The Van Buren press., 1897-08-14
HIS REMARKABLE FAMILY.
Sayings and Doings of the BupDumses
ne ReInted by Their Father.

ns Related by Thefr rather.
Don't get Buppums started on his
children. If you do you'll wish you
hadn't. He's painfully humble at first;
laughs, and says that he knows that
eyerybody's children are really most re-
markable, the brightest that ever were,
say the cleverest things. Then he stops
moment and takes breath; and then
be begins thus:
81 admit all that know it's so; no
honest man ever honestly thought that
his children were honestly the most re-
markable; but d'you know"
Then he's off; you can't stop him.
Did you ever know daddy longlegs to
90 away after his first repulse? Bup-
pums. on the subject of his children,
is as persistent as a daddy longlegs,
But sometimes he tells good story
about them; and out of the vast heap
of chaff a few grains of infantile wheat
can be garnered
1t seems that Buppums has three
ehildren-Rosalind, Hope and Evelyn.
Of these Hope is at present the most
remarkable. The children are brought
I'D on the classics of the nursery, and
know their Mother Goose and its kim
dred iingles better than they know any
thing else One evening Hope was be-
ing wheedled through her prayers with
more difficulty than usual. More than
once she had begun, and then had
stopped to comment on incidents she
had noticed. At last she got down to
business:
God bless my daddy and my muddy,
my big sister an my little sister an
myself-no, my sister an my sisters
child, myself an children three y
There her mother interrupted her,
and the prayers and the quotation from
John Gilpin" remained unfinished.
The other day her mother found her
throwing goosberries on the front walk
and watching them smash.
What are you doing, Hope?" she
cried, for each crushed gooseberry made
stain on the tagging.
"Playing it's Fourth of July, an these
am torpetoes," was the explanation.
This same young woman is earning
money to buy teaset on which she
has set her heart; and she earns it a
penny at time by being good-that is,
occasionally. Buppums gave her n
penny the other day, conditionally.
"Now, Hope" said he, 'if you're
naughty tonight / shall take that
penny away from YOU"
I'll put it in my bank, and then you
can't tell which it is" said Hope, and
Buppums couldn't say a word.
She had heard her mother speaking
of Queen Victoria's jubilee, and had
heard with delight of the parade and
the soldiers. A day or two after the
jubilee procession her mother was
about to take the children for drive,
and sent the nurse up to the stable
with directions.
"Mollie," she said, tell Whalen
want the covered surrey, but if that is
out, tell him to send the victoria"
"Oh, muddy!" cried Hope. SIS the
queen going to take us out for drive p
The youngest of the lot, Evelyn, prom
ises, says Buppums (his friends say
"threatens"), TO be as brilliant as Hope.
There are several kittens in the Bup-
pums household; Buppums says two
his friends say at least a dozen. AT all
events, Evelyn came to her mother the
other day in distress.
Muddy" she walled, ''kittie bit me
wifi her fingersl" and she exhibited a
much scratched hand for sympathy.
Thprn no Ctnriac than thaSa
but if you want them you must go to
Buppums himself. He can tell them
to you.-N. Y. Sun.