The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-24

happy one, ended at last In quarrel
"Why, what has happenedP' exclaimed
Mrs Seb1en, when Zaidee rushed home
long before tea-time, looking wildly un-
happy. ."Oh, mammal replied the
little girl, almost sobbing from excite
ment, "Jessie's very disagreeable; and
besides, she knocked me down" Mrs.
Selden looked very much surprised. 1T
doesn't seem possible" said she. Il
never heard of Jessie's behaving like
that. What had you done to make her
angryp" "Oh, it was she that made
me angry, talking about aunt Fanny's
bracelet, and aunt Fanny's human
nose!"
Mamma let her work fall in her lap.
and laughed and laughed. "a human
nose is the very incest in the world"
said she, at last. "But Jessie didn't
knock you down for thatp" "No'm,"
and Zaidee bowed her head very low in
shame. Nom; l knocked her down
first" Then all was out Zaidee had
been the one, really at fault; and she
had known it all the while, though she
had tried to make herself believe it was
Jessie" This is very bad. l am ex-
tremely sorry it should have happened"
said Mrs. Selden, gazing sadly at her
dear, wretched, wayward little daughter.
And to have it happen just as the
beautiful Christmas .is coming, when
everybody ought to be glad and happy!
What kind Of Christmas day is it gong
to be for my poor little ZaideeP" so
mamma, wish hadn't been naughty!
l wish l could take it all back. l
havn't acted so since / was little,
little GIRL" said the child, throwing her
self weeping into her mothers arms.
Cant l ever, ever take it backP"
"Yes, you can ask Jessie to forgive
you" 40, mamma, mamma, mamma
Jesse was bad herself If l ask her to
forgive me she will think she was good!
And, oh, she wasn't goodl She was
almost half as bad as II"
Mrs. Selden said no more, but wisely
left her little daughter by herself to
think. At supper-time Zaidee's eyes
were still pink from weeping; but her
face looked serene, and the smiles were
playing about her mouth. The truth
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1t was very neatly done in violet ink,
and she had put in the left-hand corner
of the envelope: "Kindness Of Zaidee,'
thinking that was the latest style,
though the person who took the letter
was Nancy, the cook, and she laughed
to think Zaidee considered herself kind
The letter was short: H.. t. |f..
NY AFFECsHIoSATE FRIEND; M
am very sorry knockt you down first.
will forgive you II you will forgive me. Your
respectively, Ht.'i rs.
This was all Jessie needed to make
her happy, for she had the tenderes
little heart in the world. She wrote il
reply: al forgive you" And in tn,
I! left-hand corner of her envelope wert
( the words iaKindness of JESSIE" fol
r she supposed that must be the proper
: thing, and shs never allowed Zaidee L
, be more fashionable than herself il sh,
could possibly help it. And, indeed
p, there was "kindness" now in the heart
, of both little girls, and sincere repent
ance too for their foolish, bad behavior
, The angel with the pearly wing" haC
: come back again; the unhappy it'll
"breeze'' had blown over, and in "thre
n nights and two days Zaidee and Jessi
|, were enjoying the merriest Christina
i that ever dawned in Boston town.
! Sophie Nay, IN Wide Awake.