Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-27
Air Castles-Built by Six Little People.

81 mean to have black silk dress and
pink roses in my bonnet, and a white
muslin long-shawl," said Cecy; land l
mean to look exactly like Minerva Clark !,
| shall be very good, too; as good as Mrs.
Bedell, only great deal prettier All the
young gentlemen will want me to go and
ride, but [ shan't notice them at all, be-
cause you know | shall always be teach
ing in Sunday School and visiting the
poor. And some day when | am bending
over an old woman and feeding her with
currant Jelly poet will come along and
see me, and he'll go home and write a
poem about me-" concluded Cecy, tri-
umphantly.
''Poohr' said Glover. II don't think
that would be nice at all. I'm going to
be beautiful lady-the most beautiful
lady in the world! And I'm going to live
IN yellow castle, with yellow pillars to
the portico, and square thing on top,
like Mr.. Sawyer's. My children are going
going to be a spy-glass in the window to
look out of. l shall wear gold dresses
and silver dresses every day, and diamond
on when I'm busting, or doing anything
dirty. In the middle of my back yard
there will be pond full of Lubins ex-
tracts, and whenever want any l shall
just go out and dip bottle in And |
shan't teach in Sunday Schools, like Cecy,
because don't want to; but every Sun
day / shall 80 and stand by the gate, and
when her scholars go by on their way
home, I'll put Lubin's extracts on their
handkerchiefs. "
81 mean to have just the same,' cried
Elsie, whose imagination was fired by
this gorgeous vision, "only my pond will
be the biggest. I shall be great deal
beautifuller, too" she added.
'You can't, said Katy, from overhead
"Clover is going to be the most beautiful
lady in the world"
'But III be more beautiful" cried poor
little Elsie; land I'll be big, too, and
know everybody's secrets And every
bedy'll be kind, then, and never run away
and hide; and there won't be any post
offices, or anything disagreeable
"Whatll you be, Johnnie?" asked
Clover, anxious to change the subject,
for Elsle's voice was growing plaintive
But Johnnie had no clear ideas as to her
future. She laughed great deal, and
squeezed Dorry's arm very tight, but that
was all. Dorry was more explicit
Il mean to have turkey every day." he
declared, land batter buildings; not
boiled ones, you know, but little baked
ones, with brown, shiny tops, and a great
deal OF pudding sauce to eat on them.
And | shall be SO big then that nobody
will say, Three helps is quite enough for
a little boy"
ooh, Dorry, you pig!" cried Katy,
while the rest screamed with laughter.
Dorry was quite affronted. Peace maker
Glover soothed him, and called on Katy,
In her turn, to tell what she would be-
I'm not sure about what III be-" replied
Katy; beautiful, of course, and good if
l can, only not so good as you, Cecy, be-
cause it would be nice to go and ride with
the young gentlemen sometimes. And
"a like to have large house and splen-
dlferous garden, and then you could all
come and live with me, and we would
play in the garden, and Dorry should
nave turkey five times day if he liked.
And we'd have machine to darn the
stockings, and another machine to put
The bureau drawers in order, and we'd
never sew or knit carriers, or do anything
we didn't want to. That's what I'd like
to be. But now III tell you what mean
to do
isn't it the same tning?" asked Cecy.
ooh, nor replied Katy, "quite different;
for you see 1 mean to be something. 1
don't know what, yet; but when I'm
grown up l shall find out. poor Katy
always said "when I'm grown up" forget
ting how very much she had grown al
ready) ''Perhaps," she went on, sit will
be rowing out in boats, and saving
peoples lives, like that girl in the book.
Or perhaps l shall go and nurse in the
hospital, like Miss Nightingale. Or else
III head crusade, and ride on white
horse, with armor and helmet on my
head, and carry a sacred flag, or if I don't
do that, I'll paint pictures, or sing, or
scalp-scalp-what is it? you know
make figures in marble. An yhow it shall
be something. And when Aunt lizzie
sees it, and reads about me in the news
papers, she will say. The dear child! I
always knew she would turn out an
ornament to the family People very
often say, afterward, that they always
knew"
The new City Hall at San Francisco
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