Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-09-28

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My father brought me home pudding-pan to
make little puddings In. 1t doesn't hold very
much it holds most cupful. And Joey Moon
beam is going to have party; and when she
does, my mother is going to show me how to
make a pudding in it. Joey Moonbeam is my
very great rag baby. She has got anew hat.
made it. Cousin Hiram says he is going to draw
picture of it on Joey Moonbeam's head in my
diary, before she wears it all out. Betsey Ginger
ia going to have some now clothes to wear to
joey Moonbeam's party, and Dorothy Beeswax
is going to have one new arm sewed on. Susan
Sugarspoon and Eudor N. Posy and Jenny Pop
over are not careful of their clothes, and 30 they
cannot have some new ones. N. stands for
Nightingale. Dear Little Polly Cologne was
the very smallest one of them all. She was the
baby rag-baby. She was just AZ cunning, and
she had hair that wasn't rayelingB. 1t was hair,
and all the others have ravelings. Her cheeks
were painted pink. She had four bib aprons, and
she had feet. We don't know where she is. Ro-
ver--that little dog that we used to have-car-
ried her of in his mouth and she is lost. Rover
went away to find her when told him to, and
he did not come back. We don't know where
Rover ia We think somebody stole him, or
else he would DO heard of. We feel very sorry;
he was good little dog. My father says he was
only playing whom he carried her Off.
love all my rag-babies. | love Snip, but not
30 much as do Rover. j love dear little baby
love Enle, and love my mother and father, and
Grandma Plummer. 1 don't love Aunt Debby.
Aunt Dolby does not love little girls. When
little girls have pudding-pan, Aunt Debby says
1t III all nonsense for them to have them. My
mother said might have plums in my pudding.
/ like TO pick over raisins. Sometimes my moth
or let's me eat six, when L pick them over, and
sometimes she let's mo eat eight Then l shut
up my eyes and pick all the rest over with them
shut up, because then cannot see how good
they look. Grandma Plummer told me this way
to do. Ellie il not big enough. She would put
them in her arm-basket. She puts everything
the time, and carries it to the table and up to
bed. My mother hangs it on the post Of her
crib When she sits up to the table, she hangs
il on her chair.
am going to toll what Ellie puts in her arm
basket. Two curtain rings; one steel pen she
found; some spools; some strings; one bottle-it
used TO be smelling-bottle; my fathers letter
when he was gone away;a little basket that Hiram
made of II nutshell; head OF one little china
doll; Betsey Beeswax sometimes, and sometimes
one of the other ones; a peach-stone to plant; n
glass eye of bird that was not live one, and a
pill-box, and piece OF red glass, and pink cali
co, and an inlIstand, and her beads, and foot
of doll.
We are going to have pumpkin for dinner-I
mean squash. joey Moonbeams parts il going
to be a soap-bubble party.
Sometimes Clarence stops to play with us when
he comes here. My mother says he is very
good boy. His father il dead; his mother is sick
| 30 is his little brother. He has got two little
| brothers and two little sisters. They do not
| have enough TO eat lie comes here to get the
| cold victuals my mother has done using.-Mrs.
| Abby Morton Didz, IN 81. Nicholas for October.