Carolyn of the Corners
BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT
CAROLYN'S SUNNY DISPOSITION BEGINS TO HAVE ITS
EFFECT UPON AUNTY ROSE.
Synopsis. Her father ami mother reported lost at sen when tho
Dunravcn, on which they had sailed for Europe, was suuk, Carolyn
May Cameron Hnnnnh's Carolyn Is sent from New York to her bach
elor uncle, Joseph Stngg, at tho Corners. Tho reception given her by
her undo is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn Is also chilled by tho stern
demeanor of Aunty Rose, Uncle Joo's housekeeper. Stagg Is dismayed
when ho learns from a lawyer friend of his brother-in-law that Carolyn
has been left practically penniless and consigned to his caro as
guardian.
CHAPTER IV Continued.
Therefore General Bollvnr charged
with outspread wings nnd quivering
fan. Ills eyesight was not good, how
over. He charged the little girl In
stead of tho roistering dog.
Carolyn May, frankly screamed. Had
the angry turkey reached tho little
girl ho would have beaten her down
and perhaps seriously Injured her.
He missed her tho first time, but
turned to charge again. Prlnco barked
loudly, circling around tho bristling
turkey cock, undecided Just bow to get
Into the battle. But Aunty Kose knew
no fear of anything wearing feathers.
"Scat, you brute 1" she cried, and
made a grab for tho turkey, gripping
him with her left hand behind his
head, bearing his long neck downward.
In her other hand she seized a piece
of lath and with It chastised the big
turkey across the haunches with
vigor.
"Oh, don't spank him any more,
Aunty ItoseJ" gasped Carolyn Mny at
last "He must bo sorry."
With a final stroke Aunty Hose al
lowed the big fowl to go and he ran
nway fast enough.
"I'our dog, child, does not know
his manners. If he Is going to stay
here with you ho must learn that fowl
are not to bo chased nor startled."
"Oh. Aunty Kose 1" begged the little
girl, "don't punish Prince I Not not
that way. Please don't 1 Why, he's
never been spanked In his life I He
wouldn't know what It meant Dear
Aunty Rose "
"I shall not beat him, Car'lyn May."
Interrupted Aunty Rose. "But he must
learn his lesson. He must learn that
liberty is not license. Bring him here,
Car'lyn May."
She led the way to an open coop of
laths In the middle of the back yard.
This was a hutch In which she put
broody hens when she wished to break
up their desire to set. She opened
the gate of It and motioned Prince to
enter.
Tho dog looked pleadingly nt his
little mistress' face, then Into the wom
an's stern countenance. Seeing no
reprieve In either, with drooping tall
he slunk Into the cage.
With one hand clutching her frock
over her heart, Carolyn May's big bluo
eyes overflowed.
"It's just as If he was arrested," she
said. "Poor Prlnco! Has he got to
stay there always. Aunty Rose?"
"ne'll stay till he learns his lesson,"
said Mrs. Kennedy grimly, and went
on Into the garden.
Carolyn May sat down close to the
side of the cage, thrust one hand be
tween tho slats and held ono of the
dog's front paws. She had hoped to
go Into the garden to help Aunty Rose
pick peas, but she could not bear to
leave Prince alone.
By and by Mrs. Kennedy camo up
from the garden, her pan heaped with
pods. She looked neither In tho di
rection of the prisoner nor at his little
mistress.
Prince whined and lay down. Ho
had begun to realize now that this was
uo play at all, but punishment Ho
blinked his eyes at Carolyn May and
looked as sorry as ever a dog with
cropped cars and an abbreviated tail
could look.
The peus and potatoes wero cook
ing for dinner when Aunty Roso ap
peared ugaln. There was the little
girl, nil of u dewy sleep, lying on the
grass by the prison pen. Aunty Roso
would have released Prlnco, but,
thougfl ho wagged his stump of u tall
at her and yawned and blinked, sho
hud Mill her doubts regarding a mon
grel' good nature.
