The Washington critic., 1885-08-24
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
BY MRS. ANNA A. PRESTON.

Your father thinks too much about
to keep him interested and entertained.
He is very fond of children. Haven't
you some little relative you can invite
TO visit you for awhilc?"
mo" said Miss Caroline, "thc family
is dcplorably destitute of children, but
if thought IL would do papa any good
| would make an effort to find child
somewhere, only, would it be right to
take child into this staid, quiet house
hold ?"
why not?" said the doctor. "a
child would make you all young
again"
So next day Miss Caroline put on her
bonnet and stepped into the cars on
the New London Northern Road and
was carried away to certain benevo-
lent institution she had heard of,where
she asked if she could borrow little
girl.
why, certainly said the matron,
eve have the brightest little thing
hcrc-she was sent from the city, and
has only been here one day. She has
no living relatives, and | am sure you
will soon become very much attached
to her"
THAT is extremely doubtful,
thought Miss Caroline, but she was
really pleased with the dainty 4-year-
old girl and went back home with her
sitting on the seat by her side.
You must De my own mamma you
arc SO GQod, sara line lne cnllu! ioo Nm
up WIN hcr cie"r Dlue eyes mo mss
Carollne's race III SO Slnd you nave
come altcr me- great many nights |
lie awake anu thlhK ABOUT IL anu
wonder IL my mamma VIII not como III
the morning, nut inns morning i
thought nothing ABOUT IT, wash IL
lunny
Wheh MI DoWhcr' thc veteran con
ductor, whom everyone aion3 lhe inc
OF mat raiiroaa KNOWS ana nHGs' came
along taking up llcKcts, lie Sa'a 10 MISS
Iaroiihe' Wnoiil ne Ni'cW very wei
w nose ill'Ic Eirl nave you mere
before lhe iuuy cou'u l.Inic lepiS
that would SATISFY me conductor ana
not grleNe ll,c emu inc h''ic thihS
| spoke up lor hersell'
III Elta' plc"sc' anu ucioiiS 10
ms iaGyi she Srny lliaiiiin,l' come pacN
from heaven, where sue peeh zone
eyer so long 10 'oke care Oh nc Ism |
she SoouI ,,,,.
better lhHll most Pe0plc, SUI MI
DoWher' pul nc hsheu MSS N"rUlihc;
40 you lh'enu W NccP up 'hoV oc-
iusiShF ,.,e , rr,.
Sne TOOK ~ up ,ieISc,i' UNI ! lancy
VIII forget l, unucr tlie influence OIL
| Picil'y, VI lres" inliN' Pulo an "h'' sun
shihe' ,., ... 49,,
II 9oes no nurln, uny WY uliI +
shouldh want 10 give ncr any Kihu Oh
mental shocN; She loohs US II sle was
ninctenths nerves already ana fancy
she won NC away IRON, hcr niother
very long ana inc Kihu,hearteu gen
tleihah Went MS way put Ilc hcAt liiIc
he came through lne cur he cropped
Duhch OF arDutuS mo tHc chllIl INN
hands mat hIleu her niue leart Win
dellght never TO DC Iorgoueh'
MY iirst Duhch OF very own HOW
eers, shc USED 10 say long AFTER III Tell
lnS Oh 1t. ,.-..,.,,,,..,,,,
Farmer Nash was delighted with the
little visitor, having no ldea she was
prescribed as a medicine, and more
than once he SAID to MS good wiie;
:. 1T was the stranGest thing caro-
line lelching that niue thlhg mere;
never thought she was any ways fond
of children, but she seems to think
enough OF tins one
Indeed they were an deilShtea win
the little creature, ana after she was
qnic'iy asleep at hight uiey 'oiu over
her quaint, pretty speeches;
Every morning she asked almost the
first thing on waking;
| - m | IN amend The UlV mere tO-InN
again WIN inc trees ana grass ana pirdS
and howersE
And when assured that shc was she
seemed perfectly happy and Mt rest,
She couldn't be persuaded to go away
out OF sight OF the house:
Why, grandpa, we might be on the
cars before we knew H. you KNOW, ana
never come back again, she saih one
day when MY NaSh was coaAlhS her 10
ride with him to the mil
she sometimes tolu ABOUT me Iih'
houses Ill inc clty, uut Always clicI py
saying:
81 ike this house great dea
better.
The great hay-ieid' with It's butter
cups and daisies, she declared bettel
than the park, and one day she cN
claimed go, 49,, =,
"W hat would the children think II
they knew, walk on grass always here
lhey would Spo3Sc twas heaven VT
all love grass So
One evening, sitting on the Doorstep
holding her pet kitten uhlll me star
came out, she SAID
ION, auntle, just look mp ana see th'
holes where the rain comes through.
And one day after shower sh,
teased grandma, as she called Mr3