The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-05-07

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missed her train lingering over good
by kisses and baby love-making.
"'Ou won't 'tay away from Baby?
"Ou tum wito back adam, Mamma
tause, Baby loves 'ou." And the soft
ditto of the younger baby-"Wite
back adam, Mamma, 'tausc Itty Baby
loves 'ou."
They were such mites, these tiny
girls, it had always seemed preposter.
ous to call them by the stately names
that they had been christened by.
They had dubbed themselves "Baby, I"
and Little Baby" and in tender
home parlance they were called that.
Mary could feel their pump little
arms around her neck now, and their
soft baby curls against her cheeks.
She strained her eyes TO catch the las'
glimpse of the little gr
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station. She had told the nurse
the children wave her "good by,"
she smiled rs she saw two tiny scraps
of white huttering from the nursery
window. But even the house was out
of sight in a moment, and she leaned
back in her seat feeling tired and de-
pressed.
She was doing very bold thing.
For the first time in her four years of
married life she was undertaking
something without consulting her hus-
band about it. But it was for his sake
for his dear sGke-to save him from
terrible anxiety; and to do that she
would dare anything.
The tears stood in her eyes Mt the
thought of his shoulders already
stopped under their burden OF care,
and his face so crossed with lines that
told as plainly as.did the scaniily COW
cred crown from which the curly,
boyish crop of brown hair had slipped,
how hard had been, and was, his iight
up the stream of fortune.
And his shabby coat and frayed
linenl David rarely got any new
clothes, and when he did be went to
cheap tailor who aid not fit him very
well. He was little man. Mary
used to think if he had been few
inches taller he would have cared more
for dress. But she was wrong about
that. David was very modest and not
wonderfully clever; but he knew that
it would have to be n coat as beautiful
as Joseph's to make him more respect
cd at his Office or more loved at home.
All beyond those two places was moth.
ing to him.
Mary used to buy him lot of new
collars and cuffs now aud then, and
neckties, and they were more becom.
ing to HIM than the ones he bought.
He did not think so, but he wore them
meekly for her sake. She even bought
his hats when matters had gone too
far for her wifely endurance; as, for
example, when he wore dust and
rain stained straw hat far INTO Novem.
ber.
David had come to New York from
the South, and he never seemed to be
able to acquire the spick.and.spau
look of the native New Yorker. If
he had INDUCED his taste III dress it
would have manifested itself in long,
flowing, broadcloth Prince Albert
coats, widely hsring Byronic collars.
neckties, tied to blow in the breeze,
and wide.brimmed soft hats.
But Mary loved him. She more than
loved him. She put him on pedestal
and crowned him with glory and
honor. She broke the alabaster box
of her whole beings alteration at his
feet; and she would have died for him
gladly.
Mary was a large, fair woman, vino
richly and fashionaoly dressed, would
have locked like duchess. As it was,
in her simple homo made gowns and
modest bonnet, she only looked like a
very beautiful mother, which is more
than some duchesses do.
A conventional looking young
curate, and handsome, large-featured
man of fifty, with deep mourning