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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Five Happy Weeks, by Margaret E. Sangster
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+Title: Five Happy Weeks
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+Author: Margaret E. Sangster
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+                              FIVE HAPPY WEEKS.
+
+                                     BY
+                            MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
+
+
+
+                          _American Tract Society_,
+                         150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
+
+
+
+
+  ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
+  THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
+  in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+FIVE HAPPY WEEKS.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+"GOOD-BY, MAMMA!"
+
+
+"I don't see how I can do such a thing," said mamma, shading her eyes
+with a hand so white and thin that you could almost see through it.
+"I never, never can go away, for five weeks, and leave these children;
+I should not have a moment's peace."
+
+"But, my darling," said papa, "the doctor says it is the only thing that
+will restore your health. The children will be nicely taken care of, and
+I am sure they will be as good and obedient as possible while you are
+gone."
+
+"You are going too, William; you seem to forget that. And we have never
+been away from them before. What if Edith or Mabel should be sick, or
+Johnnie should fall and break his arm, or--"
+
+"Don't conjure up dreadful possibilities, Helen," said papa; "I'll tell
+you how we will manage it. This house shall be shut, and we'll take
+grandma and the children with us as far as Norfolk, and leave them there
+with your Aunt Maria, while we make our trip. And we will stop for them
+on our way home. What do you think of that plan?"
+
+"Well," said mamma, with a faint smile, "I think I'll leave it to you.
+It tires me to have to reason things out. Auntie would be kind to them,
+I know, and I should feel easier if this house were shut up altogether."
+
+Mrs. Evans had been ailing all the long cold winter, and as Spring began
+to approach, she drooped more and more, until her husband and her
+friends feared she would die. Then Dr. Phelps advised a short journey to
+Florida and Mexico. He said she needed sea-air, and change, and flowers.
+So it was settled that she should attempt it.
+
+The children were having a frolic in the play-room while this talk had
+been going on. Johnnie and Mabel had been arranging a little basket of
+fruit for their mother, oranges, apples and grapes, and now they were
+disputing as to which should present it to her.
+
+"I ought to, I'm the oldest," said Johnnie. "I'm the biggest and the
+strongest, and I will take it in to mamma myself."
+
+"The bigger and the stronger ought to yield to the smaller and the
+weaker," said a sweet voice. The children looked round, and saw a little
+lady whom they all liked. She was Miss Simms, the dressmaker. Her face
+was as round as an apple, she had two bright black eyes, and when she
+laughed the dimples seemed to chase each other over her cheeks.
+
+"I'm so glad you've come," said Mabel, running away from the fruit to
+put her two fat arms as far round Miss Simms as they would reach.
+
+"I am glad, too; it's jolly," said Johnnie. "But I'd like to know why
+you think the bigger ought to give up to the littler. That's what I
+can't understand. In the history books they never do it. The strong
+always whip the weak."
+
+"Well," said Miss Simms, "I'm not much of a scholar, and I've never read
+many history books, as you call them, Master Johnnie; but I've read my
+Bible, and I get my learning out of that. I'll tell you some of my
+verses, and you can see what you make of them.
+
+"'Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee
+turn not thou away.'
+
+"'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.'
+
+"'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of
+God.'
+
+"'All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even
+so to them, for this is the law and the prophets.'
+
+"There," finished Miss Simms, "if that is the law and the prophets,
+Johnnie, oughtn't you to give up to Mabel and Edith, once in a while?"
+
+"I don't ask him to very often," said Edith.
+
+"Well, I do!" said Mabel.
+
+"Yes, Miss Simms, I believe I ought to, more'n I have," said Johnnie,
+quite earnestly. "I'm bound to be a gentleman; and a gentleman is always
+polite to the ladies. I've seen that with father and mother many a time.
+So, Mabel, you take mamma her fruit;" and with that, Johnnie handed her
+the basket, and made a low bow.
+
+Miss Simms seated herself in the window, took out her scissors and a
+great roll of patterns, and then said,
+
+"Edith, dearie, will you ask your grandma or Aunt Catharine, if they
+know where the merino is for your new dresses?"
+
+"Are we to have new dresses?" said Edith; "it's the first I've heard of
+it."
+
+"Oh, children don't know everything in _this_ house," said Miss
+Simms, laughing. Grandma came bustling in with bundles nearly as big as
+herself.
