Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-01
THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKYS.


WHAT "happy go-luckys" those chill
dren, Sara and Allie and frankie, were!
They had ever so many funny things
happen to them, and this [ have to tell
you was one Of the funniest
1t is possible there may be some other
little children in family somewhere
having these very same names, and if
there are they will laugh when they see
them in this story, | guess
These children lived in a great white
house on the top of the hill, with big
trees all around it full of birds nests and
singing leaves; and up and down the
walks were lovely flowers. Their mamma
had taught them to love all such beautiful
things because the good God gave them to
be loved-so the little ones handled the
sweet flowers very tenderly and never
broke them or trampled on them.
They had pretty play-room up at the
head of the back stairs, but when it was
pleasant they liked a great deal better to
be out of doors in the great yard, where
the barn and carriage-house were, and
where Mrs. Cackle kept house up in one
corner. | could tell you a great many
stories about their playhouse, and very
funny one about Mrs. Cackle, but have
another one for this time.
All you who are children now know
that one Of these days you will be house
keepers; and when your mammas are busy
washing windows and paint. taking up
carpets, taking down pictures and brush
ing the walls, and are up to their elbows
IN suds, besides ever so many other busy
kinds Of things, you will know that all
this means house cleaning, and are things
that every neat person has to have done.
That's what their mamma was doing
when Allie and Sara and Frank were out
playing one day.
Oh, what bright day it vast The air
was very soft, and the leaves in the trees
were dancing and singing a merry tune
The grass was so green on the hill, with
the little yellow buttercups peeping up
through it and winking their bright eyes,
that the children sat right down in it, to
"have a talk" they said You don't
know how they could talk! They were
very tond of 6 making up stories," and if
| should tell you the story that little
frankie told that day I know you would
laugh. You see he used to hear his sisters
tell them, ana the dear mite of fellow
thought he could "make up" one as well
as they. 1t was such very little one
of I will toll IL
straight up into the sky, and says he:
Il see a lorse's head coming through
the clouds, and he's got gold eyes and
gold spots all over him!"
Sara and Allie rolled in the grass, it
made them laugh so, but frankie didn't
care bit. So they talked till Sara spied
a carpet their mamma had been having
shaken, and it was all clean and nice. A
cunning thought came into her wise little
head, but she couldn't do anything with
it unless Allie and Frank would help her.
But they liked her plan so much when
she told them, that up they all jumped
and started for the carpet. The hill was
in their papa's grounds, and they often
ran up and down it, and in winter many
a nice coast did they have there on their
sleds.
1t was pretty steep and quite long, and
at the bottom of it there was what they
called a hunam0ck, because when they
coasted down and got as far as that they
always bumped right off their sleds, and
it was fine fun.
Now just see what these " happy-go-
luckys" did. They all took hold and
dragged the carpet as well as they could
to the starting point of the sleds in winter,
and then with their little chubby hands
they spread it out.