Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-21
GRANDMA,S STORY.

"WHEN was a little girl, ,7-lbegan
aWhat !" exclaimed Csrl,g stopping in
thegmiddle of .. summersault, and, looking
at his grandmother with his face upside
down between his two feet -
81 was going to tell you, q, story about
when l was little girl, she said
Carl was on his feet by this time. y,
didn't know you ever was little
girl 70 he exclaimed, In q tone of great as
uonishment.i talrr rfrs 4 f4r,-,f -
What did you thinkf" she asked,
laughing. - 'SAiIne9 a -.
! % why, /. thought you were always1
Grandma Hollis" he said. ''i joi5tsi0
lf'e Well I wasn't,'' she replied. was
a girl once, no bigger than your Cousin
jamie" "''sl S1ii IL,
"Hnd-dff you wear your spe'tAcles and
-yyourcsp then 2" asked Carl; 9ahd was
your name Grandma ?"
I SNo, indeed,p said Grandma "a looked
Just like any other little girl, and my
name was Hetty Rice. lived with my
father and motherS just as you do with
yours. had two. older brothers. but no
sister 5i& lANt4 NJ.tIUN
II Oar house was. very ditfersnh from
So there were noistoyes then, but at one
end of the long kitchen there was a. great
fireplace. . It was 50 long that great logs
would Tie seroes thes andironH, and the
bright blaze lighted the whole rPQm IN
the evening. My BfStAerS and often
rosssed-oVrapP@esan and ohestnuts the1eJ o.
II ftsJQYeE the fire hung a large iron thing
called crane. My mother usedito 1HGdg
theeteakettle OMIT and swing it over the
there there to! 70 " W@Hr 2 'TSfiuP7 'SiS sNis
9ssIiIfked, to see herclift the kettles, and
hang them on the hooks, and then swing
them over the, fire Z often asked, her 70
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 neighbof.1 IbWas dong way 70 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 near
the fire. o .JJ8IGts sII5 Vd
i I"But after she had gone, II thought. 1t
would be a nice time to play with the
crane. 7 could not find the teakettle or
the great dinner5pot, for my mother had
put, Them away somewhere, IsoiEaI
while 1 was bunting for them, 1 hap
pened to see basket filed with tow that
imyimother used about herr spinning.
thought that would do just as well as the
teakettle, and better for could play that
the tow was . pudding, and I was going
to boH it'll ~ usTTfT5g Ys,' u "a = ~ n
$50 I carried the basket to the. fire
place, and, after good deal OF trouple, 1
managed TO get 1T hung onythes crane.
Then swung itlover the fire. br. sroz
"But what do you think ~"
i !" Instead of hanging there like the tea;
kettle or the dinner-pot the basket ana
the tow began to burnupf . o. now they
did burn / TaisG ~ fJnI-
~ "And I was frightened half out OF my
wits, and wondered what my mQther
Houid do when she came home ana found
it out "a ~ 10
II was miserable enough the rest Of the
afternoon, can tell you
Shy and-by my mother came in, and
she kissed me, and, then she began TO
smell the burnt tow. ht QHa
what have you been doing, Hetty ?
said she.
I a Then I cried as hard as could, and
told her all about it. She was very sorry,
but she punished me, and knew that
deserved it. Il never disobeyed, her By
playing with the crane again..
Carl thought tbst WAS q pretty good
story. He asked his grandmother eyer