The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 30, 1885, Page 6

Para ns eae Rianne ore BOOTLE: ; BABY. WINTER. ¢ knows ro) whistled to the child, which promp made a grab at his chain, and w he sat do e sota ot ay on which it was sprawling,tried very hard to get at the gold badge on his coll Shoulder badges had not then come in. “Mrs. G very well dressed, is she not?’’ *eOh, very,’? Mrs. Gray answerea, smoothing out the child’s skirt so as ne fine deep ‘Unusually so. the y,’’ Bootles said, ‘*she’s em- and to display t broidery. clothes are ot expensive description.”’ “T thought sc finest a - kit it doesn’t look like honest t in the cb j ease his minc | iv. f SRY ed heart-broken. Well, it kuled her. 2} I saw n said,rising and going to the window, whence he stood staring out over the | square, ‘a few hours after she died. tk That child’s mother may look hke | that now, and I can’t and won’ttura it adrift, whatever the fellows or any one else chooses to think or say, and | that’s all about ir.’’ j Two bright tears gathered in Mrs, a common child, eh? ot replied the lady, at all,” promptly. ‘¢We'l,”’ Bootles told her, been Hy which was only to be expected; but it, mat- “tye chatted: unmercif most the colonel takes my word about and of course the others don’t it think, the ter. les hough, mother has chosen me.”’ **Ah, well, you see, Capt. Fer- with said the adjutant’s wife, “at rers,”” inconvenient character for I should a smile, is rather sometimes to have 2 great kindness of heart. say you are the greatest fayorite in ment, and, naturally enough, ak of it sometimes in and wouldn’t the reg the officers spe society. ‘Oh, Bootles 1s this, Bootles is that;’? ‘Bootles turn a dog from his door;’ ‘Bootles would share his last sixpence with a poor chap who was down,’ and so on. | have heard, Capt. Ferrers, ot your emptying your pockets to di- vide among three poor tramps who had begged no more than a pipe ot “tobacco. I have heard of your stand- ing up for’’—with a deeper smile— ithe poor devils of casuals; and if I 2 nOt Others? why not the hear it, w mother 9f this child?’ “True. But I think you all over: rate my character,’’ Bootles replied, modestly. **You know I don’t go in for bemg saintly at all.’’ “That is justat. It you did you would have no more influence than Maj. Allardyce. whom every one laughs at. But you don't; you are one of themselves, and yet you will always help a man who is down; you will co any unfortunate creature agood turn. Oh, I hear a good deal, though you choose to make light of it. And you know, Capt. Ferrers, {we are not told that the good Samaritan made a great splu- tering about what he did; but the professional saints, the pmest and the Levite, passed by on the other side.”” "¥ on very complimentary,”’ Bootles said, blushing a little- “much more than I deserve, i'm sure. The fellows,’’ the remembrance, *‘were much less mercitul. Then Dawson suggests sending it to t laughing at] about the child. to th the o police station, the colenel workhouse ; and one me er, of cour: Mrs. Gray breast with a ns — d to her dismay, ught the c ery Bootles went on: c ot and | “Yes, [feel as you do about it. T can’t do it. and that’s all about it. It would be on my conscience all my life. Besides, some day the mother might come back tor it, and though, of course, as the colonel says. there | is no claim upon me, yet if for the j Ss sake of a tew pounds I had turned | _ -¢ * i the poor little beggar adrift, ruined | its lite—why I simply couidn’t tace | her, and that’s all about it. And! besides that, Mrs. Gray, I nave a lurking suspicion that ‘the letter is} genuime, and thatit was not w to or intended forme. I: me ike womar reads to re letter of a “Yes, a woman must deed to w Id as that, rather you’d chaff me.’’ chaff you unmercitully. i 5 1 , not for worlds would { *sand if | good joke, aay i . ¢ Se Sis tal an EEE . Se : Gray’s eyes, and falling, fell upon | little person—of the some people told an past the colonel, that the child was the baby’s curls of gold, two price- | blue, star-like eyes t k nobody | Bootles | almost ~~ t 1e hoofs bad —— s lets Bianits ee the tamiee her cae It might be because he | charger. Lacy!’