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Why, she could keep house alone when she had mastered this necessary art, and her mother could leave her in charge.
The cooking and the cheese-making and the spinning must go on just the same, and time could not be spent in holding a baby.
Then she would jump out of her own little cot into the big bed of her parents. She felt quite safe as soon as her mother's loving arms held her tightly, and she was sound asleep again in a minute.
So when Mari and her brothers were away at school, and mother was left alone, that dear little rosy-cheeked fellow sometimes began to cry in a very lively manner.
She was a perfect little mother, and soon had his hood and cloak fastened on.
They were hardly needed, for he was already done up in so many garments, it didn't seem possible he could be cold, wherever he went.
The baby enjoyed it because the pole would spring a little at every movement of his body.
As long as he kept awake, he could, and did, bob up and down. That was amusement enough.
They were too busy to notice each other or the big dog that sat on the door-step.
Her mother was very patient and encouraged her with loving smiles and kind words.
Mari remembers when she was such a tiny tot that her head barely reached above the table.
She was never without it, in fact, and hardly thought herself dressed in the morning until her apron had been fastened around her plump little waist.
It was rolled out into sheets almost as wide as the table itself, for each cake must be about a half-yard across.
The little girl was only too glad to come now, however.
There was always something to do, either inside the house or out-of-doors.
He must bend his knees, or curl himself up in some way, for he certainly could not push his feet through the heavy wooden foot-board.
Then the lifting was not such a simple thing as Mari had supposed before she came to do it herself.
Mari lives in Norway, and Norwegian parents train their children to obey without delay.
She was pleased that she was old enough to be trusted with this important work.
All Norwegian bedsteads are made in this way, so they became used to it as they grew up.
This is what Mari's great-grandma had believed, and was she not a sensible woman?
It wasn't because he drank they went for him; not really.
"We must stop on our way back and show this card to Mrs. Kohler.
Fritz tells me he has to wait till two o'clock for his Sunday dinner these days.
Mother meant to lend me some, I think, but now they've got hard times back in Nebraska, and her farm don't bring her in anything.
She could go buggy-riding with Ray Kennedy, for instance, without taking Gunner or Axel.
"You want to salt your money down, Thee, and go to Chicago and take some lessons.
She felt she could never bear the disgrace, if such a thing happened.
"Do you find it easier to teach in your new room?" he asked.
On it was a white dove, perched on a wreath of very blue forget-me-nots, and "Birthday Greetings" in gold letters.
He could always get a job playing in saloons if he was dead broke.
He had thought it all out carefully and had made up his mind just when he would speak to her.
When she was seventeen, then he would tell her his plan and ask her to marry him.
Ray realized that Thea's life was dull and exacting, and that she missed Wunsch.
"They'll always go for me, just as they did for Wunsch.
With the little girls she was nearly always patient, but with pupils older than herself, she sometimes lost her temper.
He brought her candy and magazines and pineapples--of which she was very fond--from Denver, and kept his eyes and ears open for anything that might interest her.
Of course, if I ever happen to want to practice at night, that's always the night Anna chooses to go to bed early."
The church people ought to give you credit for that, when they go for you."
Meanwhile, it was pleasure enough to feel that she depended on him more and more, that she leaned upon his steady kindness.
One of her mistakes was to let herself in for a calling-down from Mrs. Livery Johnson.
Now, there are lots of good live towns down on the Santa Fe, and everybody down there is musical.
By the time Thea's fifteenth birthday came round, she was established as a music teacher in Moonstone.
Besides, what would her father say, after he had gone to the expense of building an addition to the house?
I talked to the piano tuner the last time he was here, and he said all the people he tuned for expressed themselves very favorably about your teaching.
If a pupil did not get on well, she fumed and fretted.
Somehow I can think better in a little room. Besides, up there I am away from everybody, and I can read as late as I please and nobody nags me."
You promised to tell me about the play you went to see in Denver."
Wunsch had taught only one pupil seriously, but Thea taught twenty.
"It's a darned shame, Thee, you didn't cop that room for yourself.
Ray turned the card over, examined the postmark, and then began to laugh.
She can read pretty well, and she has such good hands.
He often turned to her a face full of pride, and frank admiration, but his glance was never so intimate or so penetrating as Dr. Archie's.
He knew she worked hard, that she put up with a great many little annoyances, and that her duties as a teacher separated her more than ever from the boys and girls of her own age.
I brought something to show you. Look here, it came on my birthday.
They had the faded look often seen in the eyes of men who have lived much in the sun and wind and who have been accustomed to train their vision upon distant objects.
I wish you didn't take so much pains with them, myself."
What does he want to get back into a grass country for?
He would be willing to wait two, or even three years, until she was twenty, if she thought best.
Mrs. Johnson said that hereafter, since she had taken lessons of the best piano teacher in Grinnell, Iowa, she herself would decide what pieces Grace should study.
