The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-04-29
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u Mems Tighls N0naane rights! Itlirol
down tlle gauntlet for children rig6l1 III
liitsIs 81 Fanny Ferns about :talin notes
land sEs'll "print en- Toe, II you don
your dues. She has seen pu seated By
pleasant window, il railroad caf. with you
bright eyes dancing with delight, at III
Ifprospecl of al the pretlY shiings you are 90
ling 70 see, fo1eibly elected By some over
grown Napoleon, Who fancied your place
and thought i Lis wisdom that childrel
had no taste Ios anything but sugar candy
Fanny Fern knew better shew knew tha
the pretty trees, and flowers. and brigh
bluesk gave your soul thrill of delight
though you could not tell why; and she
knew that great big man soul was grea
deal smaller than yours, to sit there and
read a stupid political papel when SUCH
glowing landscape was before him, that he
might have. feasted his eyes upon. And
She longed to wipe away the big tear you
didn't dare to let fall; and she understood
haw q little girl orboy that didn'tget !
ride cry day II the year, should not be
able toswallow that great big lump 10 lie
throat. as he or she sat jammed down u a
daik crowded corner of the car, instead Of
setting by That pleasant window.
Yes. and Fanny hasseen you sometimes,
when you've been mnffled up TO the tip Of
your little nose in woollen wrappers, in a
elose, crowded church, nodding Your little
drowsy heads. and keeping time to the sixth
lie and seventh he Of some pompous theolo-
gian. whose preaching would have been
high Dutch to you, had you been awake. !
And she mas seen you setting like little
in badly-yentinlated school
Ie6In, with your nervous little. teas at just
Such an angle, fOr hours; under the tuition
of Miss. Nancy Nipper, who didnst care .
rush-light whether yourspine wassas crook
ed as the letter or not. if the Great Mo-
gul Committee. who marched in once a
month to make the grand tour, voted her
a model school-md
Yes, and that amt all She has seenyou
sent off to bed, just at the witching hour Of
when some entertaining guest
was in the midst Of a delightful story, that
you. poor. miserable little pitcher, vas
doomed never to hear the end of Yes.
and she has seen s.the line and plummet"
aid to you so rigidly, that you were driven
% deceit and evasion; and then seen youl
punished for the very sin your tormentors
helped yop to commit And she has seen
rour ears boxed just as hard for tearing
hole in your best pinafore, or breaking
,hina cup, as fortelling as big lie as An
.nias and Saphira did.
And when, by patient labor. you had
cared an edifce of tiny blocks (fairer in its
proportions to your infantile
,ye than any palace in ancient Rome J she
las seen it rnthlessly kicked into SKATER
q ruin By somebody in the house whose.
Inner hadn't digested.
Never mind. IMisl Z s0as mother to az
i y0sAt Such glorious times as we wed
layel Reading pretty books that had no
Oag sOOrds in .'em: going to school where
'ou could sneeze without getting rap on |
be head for not asking leave FIRST; and go
ng "a church Oh The quiet, blessed Sabbath.
shere the minister, like the dear Savior.
ometimes remembered t. take little chill
Iren in his arms, and bless. them"
Then if you asked me question,
wouldn't pretend not to hear, or Iazily tel
'ou. didn't know, or turn you of with
ONE fabulous evasion. for your memory 70
hew for cud till you were old enough 10
ee how you had been fooled. And I'd
lafer wear such fashionable gown that
'ou couldn't climb On my lap whenever the
It.fook you, or refuse 10 kiss you for fear
'ou'd ruffie nv cur 81 my collar Or my
empernot q bit Of III And then you
hould pay ne with your merry laugh and
our little confding hand Sid ever trusting
/ ID mine.
Oil Z tell Jon, M little pets, Fanny is
ieA ol din and strife and envy ana unchari.
ableness. and ia rather 81 ten Thousand,
~ il 4 little world luII Of fresh. guiltIess.
owing little children, than il this great nIi
cum full ofsuoh dssl, dssslg, sOiiksrsd hsatls,