The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-07-18

Edward Edward Lewis-come
here you little scamp, this way, child,
I'm in the Kitchen"
"What you want, auntie Y
Want why | want to scrub you
mp. What Go you think I wanted !?
Don't I always wash you after dinner ?
There, now, see how long it viii be
before you're all smut again Here,
come up into the bedroom now and
have on some clean clothes.
"Be we going out, auntie z"
BE we going out No, but I'm
going to have company, and if you
don't behave yourself this afternoon,
I'll shut you up in the front chamber,
and let the sweep come down the
chimney after You"
80, Til be good, viii, auntie, and
be began to cry
Hush mp that numbering. Qnick,
or I'll take my stick. See your face,
now, and I have just washed it, I
wonder if there is another such child
in the world. IF it wasn't that your
mother was my sister, I'd see you in
Flanders before I'd bother myself with
YOU" She ought to have said in
stead, if it wasn't that I hope your
father viii be my husband"
"There; now see how long yon'n
Keep clean "
"What may I do, auntie ~
Sit down and behave yourself, if
you can.
There" seating him in chair
behind the table, see if you can sit
still minute"
he did, just about a minute, which
is as long as a child of his tempera-
ment possibly can. Then he began to
fdget, and finally watching his oppor-
tunity, when her back was turned, he
slyly took the stopple out of her CO.
logne bottle and lifted the pretty vase
like thing 10 his nostrils. It was of
Bohemian glass, fragile as April ice,
and in trying to put it down again in
its exact place, it slipped from his tiny
fingers and went with crash upon the
carpet.
What under the SUM- but the
sentence was never finished, for catch-
ing sight Of the broken bottle, she ran
hastily to him, dragged him from the
chair, boxed his ears soundly, shook.
him half a dozen times, and then push
ed him into the next room, the dread
ed front chamber, telling him he'd stay
there till night now, she guessed. little
truant that he was. If he cried or
made the least bit Of noise, she'd come
up and skin him alive, she would. It
was hard enough to have TO waste her
time and strength on him. as she did
every day Of her life, without having
every thing in the world she had de-
stroyed in the bargain. And slam
ming too the door, she proceeded with
a very flushed face to arrange those
| glossy braids, which Mr.. Lewis said
sometimes reminded him so much of
Mary's, little dreaming that the head
they covered was frosted with winters.
Poor Eddie did cry, in spite of his
aupt's threats. How could he help it.
when his little soft tiny ears smarted
so keenly. Miss Symond's hand was
no delicate affair, bat broad and bony,
and it stung the live and quivering
flesh as though it had been fayed with
an oaken single. But by and by the
| pain lessened, and the tears dried up,
and then be set himself about finding
something to do. But there was little
! in that formal spare chamber to attract
/ him. He looked it over and over
again, and then climbing on to a chair,
crossed his hands on bis knees and
thought he would be good until tea
time.
But it was tedious work, being good
all alone there, and he soon slipped
down again and walked on tip-toe
over the room. Noticing that the
| door that led into the hall was unlatch-
ed, he yentured to pull it open BY de-
grees, though, and then TRUSTING his
curly head out he listened The hum
/ Of female voices stole up the stairway.
He knew the company had come and
were in The parlors
Poor child tt was very hard to
stay there all alone when they were
, having such good time down stairs.
he thought he'd just go out q little
} way and try and hear what they were
! saying. twas only the first step that
cost, for though he took that tinlidly
T and looked the while wildly about him,
= ~
he was soon re-assufed and ventured
to descend the stairway. His head
, auttered as be stood on the last step
and heard his aunt, he's the hardest
child to manage ever saw. No one
can take minutes comfort with him.
tt Ihadn't had him shut up, the whole
J house would have been an uproar by
/ this time. I"
] Won't be try to get out y asked
/ q lady.