Hho could not allow tho child to
sleep there, however ; no, stooping,
plaited up Carolyn May und carried
her ouifortubly into tho house, laying
dor down on the Mlllng-room couch to
limn her u out hi sho supposed,
without uwuUvulne her,
Miiny lUm ciimo uwny softly nnd
flnml (h Jour Ji"'J wlill v "hu JlnUlu'd
getting dinner sho tried to make no
uolso which would awaken the child.
Mr. Stagg came home at noon, quite
as full of business as usual. To tell
tho truth, Mr. Stagg always felt bash
ful In Aunty Rose's presenco; and ho
tried to hide his nflllctlon by conversa
tion. So he talked steadily through
tho meal.
But somewhere about at tho plo
course, It was ho stopped and looked
around curiously.
"Bless me I" he exclaimed, "whero's
Hannah's Car'lyn?"
"Taking a nap," said Aunty Roso
composedly.
"Hum 1 can't tho child get up to her
victuals?" demanded Mr. Stagg. "You
begin serving that young ono sepa
rately and you'll make yourself work,
Aunty Rose."
"Never trouble about that which
doesn't concern you, Joseph Stagg,"
responded his housekeeper rnther
tartly. "Tho Lord has placed tho caro
of Hannah's Car'lyn on you and me
nnd I'll do my share and do It proper."
Mr. Stagg shook his head and lost
Interest In his wedgo of berry pic.
"Thero are Institutions " ho begnn
weakly; but Aunty Roso said quickly:
"Joseph Stagg I I know you for what
you arc other people don't. If tho
neighbors heard you say that they'd
think you were a heathen. Your own
sister's child I"
"Now, you send Tim, the hnckman,
up after mo this afternoon. I've got
to go shopping. Tho child hasn't n
thing to wear but that fancy little
black frock, and she'll ruin that play
ing around. She's got to have frocks
and shoes and another lint all sorts
of things. Seems a shame to dress a
child like her In black It's punish
ment Makes her nflllctlon double, 1
do sny."
"Well, I supposo we've got to flat
ter Custom or Custom will weep,"
growled Mr. Stagg. "But where tho
money's coming from "
"Didn't Cnr'lyn's pa leave her none?"
asked Aunty Rose promptly.
"Well not what you'd call a for
tune," admitted Mr. Stagg slowly.
"Thanks be you'vo got plenty, then.
And If you hnven't I have," said tho
woman in a tone thnt quite closed the
question of finances.
"Which shows mo Just where 1 get
off nt," muttered Joseph Stagg as he
started down tho walk for tho store.
"I knew that young one would be a
nuisance."
Carolyn May, who wns quite used to
taking a nap on tho days tl;nt she did
not go to school, woke up, as bright
as a newly minted dollar, very soon
after her Undo Joe left for tho store.
"I'm awfully sorry I missed him,"
she confided to Aunty Rose when she
danced Into the kitchen. "You sec,
I want to get acquainted with Uncle
Joe just as fast as possible. And he's
nt home so little I guess that It's going
to be hard to do It"
"Oh, Is that so? And is It going to
be hard to get acquainted with mo?"
asked the housekeeper curiously.
"Oh, no!" cried Carolyn Mny, snug
gling up to tho good woman and pat
ting her plump bnro arm. "Why, I'm
getting 'qunlntcd with you fast, Aunty
Rose I You heard mo say my prayers
nnd when you luld mo down on tho
couch Just now you kissed me." ,
Aunty Rose actually blushed. "There,
there, child!" sho exclulmcd. "You're
too noticing. Eat your dinner, that
I've saved warm for you."
"Isn't Prlnco to hnvo any dinner,
Aunty Roso?" united tho Ilttlo girl.
"You may let him out, If you wish,
ufter you hnvo had your dinner. You
cun feed him under tho tree."
Carolyn May was very much excited
ubout un hour later when a rusty
closed hack drow up to tho front gate
of tho Htngg place and stopped.
