Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-10-11

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AGE ush!' whispered Teddie, with
yI4E& his finger on his lips, papa is
NIk asleep
Horrie. putting, and out of breath; 81
guess am going to have my kite
You must not come in now,' whis-
pered Teddie through the door crack,
holding the door as tightly as possible
with his little chubby hand. Il am keep
ing everybody away; I'll get the kite
So HOrrie stuck his hands in his pock-
cts, and whistled and waited, swinging
round this way and that way, first on
one foot and then Oh the other.
'Hush!' whispered Teddie, slipping
the kite through the crack. Your boots
squeak, they do
But away scampered Horrie, clicking
his heels at every step; untangling his
body and fixing his strings, and stum-
| bling over Aunt Susan's rocking ehair r,
carrying clatter every inch of the way.
| Hardly had the door-latch click ed be-
hind him, when a merry little voice,
laughing in great glee, came nearer and
nearer up the lane and in at the bowed
| shutters. There she comes now,' said
Teddie to himself, peeping through the
lattice. 'I'll just 60 this minute and
| meet her.
| But before he could tip-toe to the door,
the big latch in the hall came up with a
click. and bustling, frizzle<fleaded lit
tie girl came bouncing in, just COM
mencing some exclamation, when she
spied Teddie on his tip-toes and his fin
ger OH his lip.
| my! what's the matter, Teddie? she
said, all earnestness in minute; shas
| that 1rno6tnl hoo1aaho 10
again?'
Il NO. he said, laughing and pulling
her out the door, and further and furth-
er along the porch, and peeping into the
tiny lunch basket that was brimful OF
red cherries. You aid get them! What
a lot! Why no, nobody is sick; only
papa came in from his work So tired
! looking, and when he sat down on the
settee. got him pillow, without say
ing anything, and tucked it up in q
bunch in the corner, and i'm two minutes
he was sound, sound asleep: and rve
been keeping everybody still so that he
could get a good long rest
RI And you never came to get single
cherry. Oh my, but we had lots, and
F lots, and lots land Lucy Watson! she
. got twice as many as 1 did; and yor
, could have had some too If you just haG
come right on after Lucy and me, uI
the road, as you said you would
Teddie looked very sober as she wen
ON, And now you cannot have any al
all, for Mike has picked the very last
single one he can, because he's going tt
Denvers to market, and nobody can ge
them but Mike; and, beside, MANN;
will not let you 60 when there is no
body there like Lucy Watson and me, t,
see to you.'
The tears were pretty nearly in Ted
q dies eyes, but he tried to keep then
. back, and still the frizzled, brown heat
went on bobbing up and down, and ev
+ cry way over the cherry basket, Will
the tongue trotted on, too, as fast a
possible.
el You see could not spare you mine
n for must have them for luncheon to
= morrow might spare you four. may
2 be, and maybe Lucy might spare yo,
: six; that Understanding her finger
r -'let me see, why, it would be quite
= lot! six and four make ten; but jus
o do think you might have gone to ge
i your own and
But, sister, broke i'm Teddie, Il dom
2 want yours a bit, only just to taste.
!, did want to 60, but then you know pap
2 was SO tired, and there was nobody t
o take care about the noise: and you mus
o not speak so loud low; it will jus
4 wake him right up, after ALL
h But, as it happened papa had beel
q awake several minutes and had come t
r the window just in time to see the littl
# frizzle head thrown back laughing an,
v shaking at the idea of any body so littl
: as Teddie staying home from the cherr,
: tree to take care of anybody so big a
r papa; i'm time, too, to see a tear rOl
4 down the little brown cheek, as Teddi
+ tip-toed back to the hall door, his hear
+ almost breaking between thinking OF tn
. lost cherries and of being so little h
could do no good to any one SO big a
a papa. But when Teddie peepcd softl
e in the door and saw papa looking brigl
4 and refreshed after his good sleep, an
: felt the kiss which said, My little Ted
d die has done all, all this for me- plaine
!, than any words could, he forgot a
4 about being SO very little, and kne,
o that to give happiness was in truth t
n receive it, and that, though only slittl
d Teddie, he had done papa good.