News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-03

she could love an live with an toucn
an play with, like she could the flow
ers an rocks and grass an rees.
Angry Your pa? Not much he
was He just laughed an caught her
round the waist an kissed her, an
said she herself was the brightest star
of all. Then they ran off hand in hand,
like two kids, too. All through those
first few weeks your pa was just a
great big baby with new plaything.
Then when college began he turned all
at once into full-grown man. An
just naturally your ma didn't know
what to make of it.
HE couldn't explore the attic an
| rig up In the old clothes there any
more, nor romp through the garden,
nor go lunchin' in the woods, nor none
Of the things she wanted him to do. He
didn't have time. An what made
things worse, one of them cOmet-tails
was comm up In the sky an your pa
didn't take no rest for watchin' for
it, an then studyin' of it when 1t got
here
"An your ma-poor little thing! !
| couldn't think Of anything but a doll
that was thrown in the corner because
somebOdy'd got tired Of her. She was
lonesome an no mistake. AnybOdy'd
be sorry for her, to see her mopin'
| round the house, nothin' to do. Oh,
she read, an sewed with them bright
colored silks an worsteds; but course
there wasn't no real work for her to
do. There was good help in the kitchen,
an ! took what care of your grand
ma was needed an she always gave
her orders through me, so | practical
ly run the house. an there wasn't
anything there for her to do.
"An' so your ma just had to NOPE it
out alone. Oh, l don't mean your pa
was unkind. He was always nice an
polite, when he was in the house,
an I'm sure he meant to treat her
all right. He said yes, yes, to be sure,
of course she was lonesome, an he
was sorry. Twas too bad he was
SO busy, An he kissed her an patted
her. But he always began right away
to talk Of the comet; an ten to one
he didn't disappear into the observa-
tory within the next five minutes. Then
your ma would look so grieved an sor-
ry an go off an cry, an maybe not
come down to dinner, at all.
well then, one day things got so
bad your grandma took a hand. She
was up an around the house, though
n hnr
But of course she saw how things was
goin' Besides, l told her-some.
Twas no more than my duty, as
looked at 1t. She just worshiped your
pa, an naturally she'd want things
right for, him. So one day she told me
to tell her sons wife to come to her
in her ROOM
"An' l did, an she came. Poor lit
tie thing / couldn't help bein' sor-
ry for her. She didn't know a thing
Of what was wanted of her, an she
was so glad an happy to come. You
see, she was lonesome, suppose.
Me? Want me?-Mother Ander-
SOM she cried. oh, I'm so glad
Then she made 1t worse by runnin' up
the stairs an bouncin' into the room
like a rubber ball, an cryin': Now, |
what shall / do, read to you, or sing !
to you, or shall we play games? I'd |
love to do any of them = Just like |
that, she said 1t. / heard her. Then |
| went out, Of course, an left them. |
But l heard most everything that |
was said, just the same for I was
right in the next room DUSTIN and |
the door wasn't quite shut.
First your grandmother said real |
polite-she was always polite-but In
a cold little voice that made even me
SILVER in the other room, that she did
not desire to be read to or sung to,
and that she did not wish to play
games. She had called her daughter
in-law In to have serious talk with
her. Then she told her, still very
polite, that she was noisy an child
ish, an undignifed, an that II was
not only silly, but very wrong for her
TO expect to have her husbands entire
that he had his own work,
an 1t was very important one. He
was going to be president Of the col
lege some day, like his father before
him; an It was her place to help him
in every way she could-help him to
be popular an well-liked by all the
college people an students; an he
couldn't be that IL she insisted all the
time on keepin' him to herself, or look
In sour an cross II she couldn't have
him.
"Of course that amt all she said;
but / remember this part particular
on account Of what happened after
ward. You see-your ma-she felt
awful bad. She cried a little, an
sighed lot, an said she'd try, she
really would try to help her husband
IN every way she could; an she
ask him another once, not
Jnce to stay with her. An she
wouldn't look sour an cross, either.
she'd promise she wouldn't An she'd