The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-13
TOMMY S PONY.
BY ELLEN M. MITCHELL.
From Demorest's Young America

4 From Demorests Young America
Oh! If you could but have seen it'll,
Tommy Perlwnkle when his uncle came
home from over the seas, anG gave him
q new, cris ,, two dollar grtenback. H.
cheeks grew redder and re0der, and III,
eyes shone like stars, ana his feet Why
they wouldn't stand still, but kept jun d.
! Ing up and down with all their might
Tommy was only seven years ol6, and
he'd never in his life had SO much money
before. And Oh! what heaps and heaps
Of thing il would buy-marbles, and
candy, and picture books, ana great
| big wax doll for has baby sister Dot, and
! he wasn't quite sure but he Thought i
was enough TO get him a little pony, just
! like jimmy Lanes, that he could ride to
water.
Tommy had never studied arithmetic,
and two dollars was an independent
fortune in his eyes, and enough tx keep
hlm in pocket no9ey the rest Of his life.
HIS uncle had told him o spend it for
just what he liked, and had gwen him
piles and piles OF the most wonderful
toys besides, real little soldiers that
could march and shoulder arms and dogs
that looked exactly as + they we're alive,
and barked and wagged their tails # you
touched >pripg, and cant begin u
describe the othel presents, there were
So many, and they came from all sorts al
countries, China, and HIndostan, and
France and Italy.
And so Tommy, when he thought OF
IL, touLd he didn't need any marbles or
picture books; nor was baby Dot in the
want OF doll, hadn't size got three? ami
Ia playhouse furnished complete from
top TO bottom? No, no, he wasn't gang
to spend his two dollars for any such
trash, and wouldn't they all be surprised
when he came home riHiEg . real live
pony that he'd bought with his own
money? He knewaof a man who had
one co sell he had heard his father talk
ing about it that morning il was Mir.
Plerson, and he lived Just out of the
village, Tommy resolved that he'd 90
and seen this pony, aud If he liked 1t.
just offer the owner the two dollar green.
back,and as TO the resat-Why, he hadn't
any doubt OF that For if the man want
cd to sell, he wouldn't be likely to refuse
money that was So Clean and new, and
fresh, end that rustled SO unsteady if
you just crumpIed it up in your hand
So, having made up his miRd, Tommy
went and asked his mother If he could
go out and take walk. He vas httle
solemn and mysterious about it, and |
shouldn't wonder il she mistrusted some
thing; but she didn't say 50, she merely
told him not to be gone long; and thai
they were going to have straw berry
shcrt-cake for supper.
"Oa, goody, goudy /" cried Tommy,
land please tell Polly To make a big one,
won't you, mamma?"
His mother smiled, and told him had
better hurry back, or his father and baby
Dot would eat it all up, lit was ever SO
big
But shall have two pieces certain,
shan'C |, mamma, if I'm good boy and
mind what you tell me?"
YES, and perhaps three" replied she.
"Only don't want my little boy to
make glutton of himself"
40 course moi" and Tommy nut Oh
on injured look. He knew the aeaning
OF the word; his mother had explained
1t to HIM some time before, and full of the
subject that was uppermnst IL his m4nd
he 10 her confdentially that Jimmy
Lanes pony was glutton."
How DO you know, my SOM" inquired
she, very much amused.
why, he is all the time examining him
self with hay and oats, and doesn't stop
eating minute, except when Jimmy
Is driving him Is water, wouldn't have
such pony as that, would you mamma?
Ponies hadn't ought to be glutSons any
more than little boys"
"Bat ponies haven't souls" returned
his mother land little boys have. And
don't you remember what said the other
day about hadn't ought'?"
"Oh, yes, that it wasn't proper. I for
! got. But 1t is time l started. isn't il.
mamma? And want you and papa and
little Dot all to be out on the front stems
when l come back. You'll be 'stonished
to see me, and think perhaps I'm Jimmy
Lane or some other little boy. And Dot
Will clap her hands when she sees the
pony" Tommy stopped all of sudden,
and shut up his mouth tight, and without
another word ran down the steps a. fast
as he could, for he didn't want his mother
to guess his secret, and hadn't he coma
very near telling her?
Just outside of the gate lie overlook a
little boy not much better than himself
with basket on his arm, full of China
toys and vases.
ooh, how pretty" said Tommy. Where
did you get Fem"
cover at the store. Went to buy any3'
and the boy began to display his wares
what you selling EN- for?" said Tom
my, amazed. Don't you ike emp
Then, new light breaking in upon him,
be added. "Oh, I know, you want to buy
a pony with the money, don't your"
GA ponyp echoed the bow. al don't