Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-06-26
A True Incident in the Life of Mr.. Thomas
Gray.
{" Boo! [Ioo!"

Boo Hoo"
And then what really | must call II howl.
There's no doubt about it, there was
trouble in the nursery. IL was the voice
of Mr. Thomas Gray, aged five years and
six months, although it sounded ever 50
much older.
Then Mr.. Thomas Gray climbed into
his mammals lap, put both arms around
her neck and said:
"Please mammal and it was II very
long and touching Please" too.
1" Not TO- day, Tommy; see how it is
snowing!'
Then Mr.. Thomas Gray, AGED five years
and six months, did something-l couldn't
exactly make out what because he was so
quick about it; but l think he tumbea
two full "summer. saults and then rolled
over four times on the floor; and when the
table leg stopped him he began to kick the
poor table leg and cry SO hard mamma
had to leave the room.
Think of it! A young gentleman FIVE
years and six months old actually rolling
ON the floor and kicking a poor table LEG
until the paint came off! o, it was horri.
| BILE and I'm glad as can be thai | have
only heard of one other young gentleman
of that age who ever did such thing in
his life. Do you know him? hope not
By and by MIR, Thomas Gray stopped
kicNing the table leg. Then he looked up
Mamma gone!
al don't care!' said Mr.. Thomas Gray
" What's the use of Santa Claus and sled.
any way, if you can't use emp
The sled really was a perfect beauty
~ u al snt., S,f t,.Y,
little dogs coasting down hill on shingles
and there was IL rope and everything.
Mr.. Thomas Gray went and sat dow
on the dogs and thought for long, Ions
time.
Suddenly he saw his mammals cuttin'
board under the sofa. What do you thinl
he didp He went and put the end of tn
board against the edge of the sofa, leavin!
the other end on the floor. Then Mr.
Thomas Gray, aged five years and ST
months, mounted the sofa, drew his sle
up after him and tried to slide down th
cutting board. But the sled stuck.
, wouldn't 90 at all, although there was
, first-rate hill.
Mr.. Thomas Gray was Il philosopher
1t isn't slippery enough" said he, and
| leaving the sled on top of the sofa, h
went down the back stairs and into tn
pantry, without Bridget's seeing hin
There was butter plate nearly full, anC
! Selling it, Thomas made his escape.
There never was the slightest hesitatio
, about Mr.. Thomas Gray when his min
] was once made up; so when he took TIL
, sled in his lap and began to butter tn
. runners, it was only doing just what b
1 got the butter for. Once the butter plat
upset on the carpet, but that was u yer
/. small thing to Thomas Gray; and by an
Y by the sled was again balanced on top {
: the cutting board, and Thomas again s.
, down on the dogs and let 60 with his heels
n Ibid it go?"
Y Coz 1t was the fastest coasting yo
u ever saw in your life for about two fee
| and then-well then, then, the sled stol
ped. But MIR. Thomas Gray didn an
t lie wasn't buttered SO very much either.
t lie went right along all by himsel
s leaving the dogs standing on their heat
e at the bottom of the hill.
y Just then the door opened and MANN
G came in.
i, Mamma never tainted in her life; bl
s she came pretty near it. then; for thel
was Mr.. Thomas Gray all doubled Il
S against the fender; and there was the blu
$ ter plate upside down on the new carp
and as Tor the sofa, why-you could hay
IS fried the sofa, am sure, in the butte
j, there was in the button holes,'