The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-17

Il am sure You Wou4ds Gdlu Au1b
Margarine, land now, dearest sweet, /
am going to ask your dear mamma to
spare you to MS for just little while
| we must both beg very hard.
ssI'n go and tell nurse to pack my
things now, and then can so away
With you, said the little girl.
When her mother heard Of the invita-
ton she consented quite willingly. ''To
tell you the truth, Margarine she said,
81 shall be very glad for the child to
have a change. She seems a little un-
happy at home with us, and she behaved
most unlike her usual self at lunch; it
can't be natural for child of her age to
chew large glass beads. Did your Cathie
and Belle. ever do such thingY'
'Never," said Aunt Margarine, cough
ing. ut is habit that certainly ought
to be checked, and I promise you, my
dear Lucy, that if you will only trust
Priscilla to me / will take away any
thing of that kind the very moment
| find it, and do think, poor as we are,
we shall manage to make her feel at
home We are all so fond of your sweet
Priscilla.
So the end of twas that Priscilla went
to stay with her aunt that very after
noon, and her family bore the parting
with the greatest composure.
81 can't give you nice food or pretty
bedroom to sleep in, such as you have at
| home," said her kind aunt. eve are
very plain people, my pet, but at least
we can promise you a warm welcome"
"Oh, auntiel" protested Priscilla, lyon
mustn't think mind a little hardship.
| Why, If beds weren't hard and food not
quite nicely cooked now and then we
should soon grow too luxurious TODD our
duty, and that would be SO very bad for
u.s."
sob, what beautiesls cried her aunt
involnntarily, as she stopped to recover
several sparkling gems from the floor Of
the cab. II mean, it's better to pick
them up, dear, don't you think? they
might get in peoples way, you know.
What blessing You viii be in our SIM
pie homel | want you to do all you can
to instruct your cousins. Don't be afraid
Of telling them of any faults you may
happen to see. Poor Cathie and Belle, I
fear they are very far from being all
they should be-" And Aunt Margarine
heaved sigh.
Never mind, auntie, they will be bet
ter In time, am sure. wasn't always
q good girl.
Priscilla thoroughly enjoyed the frst
few days Of her visit. Even her aunt
was only too grateful for instruction,
and begged that Priscilla would tell her,
quite candidly, of any shortcomings she
might notice. And Priscilla, very kind
~ and considerably, always did tell her.
Belle and Catherine were less docile, and
she saw that it would take her some
time to win their esteem and affection,
but this was just what Priscilla liked
it was the usual experience of the hero
ines in the books, and much more inter-
esting, too, than conquering her cousins
hearts at once.
! Still, both Catherine and Belle per-
sistently hardened their hearts against
their gentle little cousin in the most un-
kind way; they would scarcely speak to
her, and chose to make a grievance out
| of the fact that one or other of them was
obliged, by their mosher's strict orders,
to be constantly in attendance upon her,
in order to pick up and bring Mrs. Hoyle
all the jewels that Priscilla scattered in
profusion wherever she went.
eff you wonld only carry plate about
with you, PRISCILLA" complained Belle
one day, 'you could catch the Jewels in
that"
But don't want to catch the jewels,
dear Belle, said Priscilla, with playful
but very sweet smile. "If other people
prize such things, that is not my fault, is
it? Jewels do not make people any hap
pier, Belle"
II should think notp exclaimed Belle.
''Im sure my back perfectly aches with
STOPPING, and so does Cathie's. There!
that big topaz has Just gone and rolled
under the sideboard, and mother will be
80 angry if don't get it out. 1t is too
bad of you, Priscilla. I believe you do
1t on purpose
"Ah, you viii know me better some
day, dear" was the gentle response.
well, at all events, think you might
be naughty just now and then, Prissie,
k4lu give Oetbillo ttLu ll6 U usAll iiOuSf1ys
81 would do anything else to please
you, dear, but not that. You must not
ask me to do what is impossible"
Alas! not even this angelic behavior,
not even the loving admonitions, the
tender rebukes, the shocked reproaches,
that fell, accompanied by perfect cas-
cades Of jewels, from the lips of ON
pattern little Priscilla, succeeded in re-
moving the utterly uufounded prejudices
Of her cousins, though it was some con-
ISOLATION to feel that she was gradually
acquiring most beneficial influence
over her aunt, who called Priscilla cher
little conscience" For, you see, Priscil-
las conscience had so little to do on her
own account that it was always at the
service of other people. and indeed quite
enjoyed being useful, as was only natur-
al to conscientious conscience, which
felt that it could never have been Great
ed to be idle
CHAPTER III.
| Very coon another responsibility was
added to little Priscillas burdens. Her