Show if U DIET E ori OF he PAD jh URIEL ETHEL HUESTON BY W WC C banin cannel w Copy a by I 1 the ann shava Cora arriner pany TAM STARR a widower MR methodist Method nt minister has box bear assigned ignec to the coulie conlie go gulf at 11 I 1 mark iowa and his daughter prudence prud d bhe h a is nineteen anil and the eldest of five file girls have come a on ahead to get the new dion age a ready malv fop far the younger lounger members of tire the family of course ill alia whole mind I 1 town especially P e cudly the file met methodists ir calate la is thrond throbbing ng alth ith curiosity tul couty about b at the rie newcomers amrice mis ada ads adams member of ill the L lidies wahl aid oita harrild over t to call 11 on an prudence r deace and nosing or around it in found a d the girt a on her knees praying or in i the barn bar so she he began nt at onic to pump pron P the girl for all she ehe was sea worth it would be great stuff to tell the and is still at it CHAPTER I 1 Cont continued linuaL but to return to the a altrue th the par 0 conage go girls always capitalized the L la Ms flies or of their father I 1 church one ol 01 jr is should la go old and help the dear clear child baid aid mrs mra se acott tf the file president of the aids abea hen they assembled for foe their ba business rame meeting help her and ad wel mcd toine are be tier led and iise her I 1 was thinking of going over said one and another and several seat there others oh that will it 11 not all do a at all 11 said aid the president I 1 in think hadr I 1 la a case ike this the president herself should represent the society therefore I 1 will under take this duty for far you but bt this could forth a sierra of pro test and it it barn became so clamorous anat it was unofficially dec decided dd to drum draw cut of serin which we was done deal and ad I 1 in Orm consequence carl ol 01 that drawing of cuts mrs mra admar adams new a sat at on no the front porch pech or of the old tha od stay gray par parsonage go cheered by the k know 0 edge that hat every other lad ot of the aid ana mayr envying g her h I 1 now loat just be real sect sociable able and tell me all short about too yourself meu a and it the file oth others too urged mrs ada adams I 1 want to yn toll know all about ev every ry one a of you tell me everything there 1 isn t much to tell said pru pro dence a ima littig there fire are ft five of us I 1 am the oldest 1 I a am wastes nineteen then the ponies in fairy then the twins an and d th then Z th the a baba ar are the twins twine buys boye or a boy and a g if nelt neither er said bald prudence they are gah both girls rs more greslo girls gasped mrs adams and the bb baba she sh 1 ts a girl tell too and prudence b laughed idled of in sir short t we mrs are all 11 girls except apt father 11 he t coulden couldn t be ot of course comme or I 1 ap suppose pp 0 he would jafri for our family do does seem a to run rip to girls girl dence is a very nice name for a ministers minister daughter said eald mrs ad bins ame suggestively suggestive tv yea sea tor for some borne ministers dough daugh fe tera assented prudence Butis but Is sad li unsuitable liable for far me a sirs mrs adams looked critically at this alm e of the parsonage then her eves else wandered donn to her clothes and lingered in silent ques firming on mr prudence alees 8 dres it was a very peculiar color in fact it was sm io mi color r at alt all no ao named color pro bene dences a 5 eyes had followed mrs adams a ahm glance ce and ad she spoke frankly I 1 suppose you re datele wondering r ing it if this theas dress la any wet well 1 think it Is really Is b ant u t it ft isn t any of the rc regular str shades allea it ts is my own on invention but I 1 vis ve never named tt it fairy grew up and ad out and ad around and one day ahn I 1 was so eo nearly out of clothes I 1 hardly sitI I 1 Could attend church any more she suggested that I 1 cut an old one a of hers here it aown tor for me I 1 at first I 1 laughed hed and then than I 1 was insulted fairy Is three yar you younger ge r than 1 I and 1 before the then she bhe bad got my handed downs but of now the tables were turned froni in that time on oa fairy a clothes were cut down tor for me I 1 still feel bitter about abou t it IL ratty fairy Is dark and dark blues are becoming mg to he her she handed it down this dress dress it was dark blu blue then their but I 1 was sea not wanting morning a dark blue and I 1 thought thou t it would be to ecna recognizable if I 1 gale gae it a con a tc costing color I 1 the chose s e lavender I 1 rived it four times and t this his was the do the twins loins dr aresi aeiker inquired xi lira arx adams when stain she could control tow b voice i yes for connie they do it on purl purpose to escape PC the fraud landed downs they wont out even tave love hair ribbons different and the r result 4 s that poor connie comte never gets one me new mum thing except shoes she says say she commit cannot help thinking thanking the lord 1 in her prays prayers that oil all of us ua outwear our mor shoes before we can outgrow them connie is only nine fairy 1 Is sixteen and the ill twana ins are ara thirty thir thirteen te they or are very clever lot let of girls girl I 1 and m what bat are am you going