Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-20

thinks the dead iaitiri 'iiA - $50
get up out OF thar graves and spooK nun !,
II the switch was laid on % them chill
dren. And he always such a mild man
like nav skimuiilk cheese. till these
Young ones come to live with usl You
sec. 1niss. they was raised on a farm ana
allowed to run wild, and there amt a
pleased thing they're afraid o. frne
when sbe wasn't more than five years
old would 20 right hand over hand
across the cows backs when they stood
in a row. and she would ride wild colts
round the pasture bareback.
Both the children lived with animals
and mothered the old ducks and hens,
and was followed all over the place by
lambs and little pigs and every blessed
thing. and sparkler says it amt no won.
der they can't bear to be shut mp and set
prim and proper on bench and be made
10 study. -,
"Whv, that girl Prue-I never did
know ANYTHING like IT, Seems as though
she Just loves the earth She'll go out
into the ward and put herself face down
/ fiat on the ground and clutch the grass
az il it was human being and had a
heart in It and she could hear it beat,
and there she'll lay and go fast asleep.
tell Sparkler she's that wild she'll take
to the woods some day and drag off
Sally to live up a tree. What am 60
ing 10 do with such creetura, Miss Rem
wick? They've turned her out of school,
and can't make sally go alone, and |
can't keep EN- here shet up like a SPUR
rel in a cage, especially with sparlsler
that set on the whippin question I'll
could find somebody to teach EN- pri-
vately, even II they didn't learn much,
just to take 'em of my hands few times
day, would be willing to pay good
price"
"Let them come to me-" said Miss
Renwick, who had now sat down ON a
kitchen chair, still keeping hold of Sal.
ly's little chubby hand. 81 will teach
them all know she added, blushing
and hesitsting little.
Mrs, SpaTkler squared her elbows and
polyed out her chin in way peculiar to
herself. She was rather a portly woman,
and her apron made fine curve as it
descended over her neat print gown.
"Morcy me, Miss Renwick what
would your pa say2 He'd 90 into CON
vulsions if he knew you was colleaguing
with folks like me. Why, he don't think
me and sparkler is fit to wipe his old
shoes on"
Miss Renwick blushed even moro
wildly, and the heightened color was
very becoming to her style of beauty.
"Why should he know, Mrs. Spar
klerC said she, softly patting the little
hand that lay in hers, "Ho is an old
gentleman, who has his pet preiudices
that must be humored aud perhaps he
has grown little childish OF late years.
He is away all day at the library por-
ing over his books, and why should
trouble him about this rnatterT
Mrs. Sparkler shook hor head very
skeptically at first, but before Judith
went home it was agreed between them
that the children should come to her
every week DAY at ten in the morning, to
remain until two, bringing with them a
small luncheon to .appease the childish
pangs Of hunger. There was also to be
a little recess, when they were to run in
the garden and let out their "whoop." "a
Mrs. Sparkler expressed it. For her
Services in teaching them their small
lessons Judith was to receive certain
specified sum Mrs, Sparkler was a bust
ness woman, and insisted on having
everything down in black and white.
The little SpGrklers had been under
Judith's instruction for about three
months now, and she hattered herself
that the progress toward good man.
ners, a proper behavior and docility had
been considerable, proceeding us it did,
however, by fits and starts and varied
by not infrequent outbreaks OF rebellion.
Little sally, the curly pated, dimpled
child, certainly loved her teacher, but
Pruo was u strange, incalculnble being.
hayward, capricious and fascinating by
turns. Judith that morning had just
arranged her table to give the children
a lesson on shells, for she varied the reg.
ulnr order Of teaching by object lessons
from nature--on birds and beasts, min.
erals, nseots, leaves, flowers and grasses.
1t was inst ut this moment that Mrs,
sparkler, wild eyed, bonnetless, shawl
less, rushed into tho house. She had
scrambled through the gap in the garden
wall and come in the back way.
They're gone" she cried. looking
round the room. ats iust M
| said. They amt here You could
knock me down with feather and
then she sank into the nearest chair. and
putting hor thick, red hands over her
face she burst into tears. "Oh, Miss
Renwiok, | can't ketch my breath. I'm
gaspin like, for Sparkler sets such store
by them children il anything should
happen them he'd 60 ont OF his inind.r
Judith was standing by trying to uuiet
her. 81 can't tell no straight story, Miss
Renwick. It's that Prue that has ied
away sally. They've been putin their
heads together in corner these last two
or three days, and felt sure Prue was
oookin up some mischief. This morning
when came down stairs early the house /
was still as death. looked for them IN
the stable where 6parkler keeps his
business cart, and where they're wild Ia
get in along with the horse, and then {
went to the shop and raised the neigb- Z
0orhood generally, but they've skooted .
sure enough
Where do you think they Gun have
gomez Judith asked in sympathetic dis. |
IresA
49,. 4,
"heboe they made bee line for the