Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30

| III q subdued and timorous manner,
Mrs. Stocker or any one else being by.
1t was when in full possession
Of the solitary room, the window
open. the fresh air and vivid
sunshine pouring in, and the
whole presence Of the blue sky
/ filling the whole space, that the little
/ creature would yield to the entire
power and desire, that ever seemed
! possessing her, to raise her voice in q
/ glorious union with the harmony Of
! Nature, as it might in her birthplace
have made itself heard to her Many
time people becoming aware of it III
| the street below, had stopped to
listen whence the music came, and
more than once Mrs. Stocker herself
! had paused, ere opening the door,
astonished, and scarcely credltlng her
own ears that it could be the voice OF
her patient. silent, Woodworking little
assistant; but never when singing, in
obedience to request, would Ida SO
acquit herself as on these solitary oc-
caslOns.
AS one morning, when the maker Of
regalia and embroiderer Of kingly
purple, having gone out in quest Of an
especial dainty on which she declared
/ she had 'set her heart" for dinner,
and which, being nothing very par
ticular in hand, they might just as well
have that day "And, duckey, you
should come too, but / must call on
/ Madame Annina, about anew set she's
wanting done, and your mother would
/ think, don't know, what was to
happen if | took you to the house OF
an actress, though / believe she's bet
! ter than half the saints; but that's
neither here nor there; youknoW what
to get on with, pet?'
ooh, yes" Ida knew what to do,
and did not at all want togo out, but
would have finished that quite by the
| time she came back.
'You'll do nothing OF the kind now,
pussy; you old-fashioned, hard work
Ing thing You just get up and have
a run around the room and look out
of the window, and J'n see and bring
you back few flowers, if can lay
! hands on any for next to nothing"
With this good-natured rebuke, the
kindly but careless woman quilted the
room, first putting on a thick veil to
hinder the sign manual of "Bill
/ Stocker, his mark" beingto apparent
in conjunction with her eye. 1t was
the other one this time; the account
was kept up pretty evenly between
| the two organs Of vision, affording a.
Striking proof that is not always
the offending member on which
punishment falls. There was nothing
at all provocative in the glance OF
those brown eyes, faded though they
were; but you may have noticed that
the good woman was profuse in her
adjectives, and they were, perhaps,
not always of the endeaxing nature
applied to pussy"
There was a ray of autumn sunshine
struggling into the room. just over the
corner where the child sat; she felt its
warmth, and, as if to give it encour-
agement, or to draw it's welcome ra-
dance to herself, she began, directly
she found herself alone, to sing in her
soft, quiet, increasing way; till, the
sound quickening the work, and the
fast fingers again strengthening the mu-
sic, she worked and sang and sang and
worked. till she might have been weav-
ingmusic or singing pearls, for aught she
was conscious now. She never heard
the old cracked bell on the landing out
side the door, with it's jingle-jangle,
giving signs that some one was want
ing the first floor below; but went on
in land of her own, singing out from
her very hearts gladness that her
fingers had found employment.
els Mrs. Stocker at home, do you
think? | have rung several times, a
lady asked of the dirty maid servant,
whom she encountered in the passage.
II don't know, I'm sure, miss, but |
think she is, and likely enuff she don't
hear the bell. Will you 60 up?'
eyes, I might as we'll, for to say
truly the lady's attention had been
taken by the sound OF singing; and she
had the pardonable curiosity Of wish
ing to ascertain from what part ofthe
house and from whom it might pro-
coed.
GLOW very sweet" she said to her
self as she went up. Good Heavens
and she stopped; my own song!---
false notes, but very, very sweet
Why, it is in her room.
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