An old man with a squnro-cut chin
whisker nnd clothing and hut it rusty
iih tho hack Itself held Iho reins over
the bony buck of tho borne (but drow
tho unci cut tqulpugo,
"I wiy, youiiK'ui, ain't you out o' yur
ImlllwkkV" queried Tim, (ho huckiiiaii,
Oopxrtflbl, 1911, by Dodd, Ue&d A OompMiy. In
staring at tho Ilttlo girl In tho Stogg
yard.
Carolyn May stood up quickly and
tried to look over her shoulder nnd
down her bnck. It was hard to got
all thoso buttons buttoned straight
"I d't know," sho sold, perturbed.
'Ts It show?"
"Huh?" grunted Tim. "Does what
show?"
"What you snld," said Carolyn Mny
accusingly. 'I don't bellovo It does."
"Hoy I" chuckled tho buck driver
suddenly. "I meant, do you 'low Mrs.
Kennedy knows you're playing In her
front yard?"
"Aunty Roso? Why, of coursol"
Carolyn Mny declared. "Don't you
know I llvo hero?"
"Llvo hero? Oct out I" exclaimed
tho surprised hackman.
"Yes, sir. And Prlnco too. With my
Undo Joo nnd Aunty Rose."
"Pitcher of George Washington t"
ejaculated Tim. "You don't mean Joo
Stagg's taken a young-'un to board?"
"Uo'8 my guardian," said tho Ilttlo
girl primly.
Aunty Roso appeared. Sho woro n
close bonnet, trimmed very plnluly,
nnd carried a parasol of drab silk.
Aunty Roso climbed Into the creaky
old vehicle.
"Are you going to be gone long?"
asked Carolyn May politely.
"Not more than two hours, child."
snld tho housekeeper. "Nobody will
bother you here "
"Not while that dog's with her, 1
reckon," put In Tim, the hnckman.
"Mny I como down the road to meet
you, Aunty Rose?" asked tho Ilttlo
girl. "I know tho way to Uncle Joo's
store."
"I don't know any reason why you
can't como to meet me," replied Mrs.
He Charged tha Little OTrt Instead of
the Roistering Dog.
Kennedy. "Anyway, you can como
along tho road as far as tho first
house. You know that Ono?"
"Yes, ma'am. Mr. Porlow's," said
Carolyn Mny.
Carolyn Mny went bnck Into tho
yard nnd snt on tho front-porch steps
nnd Prince, yuwnlng unhappily, curled
down nt her feet Thero did not
seem to bo much to do nt this placo.
She had tlmo now, hnd Carolyn May,
to cotnpuro Tho Corners with tho busy
Harlem streets with which sho had
been famlllur all her life.
LANDMARK IN CITY OF PENN
Many Philadelphia Citizens Would
Deeply Regret the Passing of
Famous Old Alehouse.
Some Phlladelphlans of sentimental
nnd convivial turn nro disposed to re
gard tho possible advent of prohibi
tion with gloomy mien, if for no other
reason than becauso It would mean
tho passing of tho Old Alo House, on
Drury street near Thirteenth.
It Is not ago that gives flavor to tho
Old Alo House, Tho legend on the
rusty signboard which states that It
was established by Mary McOIIInn In
1870 does not count for much In n
city where many taverns can trace a
direct llneago from tho days of Penn,
It Is rather tho garment of tradition
with which tho old taproom has cov
ered Itself,
It was thero that this and thnt
heavyweight signed articles for un Im
mortal bout, It wns thero thnt poll
lli'liinx hutched n celebrated deal
about which nuwspiiper crlllorlalH nr
Mill being written mid public uvumlw
"Goodness mol" thought Carolyn
May, stnrtlud by her own liMiglimtlon,
"supposo nil tho folks In all these
houses nround hero wero dcndl"
They might hnvo been for nil tho
human noises sho heard.
"Goodness mot" sho snld ngnln, and
thts tlmo sho Jumped up, startling
Prlnco from his nap. "Maybu thero
Is n spoil cast over nil this place," nlio
went on, "Lot's go and sco If wo can
find somebody Hint's nllve."
They went out of tho ynrd togothor
and took tho dusty road toward tho
town.
