The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-24
Liz


} NduuOH 10 lplt OF them.
Cannon In front of them
ratified Charlie, humping in time will
his fist on the table; Now Cannon
a common noun; third person.
"Oh, let me! l know" cried Liz
running around from her side of the
liable, dish-towel in ~hand-"third person
singular number, neuter gender, nomin.
alive case, t agree with"
go ahead !" jeered Charlie, "you
20 know, with Il vengeance. Look here,
Anna, she wants TO know what cannon
the stupidest!!n
l wish you'd be quiet" said Anna,
we actually can't hear ourselves SNEAK
for your nolse."
Maybe it agrees with girls, under.
stood" persisted Charlie; the kind
that won't go up stairs after dark"
Llz felt the scott, and her brown
cheeks flushed; but, not being very
ready with sharp answers, she merely
tooSed her anger and went back to her
dishes. She was wiping the tea-thinps
while Anna washed. Anna was their
cousin, though not much of q favorite
with either of the m for Charlie COM
planned that she wouldn't help him with
MS lessons, while Liz envied her because
she was grown up and saw company. To
Keep these elements in order was Aunt
Janet in her rocking.chair on the other
side OF the room.
Aunt Janet and Anna talked, and Liz
wiped away in silence till there came an.
other outburst from the young student.
Look at this!" he cried, his ewes fash
ing; Just see what she's done, will YOU.
with her smartnessl land he held M
his Latin exercise, and showed a row of
ollsters where unhappy Liz had spat.
tered 1t with her dripping cups and
.
Take all your books on your own
side OF the table" said Aunt Janet. oui-
city,. "You shouldn't leave them in the
way" Aunt Janet was chary of her
words, and had, besides, a tone In giving
ler orders which commanded attention.
So Charlie stopped his fault-inding
'hough he hustled his goods about in a ,
very sulky way. |
Then came another interval of peace.
nd conversation throve, and dish-wash-
n,g and wiping were nearly at an end, a
1hen Charlie took his pen and began, in
large, round hand, TO make his "Trans-
osition )" and then Liz, who by that ,
me had about forgotten the snubbing he s.
ad given her as usual must interfere, W
THAT isn't the way make an f." she
nd don't curl it around like that,
ook here" and selling another pen, she
ppsd it IN the ink and was about To
what she could do, when down
me q great blot on the clean, white "
lper. Charlie sprang from his chair in ne
rage. to
Il wish you'd mind your W bust Ia
ssf' he cried. "Just look at that no
W! What do you suppose | care how ia(
u write? | wish you'd mind vour WI
'hes, and let me alone. You're the ior
he
. Stop" said Aunt Janet. "Get an. sea
ler sheet of paper. A blot isn't worth Col
that noise. And do you, Elizabeth, ant
end to your work" ms
liz returned to her towel. She had full
n wiping a glass saucer or preserve. nun
D, and, In her haste to display her &C. pee
rements, had left it wrapped in the the
ell on the sideboard. She seized the the
ell, but alas forgot the saucer. which It's {
ped from its biding-place, fell with q WIN
b to the floor. Liz shrieked, and In &
| stopped for the pieces. no
Janet now approached the scene. FRO
shining bits were scattered over the sPlri
ct. Don't take them in vour lem
Is. she said "you will be cut. and -,
might get into your fingers, ID
the dustpan and brush" Poor
y bore the loss of her saucer verv ofics
ntly such things were to be ex. with
whenever Liz undertook to be me o
e little girl, with many expression. bum,
row, swept up the glass and threw burn
ene nre: drink
'aIu aunt Janet, give Anna have
~ 0 naVe wiped enough for soned
ernn; Go 70 FOUR lessons." "Why
Dfougnt ner DOCKS and seated her self; :
II to study, but the saucer was in coat.
lad, aud there was room for moth Ter In
sc. And then Charlie would drum stalwa
~ anu Iattie MS papers. and study had dl
I'D; and Anna kept talking, talk Waste
wonder that little of poor LIS smoke
touched her brain, and that less right,
'useu IN IT,. out of
say, "tie Dyers have heard what The
avsn;na s ~ aoeut them mere the Englar
10, Ms very
q Aunt Janet vaguely; "why. inc ; .
lid he say" s1d :