Part 16 (1/2)

”Will we stay here, ett ”Anyhow, I can't stand it in the carriage again right away”

”Let's caot chicken all dressed to broil on the coals, and lots of good things to eat”

”He wouldn't have any ain I'ry, for I haven't enjoyed a ett, approaching the cart

J D moved backwards as she carand a bank bill on his cart She, snapped her steel purse shut again, put it in her dress pocket, and indicated the bill with one finger ”I don't lay this here for your kindness to the children, you understand You've got feelings, and know I'ed But here are a lot of us, and you buy your provisions, so if you'll let us pay you for some, we'll eat and be thankful Take the money and put it away”

Thus commanded, J D returned cautiously to the other side of the cart, took theat it He then sht of propitiating her was upper,” she concluded, and he went on with it, keeping at a distance from her while she stood by the cart or when she sat down on a log by the fire

”Here's your stick, Grand her a liett took it in her hands, reduced its length and tried its liiven e,” she said to Corinne and Robert, ”I should have been sprouted as I deserved”

They listened respectfully

”Folks didn't allow their children to run wild then They whipped them and kept them in bounds I re a falsehood, and made welts on his body”

Corinne and Robert had heard this tale before, but their countenances, put on a piteous expression

”You ought to have a sprouting,” concluded their guardian as if she did not kno to coood turn instead of a bad one”--

”Oh, we never intended to run away, Grandma, and worry you so,”

insisted Robert

”We's just sorry for the little girl,” murmured aunt Corinne--”Why, I'll let it pass this tiain” The pa sprout fell to the ground, unwarped by use

Corinne and Robert were hearty in pro never to run aith Fairy Carrie or any other party again

This serious business corandmother turned her attention to the child in the cart

”How sound asleep the little thing is,” she observed, s Fairy Carrie's cheek from dark eye-circle to chin, ”and her flesh so cold!”

”She's just slept that way ever since J D put her in his cart!”

exclaimed aunt Corinne ”We made her open her eyes and take soain while she's eatin'”

”And we let her sleep ever since,” added Bobaday ”It didn't make a bit of difference whether the cart went jolt-erty-jolt over stones or run smooth in the dust And we shaded her face with bushes”