South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-30
ROSE.

Rose is a black girl eight years old, and
has hair so curly that it fairly kinks, and
nose as fat as yours is, little darling,
when you press it against the window
pane. to watch for papa's coming home
| Her lips are twice as thick as yours, and
as red as cherries; and when she laughs,
(which is every two minutes; there can be
seen a row of teeth as white as snow, and
as even as row of pins, ,.. ,..,-.--..-
.-And-andl How shall tell you how
black Rose is? o, know; just look
down at your little SHOE the one YOU
have worn long enoughdtoo take the first
gloss of, and there you have it. @" As
black as your shoe" that is Roses color. |,
Rose doesn't like itmuch being 50 black,
and she runs out of doors without any hat,
and sits whole hours in the sun, hoping
she'll fade out, like Miss Lovegro's old
calico dress-"s, d, ....,.-- 1880.
Rose has the care of the chickens, and
calls them hers. She feeds them twice
every day, and gives them plentyof nice
fresh water to drink. One day she came
go, Miss Lovegro', wish / was a
chicken, like them little white banties I;
I'd give anything if could only be one p
Why don't you play you are one p
said Mrs. LovegroYe. i think you could
manage to roost on a pole, if you tried /;
you know you can do almost anything"
o, Miss Loyegro', can try?"
And when sEe was told that she might,
she hoped up and down for joy, which
so frightened Tabby, the cat, that she
Jumped out of the window, and over
| turned flower-pot, and went racing down
I he rrov1rv, y,atb ff orr-not hlaoE dor
was after her. r-
5 That night, when everything was quiet
and it was Roses bedtime, instead of
going up to her own little chamber, she
stole softly out of the back door, down
the path, behind the barn, to the hen
house. ~- eri ir si-H-T a.I +
She was little afraid of the dark, which
made her hurry the faster, and in a minute
/ she had unlocked the hen-house door,
opened it and walked in. 1t was very
dark inside, and Rose said to herself
40, dear, I wish had brought light =
then she thought, Why, hens don't have
no light to go to bed by; what a gumI
you are, Rose Wallace, to want lamp
You'd better get on to your perch and GO
to sleepl" 2 a.-1 s.-- = 'rz-i-
So she clucked little, as near like her
as she could, and slapped her arms against
her sides, as if they were wings, and look
ed up to the roosts, and wished she could
get up. - .e F't1I.
al d'clar," said she, "'taint no use tryin
| to fly with nOthin' but arms. Wish had
some feathersl Nebber mind, I'll get 8
barrel and STAN on"
So she rolled barrel under the perch
and up she jumped, first upon the barrel
and then upon the perch. But all she
could do, she couldn't stay on. She would
slip first one way and then the other, and
then down she would go to the ground.
Dear mel I've hurt me awful" )" she
said. at Almost as hard to be hen as ii
is to be good. I declar' for it, don't see
how them hens stick" ,- .'.-
After awhile, by trying very hard, Rose
at last found herself roasted IN corner,
with her back against beam, and one
hand holding on the window bar, and
feeling pretty comfortable, and quite Sc
cure, she thought she would try and go to
sleep. ..-.-..
"'Taint quite so easy as bed, but III
soon get used to it, and then it's so nice tC
be hen. rs good mind to try to fly
down. / would, if wasn't afraid of hit
ting that barrel. Law alive, how did that
yer barrel come open end so? l must have
tipped it over De very first thing I'll dc
in the mornin' is to crow, just as loud as
ever can, an then I'll go stan on one leg
IN the sun, the whole live long day.
And so thinking and thinking, pretty
soon she began to dream. She dreamed
that she wasI a splendid great hen, with
gold feathers, and diamond eyes, and tor
knot as high as barrel, and made oi
feathers of the graVest colors, which KEPT
a nodding, and glancing, and waving II
in the wind, and which so overhung hei
eyes that they made her quite dizzy tc
look at. -. .-.i.5 p !.
She tried to look down to the ground
but she couldn't keep her eyes OIL tht
feathers, and she was growing dizzier-
diZzier-everything seemed to be whlrllns
round-diZzier-di -dizzier-round and rounC
until by and by she whirled herselfupol
the edge of high bank sIf
Round and round she went until sh
whirled herself off, and then round an'
round, down and down she went, until sh
brought up, with her head down In bar
. ., rel-and wide awake. --.
There she was-With her heels in tn
air. and her head at the bottom of the bar
rel. She could not get out. She forgo
all about Growing; besides it was still dark
So instead of growing she screamed:
"NIiss egro'-Miss-Love-gro'r' p
That frightened the hens and they flew
down, and cackled and squawked, and tlut
tered about, until such noise was mad
, that it reached Mrs. LOvegrove's ears, VIII
had not yet gone to bed, for 1t was onl
nine o'clock. .-.- D.. .-.-.
She called to her husband.
"Oh, dear, somebody's stealing ou
: hens, or ferret has got in and Is eatln
them. Do go out quick and see what
: the matter, and I'll go out and hold tn
: lantern"
/, SO out they went, and then Mrs. Low
grove knew Roses voice-and screamed,-
where are you, Rose % b. ...
, "Here is, Miss LOvegro," ina barrel, /
the hen-house. Do take me out"
! So they opened the door, and there WEI
: the hens, frightened half to death, bl
!, there in the corner, were two black fe'
: sticking out of barrel, and that was a
: there was TO be seen of Rose.
So they pulled her out. and set her Q
: her feet, and away she scampered TO II
r house. -
! Then Mrs. Lovegrove remembered whi
: Rose had asked her in the afternoon an
. laughed heartily to think Rose had take
. her in earnest.
After GOOD washing, Rose crept up
: her own chamber, and as she went said,
GOOD night, Miss Lovegro', 'taint I
, use trying to be anything you amt
: dclar fort, I'd rather be Rose Wallace, tbs
i the prettiest beauty in that coop" Youth
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a Value of Time. ~.