He rested Thea because he was so different; because, though he often told her interesting things, he never set lively fancies going in her head; because he never misunderstood her, and because he never, by any chance, for a single instant, understood her!
Ray's face was full of complacent satisfaction as he glanced sidewise at Thea, but she was looking off intently into the mirage, at one of those mammoth cattle that are nearly always reflected there.
He had never embarrassed her by so much as a glance.
She liked the personal independence which was accorded her as a wage-earner.
Wasn't it nice of him to remember?" She took from her pocket a postcard, bent in the middle and folded, and handed it to Ray.
He never broke faith with himself about her; he never hinted to her of his hopes for the future, never suggested that she might be more intimately confidential with him, or talked to her of the thing he thought about so constantly. He had the chivalry which is perhaps the proudest possession of his race.
Thea shook her head and spoke in a tone of resignation.
By that time he would surely have got in on something: copper, oil, gold, silver, sheep,--something.
Accordingly, that evening, when the workmen were gone home, he assembled a number of his playfellows, and they worked diligently, like so many emmets, sometimes two or three to a stone, till they had brought them all to make their little wharf.
One was called the Light-House Tragedy, and contained an account of the shipwreck of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of the famous Blackbeard, the pirate.
His brother John, who had also been brought up to the trade, had left his father, married, and set up for himself in Rhode Island.
This he had learned in the printing office, but he had never before been taught any thing about manner and style.
His father's library consisted principally of works on divinity, most of which he read at an early age.
The first sold very rapidly, as the event on which it was founded had recently occurred, and made a great deal of noise.
He continued at the grammar school, however, only about a year, though he had risen to the head of his class, and promised to be a very fine scholar.
He was to serve as apprentice till he was twenty-one years of age, and during the last year was to be allowed the wages of a journeyman. In a little time, he made great progress in the business, and became quite useful.
He then made a fair copy of them, and sent it to Collins.
They were written in the doggerel street-ballad style, and when they were printed, his brother sent Benjamin about the town to sell them.
Benjamin disliked the trade, and had a strong inclination to go to sea; but his father opposed his wishes in this respect, and determined to keep him at home.
They sometimes discussed different questions together, and had become very apt to indulge in arguments and disputes.
As his dislike to the trade continued, his father was afraid that, if he did not put Benjamin to one that was more agreeable, he would run away, and go to sea, as an elder brother of his had done.
He was at this time intimately acquainted with another lad very fond of books, named John Collins.
As they parted without settling the point, and were not to see one another again for a long time, Franklin sat down to put his arguments in writing.
The house in which he lived happened to be near the water, and Benjamin was always playing with boats, and swimming. When sailing with other boys, he was usually the leader, and he confesses that he sometimes led them into difficulties.
There was now every appearance that Benjamin was destined to become a tallow-chandler.
Benjamin liked this trade much better than that of his father, but still had a desire to go to sea.
At ten years of age he was taken from school to help his father in the business of a tallow-chandler; and was employed in cutting the wick for the candles, going errands, and tending the shop.
Benjamin continued employed in the business of his father about two years, that is, till he was twelve years old.
To prevent this step, his father was impatient to have him bound apprentice to his brother, and at length persuaded him to consent to it.
He very kindly offered to lend him any work that he might like to read.
The plan also met with the approbation of his uncle Benjamin, who promised to give him some volumes of sermons that he had taken down in short hand, from the lips of the most eminent preachers of the day.
From his infancy Benjamin had been passionately fond of reading; and all the money that he could get was laid out in purchasing books. He was very fond of voyages and travels.
This fondness for books at length determined his father to bring him up as a printer, though he had already one son in that employment. In 1717, this son returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston.
It was then usual to ask a sum of money for receiving an apprentice, and the cutler charged so much for taking Benjamin, that his father was displeased, and put him to his old business again.
They had trampled it so much, however, as to make it a mere quagmire.
These he afterwards sold, in order to purchase some volumes of Historical Collections.
On the next morning, the workmen were surprised on missing the stones.
Benjamin, however, was intended for the church, and at eight years of age was put to a grammar school.
In consequence of this apprehension, he used to take him to walk, to see joiners, bricklayers, turners and braziers at their work, that he might observe his inclination, and fix it on some trade or profession that would keep him on land.
His elder brothers were, at an early age, put apprentices to different trades; for their father was a man of honest industry, but with little or no property, and unable to support the expense of keeping them long at school.

