The Evansville journal., 1866-06-16
Liffla Rie.

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= Young Folks, for .Jttle.
Little Rie.
Rie was poor outcast who had
been sheltered by an old woman,
kind yet stern, and Rie, who never
had been taught any thing, did not
always speak the truth. The very
next day little Rie got into trouble
again, for she was told to hold out
her pinafore while the mistress count
ed apples into it for a pudding; the
pinafore was not half full when the
mistress was called away, and then lit
tie Rie, left. alone, looking at all the
bright, rosy apples, laying in rows on
the low shelf, found the temptation
too great for her, and bit one of them,
which she hastily returned to its
place. When the mistress came back
and found the little culprit, with
cheeks suffused with crimson, and
head hanging down, she easily discov-
cred what had happened; and then in
spite of her promises that she would
| be good, she was summarlly punished
and put to bed.
!" She is but child, said Sally
"She is naughty child, said the
mistress, and it is just she should be
punished
aYes, ma am" Sally ventured to
say, only somehow if you're angry
when you do it. won't she think you
don't love hef?'
Dear ME, Sally, how foolish you
arel [ don't want her to think love
her when she's naughty, but only
when she's good.
90, don't you, ma amp" replied
| Sally, ldoubtfully. Well, ina am, no
doubt but you know best.
must be just, continued the
/ mistress; : she shall be INDUCED
when she's good, but / shall never
overlook il when she's naughty"
/ The mistress was as good as her
word; and as little Rie was often
naughty in her childish way it follow
4 ed that she was often punished; till
once seeing her dear Sally crying after
the mistress had been more than
usually angry. she climed up her knee,
| and made many protestatiOns that she
would never be naughty any more and
make Sally cry. a
Poor little RE, she had her troubles;
but she loved Sally dearly; and per-
haps. child as she was, she had some-
times. when the rain was pouring
4 down, and the wind bowling outside,
dim PERCEPTION that she had been
saved from a dreary, toilsome, and
evil life, and it was strangely better to
sit with Sally in. the cheerful kitchen,
+ and hear the rosebuds tapping, than to
wander down and down those ever
lengthening roads cold and hungry
and neglected. 3. I. And now she had
been very good for a long time; and
by consequence, she was very heppy,
and the time passed very rapidly, TIL
all the snow had melted away and the
garden was full of croeuses and snow
drops: it seemed only few days and
they were over and she could watch
the rosebuds coming out; and then II
seemed very little time longer before
Sally was constantly telling her to
pick the rose-leaves up and throw
them out, when they drifted in at the
window.
At last, one day, one sorrowful day,
the mistress came into the kitchen te
make a raising pudding, while she sent
Sally and little Rie to the shop, anC
during their absence she twisted VI
some few raisins IN paper and lalo
them on the dresser, intending to give
5 them to the child when she came In
But Sally came in very late; and wheI
she laid rabbit and plate of butter
and papers of sugar, rice and tea OF
I the table, and then proceeded to coun
out eggs and produce apples and othel
good things, the mistress forgot th'
raisins, and pushed back her -four, arc
all her apparatus, to make room fo.
the groceries. Sally was not a gooC
accountant, and she had searcel.
made out the price of each artiel
and produced the change. when som'
friends came to see the mistress, ant
went into the parlor.
When they were gone, she remem
bered her intended present and cam
back into the kitchen; she moves
every parcel and every dish, searches
the dresser, and looked on the floor
but the paper of raisins was not TO bt
found-it was gone.
Come here, little Rie, she sait
gravely; did you see a paper of rais
: ins on the table when you cam
home?"
. Yes. ma am. said the chile
whose two small hands were tight
clasped behind her.
e And do you know what has be
:. come of them?'
y "No don't, I'm sure I don't, re