Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-07

the time; and he patted him and talked
to him awhile, and then he united rim and
Started off with him up the road to show
him to Angie - ~
: Angie lived little way off; she was
! nearly as old as Bernard, and she and Ber-
! nard were great friends.
: Angie was delighted with John, Just as
Bernard thought she would be she patted
him, and put her arms round his neck,
/ and she pulled his long ears, and then she
LAUGHED to see John wink and blink, and
/ almost go to sleep. She played with him
a long time, and then pretty soon she
thought of the gninea-hens her father had
bought the day before, and she told Ber-
nard he must come to see them.
lh But as John couldn't very well get into
the hen-house, and he wouldn't care much
/ for the. guinea-hens, Angie said they had
better tie him up there while they went to
see the hens.
So Bernard tied John to stick that was
in the ground, and went with Angie round
4 to the hen-house. IL t.
a,. The guinea hens were SO pretty-all so
i beautifully speckled-Bernard wanted to
| look at them for long time but he knew
he ought to go home and work in his corn
field; SO he and Angie went round the
house to where they had left John.
= But where was John No John was
there!
s'Why, where is he ?" said Bernard, and
! for minute he did feel SO troubled !; he
was afraid John had run away and he
should never find him again.
s'Oh, dear!"s said Angie, 'sI wonder
where he has gone to; dear, dear! But
We'll hunt, all around and we will find
him" ,-t{.5
4aa g think" said Bernard, "that it would
! be most like him to 90 to Squire Preston's !;
l he don't know that he isn't going to live
1 there any longer"
"Oh, yes, ,fsaid Angie, 2"and let's go
fright away, may be we shall find him on
the road"
: So off they started, almost running
down the lane that led to the road. They
had not quite reached the gate, when
| Angles brother called to her, from the
little porch at the side of the house, to tell
her not to go off without her sun-hat; so
Bernard waited and Angie came running
back - 800 o....s
She remembered she, had left her sun
hat on the piano in the parlor, so in she
ran, for the door was wide open, and then
i'--dear mel dear me! what was there :?
! John, sure as the world, standing up in
| front of the mantel-piece.
/ For a minute believe Angie was
I: frightened to see donkey in a parlor, but
] she ran to the door, and called Bernard,
and he was surprised, sure enough.
+ John was soon marched out, and Bernard
! talked to him a great deal about minding
/ his manners better in future, and Angie
laughed very much, and said she should
make her mother guess who the company
was that had been in the parlor.
Then Bernard went home, but before he
went to work, he got some branches of trees
and made little house of them for John,
because he thought it would be cooler and
John would like itsbetter- than staying all
the time in the she'd
= The next day Bernard saw Angie coming
down the road and she came running so
fast he thought she was coming to tell,
him something. And so she was.
Angie came up all out of breath, and
then she told Bernard there was going to
be a picnic All the Sunday School was
going, and Bernard must go. And Angie
thought, perhaps, if they could get a little
cart it would be nice to put the baskets
and other things in, and have John draw
it. If only we could get the. cart and
then the harness too" said Angie.
z Bernard said he had begun to make a
cart, and he would work omit all he could,
and go to the village and buy some wheels
for it, and some leather to make a harness,
and he was sure he could get it done be-
fore the picnic.
SO Bernard worked away on the cart
the village had given him some pieces of
leather to make it of, and some pretty
colored pieces, red and blue, for trim
ming.
Bernard worked away all the time he
could spare, and the day before the picnic
he got it all finished the cart and the
harness taO, and in the afternoon Angie
, came down to see him try the harness on.
But such a time as they had They
brought John out and began to dress him
up but for all the harness was so pretty,
John didn't seem at all delighted with it
he would seem to be half asleep, then all
of sudden he'd give great jump and
they could hardly do anything with him.
And Angie said: g should think John,
with such long ears, you might hear what
was told you, and learn to behave your
self" .Tetsz5 - r.
'3'' But, oh dear !' she said, Bernard"
suppose tomorrow, at the picnic, he
should be jumping about, and act so
bad ~ q i.4a - - 81
Oh, no." said Bernard "Pll lead him
along right by his bride all the way so
he'll have to go on good, and very soon
I'll teach him so he won't think of acting
bad at all.,' .a o.. us
The next morning, bright and early,
Bernard put on his best clothes and then
he dressed John out in the pretty new
harness.. > You can't think how fine John
did look in the harness, all trimmed with
red and blue. And then the cart, all new
and nice. Bernard meant to put in a seat
SO he could sit in the cartand drive, when
he had taught John to go along nicely;
but to-day he thought he had better lead
him by the bride.
When all was ready, Bernard led John
to Angles for the baskets, which were to
go in the cart; he led him round by the
kitchen, but Bernard saw by the open
window that no one was in the kitchen,
so he left John moment while he ran
into the parlor
Angie was in the parlor, and she was
all dressed in a white dress. with a blue
ribbon around her waist, and her hair was
curled and tied with blue ribbon. But
Bernard soon ran out to see to John; and
where now was that mischievous John? His
head was in the kitchen window, and he
had bitten the wing off chicken, and
there he was chewing it up.
''Oh, Johnr said Bernard, ''here! here!
what are you about?" And when Ber-
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else had John done?-there was an apple
pie eaten almost up! "Oh, John, John,
I'm ashamed of your said Bernard, and
poor Bernard felt as though he could cry,
he was SO ashamed of Johns behavior.
Then Angie came out, and she didn't
know whether to laugh or to cry. "To
Think" said Bernard, when 1 gave him
| SO much breakfast he should act So" and
Bernard's face got very red, he felt so
/ bad, but in few minutes Angles mother
CAME out, and she said there was more
than the baskets could hold, and it was no
matter if Donkey John had helped him
self to a little. And then Angie began
to laugh and think it was very funny in
deed. = = H
And then she went and got beautiful
wreath which she had made to put on
Johns neck. 1t was all made of large,
yellow marigolds, and looked like great,
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At last they got the baskets and other
things in the cart and off they started.
Bernard led John along, and Angie
walked on the other side of him
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