+
+"You had better measure Edie first, as she is on the spot; and then I'll
+help sew on her skirt, while you are cutting out for Mabel."
+
+"I'm glad I'm not a girl," said Johnnie, "always having to bother with
+new frocks."
+
+"Mrs. Evans is wise to go South now," said Miss Simms to grandma. "I've
+been hoping she would, it's far too bleak for her here."
+
+Edith opened her blue eyes very wide, and then they filled with tears.
+She hid her head in her grandma's bosom.
+
+"Why, child, you little goose, it is to make your dear mother well. And
+you three small folks are going part way with her."
+
+At this Edith's sudden tears dried up very quickly, and her face made
+itself into a question mark.
+
+"You three children, and I myself, are going to see your Aunt Maria, in
+Virginia."
+
+Johnnie began to turn somersaults to show his delight at the news. He
+ran off for further information, and came back saying, "I never heard
+anything so splendid in my life. We are to start a week from to-day
+Edith. Mamma's going South to get well, and we're going South too, to
+get acquainted with our Aunt Maria."
+
+The children thought they must pack up their treasures at once; and as
+everybody was just then too busy to notice them very much, they made a
+remarkable collection. Edith brought out her Paris doll, and its
+wardrobe, her baby carriage hung with blue satin, and its pillows
+trimmed and ruffled with lace, her favorite books, and her best china
+tea-set.
+
+"I could not travel in comfort without Miss Josephine," she said with
+much dignity, as she seated herself in the parlor, with her treasures
+around her. "I could not stir a step without her."
+
+Mabel brought her Maltese kitten, and her Spitz dog, and tied a cherry
+ribbon round Fido's neck, and a blue one round Queenie's.
+
+"Now I am ready to go!" she said.
+
+As for Johnnie, he had so large a collection of must-haves, and
+can't-do-withouts, that he went to ask his father's advice. Mr. Evans
+came into the parlor, and laughed as he looked at his little girls, and
+their anxious faces.
+
+"My dears," he said, "we are not to be off for a week yet, and when we
+start we cannot carry much baggage. The old Romans called baggage
+_impedimenta_, because it hindered them on their way; and that is
+just what it is, a hinderance. We must leave all our treasures at home."
+
+"Even Queenie and Fido? They will break their hearts," said Mabel.
+
+"Even Miss Josephine?" said Edith. "She will pale away and die without
+me!"
+
+"If I could take my wheelbarrow and my box of tools, I would be
+satisfied," exclaimed Johnnie.
+
+"Now, children," Mr. Evans explained, "you are going to see a good many
+new things; and if you leave your property at home, it will be safe, and
+will seem new and delightful when you get back. Fido and Queenie will go
+to Aunt Catharine's and pay a visit too."
+
+"I don't believe the week will ever come to an end," sighed Edith, and
+she repeated the sigh a dozen times that busy week. But it did. Miss
+Simms cut and basted and fitted. Friends came to help. The furniture was
+covered. The house was securely fastened. At last they all went on board
+the Richmond steamer, on which they spent two very sea-sick nights and a
+day. After that it stopped at the Norfolk wharf. It lay there some
+hours, but before it started again, Aunt Maria came with a great roomy
+carriage, and took away the children. At the last moment grandma had
+decided not to go, so the brother and sisters felt rather forlorn when
+they went away with the strange auntie.
+
+"Good-by, mamma!" cried three brave little voices, however, and three
+handkerchiefs were waved, as they saw mamma smiling back cheerfully to
+them from the deck of the "Old Dominion."
+
+"In five weeks we'll see her again. It seems like for ever," said Edith
+to Johnnie.
+
+"Five weeks," said Aunt Maria, "is a very short while, when people are
+having a really happy time. Just make up your minds to make each other
+as happy as you can, my dears; you are going to see my family pretty
+soon."
+
+"There's the thea-thickness going back," little Mabel murmured.
+
+"Never cross a bridge till you come to it, Mabel. It's a poor way to
+fret over troubles that are five weeks off. I have known people who were
+very sea-sick coming, and not in the least so going back. It may be that
+way with you, little one; so look on the bright side."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+AUNT MARIA'S FAMILY.