? he called ou ee pe - i | a joke , | *‘Lacy! But Lacy was already on able and exhaustless mines of vhata pity s aE i : ae » il “| the ground, and caught Miss Mignon For a moment or two there was| years older!’’ wast st comment, | P ; it might be because Idle-| out of harm’s way; but when he silence, broken at last by the child’s| and it wassaid in such a tone of | minster society was free from that! turned round he saw that his triend’s catia ate . ” eee ee riousnes tich | face was as white as chalk. laugh, as a ray of sickly winter sun- | genu a th tellows | leaven of censoriousness which | face $ teas ¢ i 4 an a NG: seat SE peocletolook at most As tor the colonel, when he saw | shine fell upon the glittering c ss Mi gob- |} Ost peo} O : aly Mrs. Nurse gathermy herseit up : ; as 4) . m ors pDOSssibie c 1 if . ' in its little hands, The sound re- n oma we po © | with rueful looks Grain tile, he covered Bootles, who turned trom; ‘Seems a jolly little beggar.”" said | view. simply roared, ss Mignon the window. another. But Bootles went on his serene! chimed in as rf 1t were the finest joke ‘And so, Mrs. Gray,’’ he said, *Chut—c way, teiling the true state of the case | In ea rid eae za = “*that was a smash, she re— ts sa ea . » of her| M Misnon to every one who mentioned the i e carckn liysava lean ec cece aaa we af ie i cat - | marked, trom her proud position on wet eyes, ‘Il have determined to ‘-Never saw st far to him, and aiways ‘end | Lacy’s shoulder, “just hke Humpty keep the little beggar ; but Harkness, | gar in all my hte,’’ asserted “And hang it, you know, it’s a pret- | Dumpty’’—a ¢ whicl who’s no tool, you know, has con-| yoice. ty little beggar, and 1 couldn’t sead | that estimable person 4 ‘Pratreagakechatll inalte! a workhouse.’ Mrs. Humpty Dumpty as Jong as she remained with the regiment. yinced me that it won’t do to trust to any of the barrack women to look after her. Therefore, it you won't mind undertaking it tor a few days, I will elderly nurse to take entire charge I dare say I advertise for a respectable of this creature. can arrange with Smithers for an extra room, and you'll let me come to you for advice then, won’t you?”’ Mrs. Gray rose and went close to him, laying her hand upon his arm. “Capt. Ferrers,” ly, *t‘you will have your reward. God will bless you for this.’ “Oh, please don’t, Mrs, Gray," Bootles stammered. ‘‘Really, I'd now she said, earnest- Mrs. Gray laughed outright. | M future I will Come ip,” she added, in a louder tone, as “tap tap’? sounded on the door. The permission was tollowed by ments are, so tor the a le: 1€ tation. tbe hence,’ joke wz delec *Boo—boo!”’ “By Jove! She can half say Boot- s i Hartog. wom zn into a so ad been ed € oiselle Mi oN selle Migr areless. “not a 4 er.”” urse s “Has it any Miles, the orderly officer tor the day. ‘Don’t know. Open your mouth little one,’’ said Lacy, gravely. | preparing to than Bootles. the child on! officers Waiting for cl shout at the sight of ed round to inspect Mademoiselle Mig inspection | : - } perhaps—as she cried Hartog, ‘w by then ;’’ but this being an exceed- off to the anteroom,in front of et ee caimiy, regiment sixteen or seventeen nevah you mind, Maj. Garnet, s dead ingly old and threadbare re s instantly snubbed in the | respectable and thoroughly experi- teeth 2”’ present arms. shall all be grumbled old Garnet. mental aa face of the new and substantial one. demanded At this point Miss Mignon made a iss Mi ion immediately ba non’s Mouth went disimally already,’ ced out “Well, you know what my senti-| down, until Lacy remembered knob ot his whip, and held it up tor ejaculatec the entrance of Lacy, who came in] **And here he comes.”’ with a pleasant ‘*Good—er—morn- ing,’’ and a soft laugh at the sight otf the baby on the sofa. **T—er—thought old Bootles would be here,”’ he explained. ‘tAnd be- **Now, then,’’ Bootles called out, up gage?’ ‘No; none of us,’”” the | one man, Gilchrist *shave any of you fellows your mind to own this httle bag- delighted lunge in the direction of the belt across Miles’ shouted, ** Whoa, whoa,’’ and Miles breast. Lacy ot reach. the she crowed. made laugi.cd: but said years 1 band, the | Nurse Nurse } luck, more- preceded Mrs. Ss. to come 2 cropper over a drain ng conveniently in her way, | the child, unconscious of | ger, ran straight for Bootles. Neither Booties nor Lacy, who was ; colonel’s left, perceived her) close upon them, | waving her small hands and shout- shrill and joyous child’s voice, **Bootles! Bootles!’’ It seemed to Bootles, as he looked t course, acc to pervious nations ¢ Idlemins | who had married, been deserted on tl ing, in | He made no secret about it at all, | 4 A tew weeks after this the annual Saturday following the | inspection came off, and Miss Mig- advent of the child an advertisement | yon, resenting the lengthened ab appeared in The Idleminster Chron- | sence of her Bootles. 2 managed icle which made Idleminstez tongues | t© escape from her nurse, and pat- jtered boldly, as tast as her sinall clack for a week: : : : - feet would carry her, mght mto the ‘Wanted, immediately, a highly 4 > Lo th | mess-room,where Bootles was sitting jjust opposite the general, at the late lunch. Miss Migno q, not seeing him at first. wander enced nurse of middie to take | the entire charge of a child about a age, 1 coolly behind year old. Good wages to a suitable | ae fo ae backs, until person. Apply to Capt. Ferrers, } the ae be goers — Scarlet Lancers.”’ | whatever of, peentocaed officer 5; (aus In due time this advertisement | wedged 'jerself in between his chair | and the colonel’s with a tnumphant produced the mght sort of person, Health is Wealth! : a and m and a staid and respectable widow ot tovous laugh. about fitty was soon installed in (To be continued.) room next to Mrs, Gray’s quarters, | im charge of Miss Miznon, the child had already come to be called | si NO SURPRISE It wz ue ttt 7 i Tin Government Eudorses ‘Lhe twas a charming chiid—strong | ; and healthy, seemed ta have Ameriean ' D Agriculturist trouble with temper ot teeth, hardly ever cried, and might be seen morn- | | ing and afternoon being wheeled by | its nurse in a baby-carriage aboutthe | | From the tenth cencus, vol. 8, just pub- : Seepce ct 1 ne j) ised. “The American Agricuitnrist is eae SqUATe along the road} ..yecially woithy ot mention, because of outside the Broad Arrow boundaries, | the remarkable success that has attended And eae oe Heder and the unique and untiring efforts of its pro- And so as the weeks rolled bye and] prietors to increase and exiend its cireu- wore ‘nto months, it began to toddle | lation’ Its content duplicated every ’ h jor a german ed which about, and could say ‘‘Hootles’’ as cies iis aie a a ay as no or ion, also sides—I—er—wanted to see by name, : j baby. Seems to me. Bootles,’? he | with a sneer, he should rather think | Pain as a. pike-staff. | ane tabula us a! pleasing incident in added, staring with an absurd air of | not, and added two unnecessary In April the Scarlet Lancers were | the marvelous nearly} reflective wisdom at the intant, words—** workhouse brat!’” moved from Idleminster to Blank—| ‘ALF A CENTURY CAR:ER if the face is somehow fam! to Bootles turned and looked down | hampton, where Bootles had to un- Brie eco: Sieadine & me. Oh, I don’t mean you. But] upon him in profoundest conte dergo anew experience, for every | Journal ot the pares there 1s a h:keness, though I don’t My dear chap,’”’ he said, coolly, 1 for x widower on WHAT IT IS TO-DAY t Americar - know where to plant “uD, ps it will grow,.”? suggested Bootles. w *sAh! pewraps it w it won't. 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