The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-11-08
ORIGINAL SIN.
What q Little EOy nao- = AIori "a.
81 MISS L. J. WILLIAMS.

81 MISS L. J. WILLIAMS.
The covensnt beisg made witt
Adam, not cnly fer himself, but foi
his posteIily all mankind, descending
from him in ordinary generation,
silned IN hin snd fell with him in
his first tTansgression."
There they've sll gore I'm 50
glad. Ruth has fixed ne ever 60
comfortable in the big rocking-chair
snd another chair, with two pillows
and the sofa cushion, right in the bay
window, where l can look cut at the
street and learn my C2tech;sm. !
was tired Of the nursery; but no
body thought sbout me but Ruth.
She Is such a fine girl, she is. !
wonder whether Ruth sin1ed iD him,
Itoo? Rath says every body is "to-
tally depraved :" but don't believe
she is. Ruth Thompson is my sister,
and she's lovely. She SAYS we ought
to love everybody; but guess she
loves Harvey best (Harvey's q great,
big man). l wonder what covenant
meane, and who made it for Adam ?
May be Eve. / wonder whether it
tasted like custard. l wonder what
his pos;erity was. | wish Harvey
would tell me; but he won't, SO
there's no use asking. Once we had
a lesson about Jehu :nd Jezehel, and
he said: "Jehu kept livery stable
and drove fast horses; and once,
when be was going to Central Park,
Jezebel looked out oi The windOw, and
she had some Bloom OF Youth on
her face" And then Ru h came in,
and he didn't say any more.
When l was well, Ruth used TO
take me to Sunday school !; but aince
I'v been sick she hears me her own
self. Ive been sick lots, / have.
First it was the measles; and just as
1 wss getting well l took cold, and
then it was whooping cough; and
then / clumb tree snd broke my
arm; and then Mrs. Wilson's baby
GIN me tie chicksn-pox; and then
the time was sinful snd stole the
green apples, lize Eye-tbat was
most the awiufest time of all /; and
then most got drownded, and they
rolled me on a bar'l,a l had Group
in the night; and when l wzs play
ing fish with Jimmy Mcintosh, ct
the hotel, we went way up 20 the top,
and we had two strings and two
crooked piss, and VIC .esaed over the
hanister, and Jimmy fshed Off Mr.
ClaTk's spectacles, and l tumbled |
and fell right into one of the darkey
walters. Oh, dear they thought /
wEs dead, and got the belloWsss and
blowed in my face; and Ma tainted,
and then they blowed in her face and
spit water on US And then, one
Fourth Of July, Harvey gave me
csnnon--a little one; and l loaded
it up and fred it of, and then ran be-
hind the door. But it didn't fire off;
and l went up and peaked into the
TO see what was the matter,
and it bust, it did, and burnt every
one of my eye-Winkers off, and most
all my hair off, and set my apron on
fire. Then they rolled me in the
hearth rug and put oil and cotton On
me. Oh! / did look so funny, just
would laugh aud say,
''Poor boy I" And then they'd laugh
again. Harvey was very good to me-
be said it was his fault, because he
GIN me the cannon. He used to
come and see me every day, snd
bring me an orindge, or some pea
nuts, or a picture book. Only l
guess he came to see Ruth part of the
Tine He loves Roth. Everybody .
owes her; they can't help it, you !
know. He is out on the back yeran-
ia now, smoking. 1 can see his
boots way up in the grapevines. He !
always comes here on Sundays !
Everybody else has goue to church !
except Pa He is taking his nap oD !
he sofy, 10 the parlor. l can hear !
lim snore way out here But l WAS
alking about my being sick. Well,
he last time it was the scarlet fever :
md am getting well noW- Ma says
would be very expensive if it wasn't
hat Pa was doctor. She thinks ,
hat it is a very "provideniial circum- :
tance.'' There! | mcss forgot :
bout my Cstechism. :
"What benefits DO they which are !
fectual called partake Of in this /;
ife? =
'They who are effectual called do
q this life partake of justification T
doption, and ssnctifcation, snd the
everal benefits which in tbs life do
ither accompany or flow from them" v
/ guess Ruth Is fetched and called I,
shouldn't like to be 'dopted, |,
hough. Jimmy McIutosh is 'dopted
lie used to live in the 'sylum, where $
. was all whiteWsshed and they bad n
title iron be6stesds and nasty soup. y
wonder what original sin is any il
gey. Wonder whether Meihusslah I
sd to learn the Catechisms when be 8
7as boy. l wish Ma would tell me Il
ii about Il. But SHE'S always 50 (,
usy making things out Of Harpers [
3azqr, on her new sewing macuine a
here goes lady on the other side II
{ the street with bonnet just like u
las. / can't see this side OF the /,
treet as well as the other, and ips 4
lrthest off. / ucnder why. Ga ! v
here goes the dearest, sweetest little Ii
senty tsunty bit OF puppy dog / C
iish Ihad a puppy. Ma don't ike t,
ets. l wonder why. She called Il
le sher pet" the ether day. ] won d
er whether she don't like ne Oh, n
esr "Descendin' from kim in or l,
mary transgressIon, siuned with 4
i'm, snd fell into him in the fret gen b
raiIon l wish i had drink Of Il
-ater. Somehow, l don't like to ask Q
Iarvey, Ghen Rnth ain't here. He G
-ould Eay | "bothered him." But if G
rs vas here be would bejust as good 0
=, IL -npIor rvhu Al