+
+
+But where were Aunt Maria's family? The carriage, when it left the
+wharf, had been driven up a long narrow street, quite different from any
+the children had ever seen before. On either side irregularly built
+houses, most of them old and dingy, stood close together. Here and there
+was a new one, which had the air of having dropped down by mistake. They
+left this street, and turning into another, crossed a bridge, which
+spanned an arm of the river that ran through part of the town. Now the
+houses began to be large and stately, and were surrounded by ample
+gardens, and walls of brick or iron railings separated them from each
+other and the street.
+
+Aunt Maria's coachman drove on and on, and the children began to think
+he was going to drive into the river, for he seemed to be approaching
+nearer and nearer to it. They looked out and saw a broad sheet of water,
+over which many sloops and schooners, and many little row-boats were
+moving. The light of the setting sun was touching the white sails and
+the waves with a rosy glow. At the very water's edge they stopped, and
+Aunt Maria led the way into her house.
+
+It was a large mansion. One side of it was covered with ivy, and an
+immense live-oak tree stood in the garden. Two or three tall magnolias,
+and a number of fig-trees were scattered through the yard. Though it was
+still wintry and cold at home, here the trees were in leaf, and there
+were flowers in bloom.
+
+A colored woman, with a red and yellow turban on her head, and a blue
+and white checked dress on, came forward to receive the children. Their
+trunks were carried up stairs, and opened, and they took off their
+travelling dresses, and proceeded to get ready for dinner.
+
+"Aunt Chloe will help you dress," Mrs. MacLain said. But Edith and Mabel
+were unused to colored servants, and stood in great awe of her. They
+were glad when she left the room to get some wood.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"It too cold for missy without any fire," said she, as she went away.
+
+"O Edith," Mabel whispered, "if we were only at home! I don't like it
+here, I just hate it!"
+
+"Never mind, it won't last always," said Edith. "I wish I had asked
+mamma what to wear. Do you think we ought to put on our best frocks the
+first day?"
+
+"We're company, and company always _do_ put on their goodest
+things," said Mabel.
+
+"But not when they've come to stay so long. I suppose mamma would say,
+'Use your own judgment,' but I haven't any judgment, I'll ask Aunt
+Chloe."
+
+"La, honey, _I_ don't know," said she. "Reckon I'll 'quire o' Miss
+Mariar."
+
+Aunt Maria came back with her, looked over the children's wardrobe, and
+told them to put on a crimson delaine dress, and a white apron. It was
+what they usually wore afternoons at home.
+
+Johnnie had had no such trouble. His clothing was to him of no great
+importance, so long as it had buttons and strings on.
+
+But where was Aunt Maria's family? The table was only spread for four.
+The children looked at each other, but were too polite to ask questions.
+
+"Bring Lucifer Matches," said Aunt Maria to Henry the waiter. As it was
+broad daylight, the children wondered why she asked for matches. Henry
+came back soon, followed by a funny little Scotch terrier, who bounded
+up to his mistress, and looked at her with intelligent eyes.
+
+"Lucifer Matches," said Mrs. MacLain, "is my special and particular pet.
+I call him Luce for short. Johnnie, you may play with him as much as you
+like."
+
+"Come in, you angel!" the lady then exclaimed, as if to encourage
+somebody who was hesitating at the door. Six eyes followed hers. The
+angel was a huge black cat, with green eyes, that shone like emeralds.
+Mabel felt like getting down to pet her, and Edith who did not admire
+cats, felt a cold chill creep down her back.
+
+So, you see, the dog, the cat, the horses, the geese, the cow, and the
+chickens, with the people who took care of them, composed Aunt Maria's
+family.
+
+After dinner, they had family worship. "We will have family prayers
+before you are all tired and sleepy," their aunt said. The servants all
+came in, and Mrs. MacLain read a chapter from John, and gave out a hymn,
+which everybody sang. It was the beautiful hymn,
+
+
+  "Dear refuge of my weary soul,
+    On Thee, when sorrows rise,
+  On Thee, when storms of trouble roll,
+    My fainting hope relies."
+
+
+It was a great comfort to Edith to sing this, for it was one of her
+mamma's favorites. After the singing they all knelt in prayer and Aunt
+Maria asked God to take care of this family that was divided for the
+present. "Be with the sick mother, and make her well," she prayed, "and
+bless these dear little ones under this roof."
+
+So the children felt safe, and at home. It makes everybody feel safe and
+at home even in a strange house, if there is prayer in it, and Jesus is
+loved and worshipped there.
