Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-04-17

over IL, men Suuueu SIcaI ou'Cly
came from the kitcln regions. We
heard scream from ook, and sort
of scattering rush OF into the base
ment hall, and the1a screech, as if
they had pounced up chicken.
! Lizzie started up blko ?lessly. "lf
it should be that childNsAe exclaim-
ed. "Nazie! Jet. Rtt't you know
that voice." i
! We sprang up withtrs asking to be
Excused, and rushed ot'rr INTO the hall,
where the first thing 5, saw was cook
struggling up the base, mt stairs, and
dragging, sure enough. ,ur poor little
Shanghai with her. t.
I've got her, miss I've got her."
she screamed. Il spis her goin' past
the windy, an jumrd at her fore
she had time to run"
Il warn't agoin' to nn-now cried
the child, trying to sake herself out
of cooks grasp. 81 as comm here
a purpose to give thtyoung lady her
thimble wot | found the rags. You
lemme 90, | say
And all in a secor1 she had twisted
herself out of her oil, jacket, that she
left in cooks hands, nd darted away
to Lizzie.
Heres your Misunderstanding it
into her hand-"it's gold. amt it,
Mum tried to grab ityhen it rolled ont
. the rags, but hoo ed it an run, COS
| thought you'd be W.ntin' it. Guess
YOU dropped it in the lasket with them
rags YOU picked up ot the floor.
SO there it was, as dear as daylight.
| had let the thimbl, slip off my fin
ger,-it Was rather large for me, any
how,-when | was sitting those fan
mel scraps into the basket, and the
poor little monkey Aat We had been
abusing for a thief, hal rescued it from
NUNS clutches, and Jraved her wrath
10 restore il to rs!
1t seemed at first % impossible tc
believe, that we eid only stare al
each other, arfssfS.Did YOU ever
urs Pom - a. frs, one I,
itl,1 161A& A-~ o.
You're ain little girl ,h'
began, ''and bh~ssle girl. Io'
shall certainly-I
But, before she ii finish her sen
tence, that child IL Erupted her.
Il amt honest little girl aint I
brave little girl I Mt girl at all.
he ierked ont '1'ri boy. am, an
don't care what Mum saws. aint ago
! inc to have no more nonsense aboutit.
And held up his head and spread on
/ his comical little legs with such lord
Iof-creation air,-wcl. You never SAY
anvthing like il, an, its no use tryin:
to describe it, or to cypress our amaze
ment. Catharine declared afterwards
that it made her fee all over in spots
whatever that means; and cook sal,
that at bate Banagher, 10 see the i'm
pidence of Il little spider like that. =
/ But Maize turned TO he in her limo
cent way:
Il told you it talked like a boy.
said she; now YOU see"
Well, we inquired, of course, VIII,
1T wore a frock, and made prctenc
of bting a girl; and We were informed
with a condescending air. that il wa
.'iust a notion of NUNS. She sait
girls was more noticed than BOYS. an,
ladies would ruther give 'em the rags.
/ His own mother was dead, he went OF
to explain, and Mum had kept hin
two wears, and made him beg for her
But he was going to ''cut ii" now, ant
do something else for living. "lIe',
have to keep ont of NUNS way afte
this, or she'd make jelly of him. An
if the lady could give him a old pair q
trowzes, he'd be VERY much obliged
an he would't trouble her no more.
Mrs. Pomeroy asked him what h
meant to do for Il living, and, as hi
answer was not perfectly satisfactory
she concluded to keep the monkey il
the house till Mr.. Pomeroy came home
He was made very comfortably in tn
kitchen, with a plate of strawberrie
and unlimited bread and butter; an
to come to the end of my story, he ha
been very comfortable ever since.
The Pomeroys are the best in tn
world, l do believe. They took pain
to hunt up "Mum," and find on
whether she really had any right t
the boy; and she hadn't, and was IA
awful old creature besides, and every
thing the little "what-is-it" said wa
true. So it ended in his being seat
some respectable people in the cour
1 try, to be civilized little; aid whe