Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-12-14
Daisy Darling's Bear.

come, DAISY, darling, It's tune to
go to bed," said Daisy's mamma, when
the clock on the mantlepiece struck
seven.
SoDaisy kissed everybody goodnight,
but she looked back over her shoulder
till she got to the top of the stairs, for
she thought it very hard to be sent off
by herself, just because she was little
girl.
She said she didn't feel sleepy bit;
and suppose she didn't; for instead of
going off to the land of dreams as
quick as her head touched the pillow,
she lay with her eyes wide open, and
her ears, too, trying to hear what they
were saying in the parlor.
Then she thought she should like her
worsted rooster, woebegone bird, who
looked as though he had spent his life
in fighting so she called her mother to
get it for her.
Scarcely had her mother got half way
down stairs, before she called her back
to find "Dorthy Maria" her favorite
doll.
After that she wanted ga drink O.
water" and this being given her, she
said she ought to begin anew and say
her prayers over again.
Her mother knew very well that this
was only plan for keeping her in the
chamber, but she was willing to hear
her prayers as often as she pleased, and
herself repeated the first line of "Now I
lay me-"
doesn't want to say that one. Me wants
fThe man in the moon,
Came down too soon."
"Daisy," said her mother, "you're a
naughty, naughty child, and mamma
will be obliged to punish you,"
go, mamma, there's dear little stick
down stairs. Shall Daisy run and get
it?" cried the child
Doesn't Daisy, darling, love man.
MAJ"
tsBushels and bushels I" said Daisy,
throwing her arms around her mothers
neck
"Then she will shut her eyes and 90
to sleep like good girl"
"Me will-only look!" and Daisy did
shut them so tight you would hardly
have known there were any eyes there,
and cuddled down in her crib, with the
old rooster and Dorothy Maria, quite
resolved to go to sleep and not wake till
morning
Yet her mother had not been seated
in the parlor more than fifteen minutes,
before she heard her scream, violently
"What is the matter with the child2
She must be sick"
But no, Daisy was not sick; she was
only frightened; for she had seen a
bear, she said He came in at the open
window, and ran under the bed.
Her mother was more grieved than
ever at this, because she thonght her lit
tie girl was telling a wicked lie; but
neither threats nor coaxing could make
her say anything different; and she con-
cluded she might have been dreaming.
Whether or not she had really seen any
thing, she was very much frightened; so
her mother called Nora from the kitch-
en-, to sit by her. But it was plain
there was to be no peace for Daisy's
mother that evening, for she had just
got into an entertaining conversation
with visitor, when she was startled by
another scream, and this time from
Nora. ALI the family rushed up stairs
to see what had happened.
"What is the matter2" asked every
body at once2"
''I believe, my sowl, it's ould Nick!"
said Nora. And when she had got calm
enough to tell her story, she said that
she had fallen asleep, but was awakened
by horrible noise, and what should
she see, but great black crater, with
two horns and tail, standing in the
middle of the floor"
"And what became of him.? +"
"I shook me fist at him, and he van
ished up the chimbly."
At this moment, Albert, Daisy's broth
er, who had been very busy opening
closet doors and looking under beds,
burst into loud laugh, and exclaimed,
"Tve found him I've found him !"
And out of boz in which the creature
had taken refuge, he dragged large
black cat. s5aa
All present, even Nora and Daisy,
joined in the laugh, while the poor cat
was now the one to be terrified. He es-
capped from Arthur's grasp, and, jump
ing through the window, scrambled
down one Of the pillars of the piazza,
just as he had come up.
"Wasn't Nora dikerlous to be afraid
of pussey 2" said Daisy, and then she
went to sleep in good earnest, and when
next she opened her eyes the sun was
shining Youths Companion.