+
+Bright and early next morning, Mabel was dressed and out of doors, with
+a piece of corn-bread in her hand to feed the chickens and geese. She
+felt the least bit of terror when the geese craned their long necks and
+hissed at her, but they soon stopped this and became very friendly.
+
+Folks talk about dumb creatures, but they are not very dumb, are they,
+children? though they have not the gift of speech. They soon learn to
+know who love them, and they testify their affection in many pleasant
+ways. Now Luce was not a dog to strike up friendships with everybody,
+but he and Johnnie seemed to like each other at first sight. Of course,
+the very first evening, bedtime came early, and weary eyes were very
+glad to shut. But before noon the next day Johnnie had discovered that
+his new companion could perform ever so many tricks: he could shoulder
+arms, stand on his hind feet, pretend to smoke a pipe, carry a basket,
+and beg in the most enchanting manner. Johnnie played soldier with Luce
+for flag-bearer, for nearly an hour, till his auntie called him in.
+
+"I think, dear," she said, "that I must have you read a while every
+morning. Edie has promised to practise an hour a day, and Mabel is going
+to sit by me and crochet. All work and no play would never do, but all
+play and no work would make you all wish you had never seen Locust
+Hall."
+
+"Now, Aunt Maria, how can you say that! I am sure I should be perfectly
+happy if I could play with Luce and do nothing else all day long."
+
+"Well, I'll let you try it, some day, on this condition: you will
+promise, as an honorable boy, that no matter how tired you get, you will
+keep to your part of the bargain."
+
+Johnnie was about to promise, when Edith called out:
+
+"Better think about it first, Johnnie. I once tried playing a whole day,
+and it was tiresome enough, I can tell you, before I got through with
+it. It was _dreadful_."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"If we agree to do it, I'll keep to my part, Aunt Maria; but as Edith
+says, I'll think about it first." So Johnnie went off to the library,
+and took down a volume of stories about the Revolutionary war.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+VIOLETS AND ROSES.
+
+
+A few days passed by, and there came a letter from papa saying that
+mamma was feeling better. This was very delightful to the little girls
+and Johnnie, though they had had a talk before it came about the duty of
+being sorrowful under the circumstances. It happened this way: they were
+outdoors playing May Queen.
+
+"I never saw anything so sweet as these violets," cried Edith, in a
+rapture. They were as sweet as they could be, little English violets,
+white as snow, and perfuming the air. The flowers had come to Virginia
+early in the new spring, and already there were early roses, slender
+lilies of the valley, with tiny cups to catch the dewdrops, and the
+fragrant yellow jasmine flinging its golden bells over every roadside
+fence and tree. Old Uncle Moses had taken the children to the woods, and
+there they had seen the jasmine in its glory, and the white stars of the
+dogwood shining through the green branches far and near.
+
+"'Pears like," said Uncle Moses, after one of these expeditions, "'pears
+like God must love posies, de way he scatter dem roun' dis yer land."
+
+For all that Miss Josephine had been left at home, the little girls had
+not been obliged to live without a doll. Kind Aunt Maria had given them
+each one soon after their arrival. Out in the garden, then, with the
+dollies, Luce full of enthusiasm, and barking and rolling like an
+animated puff-ball, or else sitting up as straight as a judge, they were
+playing queen. Mabel had just fastened the wreath on Edith's head, when
+Johnnie very gravely observed,
+
+"I think we are heartless wretches."
+
+"Johnnie, where _do_ you learn those big words?"
+
+"Well, we're having such nice times, and never thinking of poor mamma.
+We ought to be miserable, if we had any feeling. I heard Aunt Chloe the
+other day say, 'Pore things, dey a'n't ole 'nuff to know what dey'd
+lose, if dey done lose dere mudder.'"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mabel's ready tears began to flow.
+
+"O dear! O dear!" she sobbed, "mamma is going to die! What shall we do?"
+
+"Hush, Mabel!" said Edith. "If we ought not to play, why we'll stop; but
+there isn't any use in crying so. Do please hush this instant."
+
+A quick step came down the walk. The children, looking up, saw the young
+lady who lived in the next house. She had a sunbonnet on her head, and a
+light shawl was thrown around her, and in her hand was a pretty little
+bark canoe, in which was her knitting-work.
+
+"O Miss Rose, beautiful Miss Rose!" exclaimed Edith, "you're the very
+person we wanted to see."
+
+"Mith Rothe, when thith canoe geth too old for you, you'll give it to
+me, won't you?" said Mabel, putting her hands lovingly up towards the
+fanciful basket.
