Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
FLAME.

FLAME.
FLAKES mamma stood by the
table, rolling out dough.uts. Flake
stood near, drumming on the table
with both hands as if it were on a
piano, throwing back her head and
screaming as loud as she could scream.
There, that will do said mann
ma; q am tired OF the noise"
Flake stopped singing; but her lit
Tie feelings were hurt, and she said in
a grieved tone: "Where's my papa
he loves me, but you don t.
With that she stuck both thumbs in
to a piece Of dough.
"See, mamma, you cut a cross-eyed
dOughnutp'
She called it cross-eyed'' because
the hole was not quite in the middle.
Mrs. Allen smiled at the funny idea.
ooh, FlaXie,'' said she, "Must [
tie those wee, wee hands? ''
1t was very hard doing the Satur-
days baking with this little chatterbox
at her elbow; but Dora, the kitchen
maid, had gone to see her sick mother.
At twelve she was coming back; and
at three Mrs. Allen and her husband
and Jane Abbott were going to ride.
Aunt Jane came at two, with dear lit
tie Nellie. "DOdO," said Mrs. Allen
to Dora, "yOu must watch these chill
dren every minute, for Flake is I'M
commonly full of mischief today
Yes'm," said DOdo; and she took
the children into the nursery, resolved
to do her best. In a few minutes
Flake rushed into the parlor where
her mother and auntie were seated.
and shut the door hard. But both la
dies heard Wailing in the nursery.
whats that noise in there?'' asked
mamma.
"Nellie's a-ky-in'
"What for?''
81 Striked herp'
"Why, Flake, what made YOU
'Oh, | had to, cause she wouldn't
give me the book"
When Flake did wrong she usually
said, q had to"
"Wasn't Flake a naughty. naughty
girl?''
Yes'm," replied the child, drop
ping her pretty little tow head; but she
wasn't sorry bit; you would know
that by the funny quirk around her
mouth. Mamma saw she would have
to be punished. For the first time she
shipped the little pink-and-white hands.
1t was a great surprise to Miss Flake
Frizzle, and almost broke her heart.
go, feel Orfiy," Dora heard her
say. And, by and by, she crept under
the kitchen table to the big dog Fowl
er; and said she: "Doggie, kiss baby,
baby feel very bad.'
Fowler licked her face, and a look of
tender pity came into his brown eyes.
1t comfOrted Flake. He loved baby,
and baby loved him, oh, so much bet
ter than Kitty Gray, the cat, '''cause
Kitty Gray had pins in her feet
8 oh, [ feel orfy," she moaned again,
and stole out at the side door while
DOdO was singing to Nellie. She
thought she would 90 into the stable
and tell the moolly COW how her heart
ached. But she forgot it when she saw
her papa'S horse standing at the front
gate, harnessed to the carriage. He
was called NhiZ, because he travelled
SO fast. [ don't believe there was a
horse in town that could toss his head
and fly over the road at such a rate as
Whiz; and nobody dare drive him but
Mr.. Allen.
'Oh, no." thought Flake; guess
I'll tell hossy what my mamma did to-
me-"
And she danced up to the carriage
and set her little foot on the low step.
" Who-up, hOssy, Lee me get III. My
mamma shipped my hannies; make
baby feel orfyr'
Hossy turned around, looking very
"pyeaSant." After that it didn't
take two seconds for Flake to climb
in and catch up the reins, calling
out:
Dap, Dapr'
Now, if Whiz had only been hitched,
But as he wasn't, what could he do