The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-06-21
ANNETrA PLUMBERS rol aY.

hanpens every day. l asked my nio,Nass.s
!" win she be I? Will Miss Annetta Four |
teen be the same then that | am now
when am seven!"
She said, :" She will be the sans |, and |
she will not be the same l."
Then asked my mother to tell me how
7 could be the same l, and not be the
same |. She said, You are the same you
that YOU were when you were BABY,
and YOU are not the same you." She
said that if were the very same you-no,
the very same THAT was when was
baby. i should want rattle to shake, and
to be trotted, and to pat cakesl
That made me laugh out loud.
Then nv mother asked me if should
not like to read little cunning diary,
where Annelta Baby put down when she
learned how to pata-cake, and when
she Jumped first time in baby jumper,
and when she fell out of bed. And | said
l should.
4 shall tell something now in my diary
about poor little Banty White. She died
this morning. She had the pip. She was
little beauty. Oh, she was just as white
as snow all over, and every one In the
family loved her very much. She
would come when we called her, and she
knew her name.s She had four chickens
once. and once she had seven. They arc
sold. ~
i cried when my Banty died. She was
very cunning and very nice. Ny mother
does not think it is foolish to cry fors some e.
thing like that She thinks it is foolish
I 10 cry when you can't have things that
you want, and when you cannot go to the
places that you want to. My mother
| talks to me q great deal about Banty
White. The Plaguer talks some. The
Plaguer is my Cousin Hiram. He is fif-
teen. He is very tall. He likes to plague
us when we do not wish him to do so. He
! says :. bool'' in our ears when we do not
know he is there.
They counted four good things about
Banty. kind-that was one Of the good
things. NV cat had three kittens, and
| two died. My cat had fits. They were
running fits. And once she ran away.
| That was the last one she had, for she did
! moi live much longer, and her little kitty
was left without any mother. Banty
White let the kitty come under her wings,
and did not push it out. She was kind to
/ il a great many days When she called
her chickies to eat something, she wanted
| that kitty 70 come too, and she wanted the
kitty to run under her wings when the
/ chickies came under; and when the kitty
did not come quick, she kept saying
"Cluck cluck! cluckr till somebody pul
it under there. Then she kept still.
Not auarrelsome. This makes two
rood things. When any other Banty ran
/ to get the aame crumble that she was go
ing after, she did not fly at that other one
Not pick out The best. This makes
threu good things. When anybody threw
down corn, or crumbs, or bugs-my fathel
picked of squash bugs to give to the hens
-sho did mot try to pick for. the bigges
| one. and she did not either try to keep thu
best place for herself. The besthen-placs
Is close to the back door. Banty White
i Wa tied to stake there, butshe was will
ing the other ones should have that goot
place, too.
N0t proud. -Four good things. Ths
i Plaruer told me of this one. He sale
Ome hens arc so proud when they LAY
/ eqes that they 70 around cackling very
i IoSSl. lust Is much rs TO say, !" Sec wha
I'VE donei I've eonel" He said Bant
White never made very loud cackling
Nv mother said that she heard the boy
/. cackle," " one day, when they had hrough
4 il some large sticks Of wood. That mad
i a laugh. Then she said she heard |
4 littlc gfrl "cackle," one day, when sh'
l had Kicked moro huckleberries than th'
i otAefs did. know what little girl sh'
Uns day, ~ father and my mother AMI
| myself went 70 80 my aunt and "
STAYED there al night, and Hiram put m.
i Bsntv under Darrel to make her no
want 10 sit and Be forgot she was pnde