The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-05

ting very interesting replies from this
laxative little boy.
I've read Robinson Crusoe' through
three times" he added.
Was Tommy Cobb late this morn
ing?" she asked.
yes. but his mother wrote him an
excuse. He got hurt yesterday. He
came to my house and climbed on top
of the wood pile. Mother said; Get
down. Tommy or you'll fall, but he
didn't get down. She said: Tommy
Cobb, get right down, or you'll fall and
hurt yourself and he did fall and hurt
his wrist so it swelled all up
We'll. l declare" said Mrs. Harmon.
Her next question was: "Almy likes
Grace Clark pretty well, doesn't she?"
Yes; they're intimate friends.
begun patchwork together, and
they divide their pieces. They've got
pieces of all my aprons, But everything
is used up now, and they'll have to stop
short They wanted to make bed
quilts, and now they can only make
crib quilts; and there isn't baby in
either family"
Mrs. Harmon was very much enter
tanned by Benny's volubility, and she
could easily imagine what discussions
had gone on between the girls. Quick,
practical thoughts came into her minu,
and she felt almost eXcitedly happy.
When Mrs. Chaplin came from the
meeting she found Benny standing on
a stool, which itself stood on a wooden
chair, getting down little jar from the
top shelf of the closet.
Il told him to-" said Mrs. Harmon
its my clover salye. Benny has been
a very GOO Ooy, Lucy, and l wish ne
~ i,.
why, of course he'd like it" said
Mrs. Chaplin. Wouldn't you. Benny
Yes, I'd like it first-rate,' said
Benny. I've been looking at pictures
and shells and feather-work, and ES1-
other time she will let me see their old
compass, if Mr.. Harmon says So
Now" said Mrs. Harmon ION your
way home, Benny. l want you to stop
at Mrs. CoDos and send Tommy right
over here, and I'll give him something
to cure his wrist, anu tell Almy to stop
on her way home tomorrow; i want to
see her.
After her visitors had departed, Mrs.
Harmon rang the bell for Mrs. Grigg,
and told her to Sc Jimmy in with his
primer.
Jimmy came soberIy. He had all
ways felt afraid of the sad-faced in
valid woman, but this time she was
smiling. She meant 20 help him to
take pains about rs pronouncing. Her
old school teaching arts returned to
her, and she held the little boys inter
est and inspired his zeal
I'll give him an hour a day." she
said to herself, until he gets into TIP
third reader along with Benny"
When Tommy Cobb arrived, shy and
wary she made him welcome. and was
soon doing up the poor infamed wrist
in the softest of old linen and with
clover salve. When she finished and he
said: Thank you, ma am, that feeis
good, she replied; Come in tomorrow
and I'll do II up again."
Next day Alma Chaplin came Grace
was going to wait for her at the gate,
but Mrs. Harmon tapped on the win
dow for her to come in, too
She asked the girls about their sew
ing, showed them great bag of pieces
winch she told them they were free to
use from till their quilts were done
They agreed to bring all their blocks
TO show to her, as she said she would
do some of the cutting out for them.
Isn't she nice" they said to each
other when they started on the road
home.
Mrs. Harmon's been real bright all
day, said Mrs. Grigg to Mr.. Harmon
when he came YEARLY into the house
at dusk. II shouldn't wonder if She
We'll" o.
Mrs Harmon had certainly taken a
start of some kind. She really cared
about her new interests, and it was a.
happy day when Tommy Cobb left off
his bandages, and his mother came
over on purpose to thank her for her
skill and her salve
In q few days Jimmy Grigg was in
the First Reader.
And 1t won't be many weeks before
he is in the Third Mrs. Harmon said
to his mother; and Mrs. Grigg felt so
heartened up that she went about
her work singing.
The little girls and their sewing
were an almost daily source of pleas
ure.
Can this be my invalid wife who
was speaking?" Mr.. Harmon asked
himself, when she said to him: When
those girls get their quilts pieced. L
heheYe I'll let them have a quilting
mere and invite in the neighbors.'
1t was not alone these interests
that arose. Others followed fast. She
was always getting something new
from that little chatterboX, Benny.
once she found out that Mrs. Chaplain
down IN the hollow, wanted "a dozen
Brahma eggs. the worst way. for her
old yellow hen to sit on
Another time Benny innocently re-
lated to her how Amarilda Green had
been to seen his mother.
And old Mrs. Green is over so and
AmarIldy says she just bankers after
JelP. And Amarildy can't make ielr.
because she don't raise currants. NV
mothers real sorry that her jelP is all
blackberry
And I'm glad mine is all currant :,
thought Mrs. Harmon to herself.
Before long a warm feeling stole into
the hearts of the women of the neigh
borhood, snd as they met at meeting
or at sewin0 society one would say to
another:
Have you seen Mrs Harmon lately?
What good woman she is! They saw
her health's improving all the time
now. hope so. She's blessing to the
so Harmon's wife's got we'll" said
the storekeeper to the doctor. What
medicine did you give her?'
"Oh, tonics, tonics," said the doctor
with wise smile. And nature heIped
too, of CONSERVATIVE helped, too"
But Mrs. Harmon, in her own heart.
gave credit to a third agent. and AL
ways thought of Benny as her little
benefactor.-MaryL L. Branch in Youths
Companion.
A Gentleman.