to do dol in inured mrs rs adams looking with real affection at the bright want sweet fee face you ought might to go to school you xou re rc just girl youself you 1 I dust dont marit ant to go to school go berard rard prudence Pru demers NO not t any B y me more I 1 juralt uke it ji t taking cars care of father and the girls girle with fairy to keep me bat bal arand I 1 I 1 read but I 1 do not net like to study no you 11 have to get along with shia me just the file wry way I 1 a am mr mrs ad ams its all I 1 can do to keep things going no a without spending half the time drem dreaming ng of bis big things to do in thre the future do don t you he have dm dreams ence git gasped sd mrs mra adams dou don t you yon it anve time dreams ot of the future girls girl I 1 in books book down me days time dream yea Y es I 1 drears dream 1 I interrupted pru pro dream d dance c 1 I dream lots but it a ot of lint hat fairy bud and others will do ahe I 1 g git t them hem properly prop orly rily raised you tou it 11 like hie file clr M airs 1 adams I 1 linow know you will they really rea ily an to a gifted g ift ed little bunch except me I 1 in just comte common little pru pro do dence of t the he par parsonage lourae but the oth era am A and ad pro leme flung out her bar hard hands dr dramatically whittly CHAPTER 11 the rest of the family it we waa saturday I 1 morning ing when the four f young parsonage P agag girls ill 1 arned mr ml in mount mark the eldell miss misses avery at next door gooud out of their mind windows fac pending tall their appearance 1 I on main street alth with interest cat and conceio bircer bic they y om EpS episcopalians Episcopal PIas ians themselves and 1 in an all their long lives they had ducr so much us a heard of a mid widower r rector with mith ff five S clara daughters diters and no or er there use something blood cur car 1 in the barn bare idea the MI misses avery considered P pru deuce dence helf rather a sweet let silly illy little thing lou ion have rare some real coal nice people in the Method lit ell hurch h miss mill dra dora had told 1 hiir 1 I dare dam say you will find a few ot them t h uh fiume his jbf oh 1 I will mill like them the ail ad said aid prudence quickly and seriously beriou aly like them the all 11 echoed ali miss dora data oh impossible 0 0 N not at tor for us in said prudence we are re used to tt it you know tt NN hen ben we dislike people at first sight eight we visit v t them end and t talk a III to them and incite imite them th am 1 to a the parsonage and entertain them with our or best beat linen line and elhel ware and keep on getting friendlier and friendlier mod and first thing you yoi know we me like them final so the misses alerv concluded that prudence was not entirely responsible and they wondered with ith something akin to an agony 0 or of f ear it if th the e younger allis talef ta fard ag girls had it ft too and w when as miss alice cried excitedly quick I 1 quick I 1 they rhey are com coming mill they trooped to miss alice 8 window with a speed th that to t would hid be haie done derm credit to the parson parram age girls themselves milt first came the minister whom they awry avery knew well mail by this time sort and co con sideres quite respectable ble H he was ds ort lively ively as was to be expected pec C of a methodist minister and told jokes joke 1 and laughed at them I 1 now ow a comical rector oh a very different matter it t gasn wasn t dorre done III that t S all 1 at say any rate to Ut lere ere CO came the methodist hodle t minister roughing and on one side of him ripped a small all earnest rest looking maid en an clasping his hand band and gig filter alter ai bately rely up into his face ace and ad due down at the he styli stylish a h cement sidewalk beneath be ler feet on the other aid side we was fairy the whereas misses alery knew the girls giris by name already having baring talked in guib a h with prudence such a fairy I 1 gasped miss cent and the others echoed the gasp but wordlessly for fairy was waa very nearly castle as tell tall as her father built upon generous lines rather commanding in appearance a little splendid looking even from their windows they could discern something distinctly Jun JunoD li la in this sixteen 1 earold irl girl with the tha a easy elastic tilde stride that matched her father and the graceful head well car cill A young goddess named fairy I 1 behind them laughing and chatter ing like three children as they were came caine the twins islas with prudence each with an arm am around her waist aist and prudence mail BBS a very little taller than they who when they cad reached the fence that bordered the parsonage lahl the scene for a moment a miniature riot the smaller girls jumped and exclaimed and ad clasped their hands fairy 1 leaned sit over the time tence and stared intently at this their pa parsonage ramage home ham inch tha th M little girl scrambled rob under larder the fence followed closely by the limbed twins A pause paul a very short one ole and ald the theo pru pro acne too was wag wriggling beneath the fence hold the mi wire up for on me pepsi papa c cried fairy alrY I 1 m too tat addae and a sec ond and later she me was running gracefully across the lawn lan toward th the pare go th the