Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-07
NICE PEOPLE.
III. c. BUNNER.

sented to my wife's observation, using
the colloquial phrase with Il conscious
ness that 1t was anything but mice
English, land I'll bet that their three
children are better brought up than
most Of"
"Two Children" corrected my wife.
three, he told me. "
My DEAR she said there were two ="
"He sail three
you've simply forgotten. Pm sure
she told me they had only two-a boy
and girl.
We'll, l didn't enter into particu-
lars
mo, dear, and you couldn't have
understood him. Two children. "
"All right, said; but l did not think
it was all right AS near sighted man
learns by enforced observation to recog-
nze persons at distance when the face
is not visible to the normal eye, so the
man with Il bad memory learns, almost
unconsciously, to listen carefully and
report accurately My memory is bal;
but had MT had time to forget that
Brewster Brede had told NE that after
noon that he had three children, at
present left in the care of his mother in
taw, while he and Mrs. Brede took their
summer vacation.
Two Children" repeated my wife;
and they are staying with his Aunt
Jenny.
He told me with his mother in law"
| put in. NV wife looked at me with a
;erous expression. Men may not re-
member much of what they are tod
about children; but any man knows the
difference between an aunt and a mother
IN law.
But don't you think they are mic
people?" asked my wife.
oh, rtanly," l replied. "Only
they seem to be little mixed up about
the children.
"IAat isn't a nice thing to say, re-
turned my wife.
| could not deny it.
AID yet. the next morning, when the
Bredes came down AMI seated them
selves OF posite us It The table, beamine
and smiling in their natural, pleasant,
we'll breI fashion, | knew, to social
certainty, that they were nice" people.
He was fine looking fellow in his neat
tennis hanneIS, slim, graceful, % "r 30
years old, Vith a Fremchy pointei beard
Sue was :" ice" in all ,er pretty clothes,
and she iler. f VAS pretty with that
ype of preltine55 Nhich outwears most
,ther typ's-the preitiness that lies III a
rounded tigHre, Il dns'zy skin, plump,
rosy cheeks, white teeth, and black eyes.
She might have Leen 20; you guessed
that she was prettier than she was at 20
and that she would be prettier still at 40.
was not surprised whea, ffter break
'ast, my wife invited the BE rs to walk
with III to "our view. Ihe Ho"gen-
camp Bicycles -Tabb-Halkit contingent
le> er stirred off Jacobuss veranda, but
We both felt that the Bredes would not
prolane that sacred scene. We strolled
across the fields, passed through a little
peIt of woods, and as | heard Mrs
Brede's little cry of startled rapture, l
motioned to Brede to look up.
BY Jove:" he cried, "heavenl !"
And so that is your yiew?' asked
rs. Brede, after moment; "you are
,rry generous to make it ours too.
All, how much better was this sort of
talk than the chatter and gossip of the
rabb and the Hoogencamp-than the
mayors dissertations upon his everlast-
ing circulars! My wife and exchanged
sIances.
Nov, when l went up the Matter
horn, Mr. Brede began.
why, dear, interrupted his wife, u
didn't know you ever went up the Mat
terhorn.
lit was five years ago." said Mr..
Brede hurriedIy "I-didn't tell you
when ! was on the other side, you know
it was rather dangerous-well, as l
was saying, it looked-oh, it didn't look
at all like this.
A cloud floated overhead, throwing
its great shadow over the field where
we lay. The shadow passed over the
mountain brow. and reappeared far be-
low, rapidly decreasing blot, flying
eastward over the golden green. My
wife and ! exchanged glances once
more.
Somehow, the shadow fingered over
us all. As we went home, the Bredes
went side by side along the narrow
path, and my wife and l walked to-
gether.
"Should you think" she asked me,
that a man would Climb the Ma terh IN
the first year he was married?"
81 don't know, my DEAR" l answered
evasively; this isn't the first year have
been married, not by good many, and
wouldn't climb it--not for farm.
you know what mean, she said
did.
When we reached the boarding house
Mr. J co Il took me aside.
You know" lie began his discourse.