+
+"Mabel," Johnny said in a tone of reproof, "how often has mamma told you
+never to ask for things in that way?"
+
+"Never mind your little sister, Johnnie," the young lady said, "but sit
+down and let me hear why you were all looking so serious when I came up.
+What lovely garlands you have made, and what a charming morning this is!
+God is very good to give us so many bright days, and so much joy in
+them, isn't he?"
+
+Before any one could reply, a servant came up, with a request that the
+children would go to their Aunt Maria on the porch, and hear a message
+from their mother.
+
+"Good! good!" Johnnie said, clapping his hands; but Edith and Mabel went
+more soberly. Miss Rose seated herself in a favorite spot of hers, a
+rustic chair under the oak-tree, and waited their return. She was fond
+of children, and since the little visitors had been there, she had often
+gone in with her knitting to talk and play with them.
+
+After they had heard the letter, they were dismissed by Mrs. MacLain,
+who had her key-basket on her arm, and was very busy with her
+housekeeping. They trooped back to their friend Miss Rose, and grouped
+themselves around her, and the little girls began to weave a wreath for
+her hair, while Johnnie made her a bouquet.
+
+"The question is, Miss Rose, whether we ought to be happy while we are
+away from mamma and papa."
+
+"And while mamma is sick."
+
+"And perhaps might die."
+
+Miss Rose put her work down on her lap, and with one soft hand smoothed
+away the thick curls that had a way of falling over and shading
+Johnnie's forehead and eyes. She thought to herself, "What a pretty boy
+he is! How noble and open and candid those eyes and that brow!" Johnnie
+was a very truthful little fellow, and though he had faults, he would
+have scorned to tell a lie or do anything mean. At this moment Charlie
+Hill, Aunt Chloe's boy, passed by with his fishing-rod and line. So
+Johnnie could not stay to hear Miss Rose then. He caught up his straw
+hat, seized his shrimp-net, and ran off, without even saying, "Excuse
+me."
+
+"That wath very imperlite," observed Mabel. "And Johnnie began asking
+the questions too! He ithn't very thad."
+
+"Dear children," said Miss Rose, "you are only little and young, to be
+sure, but you may as well learn that God never wants you to _try_
+to be miserable. He means you to be as merry and happy as you can be.
+Consider a minute. Have you ever been very unhappy when you have been
+good?"
+
+"No," said Edith.
+
+"I have," said Mabel, "when I've had the teethache."
+
+Miss Rose laughed.
+
+"Well, that was a pretty good cause; but generally, when children are
+not naughty, they are happy. You would only vex your dear mamma, and
+make her feel badly, if you were moping and fretting here, where she
+sent you to be with your auntie. Then you would spoil auntie's pleasure
+if, instead of laughing and singing, you were crying and sitting in the
+corner. She would say, 'O dear, what queer children these are! I'll be
+glad when they're gone away.'"
+
+"That would be dreadful! to have Aunt Maria think that," said Edith.
+"But tell us your opinion about it."
+
+"My opinion is, that it is every one's duty to be as cheerful as he can
+be all the time. If things vex us and trouble us, let us say, 'Never
+mind.' If it rains to-day, it will be clear to-morrow. If we pray to our
+Father, about everything, we will never need to be sorrowful long."
+
+Then Miss Rose taught them a pretty little verse:
+
+"Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you."
+
+Kneeling that night by her little white bed, Edith said her prayers as
+usual, and then added another petition:
+
+"Dear Lord Jesus, make me happy every night and day, so that I shall
+love everybody, and everybody love me."
+
+Edith was already one of those children whose lives are like "a little
+light, within the world to shine."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+CHERRIES ARE RIPE.
+
+
+Faster and faster flew the May days by, and all the world was beautiful.
+The strawberries grew red and sweet upon the vines, and the children
+went out with the pickers to gather them, but they didn't work very
+steadily at this, for the sun was hot, and picking berries is apt to
+make the back ache. But the cherries most delighted them, and when Aunt
+Maria told them that they could have just as many cherries to eat as
+they wanted, and gave them one tree all to themselves, they hardly knew
+how to express their joy. It was not only in eating the cherries, that
+they had pleasure, for Aunt Maria let them have a tea-party, and said
+they might choose their guests.
+
+"They don't know anybody but the Lesters and the Randolphs," she said
+complacently to Miss Rose.
