Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
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and back of the foe lying at her feet.
"See here, Caddy, hold oni What
does this mean Z" said her father, push
ing her back.
"Why, he wants to go home, and I
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; have to make him, stay:
I have to pound him u and she looked
up, and her little fists were still
clenched. .s
"See here, Lenny. you and Caddy
may play marbles )" and the doctor
lifted q painful of marbles down from
an upper shell, and gave them to the
"Caddy is SO strong and 80 positive
that she makes all the children in town
obey her and if moral suasion won't
do, she tries her fist" said the doctor,
b.. way of explanation, returning to his
table, and leaving the children playing
together amicably.
), The very next day had to 20 to the
doctors for papa's medicine. It was
Sunday, and I went across lots in o
quiet way, not to attract attention. As
I climbed mp the railroad bank q half
dozen children were gathered under q
clump OF haw trees, and heard one Of
them say, ..@s s.@a.G - 81
s.Be sthill; there's NTH Rithe, an
she'll fink we're a lot o. little hethens,
whoopin' round thith way on Thun
day!" ~.
When I came up they were still, and
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. Obi they made their legs 81
like drum sticks Cad was in swift
pursuit; poor, scared Charley, with
parted lips aud wide, white eyes,
looked back over his shoulder, and
seeing his bold pursuer gaining
ground. he ran up on the fence like O
squirrel, and escaped. .Es ~
Catldy was batiaed. She allowed her
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
an easy dog-trot, with tho CRY coming
out in convulsive jerks.
She was SO odd, SO strong and de-
termined-withal such q strange, rare
k10AN~ 1,0k S,ok4 k~1 So
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
chair 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:
SHOW, Miss Sniff, you must take
one powder every two days of the hour,
and one drop out of the bottle, and il
the pain comes on your leg any more,
you must boil it in hot water, and
baive it wiz calamint; and you may
eat a little ofeverything in the day and
night, and you'll soon be we'll again,
Miss Sniff" ''1 =.
The doctor rose and peeped through
the door, and there sat Caddy on the
floor beside the chair, busy making
powders. She had opened the differ.
ent papers of medicine, and taken q
little out of each one and put them in
the small bits of paper that were living
all around her. She had folded some
and laid them aside.
He found her once with one of her
dear little. legs quite nicely bound up
after the manner of O broken limb she
lay on her back, grooming and pretend
ing to be really in pain.
Once she shut her cat up in the doc
tors cupboard among his bottles,
closed the glass doors, and then began
swapping tho lash of q whip at 1t to
scare it away. The poor cat squalled
Ifyou'd see Caddy. the first thing
you'd say to me would be:
What beautiful brown eyes she.
has and what q Arm, we'll knit, plump
framel She appears 80 beautiful for q
three-year-old baby, only it is such d
pity that the little dear has that scar
on the end of her nose! How did she
do it, with the scissors, or her fathers
razora" ... ~
"No, not with the scissors, though
they have to be stuck in a corn-cob all
the time, to keep her from doing mis-.
chief; nor with the razor, although she
took it once and sharpened it on the
hone, and whitfield the strop like q
piece OF soft pine, and then made a
lather and shaved her legs nicely. No.
that scar wasn't made by any common
means.
When the smallpox was raging in
the cities last winter, and there was
danger in all our railroad villages of that
dread disease, nearly all the people
were vacclnated. Caddy's father did
such work every day, more or less, for
months. She would stand by and
watch him, and when any of the little
children were vaccinated and would
cry out, she would cry, and catch the
doctor around his legs and try to pull
him away. 1t hurt her to have fright
ened little children cry with pain and
fear.
Cad wouldn't be vaccinated. She
would bare her a, m, and make up her
mind to stand it like little woman i:
but as soon as her father would come
near, he would pity her, and he would
kiss her beautiful, large white arm, 10
let her see how precious she was to
him, and that he did not infliot pain
willingly. just befole he would be.
gin, Caddy would flip her fat legs for
ward, and slide down off the chair, and
be out of sight rs quickly as cunning
bright eyed mink.
She knew sho ought to be vaccinat-
cd, and was quite willing but it did
seem as if she was made up of two
Caddies, and one of them was willful
and naughty, and wouldn't mind the
good Caddy. That secnsed to be the
way of it. /
One cold day, sled-load after sled.
load of famiiief--old folks in muffiers,
and boys.and girls, and babies-drove
up to the doctors and were vaccinated,
and the the sleds circled round and
drove away again. Oaddy sat in her