Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-06-12

crafty llkcu me Spunu ne gave IL.
l said no, didn't wish they were COM
ing right back for was thinking alb Jut
the vanilla corn-balls. Aud Trollo said lie
didn't know As he did either.
"l}ut you're to be good, you know" said
|.
| felt very old aud superior to Trolo, and
rather liked il 10 feel that could order
him around for two days.
81 hadn't said wasn't, had II" said
Trollo, firing up 10 begin with.
Then fired up little, aud tJld him ho
was TO behave himself at all events and
that was the beginning OF ii. thought AZ
terwards it would have been nicer in me
not to have preached at him before he'd had
n chance t. behave one way or the other
But didn't think of ii at the time. Boys
don't, you know.
So we both sulked little, and Trolu
went to school; but when he'd come homo
10 dinner we'd got over it, or very nearly.
We only quarreled about his piece Of pie
! lie said it was bigger than mother let him
| have. And We got out the fOot-rule and a
| tape measure, aud measured ii off. Then
| lie ate it down in three mouthfus, to pay
me for that
didn't 60 TO school myself. | was 10
| stay and watch the house, and look amer
the horse, and 50 forth; for it was only two
| day, and ! could study at home, aud such
a thing might never happen again. And
| Keziah Phipps came over and got dinner
and went away again, and came again TO
supper and stayed all night. Keziah Phipps
was our nearest neighbor; sh0 lived quar-
ter Of a mile away. Ours was rather a lone
some house, with pine trees in tho front
yard and long stretch of fields behind,
where the snow driflcd; il always drined
in the road by our house, too. We lived
on Il very windy road.
1t was a cold day, aud the wind blew pret-
ty high. Trollo came Ia from school tho
last time that afternoon with red checks,
aud as full of mischief A. he could hold.
lie stamped oil the snow III the entry and
dung his mittcns at me when told him
not to. one Of them hit me in the eye.
Trollo was a good alma 1.-the, little
quck-cycd chap, always up 10 something.
con, | didn't mean -" lac said when
the milen hit.
But ! was mad. Hdidu't hurt me much
bat I'll been having a cold time with the
horse aud had spilled the pigs supper, and
| | SUPPOSE, didn't feel like myself exactly
FROM not going To school as usual, bu; loaf
ing around aud sitting by the fire SO much
At any rate, ] was mad. So | shook him
lie didn't say much and, / don't think
he cared much. He'd como home A. wild
A. witch, and there wasn't anything ht
wasn't ready to do 10 make mischief tina
night. And because was mad, he would
MT mind me.
lie tied his rubber boots Ia the door bell
lie stuffed his wet mittens down my neck
lie set the cat into the platter, eat, bone
aud all upon the table, when Heziah Phipp
had begun 10 eat. lie ran out with a new
squash ie to give To the horse, and drop
ped it aud fell on it before he got there. II,
put salt in my tea, and sugar on my pick
les, aud green wood on the fire aud wheT
/ sculdcd him, be whistled.
Then, ailer tea, we sat down to study
Somehow, everything that Trullo did seem
ed to me wrong that night. lie banged hi
boots against the table leg. He wouldn'
put on his slippers. His nails were dirty
he wouldn't clean them. He asked Kczial
for another piece Of cake, and, afer all h
had done, he got it. lie sang "Hail Col
umbia' ON very Hat squeak for twent.
minutes. lie sat down ON the cat. IL
wouldn't brush his hair. He got Keza
to show him his sums. lie flung sofl-pil
lows at the ceiling, and they came down o.
the custzrd batter. He seemed to me tn
most disagreeable boy ever knew. Whe
he went TO bed told him so.
remember how he looked, standing
with our little brass bed-lamp in his han
in the entry, TO say goodnight. 1t wa
: lamps that gave almost no light. His fac
looked dim and odd behind ii in the dar
: entry.
lie started 10 say something, but gave
t up and didn't speak only laughcd,-an
: trotted oil up stairs, Kicking his boots o
aud letting them drop down through Il
balusters. lie was merry, happy g
4, lucky little chap. II ho minded anything
, lie wouldn't say 50. If you were cross
0 him, he might plague you; but he wouldn
' scold great deal himself.
The next morning it was the same.
was very dark morning, and showing
a slow, hard way. We woke late, aud
had TO hurry Trollo up. don't suppose
was very gentle. And he threw pillows
; me, and when | ordered him down to sec
Keziah had got break fast, he hid my toot
brush. l needn't have ordered him arour
y so much, but | thought that was part
'' the fun Of having father and mother GOn
u rather liked it to be ahle TO say "yC
must and "you mustn't" to Trollo.
didn't occur To me to wonder how Trol
i liked il.
Well, it was one thing and another b
tween Trollo aud me till school time. Su,
y little things they seem now! But they d
- not seem little TO me then. l was cross al
y cold. And l was afraid Keziah PhipI
old man wouldn't get his back up after a
% aud We shouldn't get our corn-balls. Al
IS everything hit me, somehow, just I
N crook ed way. You know how II is or
@, cold morning. Not that l want TO excu
o myself | wouldn't excuse myself for I
ar wide, wide world, for what / said TO Tro
r at the last.
ne He'd Ilagued me abou. his luncheon
- for il was SO snowy Keziah thought he
s. better stay over Till allernoon,- l thong
OF he plagued me. He nibbled at the pie, a
e. took squash cookey Keziah made for II
1t And when | told him how much ir al
III he was. lac said:
n "IIee-hc-he ee-eew
~ ~ lie had funny way of laughing o.
." like waterfall or little bell, or lit
shower. When | felt pleasant, l liked
~ hear him laugh. When | didn't, IL did
II make me any pleasanter.
er Its nothing to laugh at" said I.