The Shasta courier., 1864-06-04
About a . Good for Nothing"

| VI DEAR UlkLS .-NbW, Nou = cdb
girls. run away; don't want YOU. You go
and mend yanl stockings, or wash the disnes.
or mind the baby. or learn your geography
| lessons. or make your dolls bonnet. | want
YOU little specks of girls that are not good for
ANYTHING in the world-that go to bed in the
middle of the day. and carry your dolls dang
ling by the left leg-vou sweet little darings
that nobody writes for. because nobody thinks
you understand anything. You do under
stand-so you do-and you are twice as cum
hing as you will be when you are grown into
Emerson Arithmetic, and ba la, k-e-r ker,
baker. When | was little, they used to say
if you gave rum to kittens they wonld never
grow up into cats. Couldn't you just ask
your mother to give you quart of rum that
you could always stay just where yea are
now?
l want to tell you abou. a little girl whose
name is-well, make believe it is Sunny
She is Just your age, and a trife larger than
your little finger. She is Just like you, too
good for nothing. Her feet can just trot
around the house, and her hands-O.
those hands what mischief they could do!
They tear the books and papers they scratch
the bureaus and the chairs and tables they
break the boxes and playthngs. and yet they
take :" title buver's" neck and hug him last );
and they tumble away down in my pockets,
when say they may and they pick up pins
ane pencils. 0, yes! they are getting to be
very nice pair of hands but see what they
did one dav
Good for-nothing awoke in the morning,
and there was nobody in the room but her
own self Then she hobbled up her little shi
ming, goodfor nothing head, and looked
around The sun was steaining into the
room. and Sunny was so happy that she
could not keep still. and she went tumbling
all around her crib. and laughing. and say
ing COCO 90 - for that was all that her
/ little tongue could say. Then the specks Of
hands went to work Just as hard as they
could, and pulled and tugged till they go5 all
the pillows aud crib clothes on the floor
Then she began to rock and rock; and by
| and bv. over went the crib, and roll bumpi
bump over went Sunny on the floor too.
What did she de then? wasn't there, but
think it would he Just like her to look lit
tie sober for two seconds. till she found nut
where she was, and then lie On her back and
kick up her fat leg for about two minutes, ,and
then | have no doubt she pranced ahout ia
mouSlv over the clothes and pillows into the
washstand and bureau drawers. One thing
she certainly did: for when mamma 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-fer nothing hands had
been PLAYING with the key and stumbled into
locking II. because no enc 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 oo-o," answered Sunny, but that
would not open the door.
Woman. YOU know, never do anything
alone: so Sunnv's mamma went out to the
barn and told Sunny's papa ; and he looked
and smiled. and ran his hand through his
| hair and then brought ladder. and set the
bottom right down on the flower bed, and the
top of it against the window of Sunny's
prison.
80. what is this ?" cried the daisies and
daffodis, as the great ladder came digging
into them.
s'Poor little daisies and daffies !" | sun
pose Sunnv's papa said or would have said if
he had heard them. Il am very sorry for
You but then you know Sunny must be
washed and have her breakfast"
So he stuck the ladder firmer into the dai-
sv bed. aud went up to the top of il. Sunny
was verr much surprised to see ner papa Up
there before the window. and = coo o-ed
with all her might. Then papa took out his
knife and began to chip off the putty from
one of the panes of glass. He thous ht if he
could get one of the panes out he could open
the window. and then he would step in and
open the door, But Sunny stood so close to
tle window. and her blue eyes opened so
wide that he was afraid the putty would fly
into them. When be told her to go away. she
either did not hear or did not understand. 81
mamma took several Jumps of sugar from the
sugar bowl. and called to Sunny through the
key hole of the door
Little Sunny. do you want some candy?'
"CCoo-o-o. answered Sunny. That
meant "yes. mamma" and Sunny's srecks
of feet trotted to the door. and mamma broke
the sugar into tiny pieces, and poked them
| through the key hole with darning needle.
and Sunny's good-fo nothing hands picked
them of the floor when they fell; and so the
little mink was kept away from the window,
and papa opened it and they all walked in.
"Coo-o o-o.n laughed Sunny. not caring
bit for all the trouble; but such condition
as the room was IN
The last heard of Sunny, she was singing
loud enough to leap regiment
John B own buddy lies mo-o-o-ling in e g've
Cory cory 'alleluah r
Good night, little Good for nothing You
are not the salt of the earth: but | am sure
you are its sugar.-Gau Hamilton.
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