Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-27
body should como in, I should not
Wnnt them to think nv little Girl had a

body should como in, I should not
want them to think my little girl had a
dirty face, You know"
Nannio did not like her face washed
at any time. Sometimes. am sorry to
say, she would cry when her mother
washed her. She found Mrs. Vests
/ scrubbing and wiping with a rough
crash towel very different from her
mothers gentle touch. But Mamie did
not say anything.
After Nannie had rested while, she
ran ont to see the chickens. But to
her great disappointment she found
that the cunning little puff balls, that
flew over the grass so comically when
she saw them last, wcro now bali, grown.
scraggy, long-leggcd hens, that were
not in tho least pretty. She did not
like them any more. Then she went
through gate to pick some blackber-
ries growing by the wall, but she got n
berry. stain on her dress, md long
scratch along one of her boots. Be-
sides, there was no fun in picking ber-
ries when she could not give any to
Willie. And Mamie could not help
thinking of Willie, and wishing she had
kissed her mamma. Then she wonder
| ed where she should sleep, and ran in
to the house to ask Mrs. West.
Mrs. West went up stairs with her,
and showed her little chamber. It
was room with sloping ceiling and
without paper on the walls, and it
seemed very strange to Mamie. She
did not like the queer, cross-legged lit
tie bedstead with the patchwork quilt.
She thought it was not half so nice a.
the white-draped bed Mamie had slept
IN the night before; and she felt afraid
the sloping wall would fall down on
her while she slept. She looked very
sober as she followed Mrs. West down
| stairs.
Dear me! it was such long after
noon; and Mamie could not help
thinking Of her mamma, and how she
had said she did not love her one bit,
and had run away without kissing her;
and the tears would keep coming in
her eyes. And when it grew dusk and
supper was ready, Mamie could not
eat anything. She could not even
drink tho cup of nice milk Mrs. West
gave her.
90 DEAR" she sobbcd, leaning her
head on tho table, 81 don't want to be
your little girl and live here! I want
to be my mammals little girl, and sleep
in my own bed"
"Bless her heart! She should not
stay it she did not want to-" said Mrs.
West, lifting her into her lap and cud-
ding her in her arms. t'Don't cry any
more, dear; you shall go home and
| see your mother this very night"
But Mamie only cried and sobbed
the harder. "It'e dark and I'm ARA
aid to 60. A big black do-og barked
at me when ca-ame out here"
! There, there, dear, don't cry, aud
Joshua shall tackle up and carry YOU
home in the wagon after supper. And
Just think what nice ride YOU shall
have: SO cheer up and eat some sup
per-"
But Mamie could not eat any sup
per; and though she was glad to get
home, she did not enjoy the ride very
much, for she felt very miserable. and
homesick. When she reached home.
she forgot to thank Mr.. West for her
ride, so eager was she to run in the
house and find her mother.
30 mammal" she said, with the
tears thinning down her cheeks, twill
you let me come back to live and be
your little girl? I'll be your good lit
tie girl forever nor ever" And when
she was safely sheltered in her mammals
arms, and confessing all her grief and
remorse, she began to feel little bet
ter.
| Pretty soon Nannie's father came
home. "Bless my soul" said he, ssis
Mr.: Vests little girl, over here to-
night7"
Mamie lifted her curly head from
her mothers breast, and laughed
through her tears. 'I'm not Mr..
Vests little GIRL" abe said, II am
my own precious mammals and yours.
and I am going to live here and play
with my darling Willie.
80, I thought you were tired of
Willie I"
| Mamie IN answer slipped down from
her mammals lap and Rugged and kiss
ed Willie till he pushed her away.
Willie was only two years old, and al
though he loved Mamie dearly he did
not like to be kissed and Rugged very
long at time.
wish I could say thatever after that
Mamie Mason was such a good little
girl that she did without complaint
what her mother thought best.
It must be confessed that sometimes
her own way did seem to her . great
deal nicer than her mothers. But one
thing you may be sure, she never again
told her mother that she would 20
away and leave her. She had learned
that her mother could do better with.
out her than she could do without
her mother.