The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-11-13
"FIND1N'S KEEPIN'S."
A Story Fifty Illustrating This
Juvenile Sentiment.
CHAPTER I.


ing on q nursery floor. ''Findin's
kcepin's! Here's the matters sixpenoe
she lost week ago."
"You are vulgar" was the rejoinder
made to this by a very small girl.
She, Maud. was in her rightful do
main. the nursery. Harry was an in
terloper, and the terror of the method
ical nurse who would have the children
in exact order. She had given up Harry
three years ago, and now he was thir-
teen and. as she declared, he had
grown quite rampageous, and he do
upset the children sor' The Boyle chill
.drcn were three, headed by Maud;
above her was u vacant space of three
years when Harry showed his cram
pageous'' self; above him came two
girls. There is the family list, headed
by father and mother.
There was not more charmlngly
commonplace. more pleasantly success
full fam " in the three kingdoms. They
lived in London suburb, and they had
plenty of friends and comforts.
you arc vulgarp" Maud had cried.
''So'd you be Il you got such find.
Hooray! say, where's the materP"
'Gone out, Master Harry" nurse
answered.
What bore! Now mind, nurse.
safe. If hadn't to play in that match
this afternoon I'd hang about till mother
was back"
'.Do they want you very muchP"
This was an infantins remark ofsmall
Davy's. :.
don't you make any mistake. "
Harry was grand. "Should l be in
Plummer's Eleven If wasn't some
thingi Just see me bat. that's all"
''Pd like to sec you"
II don't doubt you; but we can't
have kids on our ground"
At which Davy subsidized, and Harry
took himself off to don his cricketing
fannels. When he had gone the nur.
sery inmates looked at his sixpence, and
each child handled it as if there was
some magic in it.
"What did Harry mean when he
called out that long word 'fndlns-
keepinsP' " asked Maud.
''Bless you, Miss Maud! He only
meant COS he'd had the finding he d
have a right to the keeping"
do you mean, Nurse, that if picked
up hundreds OF thousands of gold sover.
eigns they would all be mineP"
Her eyes were alight and quite rosy
color was flushing her round face.
Nonsense, Miss Maud! What should
you be wanting gold sovereigns forP''
ssEut. IL l found themp"
GAY, i'll! You're not likely to fine
them. l never did. They don't lii
about nursery floors, not they"
"Ah. but outside somewhere"' AnC
the child made gesture, as If with he
round arms she would encircle ths
great, vague world.
Years went BY, and the Boyle nurser,
had become almost forgotten thing
Misfortune had seized the Boyles, ant
they were at their worst when, som,
ten years latter, we met them in third
rate street ut New-Cross.
Five years had been sunny. prosper
Ous years, then Mr.. Boyle was stricken
by dire malady, and had to leave bust
ness. He was stockbroker, but in tn
wear when illness made it Unnecessary tina
his city affairs should be wound up ther
was panic upon panic, there wer
wars and rumors of wars, and los
followed loss in rapid succession. Ol
the eve of his fathers failure Harr
had sailed for Canada. He had bough
II plot of Government land, and he wa
going to reclaim it, and, SO they a.
hoped. dig fortune out of it. But
moderate family can live on II small in
como if, as the saying is, they "cu
their coat according to their cloth.
Mrs. Boyle was wise woman, and sh
moved to cheaper house. Daisy 70
Margaret) Boyle was married; RATHER
inc was useful; Maud, now nineteen
might, il need showed itself, find worl
but Davy and Dick must still go
school.
Yes; u cycle of misfortune had begul
tho five plentiful years were over, an
the beginning of another five had com
years of trouble upon trouble. MI
Boyle died. unw,tting of the ca'amitou
times; another, and then u third NOV
had to be made, each one carrying til
family step downward.
How did Mrs. Boyle's blood reb,
when the day came for her to take littl
Dick to SeacrOft's school, where he ws
to be taught and fed and clothed for 8
many years free of expense to her. Mil
ionalres have been known to grow on
of boys brought up at Seacroft's schoo
but what cheer Ia there In that though
70 the poor mother, who sees her litt
son arrayed in the school garb, and VIII
secs tho gay summer sun glinting dow
from tho tears in his blue eyes to tt
fine now brass buttons Of his jacket
Enr,xz l,>A mt nliAda hia fortune In III