A"STOEr OF TEACUPS.
There U almost always In every fun
ny torn one thing that ia it apasial
pride. In yours it ma; be a ohotoe bit
of painting; in mine, let ma whisper,
it i a ran old book with illuminated
covers, aud in the Jenniofr family it
island bas been ever silim I have knowa
them, a delicate set of bio India
china.
The Jennings live is a roomy, old
fashioned farmhouse, with a broad
porch and hiph pillar, fronting on :
the lake. It waa thin that invested
their taking summer boarders. Mr.
and Mr. Brlarley discovered them
first and knocked at the door and
begged to be taken in, and lie and
Mrs. Jennings hadntthe heart to aend
them away. Kent year they told thei
friends, and I waa on of them, and all
their friends told their friends, until '
now every anmmerthe Jennings house
is so crowded that the gentlemen talk
about hanging themselves up in trees
for the night, and some of them hare
gone so far as as hang themselves
np in hammocks oat on the broad
veranda.
Although Mrs. Jennings is proud of
her blue china she does not flaunt it
before the eyea of her less tortnuata
boarders, whether for fear of exciting
their envy or that absent-minded Hr. .
Van Duyne, the artist, should tip over
his tea and knock off the handle of hia
cup, or that Mary in the .kitchen
should crack a plate with too hot
water, I do not know. Certain it ia
that it is only on fittingly rare occa
sions that the rare ehina ia placed at
our service.
The first time I saw it was on Mrs.
Briarley's birthday. When the bell
rang for tea, and we all came rushing
In from the orchard, tha rucks down
by the lake and the hammocks on the
veranda, every boarder stopped short
and gased with delight upon the white
doth, and the dainty, aristocratic
bine and whits china with its flaring
cups, deep saucers and flat little
plates Mrs. Briarley looked pleased
as a girl, and Dolly, who is her seven-yesr-olu
daughter, seized. Mr. Van
Duyne by both hands and they pro
ceeded to execute some sort of wild
fantastic dance across the whole length
.of the dining-room.
1 really don't know what would have
become of Mr. Van Duyne if it hadn't
been for Dolly. It is my honest opinion
that he would have starved to death.
He never, under any circumstaucee.
beard the ball he was always too
deeply engrossed in "A Study of the
Bocks," or 'The Coming Twilight."
Dolly had constituted him her special
charge, and at the first sound of the
tea be 11 she started forth to hunt him
up Dolly was a general favorite with
all of us. and the oniy child about. I
used to wonder sometimes if suedidn't
get lonesome, but aha seemed very
well content with us grown-up folks,
and at times would take her dolls and
go vS by herself to her "playhouse,"
she called it, in a field somewhere ad
joining the orchard. Mrs. Jennings
frequently gave her cake and cookies
..for tea parties to be held with her
dolls in her "playhouse." Mr. Van
Duyne was, I think, the only "real
live" person who had ever, been in
vited to attend. Be told me when be
came back that he meant to "moke a
picture of it." But, dear me! if Mr.
Van Duyne had painted all the pic
tures he meant to paint, or, for that
matter, finished all those he began.
there would have been sufficient,- to
furnish an art gallery.
But, pictures or no pictures, he and
Dolly were the bent of iriauds, and tha
night of Mrs, Briarley birthday vied
' with each other in then lavish admir-
. ation of the' blueliina tea set.
Either there were no birih.teya after
' tbatornooneof so much importance
as Mrs. Briarley, for oni.i arv china
sufficed each roeaL Tbea i:r. ttriarloy
was suddenly ealled home ou business,
and Mrs. Briarley and Dolly went with
him.
It was rather lonesome after thia,
and everything moved along in a very
calm, uneventful sort of way until the
day of my birthday. I don't know
how .in the world 'rthey found out
that it was my birthday, nn
less Mr. Van Duyne saw it in Dolly's
"birthday, book.'' But, S3 1 :ouid out
afterwan:. 'Mr.' Jconin :b and been
planning a surprise for me. Tajre waa
a birthday cake baked for me. and the
blue china was to appear in iuv honor
until -bat see here, I m tromg to tell
it to you just as it came to me.
1 was sitting on the veranda in the
hammock, feeling pretty hungry, for
it was just half an hour before tea
time, when Mrs. Jennings dime bast
ling out the front door, looking vory
hot and worried, and sank down in the
chair at my side. "
"Miss Wright," she exclaimed, "what
do yon suppose lias become of four of
my bine china cups?"
"Four of your blue china cops!" I
echoed, staring at her. "Can't you
find them!"
. "So 1 can'!," pheanswered,inavolce
that.eonudf.-d us if she was just ready
to cry.
"Oh, well," never mind," 1 said
soothingly, "the girl must have mis
placed them." . .
, "Do you think so?" she asked, bright
ening up a little, and then in a tone of
'despair: "Hut i're .looked just about
.. everywhere.. I've been hunting for
straight hour." . t
"Let tne d and help ynu." I said,
extria.- -vi clf from tli- .mmoek.
. And-wt . .together e-Mghed
through ,th? asms, Aotsi V ,,, every
corner of Uie. pamry, a.iu ;n short
'every spot in' the- house w-:re -there
'-was -a- pobfliuhity 'or iui.'. nihility
of' Undine, fons- .blue chuia lea
,cnps, . Jlut ,Oj:r i IT Jrt , viv of .no
'avail- Poor Jri Jem ::is rung the
beU'ftjr'wa wait tlra ia her eyes, and
.-the blue cbina .va nut liraujj'ut forth
in my honor, for the dear lady said
she "wnt-n't gqing to risk losing the
root of it." "
Hr. Van Duma re turned to the elty
.. ..the next nurmus, currying with his
U.s easel, I s (.msttea, bis DuoiwuW
"' irauita ."! uru-ittca taa lue as
rJWia' snsjvt Wffm EWfe
Jennings -and I turned our attentiea
to searching the pantry and china
closet for the seventh or eighth time,
bnt nothing same of It,
"Yon dunjt suppose that Miss Lee
AinaworavlKuld have carried them
off for her oetleetionf" Mrs, Jennings
naked ma.
