Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-02-05

in Cousin Emily'S doorway, with a ra-
diant countenance, numerous slips OF
paper and a work basket.
"There!" said Katherine, with dane
ing eyes. "These are all yours!"
"Mine!" exclaimed Cousin Emily
what are they?"
"A little of everything" replied the
plotter. ga lake trip, railroad trips, a
jaunt to Washington, a trip to the sea-
shore, run to Boston, another to New
York-you're to stay a month if you
want to-"
katherine, you told!"
81 didn't 1 never said a world"
"But you explained"
Nothing" said katherine. This
family's too large and too honest for
explanations. Here, if you must cry,
take my apron. But you haven't time.
You're to go the minute the others
get back. I've come prepared to sew
on buttons by the quart and braid by
the mile. You'll have to have some
clothes, you know. It's blessing
your spring suit is SO newt"
The day Of Cousin Emily's departure
dawned. The relatives that went to see
her off formed a scattered procession
that reached, from one end to the other
of the long ore dock. Now that their
attention was called to the fact, all
realized that quiet, unobtrusive, help
full Emily had lived all her life in the
little village without a glimpse Of the
word beyond.
Really" said Katherine's mother,
waving a handkerchief theoretically
after the departing boat. 'I'm afraid
we've all been abominably selfish
We've given Emily half a dozen homes
among us, to be sure, and we've pro-
vided her with all she could eat and
wear; but I'm afraid we haven't been
quite as thoughtful a. We should have
been about her pleasures. Now /
come to think Of it, she has always
been the one to stay at home; and no
one has ever heard her complain"
katherine tipped her hat over pair
of telltale eyes, and grabbed small
nephew by the arm just in time to save
the boy from disappearing over the
side of the dock and herself from the
necessity Of reply.
With Cousin Emily gone, the family
seemed singularly incomplete. No
one else could put the Perkins baby
to sleep. No one else could battle the
Denham baby to his satisfaction. Fol
no one else would Grandfather Den
hams cruel attain the proper con-
sistency. And it suddenly became evil
dent that no other member of the fam
lily was competent to make buttonholes
in the Denberry twins shirt-waists.
When, therefore, just five days after
her departure, Cousin Emily walked
in unannounced, she was greeted with
Joy, as well as with no little astonish'
ment.
"How in the world" gasped Kath-
crime, almost dropping the Perkins
baby in her surprise, ibid you get back
so soOn?"
"Soon!" cried Cousin Emily, Selling
the baby and shedding tears Of JOY
down his neck. "Soon! It's been the
longest week l ever lived. l was so
homesick for this baby, and the Den
ham baby, and Grandfather Denham
and the twins, that 1 left the boat the
moment it touched the dock at Cleve.
land and came home by rail on the
very first train"
"But you had no pass"
81 had money!" said Cousin Emily,
triumphantly.
do you mean to say that with
pocketful of passes to Washington and
Boston and Buffalo and New York, and
everywhere, and boat pass, besides"
gasped Mortified katherine, that you
bought and paid for ticket, and
wasted all those passes?"
eyes, dol" said Causin Emily, hug
ging the Perkins baby ecstatically "I'd
have come by telegraph if l could"
"Well," said Katherine, in a tone of
deep disgust, 81 see 1 wasn't as smart
as l thought 1 was! Next time plan
a trip for you I'll include few grand
parents, all the babies and all the
twins; and I'll go myself to see that
you don't waste even fraction of
pass"
At first Katherine was keenly disap
pointed at the seeming failure of her
plan; but when little, undemonstra-
tive Cousin Emily, still fairly BEAM
ing in her joy at being home again,
threw both arms round Katherine's
necka as she kissed her good night at bed
time, saying that in all her 4Oyears she
had never known happier day, Kath-
crime felt that perhaps, after all, the
trip had been a success.-Youth's
Companion.