Why, she could keep house alone when she had mastered this necessary art, and her mother could leave her in charge.

The cooking and the cheese-making and the spinning must go on just the same, and time could not be spent in holding a baby.

Then she would jump out of her own little cot into the big bed of her parents. She felt quite safe as soon as her mother's loving arms held her tightly, and she was sound asleep again in a minute.

So when Mari and her brothers were away at school, and mother was left alone, that dear little rosy-cheeked fellow sometimes began to cry in a very lively manner.

She was a perfect little mother, and soon had his hood and cloak fastened on.

They were hardly needed, for he was already done up in so many garments, it didn't seem possible he could be cold, wherever he went.

The baby enjoyed it because the pole would spring a little at every movement of his body.

As long as he kept awake, he could, and did, bob up and down. That was amusement enough.

They were too busy to notice each other or the big dog that sat on the door-step.

Her mother was very patient and encouraged her with loving smiles and kind words.

Mari remembers when she was such a tiny tot that her head barely reached above the table.

She was never without it, in fact, and hardly thought herself dressed in the morning until her apron had been fastened around her plump little waist.

It was rolled out into sheets almost as wide as the table itself, for each cake must be about a half-yard across.

The little girl was only too glad to come now, however.

There was always something to do, either inside the house or out-of-doors.

He must bend his knees, or curl himself up in some way, for he certainly could not push his feet through the heavy wooden foot-board.

Then the lifting was not such a simple thing as Mari had supposed before she came to do it herself.

Mari lives in Norway, and Norwegian parents train their children to obey without delay.

She was pleased that she was old enough to be trusted with this important work.

All Norwegian bedsteads are made in this way, so they became used to it as they grew up.

This is what Mari's great-grandma had believed, and was she not a sensible woman?

It wasn't because he drank they went for him; not really.

"We must stop on our way back and show this card to Mrs. Kohler.

Fritz tells me he has to wait till two o'clock for his Sunday dinner these days.

Mother meant to lend me some, I think, but now they've got hard times back in Nebraska, and her farm don't bring her in anything.

She could go buggy-riding with Ray Kennedy, for instance, without taking Gunner or Axel.

"You want to salt your money down, Thee, and go to Chicago and take some lessons.

She felt she could never bear the disgrace, if such a thing happened.

"Do you find it easier to teach in your new room?" he asked.

On it was a white dove, perched on a wreath of very blue forget-me-nots, and "Birthday Greetings" in gold letters.

He could always get a job playing in saloons if he was dead broke.

He had thought it all out carefully and had made up his mind just when he would speak to her.

When she was seventeen, then he would tell her his plan and ask her to marry him.

Ray realized that Thea's life was dull and exacting, and that she missed Wunsch.

"They'll always go for me, just as they did for Wunsch.

With the little girls she was nearly always patient, but with pupils older than herself, she sometimes lost her temper.

He brought her candy and magazines and pineapples--of which she was very fond--from Denver, and kept his eyes and ears open for anything that might interest her.

Of course, if I ever happen to want to practice at night, that's always the night Anna chooses to go to bed early."

The church people ought to give you credit for that, when they go for you."

Meanwhile, it was pleasure enough to feel that she depended on him more and more, that she leaned upon his steady kindness.

One of her mistakes was to let herself in for a calling-down from Mrs. Livery Johnson.

Now, there are lots of good live towns down on the Santa Fe, and everybody down there is musical.

By the time Thea's fifteenth birthday came round, she was established as a music teacher in Moonstone.

Besides, what would her father say, after he had gone to the expense of building an addition to the house?

I talked to the piano tuner the last time he was here, and he said all the people he tuned for expressed themselves very favorably about your teaching.

If a pupil did not get on well, she fumed and fretted.

Somehow I can think better in a little room. Besides, up there I am away from everybody, and I can read as late as I please and nobody nags me."

You promised to tell me about the play you went to see in Denver."

Wunsch had taught only one pupil seriously, but Thea taught twenty.

"It's a darned shame, Thee, you didn't cop that room for yourself.

Ray turned the card over, examined the postmark, and then began to laugh.

She can read pretty well, and she has such good hands.

He often turned to her a face full of pride, and frank admiration, but his glance was never so intimate or so penetrating as Dr. Archie's.

He knew she worked hard, that she put up with a great many little annoyances, and that her duties as a teacher separated her more than ever from the boys and girls of her own age.

I brought something to show you. Look here, it came on my birthday.

They had the faded look often seen in the eyes of men who have lived much in the sun and wind and who have been accustomed to train their vision upon distant objects.

I wish you didn't take so much pains with them, myself."

What does he want to get back into a grass country for?

