The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

~ you' AOuT IOOnL ~ ready, aud Will
ny Wafnlest welcome, waiss yous
cUining.V
A week later an express wagon landed
- eaa aas.. @"esA = tattered ;=as;skk aa
Gne doorstep of tile little brown cottage.
IL 10 be on u saturday, when
J6nnIe a no school duues, and the
Sorulal words With winch she welcomed
S2e!s JGaii were interrupted by q kiss
Ca lie Old mans cheek, which the laJ-
ter dld not Ian TO repay. From under
. pair VI 0ushy eyebrows there peered
out TWO Keen, sagaulous gray eyes which
. y Ill every look anu movement OF the
lIttl9 BchooInla'am.
on dear little SamaTitanln he cried.
"Yon, OF al my relatives, alone consent.
| ed
A soft hSnd was placed over the old
! mans mouth.
flush! Uncle John" she said. "You
come AS my honored guest, and you are
TO make no SaAiarIian references to me"
Then she Introduced him to her com
panlon, showed him through the little
brown cottage, aud, with many a tug
II little cry, helped him carry the old,
battered trunk uu Il winding stairway.
iI5 iaah aoo0inpiistivu, sile proceeded
10 store Its contents III Iaultless order In
the bureau provided tor the
30 IKE your mother In her girlish
days" SAID Uncle John, interruptiny her
III her work To Induige In one more good
long look. And what untold posses
hions and pleasures do you deny YOUR.
SELF Ion. the sake OF giving an old M a
homer
"Ah! Uncle John" she answered. with
a merry laugh, my lile has had SO many
denlals that u few more or less are OF lit
tie consequence. And, besides, | have
found, Win the German Leasing. that
the seeking the pleasures OF the pursuit
and anticipation is greater than the
realization"
And 80 you are deep in the Germans.
Do not let their Haeckels and Buchners
dim your faith"
Then they sat down and took a men,
tai gauge of each other. From German
philosophy they driited to poetry, from
poetry to history, from history to
science.
"Uncle John has not found business
SO absorbing that he has not taken time
to read. Perhaps his devotion to books
caused him to fail" thought Jennie.
THE Gttle Samaritan had not allowed
poverty to iptefere with the develop
ment of her higher nature. She is thor
ough in all her intellectual attalnnents,"
thought Uncle John.
Before a month had passed, O stRn-
ger would have thought that Uncle
John was the master of the house, 30
genially had he fitted into the lives of
the two girls. Left mostly to himself, his
companions absent at their daily tasks, |
he became absorbed in the chemical
.,n10.;,, ~ tia Il tfIha1" IL - cu1fl fhak Il
Dumas the elder was the best COOK III
France. Uncle John did credit to his
short experience in culinary affairs.
When the contents of Jennie's little
book case became too familiar, the pub
lie library was at hand; and after an
ea-l. too in the snik lime twilight, Uncle ]
John would read to the two girls, and
he read with that appreciattve feeling
which MADE it a real pleasure to listen
TO him.
Two months swiftly sped awayand the
school wear drew to its close. Teachers
scholars were alike dispersed, and
Jennie had Sc tied down for the hot
summer months in the little brown cot
tage. IL had not been so hard as she
anticipated. Uncle John had proved
such a pleasant companion, and, though,
from the coming, she had been eom-
PEELED TO forego a few personal luxuries
she did not really regret them.
She was sitting in the little parlor, the
shades mostly down, to keep out the
hot July sunshine, herself in keeping
with dainty yet inexpensive furnishings
which surrounded her, when Uncle John
entered, carrying an open letter and ex-
claiming:
lin luck, in luck, at last, little girl.
Here is one of my old customers, who
has long been indebted to me and from
whom / never expected to realize q
penny, at last taken pity on me and
eng me a draft for SOU. "Conie little
girl" and Uncle john shattered sone
article OF sewing from her hands and
thrSsS it into the corner, n more work
with the needle this hot weather. Pack
your boxes aud We will away 70 the
White hills. know you would have
made this journey if / had not come, and
now, with Sue, and myself as baggage
master, we will see for ourselves how |
much OF truth and how much OF poetry
there is in the Starr King"
1t was needless for Jennie to indulge
in r~elnonstrance. She could not tell
Uncle John it would be much better to
put the money aside, against further
contingencies, without causing him to
feel that Ills presence was a burden TO
her; aud so 1t was arranged that the
White hills should be visited.
Uncle John ut once put himself in the
hand ci q tailor. VAST Jennie's imagi-
nation, or did the perfectly fitting
clothes, and the possession of a well
filled purse, make a difference in Uncle
Johns personal bearing? He certainly
had little difficulty in assuming the pol
ished aud courtly bearing that comes
from mmgling with the best OF HUMANE
ty, and the two girls grew to be very
proud of their escort. The pert hotel
clerks. the obsequious walters, semed TO
know that they had to do with a man of
the word, and every where the best