Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26

behind thom. Sometimes it is hard work
to squeeze myself behind little ones, tor |
IN, great evil, and must wait until chill
dren are quite grown up before can pos
scss them fully. Now 1 have come from
Il chill: named Bessie, II wonderful little
girl, who could say all the cruel things III
tao dictionary witht ut w!nking, and think
Il thousand wicked things she did not daro
aercss out of her; but one day IL good
angel came aud
Here the voice WAS drowned by Il cho-
rus of knocks, rolls, and raps, and, though
Daisv listened with al her cars, she
couldn'@ cltch another word but IS Sh,
sat listening and waiting, she saw tho
blue ball stir as il making an effort to
move; then s!,c saw it roll and wr,hc like
II round snake in aud out among tho balls,
until 1T last it stopped directly in front Of
her, ami dropped low courtesy in the
most approved style.
"llerc iss polite spiri, at lcast,' though,
Daisy IL guess no must have been edu-
Gated in boarding school ;'.anI she waited
with great interest to hear him say:
IL am tho spirit Of lying; go about
catching small red tongues; and such /.
number us | have, to be sure Oh, my
tongues, my tongues, if you could only
hear them ali going u, once! how they
stutter and slanmcr, how they cl;,ttcr and
gun, making such IL discord all oyer tho
world, delightful discorl; the louder
he better for me, for am !, wicked soul,
tand take l. pleasure III making others us
bad rs myself Quo Of my ton CUES WIS so
wicked decided TO make u home in its
little mouth; and abeautiful homo it was,
will. wondsctul pcArly doors, and such !.
cunning little nose tor il chimney, with
eyes like the blue sky shining out above.
Oh, tho lies that tongue could Tell! white
lies and black lies, tiny sly tibs and great
broad talsehoods. Why, somctlmcs
thought they would smash my pcarly
doors into fragments before they got out"
"OA dear"' thought Daisy, IL better
keep my mouth shut M very tight, and
not ask any questions, lest this wicked
spirit shonlu como into me. There's one
consolation, my nose wouldn't make a
pretty chimney, it's too turned up, and my
teeth arc too uneven for nice doors; be-
sides l would bite dreadlully 50, Mr.
Lying, you better keep away from me.
wonder if these spirits answer questions
l do 50 want to know some things; wan
to know if-psl,:sw! l won't be afraid
So she began in !. firm voice: "Was the
little girl afraid ofyou?"
"No, she never stopped to think of tho
evil i'll her words; in fact don't thinl
she knew WAS there"
There was literally pounded out o
Bluo's squcaky wooden throat by Black
who came bouncing down upon it from
the box cover, and rushing about SO VIC
lently rs to get quite out of breath, an,
make it difficult tor Daisy to understand
him at all, the words rushing and bobbin!
against each ether pell-uell, as if in til,
greatest hurry t; get cut.
"My name is Anger; have come from
a child named Mamie filed her hear
with passion: + filled her mouth with BAT
words, l fillod her arms up to her finger.
tips, until sho scratched and fought like .
tigrcss and one day when she was play
ing at croquet, flashed out Of her brlsl,
eyes: and flew into this black ball
| Daisy was quite glad to, hayo Ange
finish his speech, and drew !. long sigh O
sympathy for that little Mamie; when sh,
heard the most exquisite music. At frs
it sounded far of and faint, like the dream
Of u sweet sound; but as it came ncare
she knew it to DO the echo Of u still small
voice, the voice of tho White ball, and tn
voice said:
81 am tho Spirit of Love. My home j
in the hearts Of all good children. Oh
my dearest little hearts, how beautiful 70,
are, boating with tender pity, throbbin!
with kindness and charity! am neve
tired Of your purity and innocence, an,
long to get back into the soul Of SOM
lovely child-such child as once know
and dweIt in. l lived in her lovin;
thoughts, smiled in her sweet eyes, CLEAN
ed in her shining curls, and filled hc
whole life, until one day, when sho wa
trying to make peace at croquet, flew
out with her kind words into this whit,
ball"
Daisy was SD pleased at this that sh.
took the white ball and pressed it tenlerl,
to her heart.
"Take us, take US ALSO" cried the Other
balls; but Daisy replied in great haste:
No, no, go away from me-, you naughty
wicked spirits, aud go. away from M,
balls. Poor things said she, they ]ool
SO battered and bruised must take then
out in tho garden, aud lay them among
the soft sweet violets, where they Cal
hear the fountains splash, the bees hum
and the birds sing. Surely these bae
spirits cam t stay in such sweet society,"
And Daisy started for the violet bee
and ran straight into the angels te.-tablt
before she woke up, and realized that i
was all Il dream but the parrot heard hel
say us she went out, " shall be careful
how lend my corquet to bad children
after this,