Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-18

look at the renovated rooms after In,
carpets and furniture had been replaced
"What did your father and mother
sayl" queried her aunt.
so, mother did not say anything.
guess she was glad TO have me do it, and
| fathers been too busy with his work L
notice that / haven't been around a,
usual. But just wait until next week
Aunt Ann" she hurriedly went on
"T've found my work. I've got three
good jobs on hand now and promise Of
more. Mrs. Barnes wants her parlol
papered and painted, DIR. Elkins has en-
gagged me to put two coats on his hal
and front piazza, and Mrs. Lears says
her dining-room has got to be grained
with just such knots as yours. They Dc
show off pretty well, IL did do it my
self, f" she finished with critical look al
her work.
"And there'll be no end of the row
it'll make" her aunt said to the uncl,
I that night. ~ do wish Viney'd give 4
up, but she has taken the bit in hel
teeth so since that day, it's no use fo
me to say anything. She actually seems
to be enjoying the prospect ahead wher
he does find it out. / don't like encour-
aging children in flying in their parents
faces either"
'Now, Ann, you hain't no call to fret
/ don't believe in encouragin' such thingI
as rule, either; but there is such +,
thing as parents making their children
| fly in their faces-and there's Bibl,
'gainst that as much as t'other. And
Ann, Abram is cantankerous fellow, i
he is your brother. He has sort o
forced the girl into it, holdin' her dowr
to the grindstone as he has. Now, if he
raises a storm, why-let him. Thunder
sort o. clears up the air they say, and so
don't you fret. AS for her enjoyment
/ expect the KNOWN she has some money
of her own In her own pocket is at the
bottom of it. 1t gives us all lots of back
bone to have something of our own"
"Seems to me l hain't seen much Of
Whey for a matter of two weeks or so, ,
suddenly remarked Mr.. Meeker, looking
ing over at his daughters vacant chail
as in a lull Of work he allowed himself tc
| eat one dinner SLOWLY.
| She's been over to Uncle Jacks help
ing them, 4" his timid wife simply vouch-
safed in reply.
~ should think she might find enough
to do at home without hunting ovel
there for work." he shortly returned.
"She found too much, that was it, y
muttered Hiram, the sixteen. year. old
son, through mouthful Of pie.
His mother met his eye with quick
warning glance, but too late to prevent
his finishing indistinctly with:
"Just as do too
"Found too much! !" snapped Mr.. Meek
or, catching the first words. "Well, sc
much the more reason she should stay al
home and do it. Don't you waste any
more time, Hi. Hurry round to that
dragging. That lot'must be finished w
to-day. I'm going to the shop with this
ploughshare and you'd better be moving
| to work"
"Just as If I never wanted thing but
work." grumbled Hiram sullenly, as hi
left the table. ~ wanted to buy then
two calves of Armstrong. He'd sell
them to me and let me work it out, and
there's milk and posture enough to raist
them and cost nobody a cent, but pa
couldn't see what on earth wanted o.
them. He didn't need 'em he said. Just
own. Why, could sell the yoke mex
year for enough to get me lot of things
l want and never will have till / car
make cent of my own. say it's awful
meanr' he Indignantly ended.
"Hi, now hush Don't you 90 t.
raisin' up too. Goodness knows what
he'll say when he does find out wha
Viney's doing" his mother admonished
adding in tone she dutifully rendered
inaudible to the boys ears, II do wisl
though that we all could have a littl,
more of our own, without having every
cent pieced out 10 us and an exact &C
count rendered for it..
This remark reached Hiram's ears as h,
jammed his old straw hat on his heaC
and started unwillingly for the barn.
~ don't believe the Lord ever made
him or anybody else so" he muttered tc
himself outside the door. "Pa's don,
his own making and has got it awful,
twisted, too Anyhow, I'm going Il
have a little something of my own, sc,
if don't, " and he turned suddenly OF
his heel without entering the barn.
Mrs. Meeker was clearing up her dishes
when her husband entered an hour later
ploughshare in hand.
sd like to know what all this means p
he stormily began.
"What what meansl" his wife tremu.
lousy asked.
whats Whey up tor" his voice rising
still higher.
"She's up to DR.. Elkin's," was tn,
evasive reply which poor Mrs. Meekel
tried instantly to convince herself was 9
proper one to his question, nervously
lingering her dishes as she made it.
eyes; should say she was up to DR.
Elkin's-piazza roof. Do you know
Mrs. Meeker," he never called her Mrs
Meeker except on extraordinary occa
sions of wrath, and she shook with ex
element and fear, 'do you know that
saw with my own eyes that girl rigget
out in full bloomer dress, climbing
ladder with paint pail and brush in hel
haRdsH Now, ma'am, if you can tell mi
what she's up to I'd like to know afte
she has disgraced the whole of us
everybody talking about her taking up
trade. Why, I'd mind to march he
straight home ahead of me. would
too, f.
Crashl
Out of Mrs. Mce.er's trembling hand
the blue sugar-bowl, which size wa
wiping, slipped to the floor.
1t may have been the fact of the price
bowl following so soon in the wake o