Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-16
\ CHILDREN'S CORNER,
= Baby's Bed.

= 3aby's Bed.
BY 3. NJ. wALCH.
Dainty ana white is the little spread,
Cool and smooth is the tiny bed,
Curtaincd with MEETINGS so airy and light,
Not fly can hide himself from sight;
And there the baby shall sleep. sleep, sleep,
While mother and angels their watch do keep;
Mother and angels shall watch together
I'll through the sultry summer weather,
Flccciest blankets shall make the spread,
And downcst feathers tho little bed
Where baby, our darling, shall swectly reposc,
Warm TO tho tips OF her cunning wee toes;
When the wintry winds shall blow, blow, blow,
And NIL the world be white with snow;
And mother and angels still watch together
All through tho frosty winter weather.
Affair with the Gulls.
ny MRS. ABBY MORTON DIAz.
In this story will be given true and
exact account of the Jimmyjohns' affair
with the gulls, also of the manner in
which Jimmy was turned out of the
little red house at the sea shore. The
account wilt begin at the time of their
leaving homo. It will explain the
reason of their going, and will, in fact,
tell everything that happened to them
ust exactly as it happened.
Mr.. Plummer, their father, had
bought some hay, at = place called
Stony Point, near the sea-shore and
one day he sent Ellis Payne, with the
OK cart. to finish making the hay and
bring it home. Mr.. Plummer told Ellis
Payne that he himself should be riding
that way a bout noontime, and would
carry him . warm dinner. He started
lust after eating his own dinner Ellis
Payne's Was put in . six-quart tin pail.
It being Saturday, Mr.. Plummer took
the Jimmyiohns along. Their mother
said they might play at Stony Point till
Ellis Payne came home, and then. ride
back on the hay. Mr.. Plummsr was
going to the mill.
Now, the road turned of to the mill
q short distance before reaching Stony
Point, and Mr.. Plummef. to save time.
told the Jimmyjohns they must Jump
out there, and carry the pail to Ellis
Payne, and he would keep on to the
mill, and then he could take in the
umbrella,man who was turning up that
same road. He stopped to have q little
fun with the twins, jumped them out
OF the wagon, tried to guess which was
which, and, when told, turned them
round and round to mix them up, then
tried to- guess again, and would have
tossed up cent and said, "Heads.
this is Jimmy, tails, this is Johnny. /"
as he sometimes did, only that The
horse seemed in somewhat Of q hurry.
MIR. Plummer showed the little boys
ascraggy tree, which grew on the edge
OF bank, near the Shore and told
them they would see the oxen az soon
as they turned tho corner where that
tree grew. One took hold on one side
of the pail, and the other on the other,
and in that way they walked along the
shore, keeping pretty close to the
bank. 1t took them only about five or
ten minutes to reach that tree, and
when the corner was turned, they saw
the oxen plainly, but could not see
Ellis Payne. They kept on, walking
more slowly, the way being more stony,
and at last came to the oxen: Ellis
Payne was not there. The reason Of
his not being there is as follows. Two
fields away from the shore stood q
small red house all alone by itself. in
which lived an old woman with her
young grandson. The young grandson
fell from q chamber window. and broke
q bone, aud the old woman ran to the
shore screaming for help, and Ellis
Payne had left his work, and gone to
find out what was the matter. =
The Jimmyjohns, seeing some oxen
L.
thought perhaps those first oxen were
not the right ones, and kept on farther
to those other ones. They turned
down and walked quite near the water.
picking up pretty pebbles as they went
along, and now and then q cookie shell
or scallop. or purple muscle. Some
OF the shells were single, others in
pairs, which you could open like a
cracker. They had q reason for pick>
ing up the scallops and muscles, which
there is no time to mention here.
Though after all, perhaps it may a.
well be told here. Annette Pltmmer
was going to have party, and she had
not enough scalloped shells to bake her
cakes in. The cookies were for Ef1e to
put in her arm basket. The Jimmv-
johns picked up enough of all kinds to
till their pockets, then took of their
hats and filed those. By that time
they had come to the spot where the
oxen had stood. But no oxen were
there, then, and no man; 50 there was
nothing better to do than to. play in
the sand and sail clam shell boats in
the little pools. It was a warm day.
the water looked cool, and the little
Jlmmles, as they. beheld the rippl,no
waves, felt just like wading in, So (
was of with shoes and off with stock. !
1ngs; roll up trowsers' legs, and away
WITH q run and a shout and . dash md
splash and , spatter. A little wav
ont from the shore there was q hioh
rock. Not SO very, very high, lust the
night hfish TO give them a good seat !:
and they sat down there, feet in The
water, heads together, looking down
into the water, Watching the fries dart-
ing about 20 swiftly. u
comes H. A' S sSd eo are P1 iare 81
sea-o'rds' They live upon fish, and
they are their own fishermen. Some,
may eau this the funny part of tho
story, though those who are ever in
n s9ch Z. : story nay not call it the funny
The white-winged gulls were flvino
ABOUT; At e a common. thing, atseas;de
places, to- see gulls flying about md
sk1mmlng over the wafer Sometime
they dip in their bills and take a All,
The Jimmyjohns sat looking down.
keeping very still, so as not to scare
the trles away, Just what the Qulls
thought of them, no one knows. and Il
can never be known, for there il no
way of finding out eull's thouohts
w1dshs els! q pity, t would I1'b bss n' ~
CURIOUS to know lust what thav ~
think about, and how thew think Il
ferhaPs those that belong to this story
thought the two Jimmyjohns were two
great fishes, exactly alike, or perhaps
they thought hair would be rood TO
line nests with. But, whatever they
thought, this is what they did. Flew
down, swift and sudden, upon the
boys heads, tapped their great wings
in their faces, clawed their hair. bent
with their beaks. Tho little fellows
screamed, jumped, fell down, scrambled
up, ran, fell down, then up again, got
to the shore some way, ran over the
sand, over the pebbles, over the stones. |
over the rocks, across wet grass. no q |
bank, through a field, screaming ali |
the time, as if the gu1is were chasing !
them every step of the way. But. no |
doubt, the gulls had been Just as much
frightened as the boys; for thew had
hown away faster than they came, out
OF: sight, far over the sea. The jim
mics sat down on the grass, in the
warm sunshine, and rubbed their