Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06

lhey a poached eggs and toast 49,
r%epentant Jasper, hanging on tho ana
dow-sill, thought: w1n-
"How good poached eggs and
do look when a fellows been ana 1oast
away to the fire, and don't dare ~ ~ run
when he's just a-starving!" 81 IN
And then he devoutfy wished ....
that he hadn't gone to that fire. yam
Jasper was a great bow for w;sh;
you see; but if he had studied "Mn,t.e,
Goose rs thoroughly as 1 have doneer
he would know that eohe,
eff wi hes were horses.
Beggars might ride"
And that is only a p%oetical wa,
saying: There's no use in wishing. of
Jasper looked on hungrily mt, l.,
had seen the last egg disappear f,a ne
the platter, and then he felt m n,om
hungry than ever: He noticed that ,b bis
mother kept looking at the clock, amy my
once he saw her lips say:
II wonder why that bow do,,,
come!'' N"'
Then she got up and went to tbo
door to look for him, and Jasper has,i]v
retreated into the %dog-kennd. W.
Struggled up against old Rover, cried .
little, and wished again he hadn't coma
to That old fire; and then he STONED
wishing, and went sound asleep.
But all this While Jasper's motber
vas 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 1ha
sidewalk fI1,o~ 10 ,o,on ,x~.l1
run away.
'.It was all her fault" she thought.
with deep self-reproach, chat She
hadn't looked after him better"
After a while she got so worried that
she lit the lantern, and she and Jasper,s
father started out on a search for their
runaway son.
"We had better look around the ward
first" said the father, who did not seem
very much alarmed himself. "Perhans
he is here somewhere, and don't like to
come in"
So they looked there, and of course
they found him-for the dog-kennel was
not much of a place to hide in. There
he was, fast asleep, with his head on
Rover's leg, and grimy tear-marks on
his cheeks.
"Well, L do declare! The poor, tired
little darling!" said the forgivins
mother. q
And the father picked him up and
carried him into the house, and the
mother gave him three poached eggs on
toast and q glass of milk, and never
ven scolded him.
Jasper was 0 in bed and asleep
again, though he had thankfully won
dered why he didn't "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:
afraid he'll get killed some of these
times. running off to fires and things
Father-'.Pshaw! Boys will be boys!
LII tell you what, Sarah Jane-you
needn't expect you can keep in a boy
rs big as our Jasper from u fire. Let
him go to the fire. 1t don't hurt boys
does 'em good"
Mother, signing, and giving up the
point-''I don't see what they want to
go for, though"
Now, wasn't he a really splendid
father?
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 tho newt tinno fhoro VOC
a fire, his mother could say:
"You must not 60 to the fire,
Jasper!"
And I'll warrant that he would obey
her.-Golden Days.