TINY JUST SAVES HERSELF. lil

we forgive many a slight and many an
unnecessary punishment when we witness a
scene like this, for we know that when
Father is in one of his bitter and hard
moods a few words from Mother will soften
him.

Ah, yes! often and often when we have
been under sentence of going to bed, per-
haps, in desperation we have flown to
Mother with an agonized cry of, “Oh,
Mother, do speak to Father; he says I’m to
go to bed;” and after a time he will come to
us and say, “It is your Mother’s wish that I
shall forgive you and not punish you this
time: you had better go to her now—she
wishes to speak to you.”

After his greeting to Mother he gives
Aunt a kiss, shakes hands with Miss AL, and
makes a peck at each of our cheeks in turn,
commencing with Tiny, who has just saved
herself, having entered the room quietly at
Father’s heels, and now stands drawing on
one of the missing gloves as if she had been
- there all the time.