Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-21
slonth's Golniull.
THE NEW LEAVES.

for this New Year. We will
all sit in ring, and little Emmie shall
sit in the middle. and then each one
must say just what new leaf she is going
to turn over (and you, too. Willie and
Harvey and George, and | will write
them down, SO that we shan't forget"
Priscilla was very methodical girl,
and as she was older than the other
she often endeavored to get
them to adopt her ways and habits.
Sometimes she succeeded and sometimes
she failed very badly indeed. But this
was New Years day, and as all the
children felt very much like turning
over new leaves, they very readily fol
lowed Miss Priscilla into the parlor, and
there they sat in the parlor, and there
they sat down in ring and little EN-
mic sat in the middle. Emnie was so
much younger than any of the rest that
they gave her pencil and sheet of
paper, that she might amuse herself,
and, while the others held solemn coun-
Gil, she drew bewildering ''pussies," and
impossible mice, with tails like great
streaks of lightning.
Now" said Priscilla, "you begin.
Kitty. You must tell what your worst
fault is, and promise you won't do it,
whatever it is for whole year. Now
tell it, and will put it down.
Il don't know what it is, said Kitty,
with the most innocent air in the world.
"Ohl but you must know" said
Priscilla. elf you can't think of your
own worst fault, tell US your next
worst"
Il can't think of any," said Kitty.
'Now, Kitty, you don't mean to say
you haven't any faults at all 4? For one
thing, you know you're an awful tease.
Shall put that down p
EYES," said Kitty.
And SO Pricilla wrote down in her
little book, under the head of New
Leaves" that Kitty would not tease any
one for the space of one year.
Jane Conway was the next girl, and
she had had lecture the day before
from her mother. So she promptly ad,
mitted that her greatest fault was self.
ishness, and that she was going to turn
over new leaf for the coming year.
This was scarcely entered by precise
Priscilla, before little Emmie got ur
from her stool, and, approaching Kitty.
presented her with her pencil and paper
and desired her "make mamma"
"Now, that won't do, Emmie," sale
Priscilla; "you must sit down and maxi
your own pictures, or we shall have t.
send you up stairs" And therewitl
she conducted Emmie back to he
stool.
''Now one of the boys ought to say,
remarked Priscilla. Harvey, what i
your greatest fault ?"
IL haven't any," said Harvey, a
bold as lion.
.'Oh oh oh r. cried all the children
"Well, what is it, now % said Hary
ey, looking defantly around the circle.
playing truant l' shouted the con
pany.
Harvey looked down abashed for
moment, and then be said: "Well yo
may turn that over"
After much discussion, two of til
girls promised to turn over new leave
one in regard to vanity (termed by hi
companions putting on airs y and IL
other in respect to sundry pantry depr
dations, for which she was somewh
famous.
And then little Emmie came straigl
: up to Pricilla herself, and asked her
make Pauline" Pauline was Emmie
: baby sister, and her portrait, no matt
l how vague, was always acceptable.
"Now you mast 20 up stairs" sa
|' Priscilla.
Il .'Oh! no." cried some of the 9th
~ children; "let her stay. She'll
L quiet"
L "But she's big enough to know s
Ii oughtn't to bother people So" sa
Priscilla. eff l let you stay here, E
'e mic, will you promise to stop aski
u people all the time to make things
= your"
: Eyes, ma'am," said Emmie, and s
: nodded vigorously her little head. A
: so that new leaf was entered for Emm
:. "Now, then. George" said the you
! lady who was president and secretary
! the society. and would have been tire
- urer, too, had there been any mon,
+ "What is your fault, George ?"
60 "Preposterousness," answered Geor
10 what do you mean by that p ask
80 Priscilla, and all the children laughed
= IL mean what I say" said Geor,
= "Father told me yesterday was
b. most preposterous boy in the world. :"
Several other new leaves were reg
:, tered, and then Priscilla entered her
!. termination to reform in the matter
- sometimes getting late to school; thi
= ing of her clothes in church spend
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