The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-25
My Little NeighbOr.

1 sat in the doctors office, waiting
for prescription to be filed. He was
busy telling me how young Darby bore
the amputation of his leg, when we were
startled by rumbling and a tumblng
, down stairs, and the humping of chill
dren's heads and Joints against the
balusters and the steps.
The doctor hurried to the door. There
stood his baby daughter, Caddy, bend
ing over the PROSTATE form of a little
boy, good deal bigger than herself.
She had made little round, hard fists,
and was pecking away at the head and
back of the foe lying at her feet.
See here, Caddy, hold on What
does this mean ?" said her father, push
ing her back.
Why, he wants to go home, and
/ don't low him to % and the child
looked up at her father as though she
were the most aggrieved baby in the
world.
"Well, that is not the way to make
him stay you should coax and pet him,
and let him play with your kitty, and
then he'll like to stay" said her father.
''He won't; l have to make him
stay L have to pound him - and she
looked up, and her little fists were still
clenched.
"See here, Lenny, you and Caddy
may play marbles :" and the doctor
lifted painful of marbles down from an
upper shelf, and gave them to the
child.
"Caddy is 50 strong, and so positive,
that she makes all the children in town
obey her; and if moral suasion won't
do, she tries her fists" said the doctor,
by way of explanation, returning to his
table, and leaving the children playing
together amicably.
The very next day had to go to the
doctors for papa's medicine. 1t was
Sunday, and l went across lots in quiet
way, not to attract attention. As /
climbed up the railroad bank half
dozen children were adhered under a
clump of haw trees, and heard one of
them say,
9 Be sthill there's NTH Rithe, an
she'll find we're a lot o little hevens,
whoopin' round thith way on Thun-
day 70
When I came up they were still, and
had demure faces and folded hands.
Just then my attention was caught by
two little ones running toward the haw
trees with all their might. One was my
little neighbor, Caddy, with ready-made
fists, and she was chasing Charley Reed.
Oh they made their legs fly like drum
sticks ! Cad was in swift pursuit poor,
scared Charley, with parted lips and
wide, white eyes, looked back over his
shoulder, and seeing his bold pursurel
gaining ground, he ran up on the fence
like quirrel, and escaped.
Caddy was baffled. She allowed hei
fists to loosen, and make dear little,
dumpy, puffy hands. Her lower Lip
fell and quivered, and, conquered, she
cried right out, and started home on al
easy dog-trot, with the cry coming out
in convulsive jerks.
She was so odd, so strong, and de.
termined-withal such strange, rare
baby, that l was interested in her. She
was always doing something strange
like no other baby. Once her father
came in from visiting patient, and left
his overcoat and medicines on a chat,
while he ate his dinner. When he was
quite done eating he happened to notice
Caddy talking to herself in an adjoining
room. She was saying:
"Now, Miss Sniff, you must take one
powder every two days of the hour, anG
one drop out of the bottle, and if tn,
pain comes on your leg any more, yor
must boil it in hot water, and baive i
wiz calamint 4; and you may eat little
of everything in the day and night, an(
You'll soon be we'll again, Miss Sniff
The doctor rose and peeped through
the door, and there sat Caddy on tn,
floor beside the chair, busy making
powders. She had opened the ditferen
papers of medicine, and taken a littl,
out of each one and put them in tn,
small bits of paper that were lying al
around her. She had folded some an,
laid them aside.
He found her once with one of he
dear little legs quite nicely bound afte
the manner of broken limb ; she la.
on her back, grooming and pretendin,
to be really in pain.
Once she shut her cat up in the doc
tors cupboard among his bottles, close'
the glass doors, and then began snap
ping the lash of whip at it to scare
away. The poor cat squalled wit
fear.
If you'd see Caddy, the first thin
you'd say TO me would be:
What beautiful brown eyes she has
and what firm, well-knit, plumb
frame She appears so substantial 10
a three-year.old baby, only it is such
pity that the little dear has that sea
on the end of her nose How did sh
do it? With the scissors, on he