The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-16
HE LIT OUT.
A New V,.sion of the Departure and Rc-
turn of the Maynard SON.

New v,rsion of the Departure and Rc-
turn of the Maynard Son.
| am reminded of a certain wiltful boy
we have all either known or been just such
a one-an aggrieved, unappreciated boy,
who grew to dislike his own home very
much. and found his parents not at all up
TO the standard of his requirements as a
son and disciplinarian. So he brooded sui
Ienly over his disheartening surroundings
and limitations; and of course knowing
the outside world would afford him advan-
tazes never to be found at home, ne liz out
one morning before breakfast, and climb
ing over the back fence aud bitterly shak-
ing his fist st the woodpile, he vanished
himself away" down the turnpike. Yes;
he had at last put into execution his long
muttered threatenings. He had run away
from homei
His parents, ut the discovery OF his fight,
bore up first rate-especially the father.
Possibly he had been much abused boy
himself some time, and OWNED that even
then his wayward son was disporting him
self in the delights Of the swimming hole
where in reality he was, and where he
stoically remained throughout the day
save at one furnishing interval in which
he sneaked far enough away 70 raid a
neighborinZ orchard The other boys
went home at dinner time-but he, a!asi
he mad no homel
Al least he tried 20 think these very
words, and with very biting irony, but
MS lip trembled frequently that long, long
feverish afternoon, and there was getting
TO be knotted, rigid sort of an aching spot
in his throat that seemed TO hurt worse
wien be didn't notice II than when he did.
u was a very curious. self-asseTtive, opin-
ioDEted sort OF a pain. But he wrestled
with it and swallowed at IL until almost
dark: then, with the last struggling crowd
OF his companions, be moved torpidly in
toward home, or rather OOzed that way,
with loathful, hesitating, reluctant. late
election returns characteristic, somew bat
heightened perhaps By the inward resolve
OF chopping an armful Of wood ~ be went
in by vay 81 the kitchen And be did this,
but the hired girl. who was washing the
supper dishes, made no comment Of any
kind
He ranged through the pantry with aP-
parent carelessuess, but the cupboard was
locked He went out 20 the porch, where.
at least, the pump met him kindly and
shook hands with him. and be drank long
and deep 10 their more enduring acqus1nt~
ance The back yard, in the settling gloom.
was lonesome, but il looked good, and tie
lightning bugs, against the rrap%vines.
biinked az him with kind Of sallow glad
ness over his return His heart was soft
ening. he walked thooghtfrlly 20 the
rain barrel AZ the corner 81 the ho1se and
peered in II the few faint stars reflected
there Then. moved by some strauge I'm
pulse, he washed has feet.
he then went into the house ard On
straight into the room where al bis pa
rents By TIE evening lamp The father WAS
intsntly reading The paper, the mother IN
ten,Iy sewing. Neither looked up a. his
entrance. even reproachfully. and neither
spoke The boz drew a long. qua-eriog
igh. and sat down on the reus0ts edge q
a chair AL was still IN the room for .
long tfrse-very still. bur everything
seemed 30 kind AID restfGi aud old fash
iored ard hoEn>lT and kin g. him, Only
II somebody would ssY something's
con1s ard boz him anyh0rs-saythirz
Whr Lord 1855 az wAknE q tEs--