SUSPENSE "It doesn't, somehow, seem natural," said the cooper, as he took his seat at the tea table, "to sit down without Ida.

It seems as if half the family were gone." "Just what I've said to myself twenty times to-day," remarked his wife.
"Nobody can tell how much a child is to them till they lose it." "Not lose it," corrected Jack.
"I didn't mean to say that." "When you used that word, mother, it made me feel just as if Ida wasn't coming back." "I don't know why it is," said Mrs.Harding, thoughtfully, "but I've had that same feeling several times today.

I've felt just as if something or other would happen to prevent Ida's coming back." "That is only because she's never been away before," said the cooper, cheerfully.

"It isn't best to borrow trouble, Martha; we shall have enough of it without." "You never said a truer word, brother," said Rachel, mournfully.

"Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.