Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-21
GRANDMA'S STORY.

WHEN l was little girl,"-begsn
Grandma Hollis.
"Whaty" exclaimed Carl, stopping in
the middle of summersault, and looking
at his grandmother with his face upside
down between his two feet.
~ was going to tell you story about
when was little girl" she said.
Carl was on his feet by this time. 7''
Z" didn't know you ever WAS a little
girl |" be- axrl"'"o"a IN q tnna nf great as.
What did you Think" she asked,
laughing.
why, thought you were always
Grandma Hollis" he said.
well wasn't" she replied. II was
girl once, no bigger than your Cousin
JAMIE"
"And did you wear your spe'tacles and
your cap then?' asked Carl; "and was
your name GrandmaS"
"No, indeed" said Grandma IL looked
lust like any other little girl, and my
name was Hetty Rice. lived with my
father and mother, just as you do with
yours. had two older brothers, but no
sister.
"Our house was very different from
this one.
"There were no stoves then, but at one
end of the long kitchen there was great
fireplace. 1t was 80 long that great logs
would lie across the andirons, and the
bright blaze lighted the whole room in
the evening. Ny brothers and estea
roasted our apples and chestnuts there:
"Over the fire hung large iron thing
called crane. My mother used to hang
the teakettle on 1t, and swing IT over the
blaze, to heat the water. She boiled meat
there too.
II liked to see her lift the kettles, and
| hang them on the hooks. and then SWING
them over the fire l often asked her to
Let me do it, but she said, No; you wait
till you are older and bigger
Zone day, my mother went TO visit a
sick neighbor. 1t was long way TO the
sick woman's house, though she was our
nearest neighbor So my mother left me
at home alone, and told me not TO go neal
the fire. :.
"Bnt after she had gone, ! thought II
would be nice time to play with the
crane. could not find the teakcttlc OF
the great dinner-pot, for my mother had
put them away somewhere.
awhile was hunting for them, hap.
pened To see a basket flied with tow that
nv mother used about her spinning.
thought that would do just as well az the
teakcttle, and better for could play that
the tow was pudding, and was going
to boil it.
$50 / carried the basket to the fire
place, and, after good deal OF trouble,
managed to get 1t lung on the crane
Then swung 1t over the fire.
"But what do you ihinkS
"Instead OF hanging there like the tea
kettle or the dinner-pot, the basket ant
the tow began to burn up! .. how they
did burn
"And was frightened half out of my
wits, and wondered what my mOthel
would do when she came home and fount
il out.
II vas miserable enough the rest OF tn
afternoon, can tell you.
"By and-by my mother came in, ant
she kissed me, and then she began u
smell the burnt tow.
"sWhat have you been doing, Hetty
said she.
aThen I cried a. hard - I could, and
told her all about 1t. She was very sorry
but she punished me, and ] knew that
deserved 1t. / never disobeyed her bJ
playing with the crane again"
Carl thought that was pretty goot
story. He asked his grandmother eve
30 many questions about II, and forgot
turn another summerssult that day.
When his papa came home rom yea
Carl climbed up In his lap, and tolo mr.
"My grandma wss not always