The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-23

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Neither did she like going Through Gram
mar gate, all male up Of parts OF speech
and presently they got to another stile
made of large pieces Of slate. called Sum
stile, where poor Rosie almost stuck fast.
Goodchild, however, lent her Aunt In
dustry's wonderful stick to help her over,
and declared that they should soon be
at Toy Town, and showed her how to
climb up by means of step called Null
duplication table. NrW
II wish had got some shoes like
yours" said Rosie, rather mournfully,
as she tried to keep up with Goodchild.
You must get a pair" said Good
child; "for / see your shoes are made
by Mr.. Now. and-then, and those soon
wear out; but here we are at Copy cor
ner, and that leads over Dictation
downs, and then we shall soon be
there"
But at Copy corner poor Rosie sat
down to rest awhile, and Goodchild was
Xxi I'd enough to wait too for she said il
would be no fun to go into Toy Town
alone, now they had come so far togeth-
er. So while they rested, Rosie asked
Goodchild if there was anything on the
other side of Toy Town.
"Oh, yes, answered Goodchild ;"but
that's in Grown-up Land, so don't know
much about il"
"There's no Lesson-book lane there,
l suppose ?" said Rosie.
"No; at least it's not called so there.
But I've heard Aunt Industry say we
shall have to go up Hardwood hill to q
great big country called knowledge, and
that leads to-
Rosie was just going to ask what,
when all ut once she gave a great Jump,
and Goodchild was gone and III her
place stood Nurse, looking down on the
blotted copy-book, where she had been
writing delays are dangerous" before
she fell asleep.
Rose expected scolding but Nurse
only stroked her head, and said she was
too tired for lessons that hot afternoon,
and she had better brush her hair and
ran down to mamma till tea.
So Rosie ran down gladly to mamma,
and told her all the funny dream she had.
Mamma was very much amused, and said
it was all true, and work must come be-
fore play all our lives through.
"But grown-up people don't play,
mamma they would not care for Toy
Town"
eyes, but they have to work and learn
Just like little children"
"And then, mamma" 81
"Well, not exactly Toy Town, dear ;
but something we shall like better per-
haps. But for the present, Lesson-book
lane is enough for my little girl, and
Toy Town is part of the kingdom of
Wisdom as much as what comes after
ward. Aunt J,ldy's Magazine.
After Bedtime.
1t was 8 O'Clock, and the two boys were
in bed. By the two boys, 1 mean Frank
and Charlie, OF course. About fifteen
minutes after the light was put out Frank
raised himself in bed, and said
Charlie, are you asleep9"
"No, stree :" replied Charlie +" it's
so hot can't get wink" So both the
boys sat up in bed and began to make
pictures on the wall of cats, dogs, monk
eys, and everything else, for the moon
light was so bright they could get a
splendid shadow.
Just outside their window was shed
with roof nearly fiat on this they had
often climbed after balls which had fallen
into the gutter when they tried to
"throw over the house"
"What do you say to getting out and
having nap on the roof 2" suddenly
exclaimed Frank "lets try it, any
way" SO they pulled the mattress from
the bed, and, after some pretty hard
tugging, got it through the window
to the roof, and, taking the sheets, they
wrapped themselves up and tried to go
to sleep. But they were wide awake as
hawks, and decided to have game OF
tag.
Now it happened that Susan, the cook,
was out by the side gate talking to the
milkman's boy, who had just brought
the evenings milk, and, turning to go
into the house, she happened to catch
sight of the boys, and the next minute
she had opened the parlor door, and
with cheeks as white as this paper had ex
claimed, "Ghosts - and had then shut
herself into the pantry.
4 So papa went out but, as the boys
hid themselves behind the chimneys, he
couldn't see anything at all. But nam
ma, who always Knew where mischie
originated, went up stairs to the boys
room, where the empty bed and glance
out of the window told the whole story
Papa shut the window until the boy,
promised never again to turn the roo
into bedroom, and then he went down
to tell Susan, and found that she lac
been sitting in the open -four bucket I'm
til she looked like q bigger ghost THAI
any of them.-NeW York Tribune.
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