The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-05-19

itlbH siuitu WI Ii''i, ~. iN"Nh soy !
everybody is Totally derraved,' but | |
don't believe she is.
Ruth Thompson is my sister, and she's
lovely; she knows lots too, for she went to
Vassar College last year; she says we ought |
t, love everybody, but ! guess she loves
Harvey best (Harvey's great big man.
| wonder what covenant means, and who
made it for Adam; maybe Eve. | wonder
if it tastes like custard. | wonder what
his posterity was. I wish Harvey would |
tell me, but he won't, so there's no use
asking. Once we had lesson about Jehu
and Jezebel and he said Jehu kept a livery
stable and drove fast horses, and that once
when he was going to Central Park, JezeGel
looked out of the window, and she had
some Bloom of Youth " on her face, and
then Ruth came in and he didn't say any
more.
When | was well, Ruth used to take me
to Sunday school, but since I've been sick
she hears me her own SELF I've been sick
lots, have. First it was the measles, and
inst as was getting well, | took cold, and
then it was the whooping cough, and then
l clumb tree and broke my arm, and then
Mrs. Wilson's baby gave me the chicken
pox, and then the time l was sinful and
stole the green apples like Eve, that was
the awfuest time of all.
And then l most got drownded, and
they rolled me on bari, and | had the
Group in the night; and when was playing
fish with Jimmie Mcintosh, at the hotel,
we went way up to the top, and we had
two strings, and two crooked pins, and we
leaned over the banisters ard Jimmie tished
off Mr.. Clarkes spectacles, and tumbled
and fell right into one of the darkey wait
ers Oh dear! They thought l was dead,
and got the bellowses and bowed in my
face, and ma tainted, and then they bowed
in her face, and split water on us. And
then one Fourth of July, Harvey gave me
a cannon, little one, and l loaded it up
and fired it off, and then ran behind the
door, but it didn't fire off, and | went up
and peeped into the muzZle to see what
was the matter, and it bust, it did, and
burnt every one of my eye wiukers off, and
most all my hair off, and set my apron on
fire; then they rolled me in the hearth rug.
and put oil and cotton on me; oh! did
look SO funny: just everybody would laugh
and say ''poor boy!' and then would laugh
again; Harvey was very good to me; he
said it was his fault because he gave me
the cannon; he used 10 come to see me
every day, and bring me an I" orindge," or
some peanuts, or picture book, only
guess he came to see Ruth part of the time.
He loves Ruth-everybody loves her, they
can't help it, you know. He is out on the
back veranda now, smoking. can see his
boots way up among the grape vines. He
always comes here on Sundays; everybody
else has gone to church except pa; he is
taking his nap on the sofa in the parlor;
can hear him snore way cut here. But
was talking about my being sick-well,
the last time it was the scarlet fever, but
Pm getting well now. Ma says it would
be very expensive if it wasn't that pa is a
doctor; she thinks that is very providen-
tial circumstance. There, | most forgot
about my catechism.
"What benefits do they which are effect
ually called partake of in this life?''
"They who are effectually called, do in
this life partake of justification, adoption
and sanctificatiou, and the several benefits
which in this life do either accompany or
flow from them
l guess Ruth is fetched and called.
should not like to be "dopted " though.
Jimmie Mcintosh is dopted he used to live
in the asylum, where it was all whitewashe d
and they had little iron bedsteads, and
nasty soup. wonder what Original Sin is,
anyway. l wonder whether Methuselah
had to learn the catechism when he was a
little boy. wish ma would tell me about
it, but she is always SO busy making things
out of the Harper's Bazaar on the new sew
ing machine. There goes a lady on the
other side of the street with bonnet just
like mas. l can't see this side of the
street as we'll as the other and it is the
farthest off; l wonder why. Oh. There
goes the dearest, sweetest, little bit of a
teenty taunty puppy dog. wish l had a
why. She said | was her pet, the other
day. l wonder whether she don't like me.
o dear! "descending from him in ordinary
transgression, sinned in him and fell with
him in the first generation l wish l had
a drink of water. Somehow don't like to
ask Harvey when Ruth isn't here, he would
say l bothered him, but if sis was here he
would be ''just as good as pie ''-"I wish
| was in the land of cotton :" forget what
comes next-"Look away down South in
Dixie Oh! forgot l mustn't sing that
on Sunday; what's the reason we can sing
sinful songs on week days? wonder why.
Harvey sings wicked songs on Sunday, for
when he came in here after match to light
his segar, he stopped and looked at Ruth :
photograph which hangs over the mantel.
piece, and sang, sob! she is just as beau
tiful as butterfly, and gay as queen -
isn't she, Freddy? And l says "who:''
and he said pretty Polly Perkins, of Ken
sington Green and says didn't know,
and it was sinful to sing that on Sunday,
and | told him wouldn't he please 90 up.
ouu III ing "O my pdiuI DoA, uuG lie
didn't hear me. There great big bounc-
ing 'bominable blue bottle fly. l 'spize
emf ! could catch him, I'd pull every
one of his legs off. Oh! deal "doption,
justification, sanctifcation, and all the
blessings that do in this life flow from 'em -
| 'spise grandpa too, cause he always asks
me ugly questions. If seven boys eat
ninety eight 'orindges' each, how many
will they eat together?' IF forty pecks
cranberries cost three dollars and seventy
two cents, how much will six pints cost -
l'spize him.
''Oh! my goodey! there's Ruth and ma
coming home" Specification, justifica-
ton, doption, scendin from b i'm in ordinary
generation not only for hisself, but for his
posterity, and all the benefits which in this
life do either accompany or flow from 'em.
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