WHERE THEY MISSED IT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2479, 3 May 1909, Page 1

WHERE THEY MISSED IT.

It was their first baby. The young mother was in perfect rip* tuie.

It was an ugly baby but she did 801 know it.

Happy young mother, All of them are like her#

But the father had dark misgivings. His salary was only fifteen dollars per week, and babies are very expensive lux-

uries.

Her father was rich but he had frowned upon their union,and had heterodox and heretical notionsjas to supporting a so** in-law besides. Cruel old man.

One day, when the baby was about 4 month old, his father came home frow his desk and found his wife radiant.

She was even happy when the baby was out of her sight. “ What is it, Jennie?” asked her husband gloomily, for he was yet uncertain as to the blessings conftied by his deao child.

He was also sleepy. “ Oh, Charlie, I heard from papa I#*

day.’’

Charlie looked gloomier than ever. “ Don’t say anything, dear," she pleaded, for she knew her husband’s opinioß of her father. “He has heard of our baby, and though he has not yet determined to forgive us, he has sent ps a check for five thousand dollars for baby'* sake.”

At first the young husband’* face showed a gleam of pleasure, then it shadowed again.

“ Aren't you glad ?” she asked. Then he. smiled joyfully. " Yes, darling,” he whispered, “bUtWI ♦houid ha>c had twins,”