Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-07-30
rs~ rgan Wen. to ~. Party.
nv N. Il. EMINa.


party, and there had been little else
thought about by the children on the
block for several days. Almost al of tn
tamil es on this particular block, in
this pleasant Southern town, are
friends; and as there are twenty child
ren, counting all in the different houses,
they form little set among them
selves.
They have many pleasant times
together; ricnics in the spring, nutting
parties in the autumn, and coasting IN
the winter on the rare occasions when
there Is snow enough
1t was June, and no one had yet left
town, and Fl lie was going 10 give party
Now, Of course, all of these twenty
children c0ult not be invited Many
of them were too young. and in some
families there were too many; so the
line hal 10 be drawn, and the great
question was "Where?" Who would
lie asked and who would he left out?
Now Hugh l. a third child, and Is
a sturdy, needless, honest fellow of
seven But Mrs. Burton very prop
erly thought two from that family was
enough, and so,-oh, sad to tell
Hugh WIS not invited.
For the few intervening days, it was
funny to watch him.
He seemed unable to believe that
the fatgs were going to be SO cruel to
him. lie pmed 10 feel that, at the last
moment, some way would be opened TO
him, that something would surely turn
up. What amount of limiting" went
uu 90 tho little Burton 10y during
these 3.ys. / do not know and dare
not con scturn, but nothing was ac-
c,urlsael up 90 the afternoon of the
turtgtruuuar.
When lr- -istrr and brother went
urs'alg- O. dress for the party, Hugh
went tuu. %. q soon came down mag
uifrtut ~ lis b 50 clothes and new
CrayJ-. "Hu., y.u know, nv darling"
/ slI', '.yur cannot 20. You have
NJ Ilrr au.u.' Then began scene
of agony. Nsyl took hIs seat on the
tg1at steps, ~uI IE3ulgcd without re-
stuuut IA tue IgxUry Of deepest
woe.
After his sister and Jr ther went OF
looking .ery happy, aud perhaps Just a
little triumphant, his cup seemed full
but gs, one after another, the fortunate
children who had been invited came
out from their homes. and walked up
t1 thu l.u.c at the corner, which
WIS brI lt.y hghted, and from
which came the sound Of music, his
wrgtc. gdae-s seemed too great to he
born. he buried lI- face IN his hands,
Hut gruuu.U aloud, only to RAISE his head
every now aud then 90 look ruefully
at some festive Lttle figure as It
passed
',Now, there goes Paul Jamesl Hes
no o.d r than I am, he told me SO
yes. yr0.By and there Eue- Eustis Turner!
Just look at hIm, Mother. you kiOtC
Le rs "a wear Younger tan [ ami"
10 was useless o. explain that those
children were o. e oldest IN their house
b. ll-, and that he WIS unfortunate
IN being he thId IN his own. Still
came tn. v,uIl. 81 think / ought to
have been iavltyd." HIS father and a
frIaLt who I4I COME IN TO take tea
with Us, tried Co luru him out of HIS
misery, ugr It VA, ut no use, his grief
was 90 deep f. 2 rldIrrIe 10 touch.
NV syup.taIys hat become warmly
excited lur tue ltt'e fellow, but / could
do uutl.us Co EgIu i IN. IL WAS one IF
those suI cases where the little heart
must bear It's own bitterness.
When Ve went TO ia, Hugh, who
had eaten L., ii. .ad-aud-milk some
time hrf.r., WIS su / sitting On the
front steps ''dyLeCt and wrttched. "
After "a while 10 q. CURED to me that II
he came into the Isum where We were,
and got out ut sight of the house al the
corner, aud hat some tea with us, par
tIculnrly as there was an ice (and there
are few childish gr.efs that ice-cream
vii. not cure, perhaps his spirits might
revive ustle. So l sent the maid to
tell him 10 c. me in.
After being absent some little time,
she returned 90 say that, not finding him
on the steps, she had been looking for
him, and had ut last discovered him at
the pJrtJ; aud she added that Mrs.
Burton sa Il: "Plgase do not make him
come homo. for l believe 1t would
break his heart"
So waited wondering how it had come
TO pHss- After a while they all came back,
May and Ralph, the two older ones,
very mortified and iudig nant, and
Hugh very quiet, but with a CLEAN oi
satisfaction IN his eye. 1t seems that
after we went in to tea, his misery be-
came very great, and he thought he
would walk mp 10 the house and look
in. So Le did, and to get a better
view he climbed upon the fence and
sat perchgd IN that mysterious way
known only 10 boys of his own age on
the top OF a spiked iron feace.
There he had full view Of the en-
trunCIug interior. of the lights, the dane
iur, the pretty EttIe girls Hugh Is very
gallant aud the happy boys. The sig {
was too much. and he broke forth into
wuIls So louduu long that they were au-
dbIe even above the music: .'Oh, want
60 come In 80 bldl-I Mt TO come in
So had.' Mrs. Burton heard him; her
heart WINS touched; and. going out. she
brought this despaIring one into the
delights OF Paradise.
And So Hugh went to the party.-&.
Nirhufts.