They Boon enmo In sight of tho Par
low house nnd enrpcuter shop.
"Wo can't go beyond thnt," snld
Carolyn May. "Aunty Hoso told us
not to. And Undo Joo says tho carpenter-man
Isn't n pleasant man."
Sho looked wistfully at tho prem
ises. Tho cottage seemed quite as
much under tho "spell" as had been
thoso dwellings nt Tho Cornors. Hut
from tho shop camo tho sound of a
piano shrieking over a long board.
"Oh, Prlncoy I" gasped Carolyn May.
"I b'llovo -he's making long, curly
shavings I"
If thero wns ono thing Carolyn May
adored It wor curls.
Suddenly Mr. Jedldlah Pnrlow looked
up nnd snw tho wistful, dust-streaked
face under the black lint brim nnd
abovo tho black frock. Ho stared at
her for fully a minute, pulsing the
piano over his work. Then ho put It
down and camo to tho tloor of tho
shop.
"You're Hnnnnh Stngg's Ilttlo girl,
aren't you?" ho united.
"Yea, sir," sho said, nnd sighed.
Dear me, ho knew who sho wns right
nway I Thero would not bo any chance
of her getting n suit of long curls.
"You'vo como hero to live, have
you?" snld Mr. Purlow slowly.
"Yes, sir. You see, my pnpn nnd
mamma wero lost at sea with the
Duuravcu. It was n mistake, I guess,"
sighed tho Ilttlo girl, "for they weren't
lighting anybody. Rut the Dunravcn
got In tho wny of sotno ships that wero
fighting, In u placo called the Medi
terranean ocean, and tho Dunravcn
wns sunk, and only n few folks wero
saved from It. My papa and mnintun
weren't saved."
Carolyn learns why her uncle
and Amanda Parlow are now
o "mad" that they do not (peak
as they pas each other by.
Read all about It In tho next
Installment
(TO HE CONTINUHU.)
MOTHERS YIELD TO SCIENCE
Cradle and Crooning Song Both Things
of the Past Baby Must No
Longer Be Rocked.
Tho crndlo and the crooning song
hnvo gone. Today science says thnt
no mother must rock her hnby, either
In cradle or In rocking chair. True,
the 'mother mny cudtllo her cherub
while sitting, und tho occupation,
therefore, whllo still sedentary, Is
also ttatlonary.
Ono ventures much when ho takes
Issuo with science. Nevertheless, there
were cradles In thoso days when the
earth grew glunts. The men of Hunk
er Hill nnd of Ilrnndywlua till wero
rocked to sleep In Infancy; so Wero
tho men of Luudy's Lnno and of New
Orleans, und likewise, the men of Clin
pultepec, Htiena Vista, Gettysburg nnd
Peachtrco Creek. Sturdy soldiers they
made, and although In this dny It per
haps ought not to bo snld, thero nro
none sturdier fighting nnywhere, oven
though these Intter-day warriors wero
uncrudlcd and uncrooncd.
Sho Had Grown Old.
Frederick's mother wns showing him
n picture Just sent from his cousin, n
young woman whom ho had not seen
since sho wns a young girl. "Why,
mother," exclaimed Frederick, "Cous
in Elizabeth Is old enough to wear
hulrplns, Isn't she?"
still being made. It was thero that
many u young genius found tho Inspi
ration which changed him from a bo
hcmlan hack to a successful author.
Over It all "Mother" McQlllan pro
sided with n dlsclpllno nt onco gentle
nnd stern. Tho brawls wero rare.
Tho Old Alo House Is no less n land
mark than a sight. Tho visitor is usu
ally taken thero In tho curly after
noon, and whllo ho sips tho alo from
his mug tho attentlvo guldo recounts
tho history, adding a lino or two from
personal reminiscences. Tho Alo Houso
seems to fit nil moods nnd to attract n
variety of minds. It Is furnished In
mission wood aftor tho fashion of tho
English Inns of tho eighteenth cen
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tit utmosphcro has been made.
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