The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-03
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ruShIng ABOUT Will Daico on lulu VI uohS,
and she thought there must be million
ships at least. Their tall masts ran up
SO high that Mamie almost tumbled
backward trying to see their tops.
Now that very morning Mamie had
been teazing her papa to buy her little
dog with bright black eyes and curly
hair all falling over them, and he said A:
"Does my little girl want to know
when she can have her dog!'
eyes, SIR"
"Well, when my ship comes in"
said papa.
OF course, when Mamie saw SO many
ships, she thought her papa's must have
come in Mt last, 80 she walked along until
she came to one whose masts went up
higher than any of the others. A pleas
ant-looking man, with gold band
around his cap, stood near.
If you please, sir," said Mamie, " Is
this my papa's ship, cause he's expecting
it."
"Capt. Williams" shouted the young
man, "here's lady who wants to see
you."
So a jolly-looking man, with red cheeks
and brass buttons on his coat came up.
"What is it, my little LADY," he
asked.
81 want my dog, if you please papa
said he'd give me Ope when his ship
came in, and this real nice one must be
his"
"Come with me and I'll see," said
Capt. Williams.
So they walked up plankway to the
ell, oil hn fnnRhad their
caps as Mamie went by. They walked
across the smooth, clean deck, and down
a stairway to the cabin. The brass rails
We're all shining so bright that Mamie
told the Captain she should really tell
her papa how nice they kept things in
his ship, and perhaps he would give the
Captain two or three dollars week more.
Capt. Williams laughed as if he never
would stop, and then he took Mamie all
over the ship, and showed her the little
beds where the sailors slept, and the
big anchors and everything.
But where's nay dog? asked Ma
mie.
"Oh, yes, forgot" said the Captain |;
SO he went and unlocked little place no
bigger than one of mammals closets at
home. But there was bed and wash
stand in it, too, and lying on q rug at
the foot of the bed were two little brown
puppy dogs fast asleep.
"One is for my little girl at home,"
said Capt. Williams, "and the other
must be for you ;" 30 he called young
man who was very polite and told him
to tie strap to the collar OF one Ut the
puppies. 49,.
Williams "one for his head and one
for his tail, and one for each of his legs"
BY this time the little dog was oil ready.
"Now run right home" said the Cap
tain land ask your papa If his ship has
come in.
"Of course it has," said Mamie, "but
l don't know where my home is. Cant
you come Z"
She knew her name, 80 they found out
where she lived by asking the Directory,
and Capt. Williams went home with her,
and papa and mamma were so delighted
to get their little girl once more, and
they all liked the Captain 80 well that he
stayed to tea, and only went back again
when Mamie went to bed.
And now want to know If you think
papa's ship really came in or not.
"whar Did Put Dem Close 2"
"Well, 1 want some clean socks an a
clean shirt. Ii 1 hang myself before 1
get to mill, 1 want to be found with
some clean clothes on"
Marlborough said this in light,
laughing tone, which pleased Aunt Silvy,
as indicating an improved humor ; but
she little dreamed of the plan the boy
was meditating.
"Well, lem me see now. Whar did
/ put you luther shirt an socks de las
time l wash um2 mos fawgits what
done wild UNI. Reckon 1 puts um in one
desc yere sideboa'd drawers.
Aunt Silvy crossed the room, and,
with her strong hand, stirred up the
contents of said drawers, much after the
fashion in which she beat up her batter
bread.
CANT yere," she announced at the
conclusion of her search. "Iteckons
hung um on dem dar nails hine de door, "
and she entered upon remarkable root.
ing among the coats, and pants, and
hats, and aprons, and towels, and bask
cts, and sunbonnets, and petticoats
which thronged the said nails but
among the throng, Marley's shirt and
socks were not.
"Whar did i put dem cloze NV yourn
Can't fine UNI high an low. L jis warner
dat dar good-fer-nuffin, regen rate, yal
LEI. eyed Jim hes wore dem dar cloze off
er-totin' dem cotton bales ter Memphis.
This was Aunt Silvy's next conjectur,
in solution of the problem.
Jim was her son, some II years old
He had gone to, the Memphis marke
with six bales of cotton. Memphis wa
seventy miles distant, and a cotton bal,
weighs usually 800 pounds. But do no
infer from Aunt Silvy's remark abou
his toting cotton bales to Memphis tina
Jim was anything of a Hercules. Tn
word "tote" with Aunt Silvy was
somewhat indefinite term, as you Nigh
have surmised at learning that Jim hat
the assistance of q wagon and six mule
in getting those six bales OF cotton t.
the Memphis market.
"Don't reckon" continued Aunt Sill
wv, "he wore um off nutlrer lieve
put um on dis yere mandulpiece."
Candlestick, shutters, baskets, knit
ting-work, sewing, dress-patterns, bank
of yarn, hymn-book, Bible, ETC., etc.
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