The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-16

had written but few lines, when series
of sobs, cries and angry shrieks so ter
rife, fell on her ear, that she was ap-
palled, and she started from her seat 70
see Mona Liza, holding Frank by the
hair of his head with one hand, while
with the other she was scratching his
face and neck with the ferocity of
wildcat; and all the while she was Wig
orougly stamping her little aristocratic
foot, and crying out at the top of her
voice:
"I'll teach you, I'll teach you"
Jane took the little girl in her arms
and said:
"Whas ails her, Frank7 How hare
you angered her ?"
"Aunty, I was doing my best to please
her." replied the boy. "Oh," he con-
tinued, II wish that you had never got
her. wanted sister; never wanted
blue-eyed cat, to tear the hair off my
head and scratch my eyes out. / can
never make sister Of her, all that | can
do. q, if she were just Tom, or Jim
little while, instead of Mona Liza, !
would take the starch out Of her for all
this blood" he cried out, as he wiped
his smarting face and neck. "But q
girl I don't dare to strike girl. Bah
girl. should be disgraced forever if
I was 10 strike her"
"I hope that you would not fight a
boy" said Jane.
aAunty, I should fight him, and whip
him, tco, if he imposed upon me as she
does" replied the boy. "Yes, 1 would
\ fight him from sunrise till sunset; /
would be honest, and allow him his
share Of everything, but would have
my share if / had to fight hard: But,
Auntie, don't feel bad, for 1 will never
fight if I can help it"
ri will tell yon," said Jane, "of the
advice nv mother gave me, when I was
child, in regard to such matter as
this. She said: Jennie, have nothing
to do with any child that will not treat
you fairly And to this day follow
that advice. drop from the list of my
friends one that will not treat me fairly.
You car think o; this at your leisure"
Miss Smith carried Mona Liza into
the house, and sat down and said:
"Now, child, tell me all about this
very unpleasant occurrence. Why did
you tear Franks hair and scratch the
blood out of his face ?'
The child hung her head and said
nothing.
"Yol do not want to tell me?" said
Jennie.
"In course don't want to tell" said
the child, beginning to cry. "for L think
now, though I didn't know it when ] was
so mad, that Frank didn't 60 to do that"
"And what was it Frank did, my
childw .
"Why," replied the child, che put the
stick on the playhouse wrong, and
knocked MI the rest down."
"And that was accidental, you think
now ?" said tho woman.
"Frank didn't 60 to do it, know he
| didn't" replied Mona.
"And when he was building play
house for you, and was ready and willing
to do his work over again. you pulled his
hair, and scratched and pinched him,
and upbraided him?" said the woman.
"That's just what I did," replied the
child in defiant tone.
"Well, do you not think, child, that
you should be punished ?" queried the
woman.
eyes, aunty, I expect so," said the
child.
"Well," said the woman, "what shall
do with little girl, six years old, one
third a young lady, that scratches,
pinches, and pulls her playmates unjust.
fy? When you are eighteen years old
you will be a young lady, and the mum.
Der of yeats you have lived is one-third
of eighteen"
80, auuty, shut me up in a dark
closet, or send me to bed in the dark
without my supper, or whip me; have
been naughty, / have been naughty"
said the child, weeping bitterly.
81 shall do nothing Of the kind" said
the woman. "S.op crying, and listen to
me, and I will tell you what I shall do"
The child caught her breath with gasp,
and listened intsntly, while Miss Smith
said, II will buy your interest in Frank
of you, anu pay you. 1 like Frank. He
is q good.tempered, generous-natured
boy, and I am perfectly willing to have
him all to myself"
'fSell Frankp said the little girl ;
"that would be funny" laughing in the
midst of her tears.
"I am moi selling Frank" said Jennie;
"I would not do that, but I will buy
your interest in him. And youmust not
play with him any more; and Frank
cannot build play-houses for you, nor
assist you ir your lessons, nor anything
of the kind"
"What will you give me?" said the
child.
"What will you take?" said Jennie.
"A bran new DOLL" replied Mona Liza,
"with two silk dresses and bonnet"
"You shall have her; and now you
must remember, child, that you are to
have nothing to say to Frank. You
must play alone"
The doll was bought, dressed, and
given to the child, and she went about
for several days, playing alone, apparent
ly we'll contented. But about two weeks
after the trade, Jane came upon the lit
tie girl rating her doll after this style
"You're a naughty doll, and I hate
you. You are ugly, with black curls, and
big eyes, and red cheeks. l hate you
hate you If i was not afraid of my
Aunty I'd break you. I'd mash your
mouth, and twist your nose, and brush
your curls the wrong way. I would,
would So" =.
"Why, what has Dolly done ?" said
Jane.
Mona Liza began to cry piteously, and
between her sobs she said: "Dolly tool
Frank from me, and hate her. And
have nobody to play with, and 1 wan
Frank to play with me. can't swing
myself, and want Frank to swing me
in the big swing"
"You want to rue, then ?" said Jane
"What is rue?" said the child.
II meant said the woman, "that vol
want to give me back the doll and TAKE
back your interest in Frank. Is tina
what YOU wish for?