methodist minister laughed boy hilly sort and placing me his hands bands on the fence post he vaulted lightly over and ad reached the house with sub his hia dough daugh ter then than the misses avery school teachers and elderly looked at one an other did you ever I 1 gas gasped PC d the oldest i miss mi avery and ad the others slowly shook their heads head i NOW non think I 1 did you ever see a S r rec tor jumping a ahr three wite wire fence ence end and running full speed act across his front yard is in gumnit ot of a flieg family it may p possibly ild haw occurred bared nc I 11 hava netar seen um it neither tied the th oliree M misses im we AT avery ry nor no did they ever expect i to A and I 1 it f they had been it it is quite deft aliel j they would have joined the be backsliders back sliders ild at that instant but bat without wasting meeting much if time on ad this gri gruesome esome thought they hurried to a window cona manding the ali e bet best view law of ill the jux parsonage tag and if rained d it th then a they clustered behind the curtains and ad watched and listened the there was plenty to heart from the forra nige windows came the sound bound of scamper lug ing feet and ad imaging do doors once there me wag the unmistakable cl 1 ter of at a chair overturned with W th it I 1 all il there that was mas a ma batand tand chorus of 0 oh look I 1 oh ob I 1 oh 11 1 1 I oh how seoul sn beet on oh pop papa I 1 oh ob prudence look barlic took look at this then th the eldest MI avery closed the he window failand n thinking the puts 9 and confronted hr hir hi r slaters md we mut must just jost make looke the belt beat of it sire bhe said bald quietly but next door the 9 gray Y old pa parson mon age ge was tull full to overflowing overcoming with satis de friction faction and happiness and love lole everyone has free experienc ed eil the file ecstatic creepy wase sensation tion of sleeping 1 in a brand new mv home the par parsonage go girls garls ruled in tire the arr memory ionly of that ett night lor for many days day it way may be haunted founded lor for all we me know cried carol just juat think connie there may be seven ghosts camped on the head bead of your bed 1019 carol W when b an the family gathered far or we wor trip ship on that first sabbath morning mr starr st arr said mid as aste he tumid the leavea leave of his boll worn bible 1 I think it would be well ell for you to help with the tomm morning ilig lop l raw pow ft hen I 1 finish reading ahm the chapter connie C I 1 you yen will make inoke the first prayer just prey pray for far whatever hat ever you as a va von do at right tor for lumme vourse ii I 1 will follow you connie a eyes were wide with cespon pa ty during the reading of the chap if ILI they ale coming ter b but u t uima w bee she ehe began to speak her vr voice a did not at falter connie had was nine years ye or of good methodist experience back of her I 1 1 our Fat fatmir liti who art in brown we rw how bow ourselves before thy footstool 1 in humility and reverence thou art our old god our or greater creator our bull savior ble bless us as this thia day and ad cause thy to ace to blue upon up us a blot bill out our transgression g D pardon adon our tres trespasses prears wash us that me be may be whiter than snow hide not hot thy face from the eyes ayea ot of thy children writ turn not upon us in wrath pity us lord as we kneel here pro proa before thy mft majesty JestY and glory let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our licarte be accept able in thy eight bight 0 lord our or strength and our redeemer and finally save a us an unbroken family around thy throne thron in ia heaves ha urven for jesus SOLS sake amen this was followed by an a electric atnee silence Is nee prudence was biting her lips painfully old and counting by ten tens as fast as aa she could I 1 airy was a mentally going I 1 ag over t abe be preyer prayer sentence at coca by sen tence fence and attributing each PC petition it to the individual member I 1 lo 10 the old chuch at ETel to whom it be ba longed the twins were a mile little amazed and quite proud counts connie was ms an honor to the parsonage pars but they were concerned lest they themselves should not do quite so well ell m when hen their days came but in iless ilesa than him a moment at the mi aln after ill father began his prayer when he said enid amen prudence was on it her a teet fact led and halt half way upstairs ap stirl before the others were fairly risen fairy stood food intently out of at the wind window for far a moment and I 1 then went out to the barn to see lf it the horse ft as ahm through g h eating mr starr walked gravely a and d tal tally out not the front door and around the house lenti he 13 ran to into fairy coming out the kitchen door and they glanced quickly at each other hurry P papa a she whispered you can at t hold in UP much longer I 1 neither can I 1 and together choking with laughter they hurried into lot the t barn bar a and ad gave juji full vent veat to their fl feelings csima it eem thattie that the happy go lucky houseful of parsonage will wd 1 win the friendship of the th avary ave ry sla nales and tear to way away the barrier of and nd reserve which hedges hedge them in int TO ile hi CONTINUED |