The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-07
TnE LITTLE FOLKS.
An OnIv Child's Tea-Party

An Only ChiIPs Tea-Party.
eribed bv Juvenile Walt whitman, in Aunt
Judy's Magazine.l
nj 90 to tea with the little Smiths, there are
eight of them there, but there's only one OF
ii makes il not as easy to have fancy tea party
as if there were two or three.
/ tea-party on my birthday, but Joe Smith
saws it can't have been a regular one,
use as to a tea-party with only one tea-cup and
no teapot, sCgar-basin, cream-jug, or slop-
basin, ne never heard of such thing under
the sun.
it was very big tea-cup, and quite full of milk
and-water, and, you see,
e wasn't anybody there who could really drink
milk-and-water except Towser and me.
dolls can only pretend, and then it washes the
paint of their lips,
what Charles the canary drinks isn't worth
speaking of, for he takes such very small sips.
ays a kitchen-chair isn't table; but it's got
four legs and top, so it would be / the back
wasn't there;
that does for Charles to perch on, and I have
to put the Prince OF Wales to lean against
it, because his legs have no joints to sit on a
chair.
is the small doll. call him the prince Of
Wales because he's the eldest son, you see;
I've taken him for my brother, and he was
mothers doll before was born, so Of course
he's older than me.
er is my real live brother, but I don't think
he's as old as the Prince Of Wales.
a perfect darling, though he whisks everything
over ne comes near, and I tell him don't
know what we should do if we all had tails
air cJrls like mine in 'front.' and he's clipped
like a lion behind, but no one need be fright
ened, for he's as good as good;
as to roaring ike real menageT1e non, or
eating people up, don't believe he would If
he could.
Is his tea out Of the saucer after I've had mine
ont n f nn
ee I'm sure to leave some for him, but if I
LET him begin first he would drink it all up.
ig doll Godmamma gave me. this birthday,
and the chair she gave me, the year be-
vent many toys, but I take great cara of
them, and every birthday I shall have
more and mOre.)
no idea what a beautiful doll she ia,
and when Ipinch her in the middle she can
squeak.
tie frightened Towser, for he didn't know
nat any of us but he and I and Charles
we're able to speak.
ken her for my only sister, for of course
nay take anybody if I choose.
lied her Cinderella, because I'm so fond Of
he story, and because she's got real shoes.
feel so lonely now there are so many of us
or, counting Cinderella, there are five
i'd ], and TOwser, and Charles, and the
'rince Of Walss-and three Of US are really
live;
Wales is wonderful for his size;
things lat least he's only got one thing take
and on, and, though he's nothing but
God, he's got real glass eyes.
'haps in three birthdays more there may be
many Of us as the Smiths. for five and
Tree make eight;
be seven years old then (as old as JOEY, but
don't like to think too much Of it, it's so
ng to wait.
er all, [ don't know that 7 want any more
us; [ think I'd ather my sister had a
hair
ne; and the next year I should like a col
for Towser, if it wouldn't wear off his
ar.
would be very nice if the Prince of Wales
luld be dressed like Field Marshal, for
rs got nothing on bis legs;
ldereIla's beautifully dressed, and TOwser
oks quite as if he'd got fur coat on when he
egs.
Us its perfectly absurd. and that I can't
Ike q P0meranian in earnest for my
,other;
on think he really and truly knows how
1uch Towser and love each other.
like his saying, g Well, there's one thing
bout your Iot-you can always have your
gn way"
he says, {" You can't possibly have fun
it'll four people when you have to pretend
hat they say.'
sateyer he says, don't believe shall ever
hoy a tea-party more than the one that we
adj On that day.