News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-06-14
ABOUT A MONTH LATER


l didn't make chapter of that last.
1t wasn't long enough. And, really, l
don't know as I've got much to add
to it now. There's nothing much hap
pened.
go to school now, and don't have
so much time for fun. Schools pretty
good, and there are two or three girls
most as nice as the ones at Anderson
Vile But not quite. Out of school
Mother keeps things just as lively as
ever, and we have beautiful times.
Mother is having q lovely time with
is always some one here when | get
home, and lots of times there are teas
and parties, and people to dinner
There are gentlemen, too. | suppose
one Of them will be Mothers lover by
and by; but of course / don't know
In them, though. And of course it's
perfectly natural that l should be.
Wouldn't you be interested in the man
that was going to be your new father?
Well, | just guess you would! Any
body would. Why, most folks have
only one father, you know, and they
have to take that one just as he is;
and It's all matter of chance whether
they get one that's cross or pleasant:
or homely or fine and grand-looking;
or the common kind you can hug and
kiss and hang round his neck. or the
stand off don't-touch-me-Imu
disturbed kind like mine. / mean the
one | did have. But, there that doesn't
sound right either; for of course he's
still my father just the same. only
well, he isn't Mothers husband any
more, so suppose he's only my father
by order of the court, same as I'm his
daughter.
Well anyhow, he's the father rye
grown up with, and of course I'm used
TO him now. And it's an altogether
different matter TO think of having a
brand-new father thrust upon you, all
,ready-made, as you might say, and of
course / am interested. There's such
whole lot depends on the father.
Why, only think how different things
would have been Of hQpe II my father
had been dlffel9nti There were such
lot of things bad to be careful not !
to do-and just as many ! had to be
careful to do-on account OF Father.
And so now, when l see all these nice !
young gentlemen (only they aren't all
young; some Of them are quite old)
rODtnp tho hnFrn foll 70
Mother and hanging over the back Of
her chair, and handing her tea and lit
tie cakes, can't help wondering which,
II any, is going to be her lover and my
new father. And am also wondering
what I'll have to do on account Of him
when | get him, If | get him.
There are quite a lot Of them, and |
they're all different They'd make very I
different kinds Of fathers. I'm sure |
and I'm afraid I wouldn't like some /,
OF them. But after ALL it's Mother |
that ought to settle which to have
not me. She's the one TO be pleased !
'Twould be such a pity to have to |
change again. Though she could. Of |
course, same as she did Father. | sup
pose.
AS | said, they're all different. There |
are only two that are anywhere near
alike, and they aren't quite the same.
for ones a lawyer and the others /
in bank. But they both carry canes
and wear tall silk hats, and part their |
hair In the middle, and look at you 4
through the kind Of big round eye 1
glasses with dark rims that would /
make you look awfully homely II they |
didn't make you look 80 stylish. But /
I don't think Mother cares very much /
for either the lawyer or the bank man.
and Tn glad. I wouldn't like to live
with those glasses every day. even II /
they are stylish. I'd much rather have 4
Fathers kind.