The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-01-10

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them all.
The Whizzer leant his chin on his breast and
locked piti:ui out of his eyes at Mrar .1r
seemed like the tears had notion to freeze on
Der face, only she kept them running down too
fast; and he says:
q Let's 20 into the house."
"0h, DO, steeley !" says Mrar. hugging my
knee, for ! was alongside the sled. And I'll
cook ali ycur dinners. And We'll hang up our
Christmas stockings every Sunday" says ne,
and aunt lbby's boys won't darse to take
away my lead pencil mother give me, and if
you see them coming here, you'll set Bounce
on tilem.'
Mrar," says i, "we viii go in and make a
fire and act like mothers just gone out TO a
neighbor'S."
Then shebegun to laugh. and one OF her tears
stack TO an in-spot that comes and goes in her
face like IT was dented with your fngcr.
:" Bnt now you mind" | says, il aunt lbby
or uacle Moze goes to whip Us for this, you tell
them put you up to it and made you go along
with me-"
Mrar looked scared.
And yon tell them" says the Whizzer, lift
ing his wheel across the snow toward the gate,
:" that | put you both up to it and made you go
along with me-
pulled Mrar over the drifts, and we went
10 the side door.
Aunt Ibby's got the big key" says. /" and
I'll have 10 raise a window while you wait
here"
Tho windows were all locked down, but we
went round and round till the one IN the shed
give way, and crawled through and bursted
the latch off the kitchen door. / breathed so
fast it made my heart thuInp when | unlocked
The side door and let the Whizzer and Mrar into
the sitting-room. / noticed then he'd hung
his wheel en- the limb of tree, for it glittered.
. Bounce amt here TO jump on rs, is he,
Mrar? says l.
No; and he hates TO stay at cousin Andy
SandeTs's says she.
Bounce would come TO the schoolhouse and
kind of err till | asked the master, Please
may j 60 0ut2" And then Bounce an med
have a talk behind the scho0lh0use, and I'd
tell him / could not help it, and he'd own that
he might live at aunt Ibby's with US if he could
only keep from ehawing up their miserable
yellow dogs; and we'd both feel better
Bat / did miss him that minute Iopened the
door, when here he come like q house a-fre,
and lit down on the floor painting aud pound
ing his tail and laughing; and then he jumped
up and paved rs in the dark till Mrar had to
hold him round the neck to keep him still
While got light lie must snuGed our tracks
when we whiZzea past cousin Andy Sanders's
felt to the pantry and put my hand into
/ the candle box, but aunt Ibby never left one.
knew there's a piece in caDdlestick in the
. Ia.
night mother died So / got ii. and the Whiz-
ger scraPed a match, and lit the wick. The
NliZ1er and me set 10, then, and brought in
loads FROM the woodhonse. Ne built a fire clear
mp into the chimney, and Mrar took the broom
and swept all the dust into it. Bounce laid on
the carpet and licked az us. and whacked his
tail till we's in broad laugh.
The fire got me warmer than I'd been since
mother died. The Whizzer took out thick
gnt s1r qn and nh ole a,,d co%
Then he says:
Let's go over the house"
And we did. carried The candle and Mrar
and the dog went along
The WhiZzer looked in all the upstairs
presses and opened the bureau drawers. /
staid outside Of the parlor, and MTar and
Bounce did too. ] did not want to think oil
the sheet stretched in the corner, for it was not
like mother under the sheet. Pnt her picture
hung up IN there, and SO did my fathers.
The NhiZzer staid in with the candle good
while. / heard him going from one thing to
another. and wondered what he was about. I'd
rather gone GU. TO the graveyard, though, and
set and set On the fence watching mothers and
/ fathers graves, and heard the dry sumaC
bushes scrape together, than to stepped into the
4 pailor Father died year before mother, but
didn't like him the same as did her.
Then we looked down cellar: and thought
] cEght TO tell the Whizzer about the provis-
| ions and bcdciothes being taken ont of tht
/ house. or he ID suppose mother never kept III
nice. He smiled under his cap; and found
one jar Of cand'cd honey behind some bar'l:
where amt libby overlooked it. We carried
that up TO the sitting-roon Mrar likes cand'ed
\ honey better than anything
just a. come into the sitting-roon
heard somebody pound on the froat door.
They re after us!" says BIrar.
Let me see 10 II, says the Whizzer.
So he stepped around the house, and came
back with his wheel on his arm, and held tbs
door Open The snow made outdoor light
I and we saw a little fellow lead a horse anC
buggy through the yard into the barn lot anc
be came E1Eht in carrying couple of baskets
"All rfght, SAM" says the Whizzer. "Pu
! yonr horse in the stable, and then build firt
+ in the kitchen stove"
The man he called Sam stopped to warn
I himself ar cur hearth, and / never saw such
/ looking creature before. He had cap with ;
button on top Of his head, and his hair wa
braided in long tail behind He laughed
and his ewes glittered and they sloped I'D lik,
a ladder set against the house. He was just a
yellow as brass, and wore a cloth circular witt
big sleeves, bat the rest Of him looked lik
! other folks. MTar went back into the corner
and noticed the Whizzer set his wheel agains
the wall, aud l wondered If he'd left it out fo
q sIgn SO the little yellow man would know
REETB 10 StDD
The yellow man went cut 10 his horse, anc
the "hizzer took off his cap and gloves ant
coat, and hung them in the sitting-room closet
/ lie looked nice. lis eyes snapped and hi
4 hair was cut of close, except brush RICH
! along the middle Of his head We set GU
chairs Up 10 the Ere, and ] watched him anC
watched him.
" If you and that fellow travel together"
says what makes him 60 in buggy, and yos
Oh, like the bicycle" says he. "Pve rur
thousands of miles on it. / sent Sam out from
san Francisco by the railroad, but / came
through on the wheel. 1t took me three
! months"
thought he was funny man, but I liked
him, too.
when Sam came in from the stable, Mrar and
went 10 the kitchen and saw him cook sup
! per. Tor one Of the baskets was iarn-fnil O.
I. whites de heated roasted turkey, and made
oyster soup and mashed potatoes and chopped
1 cabbage. There were preserves the Whizzel
called Scotch and hot rolls, and Jelly, and cold
/ chicken, and little round cakes that melted In
yenT mouth, and pickles, and nuts, and oranges
and we pat the cand'ed honey on the table
/ The coffee smelt like Thanksgiving. San
waited on US, and eat till rs ashamed We
never expected to have such dinner In moth.
| er's house any moro.
When Mrar and got down and begun IL
4 toss our oranges, the Whizzer told Sam to clear
the things away and have his supper in the
kitchen, and then to fix the beds as comfort.
able as he could. I'd made up my mind even
If the Whizzer did travel ahead that Mrar and
md stay there all night. Aunt Ibby's would
| think we were at cousin Andy Sanders's. and
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