Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-11-13
III o ME DUCA III o N.
A STORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE.

"Come, Kitty, you must stir about lively
to-day; there's baking to do, the front to
clean, and dinner to get besides host of
other things; and after alPs done, l want
you to take the children to the square for
a couple of hours this afternoon"
"Yes ma'am, I'll try to get through in
time, though l don't feel quite as smart as
common this morning, as was up SO late
last night ironing"
Nov, Kitty" said Mrs. Makedoo,
"that's the very time to work when you
don't feel like it; make that rule through
life and you will always find yourself doing
something you don't like to; it will be such
a satisfaction to you 10 know how much
you can accomplish in that way"
"The dear knows" said Kitty, "Ive had
to practice that hard rule from necessity
long enough; but what shall l do about
bringing down the breakfast tray, as Miss
Araminta has not yet breakiasted?"
$50 she hasn't, Kitty, and guess may
as well run up and wake her now, as It's ten
ten o'clock Poor thing, she came home
so late last night from the party that told
her to sleep as long as she could this morn
ing; / really wonder the dear girl ever gets
we'll rested; I'll 60 and see if she wants her
coffee and toast in her ROOM" and with
these remarks the doating mother ascends
the staircase on her errand of inquiry.
In the meanwhile, Kitty makes loud and
impatient music with her pots and kettles,
and thus soliloquises:
"Yes, baking to do, dinner to get, the
front to clean; it's all mighty easy talking;
then when my fine lady gets up, SHE'S got to
be waited on; very likely she'll send me on
some errand to the milliner's, and when l
come back she'll want dress pressed in a
minute to walk out in. yes, Kitty can do
it, its nothing for Kitty but guess if she
had Kittys weak back and tired feet, she'c
lay week and send Kitty for the Doc
kitty" screamed the mistress at the tor
of her voice at the head of the stairs.
MAN."
, "Are there any eggs in the housed"
mo man; Qhere it is again. now jus
wonder what they want with eggs this tint
! of day.)"
: "Step out somewhere, Kitty, and buy t
t few; Araminta thinks she could eat one oil
her toast"
; Eyes nam; but how can leave tn
q bread that's just ready to bake?"
r "Oh! be right quick, Kitty, and the brea'
!. wont suffer-"
J. Away went the distracted housemaid 70
n the eggs, and when she returned, sh
' cooked one and took it up to the young Ia
If dy's room, where she had the satisfaction
1t hearing from that individual that it was'r
st half done, and more that she had waite
"a so long that her appetite was all gone, an
:, she could not bear the sight of it.
I'd Well, after much labor, the work WI
> pretty we'll through, and dinner served
10 the usual hour. Araminta managed, vii
n the help of her mother, to dress herself, ar
" thereby was enabled to make her appea
he ance in the dining room with her hea'
'ir blue eyes and dress TO match, about the tin
40 of her fathers entrance; her appetite beiI
rs rs unusually good. she contrived TO smell
rs bit of roast beef, and succeeded in eatil
n, three Lima beans, after gracefully TAXI
the skin off of each one.
he Spa" said she, very languidly, Il hea
~. some one at the party last night speaking
- a delightful ghost story-Hamlet. belle
is the name of the man that saw the spe