Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-12-21
CHATTER -(Continued.)

hObcC Va oClh6 WILL 40 Y as
Eighty but she would bear many
rough words from people whose af-
lection she believed in. She continued
to discuss the matter in hand with her
friend until the tea was all drunk, and
Miss Barnasconi rose to put on her
bonnet again, saying that it was time
for her to go and give a lesson.
Another lesson! Why, it's half-past
FIVE o'clock"
yes; but I go to young Mugger-
idge every Wednesday afternoon, be-
cause he gets from the Office an hour
earlier OF that day. Poor dear young
man, he lis very docile and industrious,
and / think it's better for him to spend
his pocket money on singing lessons
than on bears grease, or cheap cigars,
or billiards. So 1 teach him. But /
hope you may never hear him sing
Believe me IL all those endearing
young charms all the same"
why, Barneyr'
Because 1t requires more self-com-
mand than can be expected at your
years"
Poor Barney! how hard you work!
Oh, Barney" exclaimed Mrs. Jack,
Jumping up and clasping her hands,
I've got such an idea! 1t has just
tOhiC hito IL uCdu lblS SCIf ultittc,
and / only wonder that 1 never thought
OF 1t before. Why shouldn't l give
lessons and earn some money? I can
draw in pencil and crayon, 1 can paint
flowers, 1 can teach French and music,
mo, not music" she said, quickly cor
recting herself. Not for the world
would Mrs. Jack have put herself into
competition with Barney" But ge-
ography and history, and things. I'm
sure I know as much about them as
our English goyerness at school knew.
Oh, Barney, what a glorious idea!
Isn't it? Why don't you say it is,
Barney?"
Miss Barnasconi was tying on her
bonnet before a little distorting bit or
looking glass, which hung on n side
Of the fireplace. She did not turn
round as she answered:
"wen, my dear, 1 don't say 80, be-
cause / don't think so, which is a weak
minded reason, perhaps; but I have no
better"
You don't think so? Oh, Barney!
Why, ii is the best idea / ever had in
my life. 1t is quite an inspiration!
All. perhaps you think l should be idle
and wanting in perseverance; but l
should not. No; l should keep saying
to myself, pounds for Popsy,' and that
would encourage me, and make me
work like a horse"
"But, suppose" suggested Mis- Bar
n~asconi, still intent on her bonnet
strings. sit should come to be not
pounds, but shillings, perhaps scarcely
even pence for Popsy.' How them
"Well, even then 1 should not be
discouraged. I should expect not to
earn a great deal just at first; not more
than fifty or sixty pounds, perhaps,
But, then, as I do know drawing and
painting, and-and different things, OF
course people would soon find out that
i could teach well, and / should soor
get on"
! "Ah! only fifty or sixty pounds tc
begin with, eh?"
but even that would make all the
difference to my income. i told MIR
Lilly that I would be content will
fifty pounds a year, and he wouldn'
allow me wen that!'
And do you suppose" said Mis-
Barnasconi, facing round from the
looking-glass and showing her brown
face framed in white ribbon and roses
do you suppose you have nothing t.
do but to walk into peoples house:
and say, Let me teach your children!
- 10 YOU KNOW Ine hiuu VI ~
that YOU would have to go through
the kind of rebuffs that You woult
have to take without wincing, the kline
of logged, determined patience yol
would nave to exercise? But it Is shee
nonsense to ask you such questions
You can't answer them; but | car
In one word, you know as much abou
IL all as Popsy. And Popsy would hav
a better chance at IL than you, for sh
isn't half so sensitive, and a grea
deal more obstinate. There! Tve sal,
my say. 1t won't have much effec
/ dare say. except that of letting IN
sleep tonight with a pretty clear col
science. And now l must be of I
young Muggeridge."
Mrs. Jack was not in the leas
ouenched by this douche of cold water
She quite believed that Barney ha
had to go through a sewers struggle
but then 1t was SO very unlikely tina
what had happened to Barney shout
happen to her! She ran up stairs, an
began Immediately to draw out a eli
cuIar setting forth her accomplish
ments; and when hcc nurse and chill
returned from their walk Biddy wa
agreeably surprised to find her mis-
tress full of cheerful excitement.
10y way Ol ttStinS h1 own mHnucSs
and getting herself forthwith into trair
ing for her part of goyerness, Mrs
Jack assumed a stern tone with Popsy
and insisted on that young lady's cal
rying away the little square-toed sho
that lay on the hearth rug, n putin
it in its place in the nursery. Whe
Biddy was about to take 1t up, MR.
Jack i~nterposed with much gravity:
no. Biddy, she must learn to ODE
me, and do things for herself. TAX
away the shoe. Popsy. You know quit
well where to put it. miss
Popsey toddled eff with the she
quietly enough. And her mother, muc
elated by this victory, and the evider
ease with which You could make chi
dren obey you II you only Shove
them firmly that you will was th
stronger. sat down again TO finish he
circular.
1t was well she could not see tnroug