The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-21
Pretty Polly Pippin.


Pretty Polly Pippin.
She had blue eyes and golden hair,
and rosy, dimpled cheeks. She was
certainly very pretty. Then, too, she
was good-she was very good. She
never cried she never complained. If
Won laid her on her back or on her face
If YOU made her stand or tried to get
her to walk, it was always the same
she neither murmured nor fretted she
wore bright and smiling face, looking
straight at you with her earnest, but
rather staring eyes.
She wasn't the least like her mamma
Her mamma was dark and pale, with an
anxious little face, and, L am afraid, an
anxious little heart. Her mamma, too,
was very particular, even fdgety, when
things were not exactly to her liking.
In short, she was perfect contrast to
this baby--this beautiful doll-baby of
hers
The baby was months old the
mamma was 10 years. Her name was
Ella, her baby's Polly Pippin. Pretty
Polly Pippin she was always called.
Ella had herself given her the name
and, certainly, if ever baby-doll de-
piled to it, this baby of Elias was the
one.
Ella was, as have said, very unlike
her child she was not very strong, she
constantly-poor little mamma !-suf
fered pain, and, as she had no sisters
and no playmates, she was often both
sad and lonely.
That was three months ago; but
since, on her last birthday, Polly Pippin
arrived, all was changed. The amount
of good the doll did the child was meal
culable-she gave her something to love
and something to work for.
Ella made all her dolls clothes she
dressed her and undressed her, and
took her out walking, and at night she
slept with her arms about her.
What long talks they had together
this mother and child OF course, the
mother did all the actual talking, but
then the child looked back at her with
such sweet, smiling eyes in reply, that
no further language was necessary.
In short, they understood each other
perfectly, and not one trouble came be-
tween them until Hugh, Elias brother,
arrived home from school.
Polly Pippin was three months old
at that time-this means that she had
been three months in Elias possession !;
for, of course, the time when she was
wrapped up in silver paper in large
warehouse counted for nothing in her
life.
She was born on the day when Elias
grandpapa walked into shop and
said
EDO you sell dolls here-real, large,
handsome dolls, suitable for birthday
presents p
Then the silver paper was pulled off
Polly Pippins face, and she was born.
This happened three months ago.
Well, Hugh came home from school,
and, hearing that Ella had pet, he
was quite determined that he also
would have one. So he brought back
with him-what do you think? A
monkey
Oh, how Ella laughed when she saw
it She even forgot, so absorbed was
she in watching its antics, to put Polly
Pippin to bed.
Never was there monkey possessed
of 80 many tricks, so altogether funny.
Ella and Hugh spent delightful even
ing following this new pet from place to
place.
1t was quite late when Ella ran away
to her pretty bedroom to undress Polly
Pippin.
She had just taken off her dress and
petticoats, and was putting on her hand
somely embroidered night-dress, when,
raising her eyes, she saw the monkey,
JACKIE, sitting amid the foliage of thick
tree which grew close to the window.
JACKIE was watching herintently. From
Ella to Polly, and from Polly to Polly's
clothes, he looked, and, to judge from
the expression of his face, he was very
much interested in what he saw.
ooh you are a funny monkey p
laughed Ella. $50 you want to watch
me putting my baby to bed p
But she little guessed what was going
to follow, or what trouble she would
soon be in.
Inthe morning Polly Pippin was gone.
Pretty Polly Pippin was nowhere to be
seen.
She was not in her mammals bed, nor
in her own pink-lined cradle. She was
gone, and 80 were her clothes-her nice
little shoes and stockings, her blue silk
frock, even her hat with the daisies
round it, which her mamma had made
for her only yesterday. All, all were
gone.
Poor Ella indeed was in trouble and
her real sorrow was 80 great that, to try
to comfort her, everybody in the whole
house began to look for Polly Pippin.
Her papa looked and 80 did her mann
ma; the cook looked and so did the
housemaid; and 80 also did the butler
and the buttons, and the coachman and
the stable-boy. Hugh also looked, and
last, but not least, Jacko followed every
one. and went in front of every one, ano
jumped on the cats back, and pulled the
dogs tail, and ran up to the tops OF the
trees and down again, and snatched the