+
+"I shouldn't be a bit surprised if Edith and Johnnie invited a lot of
+little ragamuffins from Wood's Alley," replied Miss Rose.
+
+Wood's Alley was one of those wretched neighborhoods, which in cities
+have a way of setting themselves down near rich people's doors. It was
+the short cut to Main street, and when the people near Aunt Maria's were
+in haste, they often took it, rather than go a long way round. The
+windows in Wood's Alley were broken and dingy, and the interiors--which
+means all you could see as you passed by, looking at open doors--were
+dirty, smoky, and uninviting. Children fairly swarmed there, black and
+white, and as ragged as they could be. Mabel had made Aunt Maria very
+angry one day, by taking off her best hat, and giving it to a little
+beggar girl from Wood's Alley, who had been lingering near the gate, and
+casting admiring looks at it.
+
+"She ought to have known better than to take it from you," Aunt Maria
+said. "She is nothing but a little thief, and you are a very improvident
+child. To-morrow I'll take you to church in your old hat."
+
+This did not trouble Mabel much. Mabel did not yet care enough for her
+clothes, and more than once she had given her things away before. Her
+mother had been trying to teach her discretion in giving, for some time.
+
+"Well, Rose," said Aunt Maria, "if I thought they would do that, I would
+tell them to have a picnic out-doors, for I don't want Wood's Alley in
+my dining-room. Those children are just as like their mother as they can
+be."
+
+"Auntie," said Johnnie, "there's a splendid boy named Jim Cutts. He's
+been fishing with Charlie and me. Can he come to the party?"
+
+"Jim Cutts!" echoed Mrs. MacLain with a sigh. Then she answered,
+
+"Yes, dear, have whom you please; but let your table be out under the
+trees, on the lawn."
+
+"That'll be splendid!" said Johnnie, running off.
+
+They had ten or twelve little children at their party, and Dinah brought
+them sandwiches, cakes, and milk, and they had all the cherries they
+could eat. Edith taught them one of her Sunday-school hymns, and Johnnie
+made Luce perform all his most cunning tricks for their entertainment.
+Mabel lent her new doll to the poorest girl, to take home for the night,
+on the promise that it should surely come home next morning.
+
+The promise was kept.
+
+When the company had gone, Aunt Maria called them in, and made them take
+a thorough bath, and put on clean clothes all the way through. Then she
+bade each sit down, in the room with her, and read a chapter in the
+Bible. As Mabel could not read, she gave her a picture Bible to look at.
+She sat by, with so grave a face, and had so little to say, that they
+all began to feel uncomfortable, and wished themselves somewhere else.
+Edith's face was covered with blushes, Mabel began to swallow a lump in
+her throat, and Johnnie at last, growing angry, determined to stand it
+no longer. He shut up his Bible, and marched to Aunt Maria, who looked
+at him through her spectacles, and said:
+
+"Well, sir? Who told you to shut up your book?"
+
+"It does no good to read the Bible when anybody's mad with you," said
+Johnnie. "What have we done, Aunt Maria?"
+
+"I did not _say_ you had done anything."
+
+"But you look so cross, and sit up so straight, and--who ever heard of
+reading the Bible, in the middle of the afternoon, on a week day?" said
+Johnnie with an air of assurance.
+
+"Well, Johnnie, to tell the truth, I did _not_ like your bringing
+all the riff-raff of the town to eat my nice cherries."
+
+"But you said we might do it."
+
+"I should think, Johnnie, you would have liked better to have such
+friends as Percival Lester and Reginold Randolph, or Maggie and Clara
+Vale, to play with. I fear you have low tastes, child."
+
+At this charge, little Johnnie colored up, but he stood his ground.
+
+"The reason we asked them was because they couldn't buy any fruit, if
+they wanted it ever so much; and we thought it would please them and
+make them happy."
+
+Edith had been thoughtfully turning over the leaves of her Bible, and
+now she said:
+
+"Auntie, here are some verses I once read to mamma:
+
+"'When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy
+brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors, lest they also
+bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.
+
+"'But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the
+blind; and thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee, for
+thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.'"
+
+"There," said Johnnie, "haven't we made a Bible feast?"
+
+"Yes, my dears," Aunt Maria replied, "and I beg your pardon. The truth
+is, I have not been very much displeased with you, but thought I would
+try you a little. Now as you have had a good rest, you may all go out
+and play."