He would be willing to wait two, or even three years, until she was twenty, if she thought best.

Mrs. Johnson said that hereafter, since she had taken lessons of the best piano teacher in Grinnell, Iowa, she herself would decide what pieces Grace should study.

He rested Thea because he was so different; because, though he often told her interesting things, he never set lively fancies going in her head; because he never misunderstood her, and because he never, by any chance, for a single instant, understood her!

Ray's face was full of complacent satisfaction as he glanced sidewise at Thea, but she was looking off intently into the mirage, at one of those mammoth cattle that are nearly always reflected there.

He had never embarrassed her by so much as a glance.

She liked the personal independence which was accorded her as a wage-earner.

Wasn't it nice of him to remember?" She took from her pocket a postcard, bent in the middle and folded, and handed it to Ray.

He never broke faith with himself about her; he never hinted to her of his hopes for the future, never suggested that she might be more intimately confidential with him, or talked to her of the thing he thought about so constantly. He had the chivalry which is perhaps the proudest possession of his race.

Thea shook her head and spoke in a tone of resignation.

By that time he would surely have got in on something: copper, oil, gold, silver, sheep,--something.

Accordingly, that evening, when the workmen were gone home, he assembled a number of his playfellows, and they worked diligently, like so many emmets, sometimes two or three to a stone, till they had brought them all to make their little wharf.

One was called the Light-House Tragedy, and contained an account of the shipwreck of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of the famous Blackbeard, the pirate.

His brother John, who had also been brought up to the trade, had left his father, married, and set up for himself in Rhode Island.

This he had learned in the printing office, but he had never before been taught any thing about manner and style.

His father's library consisted principally of works on divinity, most of which he read at an early age.

The first sold very rapidly, as the event on which it was founded had recently occurred, and made a great deal of noise.

He continued at the grammar school, however, only about a year, though he had risen to the head of his class, and promised to be a very fine scholar.

He was to serve as apprentice till he was twenty-one years of age, and during the last year was to be allowed the wages of a journeyman. In a little time, he made great progress in the business, and became quite useful.

He then made a fair copy of them, and sent it to Collins.

They were written in the doggerel street-ballad style, and when they were printed, his brother sent Benjamin about the town to sell them.

Benjamin disliked the trade, and had a strong inclination to go to sea; but his father opposed his wishes in this respect, and determined to keep him at home.

They sometimes discussed different questions together, and had become very apt to indulge in arguments and disputes.

As his dislike to the trade continued, his father was afraid that, if he did not put Benjamin to one that was more agreeable, he would run away, and go to sea, as an elder brother of his had done.

He was at this time intimately acquainted with another lad very fond of books, named John Collins.

As they parted without settling the point, and were not to see one another again for a long time, Franklin sat down to put his arguments in writing.

The house in which he lived happened to be near the water, and Benjamin was always playing with boats, and swimming. When sailing with other boys, he was usually the leader, and he confesses that he sometimes led them into difficulties.

There was now every appearance that Benjamin was destined to become a tallow-chandler.

Benjamin liked this trade much better than that of his father, but still had a desire to go to sea.

At ten years of age he was taken from school to help his father in the business of a tallow-chandler; and was employed in cutting the wick for the candles, going errands, and tending the shop.

Benjamin continued employed in the business of his father about two years, that is, till he was twelve years old.

To prevent this step, his father was impatient to have him bound apprentice to his brother, and at length persuaded him to consent to it.

He very kindly offered to lend him any work that he might like to read.

The plan also met with the approbation of his uncle Benjamin, who promised to give him some volumes of sermons that he had taken down in short hand, from the lips of the most eminent preachers of the day.

From his infancy Benjamin had been passionately fond of reading; and all the money that he could get was laid out in purchasing books. He was very fond of voyages and travels.

This fondness for books at length determined his father to bring him up as a printer, though he had already one son in that employment. In 1717, this son returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston.

It was then usual to ask a sum of money for receiving an apprentice, and the cutler charged so much for taking Benjamin, that his father was displeased, and put him to his old business again.

They had trampled it so much, however, as to make it a mere quagmire.

These he afterwards sold, in order to purchase some volumes of Historical Collections.

On the next morning, the workmen were surprised on missing the stones.

Benjamin, however, was intended for the church, and at eight years of age was put to a grammar school.

In consequence of this apprehension, he used to take him to walk, to see joiners, bricklayers, turners and braziers at their work, that he might observe his inclination, and fix it on some trade or profession that would keep him on land.

His elder brothers were, at an early age, put apprentices to different trades; for their father was a man of honest industry, but with little or no property, and unable to support the expense of keeping them long at school.