The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-13
"FINDIN'S KEEPIN'S."
A Story Fifty Illustrating This
Juvenile Sentiment.
CHAPTER 7.

"Hullor' cried boy who was sprawl
ing on a nursery floor ''Findin' s
keepin's! Here's the matters sixpence
she lost week ago"
"You are vulgar" was the reioinder
made to this by 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 SOP The Boyle chill
dren were three, headed by Maud
above her was vacant space of three
years when Harry showed his ''ram-
pageous'' self; above him came two
girls. There is the family list, headed
by father and mother
There was not a more charmlngly
commonplace, more pleasantly success
full fam ly in the three kingdoms. They
lived in London suburb, and they had.
plenty of friends and comforts
"You are vulgar?' Maud had cried.
"So'd you be If you got such find.
Hooray! l say, where's the mater?'
"Gone out, Master Harry" nurse
answered.
What bore! Now mind, nurse,
that my sixpence. Just YOU keep it
safe. If hadn't to play in that match
this afternoon I'd hang about till mother
was back.
''Do they want you very much?"
This was an infantine remark of small
Davy's.
don't you make any mistake"
Harry was grand "Should | be in
Plummer's Eleven if l wasn't some
thingP Just see me bat, that S all. :"
"rd like to see YOU"
81 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
tlannels. 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 'findlns-
keepins?' asked Maud
''Bless you, Miss Maud! He only
meant eos he'd had the finding he d
have right to the keeping. T."
do you mean, Nurse, that if picked
up hundreds of thousands of gold sover-
clgns they would all be mine?"
Her eyes were alight and quite a rosy
color was flushing her round face
.GNon-oDso Mis- Mn,1f LNho+ Oh
you be wanting gold sovereigns for?'
''But, if found them?''
! SAY, 'if' You're not likely to find
them. never did. They don't lie
about nursery floors, not they"
''Ah. but outside somewhereH And
the child made gesture, as if with her
round arms she would encircle the
great, vague world.
Years went by, and the Boyle nursery
had become almost forgotten thing
Misfortune had seized the Boyles, and
they were at their worst when, some
ten years latter, we met them in third
rate street at New-Cross.
Five years had been sunny, prosper
Gus years, then Mr.. Boyle was stricken
by Il dire malady, and had to leave bust
ness. He was a stockbroker, but in the
year when illness made Unnecessary that
his city affairs should be wound up there
was panic upon panic, there were
wars and rumors of wars, and loss
followed loss in rapid succession On
the eve of his fathers failure Harry
had sailed for Canada. He had bought
a plot of Government land, and he was
going TO reclaim it, and, so they all
hoped, dig a fortune out of it. But a
moderate family can live on small in
come if, MS the saying is, they ''cut
their coat according TO their cloth"
Mrs. Boyle was wise woman, and she
moved TO a cheaper house. Daisy Cor
MargareD Boyle was married; RATHER
inc was useful; Maud, now nineteen,
might, if need showed itself, find work,
but Davy and Dick must still go to
school.
Yes; cycle of misfortune had begun,
che five plentit1! ycTs were over, and
the beginning of another five had come
years OF trouble upon trouble. Mr..
Boyle died, unwilling of the calamitous