+
+"I think Aunt Maria ith a naughty woman," said Mabel in a very low voice
+to Edith, as they left the room.
+
+Rose, who had been present all the while, heard her, and so did Aunt
+Maria, but neither said a word, till the children were out of hearing.
+Then Rose said,
+
+"I'm afraid I agree with little Mabel. Dear Mrs. MacLain, what made you
+pretend to be vexed, if you were not?"
+
+"I am not obliged to explain my actions to every one, am I, Rose?" said
+the lady. "Children are a sort of a puzzle to me, never having had any
+of my own; and I don't believe I know how to bring them up. But these of
+Helen's are pretty good, especially Johnnie."
+
+Aunt Maria had some very stylish friends who occasionally visited her.
+They sent word beforehand concerning their coming, and great
+preparations were made. On the day of their arrival, the little folks
+were arrayed in their very best, and Edith and Mabel took their dolls,
+and were seated in the parlor, that they might not get into the least
+disorder.
+
+"Mrs. Featherfew is very particular," said Aunt Maria. "She will be sure
+to take notice, if you don't behave splendidly."
+
+"I'll be glad when she's been and gone," remarked Johnnie.
+
+Mrs. Featherfew however was quite different from what the children had
+been led to expect. She was a slender pretty looking lady, who seemed to
+float down the long parlor, she walked so lightly and gracefully, her
+long silk dress trailing behind her. The next day the two little girls
+amused themselves by playing "Mrs. Featherfew," Edith putting on a long
+gown of her aunt's for the purpose.
+
+Two very elegant children came with Mrs. Featherfew, Wilhelmine and
+Victorine. They spoke very primly and politely, and seemed to our little
+folks like grown-up ladies cut down short. But when after dinner they
+all went out into the grounds to play, Mine and Rine, as they called
+each other, could play as merrily as the others.
+
+The little girl to whom the dolly had been lent happened to be looking
+through the palings, just when the fun was at its height. She had rather
+a dirty face, and a very torn dress.
+
+"Do look at that impertinent creature actually staring at us, as if she
+belonged here!" exclaimed Victorine, with amazement.
+
+"Go right away, child," said Wilhelmine.
+
+Now as these little girls were guests themselves, they were taking too
+much responsibility in ordering anybody off. Edith's face flushed, and
+she felt vexed. She would have preferred, after all her Aunt Maria had
+said about it, to have the Alley children keep a little more distance;
+but she could not let anybody hurt their feelings.
+
+"That little girl is a friend of mine, Wilhelmine," spoke out the loyal
+little soul bravely. It was not in Edith, to be ashamed of any friend,
+no matter how humble.
+
+Wilhelmine looked surprised, and Johnnie went on to tell how they had
+gotten acquainted. Before he had finished, the little visitors were so
+interested in the ragged girl, that they each gave her a bright
+five-cent piece.
+
+So Edith did good by her fearlessness. We never know how much good we
+may do, by speaking according to our conscience.
+
+The Featherfew girls had a very nice time, and went away well pleased;
+but they told their mamma that the Evans children were very droll.
+
+"It's the way they have been brought up, I imagine," said Mrs.
+Featherfew.
+
+Two or three days after that, the children were in a part of the garden,
+in which was a bridge over a darling little brook, as Edith called it.
+They were expecting their parents by the first steamer, and Johnnie had
+been gathering a basket of the ripest and reddest cherries he could
+find, to have them all ready for offering to mamma on her arrival. As he
+was running lightly over the bridge, his foot slipped, and he came near
+falling in, but Edith and Mabel flew to the rescue, and held him up by
+his cap, and his curls, and his arm, till he recovered his balance. One
+foot was very wet. It had gone "way, way in," and in that condition,
+splashed and barefoot, for he pulled off the wet boot and stocking, he
+went back to the house with the girls.
+
+Just as they reached the front door, a carriage drove up. A gentleman
+sprang out, and lifted a lady next, and the servants began to take off
+the bags and trunks. Could that be mamma? It needed only a glance to
+satisfy the eager children, and in a moment all three were rapturously
+hugging and kissing her and their father.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mamma had grown quite plump and rosy. She was ever so much better, and
+Johnnie asked, the first thing, whether she could bear a noise now.
+
+"A little noise, dear, I hope," she said smiling. It had been a great
+trial to Johnnie to keep so still as had been necessary when they were
+at home.
