Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1888-12-14

OF your tricks"
You can't make game Of IA, Cousin
Sadie; We know you too we'll
For answer Sadie drew from her
pocket a much crumpled letter, and
stepped with Il across 10 he bright
lamp-llght Of the library table. Read
that. she said. pointing out a portion
Of the writing. 20 familiar 10 the four
boys. 1T was one Of the last letters
she wrote me before / came home
And this was what the boys read:
I've have decided 10 take our trip.
Sadie. your uncle and l. Il viii be our
first together In our welded life. and
/ know Il will do Us both good.
have been feeling tired and worn
lately. When the boys were little iel-
lows. though they took up all my time
and thought. l never felt It. They
we're so grateful and loving that Il was
real pleasure 10 feel myself their daily
necessity. their friend and helper. IL
Is so different now. Sadie They are
good boys. generous and h%igh-prin-
cipled. and yet many a time choke
with tears to feel that the entire love
they gave me once is mine no longer.
| am afraid they have %outgrown me In
a way. as they have %outgrown their
knee-trousers and their childish de-
pendence upon me. When they were
little lads, / truly think they could not
!. have slept without their goodnight
kisses TO me, while now-but shall
only hurt your kind little heart with
this sort OF letter. OF course they love
l me. Sadie, they must! And IL is
1 only natural, ! suppose, for boys,
as they grow up, to lose their loving
little ways. They are not like girls.
d II | had u daughter, Il might be differ
ent perhaps; but mother love is
: strong, and | feel fairly starved some
times; ever little Fritz forgets TO
r Fnuggle up TO mammals knee as he
y once did, and to pat her tired old
hands. II has made me feel like a
{ machine, though the duties once had
were heavy compared with the Sigh,
demand upon my time now"
Then followed details as to the ar
engagements OF the trip, the friend who
had volunteered TO keep house, and
d expressions OF gladness that Sadie, too.
would be home, TO brighten things NJ
for the dear big boys.
The dear big boys had grown rather
ID misty about the eyes. Sadie suddenly
+ refolded up the letter and caught NJ
10 hor hat. There's Lou at the gate
l. Goodbye, boys. Forgive me being
e, entirely frank with you. I'll see yo'
iy again about this business"
d, When she had gone the boys wer
is singularly silent. you will oblig
me, Jack, If you'll fall on me an
is break all my bones!n Stanford sal
10 slowly. Jack was 1.-THE biggest Of tn
m big" among the boys and weighed
It, hundred and forty.
rs Il could crawl through n knot-hole.
d, he replied.
mo you couldn't" Eugene said, an
though it was a favorite joke, nobod
in smiled.
Fritz, with his eleven years, hi
lis dimple and his'lithp' had disappeared
I'M There was hot gingerbread agai
when the tea-bell rang, and it SCENE
to him less endurable than before.
hit 'sWhat was the matter with tn
ut boyspn Mrs Beman asked her hui
I'd band that night.
tItf. ..v,. s.sarfh tshf1a 20 uttf1xs ~
motives OF the boy, my dear. IL
ltz goat. the spider, the kangaroo, are a
laid down in natural history, but u
nd boyn-and he wiped his hands with
Ior gesture full OF meaning.
we lit is on my mind, ! don't care
le- Mrs. Beman reiterated. WhenevC
she didn't care, she was taking thin
MS seriously. II promised their goo
ply mother that I'd see TO those boys-tl
house was Il minor matter in fact.
a." must investigate the trouble to-mO
not row. for trouble there Is, am sur
bit. They hadn't eve appetites. ThiI
Dos what an anomaly, a boy without
ac- appetitel Mrs. Vance said hot ginge
} n bread would comfort them in any d
Ike tress. Why, Arthur" and the lit
itP lady looked quite d%espairing, ION
an one OF them touched 1t, Stanford, a
he choked and left the table"
cd. Trouble indeed! The boys pretend
'er. TO sleep at once that night. They h
,wo nothing to say to each other. Ea
Int supposed the others asleep. Ea
ind tried to lie very quiet and each groan
Mt the thought that the dear pate
our mother had been deeply hurt at th'
Int treatment of her, when they wor
her have resented the slightest annoyan
caused her by any other. Love HI
mt Each groaned harder at the reflecti