Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-08-19

|>*' An we 'spected you'd be solly,"
pleaded Babs, cuddling up to him.
n Elise no one w,soanld int love you." nut
Mn Rex, emphatsallyzfeeling that his
E ;a:l''1 years Justified judicial at
Jack hesitated and queer lump came
up in his throat. Jill was a tiresome
little tease. It hadn't been altogether
his fault. But Jill crying! Dear little
Jill! ,"Who told you to Gomez" said he.
looking puzzled.
Nobody" answered Rex.
I'VE folded our own Selves" ex-
planned Babs.
OF course Jill wouldn't. send them.
he might have known that. "Whv do
you think Auntie Jill cried because I'd
been: naughty" :: (: (,
"'Cause she cwies when WEEK is
naughty, an mamma puts him"
Don't be such a donkey, Babs." in
terrupted Rex, indignantly.
We'll" ,said Jack; 81 suppose must
take you young rascals home, ANYHOW"
"An' say you's solly," pleaded Golden.
hair.
Il should if were you," counseled
Rex, putting his hand in that of Uncle
4 who-used-to7Be, because: he was very
nice uncle, and nine isn't, soSold in the
dark. Men must put up with some
thing from girls and ladies, and be kind
to them," he preached, solemnlv.
That's real true. My dada says so."
| Jack didn't, say much, but he held
them very tight and carried Rex as well
as Babs: in the gloomiest part of the
lane, where no one could see.
So it wasn't long before they came
to the house, where. everyone seemed
III trouble except Ttbby-cat, who was
| doing unconcernedly in, front of the
fire. Dada, who had just come home.
was starting out to look for them:
Sarah, the nurse, and Jane, the house.
maid, having just returned from a vain
search. Cook was blinking over the
kitchen fire about "them children" till
she let things burn, and mamma was
sobbing on the sofa in the drawing
! room because she was not we'll enough
to get up. Poor Auntie Jill was most
wretched of all, because she had cried
all her tears away in the afternoon
and had none left for the babies.
What shout of delight went up as
they came in through the open door!
Dada snatched up his boy and mamma
called eagerly for them from the draw
ing-room, so Jack followed in with
Babs' half asleep"in his arms. Dada
and mamma looked nowhere but at the
children, whilst Jack and Jill looked
everywhere but at each other. Then
Rex and Babs laughed and chartered
and began to explain matters. "We've
fetched Uncle jack" said Rex, in a mat
ter-of-fact tone, Ito see Auntie Jill.
And he's going to take us fishing to-
morrow afternoon, if you'll let him"
can hes goin' to be so welly. welly
good" asserted Babs, mphatically,
''zat Auntie Jill won't be solly and cwy,
not ever any more"
Mamma looked astounded and Auntie
Jill found just one tear to come half
out of each eye-for it hadn't been all
Jacks fault, really, yon know. Jack
stepped little nearer to her and half
held out one hand and half didn't.
''Don't be silly, children; you do not
understand" said mamma, reproving-
ly. But dada smiled one of his quiet
smiles. as, taking one little one up on
each knee, he sat down on the sofa
beside mamma. II think they do"
be.
Then Jack got very near Jill and took
hold of both her hands. "My dear littlea
JILL" said he, rather brokenly. And she
put her head on his shoulder and cried
and said-but really it isn't fair to tell
what she said. Anyhow it must have
been satisfactory to Rex and Babs. for
those young scamps laughed with glee
at the prospect of unlimited fishing,
and ball, and swings, and pennies, now
that Observation-Disclosures
was-to-be was reinstated.-St. Paul's.
JOwett's Sense of HumOr.