Part 13 (2/2)

Poor little Maude was really very unhappy Her room-mate had not come yet, so she was all alone in her roo her trunk again, with her tears falling fast and thick upon her dresses For once she did not care whether they were spoiled or not All she thought of was to go hoain as fast as she could, and it had not entered her head that she o

Before Mrs Birkenbauone, she had told Miss Chapman that Maude would probably want to co her, as she was used to having her oay, so Mrs Boardman was not very

Maude did not look up when the teacher entered the room She was very homesick, poor child, and then besides her desire to see her father and rieved because no one had paid any special attention to her She had been used to having people reat deal of her because her clothes were so fine, and here no one had seemed to notice nor care whether she was better dressed than the others or not

This was a new experience to the little girl, and she did not like it

Even Ruby had been more noticed than she had been, and she had always looked down upon Ruby because she lived in the country, and did not have fashi+onable clothes It was quite too hard to bear, and Maude detero home

”Wait a minute, my dear,” said Mrs Board just now This is the time to make beds, and as your roo, so you will not have to make it all alone; but perhaps you kno to make a bed, so that you would just as soon make it by yourself”

Maude lifted her face, her eye flashi+ng through her tears

”I don't kno to make a bed,” she answered ”I never made a bed

My mamma has a servantI don't want to kno to o hoo home, you know, my dear,” said Mrs Boardman, pleasantly ”I know just how you feel When I was a little girl about your age I went away from home for a feeeks, and I ao to school?” asked Maude

”No, but I will tell you where I hile we arethe bed Now you take that side of the sheet, that is the way, and draw it up so, and tuck it in snugly, so your toes won't peep out in the night Well, I was going to tell you how I happened to go away from home One day when I caate and he told me that ht that perhaps I ht away, so I was to go to board with an old lady about tento take care of e all ready,--now the blanket, dear; that's right,--and a bundle with the dresses in that I should want for a feeeks, and before I knew it I was on ood-by to my mother, for she ith my brother”

”And were you homesick?” asked Maude

”Yes, indeed,” answered Mrs Boardht I would surely walk ho I did not care whether I had the scarlet fever or not, if Icaood-by, and so I changed my mind, and stayed”

”What had he said?” asked Maude, helping to turn the top of the sheet over, and quite forgetting, in her interest in the story, that she had not intended to ood-by, 'Now I know that you will be very hoood many times, but I know that you are mother's brave, helpful little ets well so that she will not worry about you' Of course I was not going to disappoint h and very unhappy, I stayed there for several weeks until the doctor said it was safe for ain But you see I remember just how it feels to be hole day irl to ive up to ho to please those whom she loves Yes, I know that sounds as if I irl, but then I really think I was, don't you?”

”Yes,” adone home if I had been in your place, and had only tenwith the old lady?”

”No, it was not very pleasant,” said Mrs Boardman ”Now pat the pillow, this way, Maude, before you put it in its place, so I did not have any lessons nor any books to read, and I had no ti very heavy onthat a little girl could do I fed the hens, and looked for eggs, and wiped dishes, and sewed carpet rags, and so the cows home There, the bed looks very nicely now, does n't it? I think you will be able to make it look as well as that every day, don't you? And then when you go hoain even if the servant does make it, you will not have to think that she kno to do so which you do not kno to do It is very nice to kno to do every useful thing, even if it may not be necessary to practise it Suppose your mamma did not kno to make a bed, and she should have a servant who could not, how do you suppose she would show her without knowing herself?

Now shall we hang up these dresses? It is al, so I think you can put these away just as nicely as you could if I stayed and helped you, and then I can go and look after so to say to you what my father said to me, 'You are a brave little ht I know you are going to forget all about howto do the very best you kno to-day, so that your papa and mamma will be pleased with you;” and Mrs

Board Maude a motherly little squeeze as she passed her

Maude stood looking at her trunk for a few one away, rather undecided what to do with her dresses Fifteen oing home and that nobody in all the world should -school now that she had made up her mind that she did not like it, but Mrs Boardood, brave little girl anted to do just as right, and somehow Maude did not want to disappoint her

Usually Maude's one aim in life was to do just what she chose, and to have her oay in