Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-25

her at length. She resolved to paste each
leaf down upon the preceding one, as fast
as they were filled.
'Of course I'm not going to read over
single thing that's written down here, as
long as live and BREATHE said Pet, with
great decision and that'll be the way to
manage it,
One day that winter, it CHANGED that
Pet heard some very wicked words in the
street. She felt like stopping her ears and
running away; but unfortunately her
hands were so full of books that she could
not Oh dear thought she; as she hur-
ried along, : if L only had my forget-book
here this minute = And when she got
home, she went straight up stairs and wrote
down, Those awful words that / heard
just now in the street. The page was not
half full but Pet seized her bottle of mu-
cilage, and pasted it down without waiting
single minute. What a relief it was
Pet wondered more than ever, that day,
how in the world people ever got along be-
fore forget-books were invented.
But she soon found out that some things
which belong in the forget-book, are rather
hard to put into it, and harder still to keep
them One day she sat on the floor before
her dOrmer window, holding tiny hand
mirror which her doll was supposed to use
in arranging her back hair. Pet Ray
mond, she whispered, looking fondly at
what she could see of herself in the glass.
Mrs. Smoothover says you are such
| lovely little creature, and so sweet-tem-
pered But after Pet had told this pleas
ant story to her mirror half dozen times,
there came a day when she got very angry
indeed, because Bridget had not ironed her
best white apron,-so angry that the tears
came into her gentle mammals eyes, as she
sent Pet away up stairs to think. Pet
cried full quarter of an hour, sitting
alone there on the hoor,-at first, passion
ately, and then penitently. You do look
lovely, to be sure she said at length to
the red-eyed creature in the glass Much
done you think you had better put
them in the forget-book right off, and paste
them up tight
1t was pretty hard, but Pet did it. The
next week however, she caught herself
telling over the same pleasant story to her
mirror again. % dear she sighed, my
forget book doesn't hold What shall do?
She tucked the hand-glass away out OF
sight and pOndered over the subject awhile
with very sober face At length bright
ening little, she whispered, as if think
ing aloud, Mamma says | must always
ask Him to help me remember everything
that | ought to remember, and don't be-
lieve but what He would help me forget
what | ought to forget. | am going to ask
him this minute
So between the honest, determined eff
forts, and the simple, confding prayers
Pet really made progress in the grace of
forgetting. One vacation, the little pink
book CHANGED to fall into Roberts hands
for he was such well-behaved young gen
tleman that Pet always granted him the
freedom Of her play room.
Halo what's this, with all the leave;
glued together? he inquired, trying in
vain to open it-for by this time 1t was
full.
So Pet explained in a general way.
Oh, that's it | understand ex-
claimed her brother, admiringly. What
an excellent institution, Doubtless those
good people in the twenty-ffth chapter Of
Matthew kept forget-books'
Did they asked Pet, with wide oper
eyes
Why, yes replied Robert, of cours,
they did; and put down in them every
single one Of their good deeds. Don't you
know how astonished they all were, wher
the King said, For was hungered anc
We fed me , You see they had forgotten
all about it.
Pets head dropped little, and in hel
heart She wished she might grow bi:
enough to do something for Jesus, and ther
not be proud of it,
What do you suppose mamma put
down in her forget-book she presently
asked, nesting closer to Roberts side.
Robert smiled little oh, I'm pref
ty sure she puts down all the naughty
things that you and do for you know
she keeps loving US just the same, an,
that makes Us more sorry than anythin!
else, don't it
And, then, guess she puts down ever,
day, to forget herself, be continued = 70
don't believe she ever thinks of such
thing as trying to havea good time, excep
in making good times for papa and US, an,
everybody else
No, indeed exclaimed Pet, with en-
ergy. And she inwardly resolved that il
her new forget-book she would put dow
Self on every single page; and woul,
pray very hard that it might stay there
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