+
+"She is not so very strong yet, Master John," said Mr. Evans. "I'm
+afraid an earthquake or a volcano would use her up. We'll have to take
+care of her yet awhile."
+
+But the children found that they had gotten their old mamma back. She
+was a great deal nicer than anybody else, they thought.
+
+That night, when it grew almost bedtime, and Chloe appeared as usual at
+the parlor door, with the candles on a silver tray, and the great silver
+snuffers, ready to light the young folks up stairs, they went and kissed
+their father and mother and Aunt Maria for good night. But when they
+were undressed, and the little dresses and skirts were hung smoothly
+over the chairs, the little shoes and stockings set side by side on the
+floor, and the little nightgowns on, somebody came quietly in, somebody
+who sat down in the rocking-chair, and with one little white-robed
+figure in her lap, and another with an arm thrown around her neck, and
+another on a footstool at her feet, heard their hymns, and told them a
+little story, and listened while each prayed to the dear Saviour. The
+three little hearts were satisfied that night, because they had had
+their mother to comfort them and bless them again.
+
+A few days after that, they bade good-by to the beautiful seaside home,
+and to Luce, and the black cat, and the horses and cow, the geese and
+the chickens. To Miss Rose and Aunt Maria they gave a very warm
+invitation to come and see them in their own home.
+
+Fido and Queenie had been well taken care of at Aunt Catharine's house,
+but they seemed very glad indeed to have their little mistress back.
+Johnnie declared that Fido couldn't hold a candle to Luce, and he and
+Mabel had several disputes over it. Indeed one day they became so angry
+at each other, that Mrs. Evans sent the little brother to his own room
+and the little sister to hers, to stay until they were ready to ask each
+other's pardon. Edith, serene and peaceful, kept out of all such
+troubles.
+
+"Miss Simms," said Johnnie one day, "what is the reason nobody ever is
+angry with Edith? She seems to please people without trying to."
+
+"I think Edith has found out a great secret very early in her life,"
+Miss Simms answered.
+
+"I wish I knew it, then; I'm always being scolded, and I try to be as
+good as the other fellows. But it isn't of any use, that I can see.
+To-day I had been perfect all day in school, you know, Miss Simms, and
+just a minute before recess, I spoke; and Miss Clark was mean enough to
+make me stay in. She read off the boys' names who had violated any rule,
+this way:
+
+"'Willie Simpson, late;
+
+"'Thomas Miller, missed his geography;
+
+"'Johnnie Evans, whispering.
+
+"'These little boys must spend this recess in the school-room.' I leave
+it to you, Miss Simms, if that wasn't mean."
+
+"Was it the rule that you must lose your recess, if you spoke?"
+
+"Yes, if we spoke without permission."
+
+"And you knew all about it?"
+
+"Oh! yes!"
+
+"Well, _I_ don't see how Miss Clark could help herself or you, if
+you disobeyed. You were both bound by the rule, you see, Johnnie."
+
+"That's only one thing. I forget to hang up my hat on the nail, and I
+bring mud in on my boots, and I lose my speller, and I lose my temper
+too, and I'm just tired of trying any more."
+
+Johnnie stood like a little "knight of the rueful countenance," hat in
+hand.
+
+Miss Simms measured two breadths of silk; "snip, snip," went her shining
+scissors, and she threaded her needle. "Dear me, what a hard needle to
+thread; my eyes are beginning to fail me," she said.
+
+"I'll thread it for you, let me. My eyes are bright and sharp," said
+Johnnie.
+
+"Thank you," she said. "Now, Johnnie, don't you want to know Edith's
+secret. It is a word of four letters, LOVE. Love to God, and
+love to everybody else. That makes Edie's good time."
+
+"How can I get it too?" said Johnnie.
+
+"I must tell you some of my verses, I think:
+
+"'Ask, and ye shall receive.
+
+"'Seek, and ye shall find.
+
+"'Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
+
+"'For every one that asketh receiveth.
+
+"'And he that seeketh findeth.
+
+"'And to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.'"
+
+"I'll ask," said Johnnie.
+
+These five happy weeks were long spoken of as "the time when we stayed
+at Aunt Maria's house," and their memory has not yet faded away from the
+children's minds. They are expecting a visit soon from Aunt Maria, Miss
+Rose, and Chloe; and Lucifer Matches is coming too.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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