Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-12-21

00niAT are you going to do with
m that, pa! Why do you take
it DOWN."
Mr.. Bretmau did not answer. For
the first time In his life he pushed his
child from him and called harshly tor
the nurse to take him away. Little
Fred made no resistance. but his
grieved lip and quivering chin told
that he felt hurt and injured And
up In the nursery, he appealed to Mag
gle. the maid.
Maggie. why did papa look so
cross: Why didn't he tell me what he
was doing with mammals picture?
Twasn't any harm to ask
"Och, | doubt he was ashamed. dar-
lin" said Maggie. BE aisy; you are
not TO blame"
And she took the widower's little
boy upon her knee and patted his
round head
'Why ought he be ashamed" asked
Fred.
"iou mustn't say l said So" cried
the woman. "Masther has the right
to do his own will. It's none o my
business"
but why did he take the picture
down." asked Fred again.
There's somebody coming that
wouldn't like to see the face of the
lady that was mistliress here but II
year ago" said Maggie. Your pa is
after givn' We step-mother, Fred
die"
whats that" asked Fred.
"A new mother" said Maggie "Ah,
don't be spakin' of what I've said or
she'll send me away, and tllere'I hc
none to love ye She'll turn your pas
heart, and have 1t all her own. It's
always so, poor bairne."
Aud the old nurse wcpt over the
child ANA with him.
Mr.. Bretman carried his first wife's
picture up to the great garnet. where.
truth to tell, he shed Il few tears over
it before he deposited ii in its cor
ner 1t was Impossible for him to
have those sweet eyes looking down
upon him while living ones shone from
her chair and her place at the table.
He loved the dead woman still, though
lie also loved a living one
Maggie did not know this. She
thought as she said. that 1.-THE missus
was forgotten quite" What she
thought she taught the child; and the
young lady who came smiling into the
parlor one bright morning and knrlt
down when her husband said. "Come
kiss your new mamma. Freddie" look
Ing so sweet and gentle and pretty
that. left to himself, the boy would
have liked her, was SURPRISED by an
earnest slap on the face and the angry
words, "GO away. You made papa
put dead mammals picture up garnet
| don't want You for a new mamma
/ won't have you. Go away"
And at that the bride. almost a child
herself. started up, flushed and angry
and returned to her husbands pro
tecting arms, quite overcome by this
greeting, and the face of the old nurse
I'm which she saw no pleasant greeting
bul utiuilce Huu anger instead.
The father. stung by the chlld's
words. seized him. for the first time IN
his life. roughly by the shoulder and
turned him from the room.
go, sir" he said, land do not come
back until you can behave decentlv
1t is that ignorant woman's fault" II,
said TO his young wife. and led the
way to the dining room.
But the shock of the brides recep
ton had robbed both of any appetite
and Helen even wondered whether sh,
had been wise to break her resolution
and marry widOwer who had chill
dren."
NO one ever has any comfort will
step-children," she thought.
And who can say what was in tn
mans mind? They were silent. boil
Of them. And, after lunch was over