"Oh, my, no!" I answered, horrified
at tha idea. "She's from one of the
beat families In Philadelphia, and, any
way, why would she take tour teacups
and not anyteyig else?"
"I dont know, I'm sure," Mrs, Jen-
n inga said, meekly; "bnt folks do get
crsxy over china tney u ao most
anything sometimes,"
When the day came lor ma to leave
lira. Jennings, I bade her good-by
and expressed the hope that her nine
ehina enpa might be found.
But they never wui ne, miss
Wright," aha said, gloomily. "I
haven't any hops of them left," and
Farmer Jennings, who waa waiting in
the boggy to take me to the station,
looked down upon oa ancoangingiy
and said:
Well well, wife, I wouldn't give up
a hoping, for .thing a sometimes does
happen in the moat unexpected way."
And they do, as Mrs. Jennings will
testify now. I didn't hear about it
until the next summer. Mrs. Jennings
aaid: "They meant to write me, but
they never got at It"
1 had hardly alighted at their door,
and Mra. Jennings still waa holding
any hand m cardial welcome, when aha
exclaimed, triumphantly:
"Well, I found them."
"The ehina teacups? Ton idid
where?" I asked breathlessly.
Til show you, she said, and she led
ass Into the parlor up to a large, hand
somely framed picture on the wall 1
looked at it In wonder. Dolly Briar
ley waa looking on at me from the
canvas with her dark, mischief-loving
eyea. It waa a beautiful spot, with
over hanging trees, and festoons of cle
matis and wild grapevine, and under
neath toe trees in striking eontust to
tha deep graen of tha grass, a white
cloth was laid, and on the cloth did
not my ayes deceive me? no, then
unmistakably Mra. Jennings'
flaring little blue china teacups! There
were also cookies and tarts and a little
pie in tha way of viands, and to par
take of the feasts wen Dolly's four
dolls, propped bolt upright on each
side of tha cloth.
Mrs. Jennings and I stared at each
other for a moment, and then burst
out laughing. At last Mra. Jennings
wiped her eyes and endeavored to stifle
her peals of merriment.
"It was that Mr. Van Duyne," aha
aaid. "Ton remember how wild he
waa over that ehina act tha night of
Mra. Briarley's birthday?'
"Tea," I answered, "and he told me
once he meant to make a picture
Dolly a playhouse, but I never thought
that ha would."
"Just let me tell you all about it,'
continued Mrs. Jennings. "After you
want away it went along, 1 guess, two
months anyhow it waa getting quite
coldish weather. -One night after the
milking and the chorea were dona. Mr.
Jennings drove op -to the teatero
get the mall, and to have the oilcan
filled, and at the post office they told
him that the man over to the express
office left word for him to call for a
package. Well, be went over and got
it, and it was such a big, queer peek
age, and he not having seat for any
thing anywhere, he drove home fast
to see what it waa, and where it waa
from. Be tied the hone eat to the
hitehing-post and came right, is
with it. ... . ' .,- 'J.r
'I hurried up and got tha shears,
and Joslab out with his jackknife and
we got it open and the papers off from
around it, and it was a picture. And
we set it upon the dining-room table
and Josiah held the lamp up over my
sbonlder and we just looked at It
There was Mr. Van Dnyne'a card
stuck in one side of the frame, but 1
didn't aae that at all at first I was
looking at the -picture, and Josiah
didn't any a word, lor he waa looking
at the picture too. . Then I gasped out:
"'Josiah! Josiah! Aren't those my
teacups ?'
"And Josiah looked closer and aaid:
I believe on my soul tney are, Emily!'
" 'Well, what sre they doing there?
and where are they, anyway? I don't
understand anything about it Dolly
Briarley, nor the teacups, nor any
thing else.' I
"And Josiah kept on looking with
a kind of puzzled look on hia face as if
he was a-studying out something.
Then all of a sudden it all cleared up
and he exclaimed; " : '
"Why, yes, mother, It's that south
lot adjoining the orchard. You know
we always called it the woodlot until
a few years ago when I tried to clear
It off. I used to see Dolly going off
down in that direction aoipetimea.'
"And then it all flashed over me and
I aaidi 'Tea, that's probably where
she had her playhouse, Bite was al
ways teasing- me to make her little
pies and for cookies to take down
there. And Mr. Van Duyne he proba
bly took the teacups down there to
paint this picture and then went and
forgot all about them.'
"'Tea, it would certainly be just like
him,' Josiah said
."By and by I said: 'Josiah, do you
suppose you could find that place tuftae
dark? . ,.- ,.., i
"Be looked at me kind of surprised,
and half grinned. j-
"Well, I don't carer I said. It would
be aueh a weight off my mind to find
those tcat-ups,'1 .' "
"woeieu laughed a good deal, but he
got oat tne lantern and lighted H and
we started down across the orchard to
the south lot Josiah didn't have a bit
of trouble in finding the easovapot, i
"And there", sure euougU, were the
teacups, coated with dirt and partly
filled with dead leaves, but just, as
good as they wen the last time saw
them after ) got them annas and
washed them up and put.tnem no Jin
tasvchlna closet with the net
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ig represented by the picture
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