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MARGARET'S CHILDREN.
(by maroueiute m'phke.)
For The Courier
The front yard ot the old stone (arm
house was full ot teams. Some were
tied to the fence on either side, and
others stood under the trees scattered
over the lawn. The old plow horses
stood conteutedly, but occasionally a
slender legged, spirited beast chafed at
his baiter and moved restless)), stirring
the thick ctrpet of leaves that covered
the ground. Many of the wagons con
tained farm implements, or had horses
and cows hitched behind, while up on
the wide veranda were piled carpets,
curtains and mattresses. The auction
eer, a small, wiry man with a very red
face, stood on a ktchen table calling off.
As the last article fell under the ham
mer he took out a blue cotton handker
chief and wiped his hot face, pushing
back the coarse, red hair from his wet
forehead.
Id one ot the room a in the bouse,
three women were seated near a large
trunk. The oldest, a stout, fair woman,
said, as she folded a drese and put it in
the trunk:
"This will make over real handsome
for Jennie. Poor Mary, she only wore
it twice. I recollect right wall the day
she bought it down to Roxby, and she
said to me, 'Dick will be so pleased, I
got blue, he likes it so.' She had it on
the day be was carried to the house
just breathing."
A little woman in a neat, black, print
dress, who was sorting over a pile of
children's clothing, stopped to wipe her
eyes on a corner of her apron. Then
she turned to the other woman, who eat
on the window ledge and seemed
strangely out of place in thie bare room
with these plain country women.
"Margaret," she said, "will you take
Lillian's things with you, or are you go
ing to let her stay a few dayB with Jen
nie at Ann's?"
The Blender figure on the window
ledge rose and came towards the trunk.
Her perfectly fitting traveling dress,
and simple hat, possessed an elegance
foreign to Roxby shops. She stood by
the little woman and rested one small
gloved hand on her arm, but she looked
at the large fpir woman and there were
tears in her eyes when she began to
speak.
"It is too bad to separate them Ann,"
she said, The large woman nodded and
the little woman wiped her eyes again.
"I would like to take them both with
me to the city ' ehe hesitated.
Ann shook her head.
"It would make it all the harder for
Jonnie to come back to me," she ans
wered. "But Ann! I mean I would like to
keep Jennie too. You have four chil
dren, I have none, since Robbie died."
A sob choked her, and she turned away.
The little woman wiped her eyes and
Ann mumbled something about asking
John.
Down in the orchard back of the
house, two little girls vere wandering
hand in hand. It was here, six months
be'ore, that their mother had brought
them, away from the long procession
that followed a hearse down the road.
Then the orchard had been fragrant
with the odor of apple bloESoms that
loaded the trees, and fell in soft, white
shower3 on the three bare heads. Now
the October sunshine kissed the mellow
fruit, and touched softly the two chil
dren as they passed from tree to tree,
saying good bye to their orchard chums.
The younger one's pink cheeks were
tear stained and her gingham sun-bonnet
had fallen back on her neck leaving
a tangle of yellow curls in the sunshine.
One chubby band clutched a rag doll
and the other clung to her Bister. The
elder child's pale face showed no trace
of tears, but her brown eyes were full of
sorrow and her lips trembled when she
tried to speak. "Lily," sho said, ''you
will love Cousin Margaret and por'ups
per'aps Aunt Ann will let me conio and
6ee you sometimes."
Lily turned a pair of frightened baby
eyes upon her sister.
"You know dear," the elder continuod,
"I must stay with Aunt Ann because
because I guess two'e too many
I-"
Hit she got no further. Lillian with
a wild burst of tears threw hbrsolf up
on the ground.
The sun had set, and the chill ot an
October twilight tilled the air, when u
voice at the orchard gate said:.
"I'm most sure I saw them come down
this way before wa packed the trunk.
Don't go into that wet grass Margarot,
you'll spoil your dress. John can bunt
them up.' But Margaret, regardless of
the dew Boaked grass, was kneeling be
fore what seemed to be a heap of ging
ham drapery and John's lantern Hashed
into the face of little Jennie. She was
fast asleep w'th her head against a tree
and both arms clasped about her little
eister. As sho felt herself liftod in
strong arms she heard Cousin Margaret
Bay.
"I must take better care of both my
little girls."
TOOTING.
There was once a man with a flute
Teaching two tutors to toot
Said the two to the tutor ;
Is it easier to toot
Or to tutor two tutors to toot?
The World and Me.
(For The Courier. )
BY WILLIAM HEED DCNKOV.
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Mope and you mope alone ;
The world takes delight in watching a fight,
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