The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-12
srnlrg Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV uRLEANs. SUNDAY. AUGUST IL l
JUVE NILE C0LUMN.
PRETTY POLLY PIPPIN.

Ever complsined. II You laid her on her
kck. or on her face, if you made her stand,
tried to get her to walk, it was always
Is same, she neither murmured nor fret
Ia, she wore 8 bright and smiling face,
|nkiug straight at you with her earnest
*f rather staring eyes.
|She was not the least like her mamma
Ter mamma was dark and pale, with an
Exions little face, and. am afraid, su
hxious little heart. Her mamma, too,
las very particular, even hdgety, when
|ings were not exactly to her liking.
lin short, she was perfect contrast to
|ia baby, this beautiful doll baby of hers.
The baby was three months old, the
|amma was ten years; her name was Ella,
pr baby's, Polly Pippin. Pretty Polly
fppin she was always called.
Ella had herself given her the name, and
|rtainly if ever baby doll deserved to have
|e word "pretty" applied to it, this baby
Elias was the one.
leila WAS, as have said, very unlike her
lild abe was not very strong, she con-
|antly, poor little mamma! suffered pain,
I'D as she had no sisters and no plsymates,
he was often both sad and lonely.
That WAS three months ago; but since,
her last birthday, Polly PIppin had ar
we'd, all was changed. The amount of
bod the doll did the child was incalcula
|e-she gave her something to love. and
DO something to work for. Ella made sll
|r dolls clothes she dressed her and un
|essed her, and took her out walking, and
night she slept with her arms about her.
What long talks they had together-this
other and child! OF course the mother
ID all the actual talking, but then the
lid looked back at her with such sweet,
billing eyes, in reply, that no further lam
kaSe wss necessary. In short, they un-
|rstood each other perfectly, aud not one
bubble came between them. until Hugh,
las brother, arrived home from school.
Polly Pippin was three months old at
lat time-this means that she had been
|ree months in Elias possession; for, of
|urse, the time when she was wrapped up
silver paper in large warehouse count
for nothing in her life.
|She was born on the day when Elias
|anapapa walked into q shop and said:
Endsome dolls, suitable for birthday pres
[tsqn
Then the silver paper was pulled of
billy Pippin's face, and she was born.
This happened three months sgo. Well,
|ugh come home from school, and bearing
|at Ella had q pet, he was quite determin-
I that he also would have one. So he
bought back with him-what do you
|iuk9 A monkey.
Ony AOW l0ukhCO =" uCh ShS Co ~
be even forgot, so absorbed was she watch
|g it's antics, to put Polly Pippin to bed.
Never was there a monkey possessed of
many tricks-so altogether funny Ella
bd Hugh spent a delightful evening fol-
wing this new pet from place to place.
It was quite late when Ella ran away to
pr pretty bedroom to undress Polly Pip
|ns
She had just taken off her dress and pet
har hand
night dress, when,
Using her eyes, she saw the monkey Jacko
|ttinG amid the foliage of thick tree
|hich grew close to the window.
"Oh you are q funny monkey" laughed
lila. so You want to watch me putting
" baby to bed" But she little guessed
hat was going to follow, or what trouble
fe would soon be in.
In the morning Polly Pippin was gone |!
betty Polly Plppin was nowhere to be
len.
|She was not in her mammals bed, nor in
|r own pink lined cradle. She was gone
Ia 80 were her elothes-her nice little
Oee and stockings, her blue silk frock,
Ten her hat with the daisies round it,
|hich her mamma had made for her only
esteFday. All, all were gone.
Poor Ella indeed was IN trouble; and
bE real sorrow was 80 great that, to try
IQ COmIOEb uSTy every OoOy IN shO "oOAS
buse began to look for Polly Pippin.
Her papa looked, aud so did her mamma;
|e cook looked, and 80 did the housemaid;
bd SO also did the butler, and the
|achmau and the stable-boy. Hugh
loo looked, and last, but not least,
kcko followed every one, and went in
ont of every one, aud jumped on the cats
kck, and pulled the dogs tail, and ran up
the tops of the trees and down aga'n,
bd snatched the cooks cap OF her head,
b IN his apparent zeal to fud Polly Pippin.
But though they aesrched under the beds,
bd Hugh even poked his head up the
bimneys, no sign of the missing doll was
/ be seen.
Poor little Ella kept up bravely all day,
|as when the weary searchers sat down at
st without any result, she burst into tesrs.
|My darling sweet baby, l know she's
|aite gone; no, Hugh, can't be happy
bdeed, l can never be happy again."
'sI'l buy you another doll, Ella" said
|er grandfather.
But this kind offer only made her tears
low faster.
GAS if / could have another baby like
Polly Pippin 7" she sobbed.
And ali the time there sat that mischiev-
ms monkey, grinning from ear to ear and
patching; as grandpRpa looked, s1ddenly
n idea struck him. Was it possible that
|acko bad anything to do with the mystic