Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-06-17
About q Good-for-Nothing.
ny GAIL HAMILTON.

Mr. DEAR LITTLE GIRLS Now you great
girls. you run away l don't want you.-
You 90 and mend your stockings, or wash
the dishes, or mind the baby, or learn
your geography lesson, or make your
dolls bonnet | want you little speeks OF
girls, that are not good for anything in
the world-that 90 to bed in the middle
of the day, and carry your dolls hanging
by the left leg-you sweet little darlings,
that nobody ever writes for, because no
body thinks you understand anything
You do understands you do and you
are twice as cunning as you will be when
you grow up into Emerson's Arithmetic,
and b-a. ba, k-e-r, ker, baker. When |
was little, they used to say if you gave
rum to kittens, they never would grow up
into cats. Couldn't you just ask your
mother if she couldn't give you a quart
or so of rum, so that you could always
stay Just where you are now?
+ want to tell you about a little girl
whose name is-well, make believe it Is
Sunny. She is Just your age, and a triAe
larger than your little finger. She is just
like YOU, too-good- d-for-nothing. Her
feet can Just trot around the house, and
her hands-O, those hands what mis-
chief they can dol They tear the books
and the paper; they scratch the bureaus,
and the chairs. and the tables they
take little buvver's" neck, and hug him
fast: and they tumble away down into
my pocket when l say they may: and
they pick up pins and pencils-o, yes
they are getting to be very nice pair of
hands; but see what they did one day:
Good-for- nothing awoke in the morning,
and there was nothing in the room, but
her own self Then she bobbed up with her
little shining, head, and looking around.
The sun was streaming into the room,
and Sunny felt so happy, that she could
not sit still, and she went turbling all
around her crib, and laughing, and say
ing. 100000 -o-o-o-ow for that was all
her good-for-nothing tongue could say
then the specks of hands went to work
Just as hard as they could, and pulled and
tugged till they got the pillows and all
the crib clothes on the floor. Then she
began to rock, and rock and by-and-by
over went the crib. and ROLL bump
pump over went Sunny on the floor
tool
What did she do then? l wasn't
there, but think it would be like her to |
look little sober for two seconds, till she |
found out where she was, and then lie on /
her back, and kick up her fat legs for
about two minutes, and then have no
doubt she pranced about famously over
the clothes and pillows, and into the |
and bureau-drawerS. One 1
thing she certainly did ; for when MAN.
ma went up stairs to see if her little girl
was awake, the door was locked, and she
could not get in. Of course Sunny's good
for-nothing little hands had been playing
with the key, and stumbled into locking
it, because nobody else was in the room.
Of course the good-for-nothing hands did
not know how to unlock it; and what
was to be done.
Sunny % called mamma.
'Coo-o-o-o-o-o-o," answered Sunny but
that would not open the door.
Women, you know, never do anything
alone; so Sunny's mamma went out into
The barn, and told Sunny's papa; and he
ooked and smiled, and ran his fingers
through his hair, and then he brought a
adder. and set the bottom of it right
lown in the flower bed, and the top of it
lgainst Sunny's prison.
"Oh. what is this?" cried the daisies
md the daffodils, as the great ladder
anne digging into them.
Poor little daisies and dafiies !" | sup
,ose Sunny's papa said or would have
aid. if he heard them, Il am very sorry {
or you; but then, you know, Sunny
must be washed and have her breakfast.
So he stuck the ladder firm into the
Iaisy-bed, and went up to the top of it. !
unny was very much surprised to see her I
l. Window and I
with all her might
hen papa took out his knife, and began {
o chip off the putty from one of the
,anes of glass. He thought that If he j
ould get one pane out, window, and $
hen he could open the window, o
nd then he could step in and open J.
he door. But Sunny stood so close to b
he window, and her blue eyes opened so a
ide he was afraid the putty would fly in
D them. When he told her to go away,
he either did not hear or did not under
and and so mamma took several Jumps
f sugar from the sugar-bowl, and called ?
, Sunny through the key-hole of the d
oor-
Little Sunny, do you want some can 81
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"Coo-o-o-o-o-o," answered Sunny h
hat meant "Yes mamma" and Sunny's Il
1ecks of feet trotted to the door, and a
Iamma broke the sugar into tiny pieces, a
nd poked them through the key-hole d
ith darning-needle, and Sunny's good o.
hands picked them off the 3
Dor when they fell; and so the little Il
INK was kept away from the window, hi
I'd papa opened it, and they all walked c.
'Coo-o-o-o-o-o," laughed Sunny, not car &C
g bit for all the trouble; but such al
ondition as the room was in ol
The last 1 heard of Sunny, she was al
nging, loud enough to lead a regiment W
John B'own buddy lies a mo-o-o-o- su
ling in gave. hi
Cory, CORY, hallelujah ~ n(
Goodnight, little good-for-nothing.- w
on are not the salt of the earth but ca