| jumped up and helped Mrs. Smith
lay the supper-table, and Harrys father
would not wait, so We had supper,
go "a was So inisertUle coIlu lli,i,.
eat bit and kept glanciug at the old
man IA II to ask his pardon for speaking
as Ii al.
/ h,d to be ba' k at TO- AID there were
two miles TO walk, so Mrs Smith begged
me stay all night.
"Oh, no, - [ sail, CT must be back"
"Well, my dear, perhaps you areright,"
she said. Father, as Harry hasn't
come, will you walk home with her ?"
| was just going to offer to, mother"
he said, gruffiy.
"Oh, no." cried ST can find my
way back quite right, and there's moth
ing to mind ;" though all the time was
trembling with dread at having to go
alone.
eff the young fellows don't know how
to behave themselves, the old fellows
do, don't they, mother?" he said, in
quite q CHEEKY tone. enc, my dear,
I'm not going to let you cross them
fields alone, nor to leave you till you are
safe indoors"
1 resisted feebly but Harrys mother
took her husbands side, aud tony great
delight she kissed me warmly and af-
fectionately when 1 left, while the old
man took his. stick, drew my arm
through his, and trudged along by my
side, chatting away pleasantly about the
changes that had taken place since he
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