The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-07-29

auueu, Ion you Iuihh ehe has an a"
full short nose? And how she does drawl
her words !"
81 say so, too," rejoined Anne. "But
you ought to see new scholar that
came to-day from the Pine-trees. She
has got the funniest nose you ever saw;
it turns right up, and she wore dress
with patch on it real old thing, too |!
Should you have thought she would ?"
mo, indeed. wouldn't 60 10 school,
dressed so, for anything in this world
she must BE dreadfully mortified, and l
don't think it is showing the other schol.
ars much respect, 10 come to school shah
by. Does Ldcy Acres sit with you?"
"Yes, and that isn't all. Don't you
think she has been and got new merino
dress precisely like mine. She pretends
she didn't know | hal one. until at fter
hers was selected, but that isn't at all n
likely story, for she always tries to be ex-
actly like somebody else as near as she
can. Before | would be such tag !"
80 l thihk But knew about her
getting dress like yours; Adeline Davis
told me. She came to sec me yesterday,
and Brought me some Blanc mango and
some grapes her mother sent. Wasn't
she Kind :"
"Ye.es, rather kind" assented Anne,
reluctantly. "But do you like her very
well? Don't you think she is real stuck
up aud big feeling?"
| do not know how much longer these
little girls would have run on in this way
Until they had gone through the whole
list of their acquainances, or it was time
foa Annie to tie on her fur cape and red
riding hood, and run off home, l presume
if Berths's grandmother had not spoken
She had been sitting in her highbacked
rocking chair, by the other window, all
the time, but the girls did not mind her
at all, for she was pleasant old lady,
who was not always saying: "Here don't
do this" and ''there don't make that
noise p
Grandmother Wales was a dear old
body, whom every body loved, and she
was the very best story-teller in the world
Every thing about her, excepting her
wide bordered cap and muslin 'kerthef'
was Of silver-gray color, even to her
hair, and her face was so PEACEFUL that
one would think she had never heard a
naughty word, or seen cross look in
her life.
"My dear, don't thee know any good
things about thy friends.or why does thee
tell only evil?" said she.
The girls looked up surprised. and be-
gen to think over what they had been
saying.
".It is easier to hammer the hard gran
ite TO powder, than to break oil from a
bad habit, but the younger thee begins
the easier thee can do it. And this habit
of evil speaking will do thee more harm
than it Will the ones thee talks about
continued the grandmother.
Don't thee know what the preacher
said about one who looks only for evil?
He is like a cat watching for & mousse
when, no matter what magnificent crea-
lures pass blythe horse, his neck cloth
ed with thunder, the peacock, with good
IL wings, the bebemoth, whose bones are
like bars of iron, who is chief of the ways
Of God-she notices nothing until an in
significant mouse. glides along, then
pounces out, and makes at once an end OF
him."
Bertha and Annie laughed a little, and
blushed great deal. for they knew they
had bcen locking for Insignificant faults,
instead of the pleasant things in the char
acters of their little friends. They had
not meant any harm. or thought really SO
meanly of them as lt seemed, but when
St. Peter talks about laying aside all evil
speaking. think he means to include
these very things.
And am afraid there are some other
persons who have need to lay aside this
habit, which they will find, as Grand
mother Wales said, will be harder to do
than powdering granite. But let US al
remember, "The younger thee begins,
the easier thee can do "-Conqrega