Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-22
whispered, timidly, II don't know how fer

walked In. LOUSY followed with the pun
die
II heered there was a lot O. little chill
dren, and thought I'd like to bring 'em
Christmas gift" faltered the rival of the
Jenkinses catching sight, in the gloom, OF
two faces, mans and womans, ana
turning from one to the other Then Miss
Pendraggon set the basket awkwardly on
the floor and LOUSY crept up and placed
the bundle beside the basket.
Gradually Miss Pendraggon became az
customed to the dim light; she beheld the
woman showing toward her block cut
from the woods and understood that IL
was a cheer" and that she was being ASK
ed to sit down. At the same time she De-
came conscious of the presence of little
girl and boy regarding her Wonderlngly.
But it was a vision OF the Twins tnat re-
stored Miss Pendraggon's scattered wis
one little bit of a white face somewhere III
the region of the mans arms and another
little bit of white face, now hidden, now
revealed, in the midst of two nourishlns
arms and legs right in the center 81 inc
big rumpled bed. Laws, LOUSY Parker
she screamed look at the twins; they
too little fer their Christmas presentnthe
little gal and boy'll hev to git EN- all
presents brought certain cheer and hustle
into the little house. Miss Pendraggoh
took off the cover of the basket, ana .ne
next minute Jawn Carter's daughter, with
a tightening up of her brown eyes, heio Out
her arms for the ten-cent doll.
And yers some'n fer the boy, saio
Miss Pendraggon My! he's skeered al ~;
She was terribly disappointed to see hop.
bic Carter backing briskly from the cameo
bunny. well, Bro Rabbitll hev fer TO SET
yer all by himself on the floor. AS MISS
Pendraggon in turn backed from 'he iao
bit, Robbie Carter came forward, stooPeu
from his waist and gathered his bunny close
to his loving little breast. Then Ropple re-
treated to the side of his small sister. "A
faint glow from the back window poupeu
into the house in the woods ana Isii u dom
f1,1 oil ri
the boy embracing his bunny MISS rem
dragon was towering high above the
block cut from the woods, her hands Were
clasped loosely together, her eyes " she
shining Laws, amt they too cute! she
cried. She had again "clean forgot 'he
II was when Miss Pendraggon inquired
the names and ages OF the WINS Inc, inc.
she hacked altogether out OF the mousse anu
stood, giggling, at the foot or tne s'e io5,
waiting for her mistress. Inc little SIN
twin, that the man held IN ms AIMS In little
called Charlotty Lucindy, ana the n..,e
we'll twin cutting capers on the peu, was q,
Mary Magdalen, manned from the p,oi .n,a
"Pm sorry they wasn't all fixed up, saio
Miss Pendragg found herself smiling
amiably around upon Jawn Carter anu ms
family, found herself saying quite liucI...S
that one couldn't have real Cu ,t .hs,
without children, found herself pattliig tne
little white face of Nary Magdalen WINE
Mrs. Carter emptied the contents OF me
big basket beside Mary Magdalen on the
of ali. looking into the grateful face OF
lawn Carter and warmly sympathlZing
with him for not being over strong ana
able to work the six days out the
seven" - :,
said Miss Pendraggon giving final DOW.
She held the empty basket IN her n'ti'uss
her eyes swept farewell glance, luil or
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and the merry little twin, then they rested
kindly upon the baby in the mans arms:
Il hope as Almiry Lucrechy III git well
soon like tother'n," she murmured
won't you please. mann, tell me VINO
you ARP" Miss Pendraggon had thought
the mans face grateful, but she had never
seen anything as glad as the eyes or the
woman confronting her.
Laws, l amt nobody but Ann PenuraS-
gon," she said apologetically. Il live on
the big road beyond the village, next house
to the Jenkinses. LOUSY Parker, yer. she
showed me the way through the woods.
''Why'n you tell 'em we alls was de Kris
kingle?" said LOUSY. giggling softly as she
followed her mistress to the cart. Deyd
neva found out no BETA Twin Off yer in de
woods"
"Louysy the good will O. the Lord was
with US, we'd not got back safe over
them roads," remarked Miss Pendraggon
half an hour later. Then she looked at her
hand-maiden seriously. II weren't used to
it, LOUSY she said. lands sakes! how
did act?''
"Yo' seemed's eff yo' was enjoyin' yo'se'f."
returned LOUSY. l couldn't hep but laugh.
l thought yo' was gunno spend the whole
evenin'. Yo' seemed's eff yo' was enjoyin'
yo'se'f powaful."
"Louysy Parker" said Miss Pendra ggon
truthfully, do you know 1 was enjoyin'
myself"
wen 1 seen yo' fngerin' dat Ieetle
twin" said LOUSY, with fresh flow of
historical mirth, II done conclude l best
ct da house I EnOwpl 1a
want neva gunno beat dat"
"A city person couldn't have driven over
them roads," soiloquized Miss Pendraggon.
I'D like TO to see 'em try" cried the tri-
umphant LOUSY. "Dey'd got stuck in de
mash or he'd de wheels tore off or some'n.'
Then to the surprise of the excited and
happy LOUSY, Miss Pendraggon heaved a
deep sigh. She had picked up a bit Of red
merino from her work-basket and was
shredding it nervously. city and coun-
try she said decidedly, we're all as mean
as dirt. Eff we wasn't nary man would
ever hev invented them ten-cent dolls"
That quick lighting up of two brown eyes
had followed her out of the woods Jawn
Carriers little girl was holding out her
arms again to receive her first doll. Them
balmorals, LOUSY" continued Miss Pen
dragon, humbly, they was both alike, 1
tried fer to think the one was better'n the
other, but knowed all the time it wasn't,
but there was the biggest kind O. differ
enCe between the dolls The one were
strong and made fer to last, the other lest
he'd its arms fastened on fer to come off
/ want that balmoral took back and cx-
changed; l want that there tifty-cent doll.
I'm gunno set up tonight and dress the
doll; and I'm gunno send 1t over first thing
in the morning to them pore people in the
woods. want it to git there fore that lit
tie girl has cried her heart out cause her
dolls arm come off at the fetch"
LOUSY Parker walked very slowly I'D the
hill from the store with the balmoral under
one arm and the ffty-cent doll under the
n
hended that no matter what became of the
Jenkinses-and some people said they were
going TO move back to town altogether
no matter what became of the JenkinSes
Miss Pendraggon would not relinouish the
delights of kriskingling with single
Christmas venture.
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