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Miss Maise, feeling that she would be setting a poor example in remaining at home herself, determined at least to attempt the instruction of the children in their Sunday-school lesson. Immediately then after the breakfast dishes were washed she called them into the living room. Miss Hetty did not know just how to begin.
There for the first time did he realize all that the children of the circus had done for the parish. His heart was gladdened when he saw an old lady of the Grey "clan" smiling sweetly as she accepted Alois Maise's proffer of her little gilt-edge hymnbook. He smiled to himself as Hetty Maise made room for Kitty Farwell when the latter, arriving late, found her own pew occupied.
Ashur could no more turn over the money than could Robert, and Lisbeth is so tied up that he is out of the question. As a matter of fact the Greys would be up against it." "Have you warned Kitty?" asked Jeoffrey Maise, turning to Miss Hetty. "Not yet. But I shall warn her, and give her as much time as the law allows." "Good for you!" "Hetty!" Eldon's voice held a note of cold reproach.
To show you how both families feel toward those children I need mention only that Eldon Maise and Robert Grey, almost in one breath, made the motion that we have children's services on Christmas Eve this year. You must hurry home for the event."
The common food of the people was the chestnut, and to the great majority of them even the coarsest rye-bread was a luxury that they had never tasted. Maise and buckwheat were their chief cereals, and these, together with a coarse radish, took up hundreds of acres that might under a happier system have produced fine wheat and nourished fruit-trees.
Jeoffrey Maise was the twin brother of the deceased owner of the famous pig and it was he who had always maintained the bloodless but bitter feud with the greatest fervor. It was always his eloquence and burning hatred that rekindled the flame when the blaze of enmity showed any signs of abating.
He's the only boy I have all I have and I suppose I've spoiled him." "When shall I send the children, Rev. Smith?" asked Miss Maise. "Tomorrow, or the next day," was the prompt reply. "This is mid-August. We can't begin too soon." Tuesday afternoon the children wended their way to the parsonage.
But when news of the fight reached the ears of the teacher, the ruler descended on Grey and Maise alike, while Pearl wide-eyed, wept for both and made the lads shake hands before she would speak to either of them. When Esther Tull of the Grey "camp" furtively pushed Ruth Hayton's lunchbox out of the open window, Pearl shared her own lunch with her cousin Ruth.
Jim Maise had never received the "larnin" of which the younger members of the family boasted, but he had what he himself fondly called "hoss sense." At any rate he was always listened to attentively as befitted an eldest son. "Wall," he drawled, "I reckon this here post-office affair don't come too late for us to get even with some of the things the Greys have done to us.
The most fun of all, however, was to get Miss Hetty's present into the house and stow it safely away, which they finally accomplished when Miss Hetty happened to discover that there were some things which had to be attended to in the attic. But best of all was the joy of helping Zeke Grey and Emil Maise cut down the enormous tree for the church.
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