The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-05-25

Maggie made the hghtest biscuits
ever saw, | think"
Agnes looked at me implorinely, so
! said nothing, though lawfully longed
to. | was disguised at hiS overlook.
ing the projections OF my excellent
sister and constantly whining about
the former Mrs. Mayne. 1.-The Thought
so much OF her. why had he not been
true to her memory and remained a
wldcwerg 1t seemed to me it would
have been more to the point to have
bestowed a need OF praise upon the
living wife occasionally, instead OF
constantly canting about the virtue
OF her predecessor. But in the first
ten days of my stay / never heard a
single compliment paid to Agnes
by her husband, and If l tried to
make up the deficiency myself, Mag.
gle was always lugged in, and her
goodness extolled till | was sick and
disguised. | would have called him
to order on the first night OF my ar
rival but Agnes had made me promise
not to, and every day kept reminding
me OF my promise"
"He does not mean anything often
sive. 1t is right enough for him to
love and admire his first wife. l am
sure, if | had been a first vile it
would have been a pleasant reflection
that, If my husband survived me, he
would still admire me and remember
my virtues, even If he married again."
was the way she excused him.
"Stuff and NONSENSE A man or
woman ought never to mention a
first companion in a way to CAUSE
jealousy on the part of the second
for if you we're like the majority oil
human beings, you'd be perfectly
green with jealousy by this time.
III venture to say, now, il you had
been Mrs. Mayne No. l, and Henry
had extolled you to Maggie supos.
ing her to have been Mrs. Mayne the
second, to the extent he has her TO
you, she would have flown into a
rage, and pulled every hair out OF his
head long ago"
When | had been with them about
ten days Mamie came home from
school.
"You'll find Mamie so mewhat gid
dy," Henry remarked to Agnes as he
was preparing to drive to the sta
ton to meet his sister. "She was al
ways SO in spite Of Maggie's wisecoun.
sci and good example to help her.
| ~devoutly hoped that, giddy or not
she would not join in the refrain when
Henry chanted the formerMrs .Mayne's
praises; for, hard as she struggled
against the feeling and tried hard to
hide it, I saw that this sort OF thing
was making Agnes life miserable. /
was prepared to detest Miss Mamie,
bat was agreeably disappointed in
her. She was a spirited brunette,
whose only tendency to giddiness-at
least all 1 could discover-was a habit
OF laughing unrestrainedly and using
school-girl slang.
How awfully much Becca is grow
ing to look like you," she said to
Henry one day when she had been
there nearly a week.
tDo You think so? Now Think she
more and more resembles her sainted
mother every day"
Mamie looked puzzled a moment
then burst out laughing.
Clancy the Madonna With a turn
up nosel" she exclaimed.
Il don't understand YOU" said
Henry.
didn't I understand you to say
she looked like the Virgin? You said
her sainted mother"
II mean her natural, not her spirit
ual mother"
"Well, ! reckon you wouldn't try to
make Mag out a saint Ifyou would,
what would you call Agnes2'' she ask
ed, v i a frankness that seemed TO
ammo her brother.
"AgGes is a good woman, too" he
replied. gravely.
II should think sou exclaimed
Mamie, Why, ifyou had made re-
marks about the pancakes to Mag as
you did to Agnes this morning, she
would have thrown the whole plate.
full in your face. So would I, for that
matter. / shouldn't have been sur
prised to hear you call her q
saint, but l think you must be losing
your memory if you imagine Mag
to have possessed any such thing as
saintliness. My goodness, how she
used to rake you over the coals!" rat
tied on the young lady, greatly to my
amusement and Henry's discomfs-
ure," | should think you'd miss
something out Of your life if Agnes is
always like she is since I've been here.
Never a day went over but you and
Mag had a quarrel when / was atyour
during her lifetime"
u was entirely at iault,V be said
q very red, embarrassed counte-
nance. II have tried to be very dit
with Agnes
"Well,1 laughed Mamie, at does
me good TO hear q man acknowledge
that he is at fault about anything,
but Ican't say / entirely agree with
you in this case. Now, there was that
she hit you over the head with
The skillet because you insisted upon
her wearing heavy shoes IN wet wealth
or. don't really think
maggie is dead, You must remem-
Der. broke IN Henry. Would it met !
be mell TO let her rest peacefully in her
sraye?"
This same thought had sometimes
occurred to me, during my stay there,
when be had been constantly dragging
her name into the conversation ia
most uncalled for places.
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