The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-08-23
Pillow Palace.
BY NJ. Il. BOLLES BRANCH.

Pillow Palace.
BY NJ. L. BoLLEs BRANCH.
Mamma and Norah were cleaning
house, and had got as far as the nur
sery. They had put the mattresses and
the pillows and all the bed clothes out
III the next room on the floor. so they
would net be in the way while Noral
swept and scrubbed. There the chill
dren found them-kitty and Johnny
and Baby Bell-and ran and tumbled
among them full of glee 1t was such
fun to see the mattresses where they
didn't belong, and the bed clothes
thrown all in a heap, and the pillows
piled up anyhow! Baby Bell put hen
thumb III her mouth and rolled over
and over, while Kitty and Johnny
threw pillows at each other, and fell
! he1dlong in the softest places they
could find.
Then they played ii merry game OF
hide-apd-seek under the pink and blue
patchwork quilt, and after that was
done Kitty thought it would be nice to
build a house. Johnny came stumb-
ling over the pillows, all eagerness to
help, and they planted baby Bell down
in safe spot, with her rattleboX IN
| her hand, to be out of the way while
! they worked.
The mattresses were the floor of the
| house, OF course, and the pink and
blue patchwork bedquilt was the car
pet; then the other bedquilts and
| blankets and sheets were hung over
chair backs all around in a row for
walls. Then the pillows were chairs
and sofas; and when it was all done,
baby Bell was set in the middle to
creep and crow aud be Kitty's little
girl. Kitty and Johnny sat opposite
each other, and played they were grown
up.
81 am Mrs, Merwin," said Kitty,
ssand You are Mr.. Mannery, Now, "
she added, in a very dignitied voice,
= how do you do, MIR. Mannery? |
am very happy to see you!"
Putty well, mum, d" said Mr.. Man
merry, nodding his curly head "Come
in, mum, come IN -
Il am in said Mrs. Merwin;
can't come any inner. This is my little
girl, Mr.. Mannery. Isabella, speak to
the gentleman !"
Isabella sucked her thumb, and
stared hard with her blue eyes.
q Nice little girl, num-" said Mr..
Mannery, politely; ''be good little
girl, and don't break fings."
" My child never breaks things" re-
. Isabella, Isabella, what are you do
ing, my love -
Baby Bell had suddenly rolled over
and was very busy Juggling at the end
| Of bolster In a moment more her
dimpled fingers drew out great white
| feather.
. Oh, Johnny, amt that handsome -
exclaimed Kitty, forgetting all her
dignity, and Selling upon the feather.
q Let's play it's a tame white dove,
| and belongs to us, and We'll keep ii
perched up here in this corner
WELL" said johnny, and find
some more
Then Johnny and Kitty took the
| bolster, and turned it over and over,
searching eagerly. Wherever they
found little sharp quill point prick
ing through the ticking, they pulled it
and drew out a feather. By-and-by
they had ten, all small and white, and
downy.
"Play, they're banty chickens" said
Johnny.
'We1," said Kitty, land let's have
| them fly about and run away, and We'll
catch them"
And she blew as hard as she could,
and the little white bantams flew all
around. They had great fun catching
them, and baby Bell helped in great
delight. When the bantams were al
caught, the children played there was
a coop behind one of the pillows, and
put them all into it.
"Now, let's play king and queen.
said the restless Kitty, land call thi IS
our palace. PILLOW palace ; that's {
nice name, and am the queen of the
pillows =
But just as she had drawn hersel
up, and was beginning to say, "Majes
ty, give that smallest pillow a shak
ing the dinner bell rang, and MANN;
came hurrying into the room, and tolC
the children to wash their faces anC
run down quick into the dining room
SO away they ran, and sat down, one
on each side of their father, while BABY
Bell was put in high chair close BY
mamma. 1t took a long time to ca
dinner, for little fingers make SLOW
work; and then the pudding, which
came last of all, was SO very good. Blu
at last they finished, and getting on
of their chairs, Mastered back to PILLOW
Palace as fast as they could go.
But when they reached the room up
stairs, Pillow Palace was gone Al
swept away, every vestige destroyed
not a sheet nor a pillow left. Moral
had been making up the beds an,
putting things to rights. Pillow Pal
ace was demolished, the kingdom il
ruins, and what, oh, what bad becom
of the tame white dove, and the ter
, dear downy bantamsl
Il think Norah is meant crieC
Kitty. passionately, and johnny begal
to whimper. Even baby Bell locke,
sober, and pointing with her littl
4 hand, said, "Gone! gone!'
Mamma heard the sound of lamenta
! ton, and came in to comfort.
Never mind" she said, when sh
heard the story. "Play it was al
earthquake. Such things do happen