Around the tea-table . hooping-cough,and chicken-pox ! One of the things that I rejoiceover in life is that it is impossible that I ever be-come a step-mother. In many cases she has thelargest possible toil for the least reward. Blessed be the Lord who setteth the solitary in 378 AROUND THE TEA-TABLE. families that there are glorious exceptions! Thenew mother comes to the new home, and the chil-dren gather the first day around her as the naturalprotector. They never know the difference be-tween the first and second mother. They seemlike two verses of the same hymn, two days of thesame summer,
Around the tea-table . hooping-cough,and chicken-pox ! One of the things that I rejoiceover in life is that it is impossible that I ever be-come a step-mother. In many cases she has thelargest possible toil for the least reward. Blessed be the Lord who setteth the solitary in 378 AROUND THE TEA-TABLE. families that there are glorious exceptions! Thenew mother comes to the new home, and the chil-dren gather the first day around her as the naturalprotector. They never know the difference be-tween the first and second mother. They seemlike two verses of the same hymn, two days of thesame summer, two strokes of the same bell, twoblessings from the same God. She is watchful all night long over the sick littleone, bathing the brow and banishing the scare ofthe feverish dream. After a while those childrenwill rise up to do her honor; and when her workis done, she will go up to get the large reward thatawaits a faithful, great-hearted Christian step-mother in the land where the neighbors all mindtheir own CHAPTER LXIII. A LAYER OF WAFFLES. SEVERAL months had passed along since wehad enjoyed the society of Governor Wise-man, Doctor Heavyasbricks and Fred our especial call they had come again. The evening air was redolent with waffles bakedin irons that had given them the square imprintwhich has come down through the ages as theonly orthodox pattern. No sooner had our friends seated themselves atthe tea-table than— Quizzle began: I see, Governor Wiseman, thatthe races have just come off in England. Whatdo you think of horse-racing? Wiseman.—That has become a very importantquestion for every moralist to answer. I see thatlast week England took carriage and horses andwent out to Epsom Downs to see the Derby race was won by Sir George Frederick; thatis the name of the successful horse. All the par-ticulars come by telegraph. There is much nowbeing done for the turf in this country as well as 379 3SO AROUXD THE TEA-TABLE. in England, and these
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