Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-07-22

out what She saysP She asked my
mother 20 give her some Of our lylicks
TO bring home TO You. Did you ever
Git them lylicksp | s'pose she thought
she'd git soma rosies, too, but lylicks
has a pretty good smell to 'em, don't
You think sop
] IceftAinly did think so, and was very
much obliged to her mother for sending
them 10 me. Temida, oras this preco-
cious one called her, Tomato was
my boys nurse, and, az she remarked
aisersher last question, 81 s'pose she's
upstairs With Nh. Babe
Yes answered, "she Is taking
care Of him now.r
Hes walked up, then, has hep Shall
! go up?n
'No; do not think he is awake yet;
but Tcmida sits by his cradle while he
sleeps, and rocks himif he stirs."
"Flies bite him, Eguess, this hot
weather. They say il beats all the
weather we ever had round here. You
amt got any little girl 'cept Mr. Babe,
have you? Marthy Kerru said you
hadn't, and if you like. guess ] kin
git YOU one Mis- Jones she's les died
about three weeks ago, and left one,
and do you b'lievc they sent it OF to a
'sylum in New York. l wish I'd a
known YOU was a-comin'. I'd a spoke
about It. Mr.. Babe must be lonesome.
Kin he talkP'
"No, he is too little to talk yet; but
he crows sometimes
"Weli, | declare; that's jes' like our
chickens; they crow till my head is
most of. He sleeps long time though;
don't you think so?''
l began 20 think she WAS getting
tired, as she had never sat down all this
time, and that she was preparing TO go
and leave her object unaccomplished,
but the next moment she was unburden-
ing her mind OF u new thought, and
bomharding me after this fashion:
"Mis' Kerru says you've had more II
five cooks since you came here to live,
and YOU cam seem 10 keep 'em. What
the matter; don't you give 'em enough
% eat?n
This was too much! replied, will
faint show Of Indignation, that hac
not had five cooks. and ! had never
heard my girls complain Of hunger, 81
that Mrs kerru must have been mis-
taken.
"Well, / wouldn't wonder" was tn,
/ response from Dame burden, as l wa
calling her to myself. "for my mother
I says she's n queer one, or she'd nevel
let that Marthy go round with th'
cows, with her stockin's down an sucl
a dirty face. You'd think she'd clear
/ her up now, wouldn't youP'
nodded. having no chance to speak
"An' do you b'lieve that dirty littl,
( thing goes over here TO Sunday-schoOl
/ ies' all the same, and don't care. Blu
! then it's the greatest Sunday school y ol
/ ever knowed, or | wouldn't say so
/ Why, they don't give nothin' mt Christ
mas, nor no time, but puncshall tend
ance cards, and your name on tht
! black board. Poohl Once we had ;
teacher give MS little book. but She
dead now. Well, they do have a ban
ner class, an that's the class that git
the most money. I'd like TO know
now, how they expect our class to gi
the banner. Why, my mother has Il
work awful hard, and my fathers tn,
sexcum. We never give the tramp
that come to our house no butter ol
their bread. We can't afford il; an
I've just made up mind they won thav
me in that Sunday-school great Will
longer. Look a here, do you think thi
is fairP There's that Hattie Hunt, sh
sits behind me, an puts her feet on m
clean dress that takes my mother S
long to wash an iron. an thon do yo
b'lieve can say nothin', cause She
rich, and MIR. Brown, he the minister, q
] Nr,ff ff / Ifl Hal ~
let her 90 on doin' il, an let me go out
! I'd lick her, but she's some bigger tina
my big brother George, and he dassent
you see. My, if 1t amt the queeres
Sunday-school! Once theyhad Christ
mas tree, OH long before you wa
here, and Hattie Hunt got bi
doll with open and shut eyes
an cradle; an every blesse
thing do you b'lieve they gave me
was a white apron, an not n pOeke
in il, an little stingy bag of candy
You SEQ, Hattie HINTS mother put he
things on the tree for her, and the sew
in school give me mine. There. now,
with a sudden spring at the window
that broke up the Sunday-school, %
YOU want TO see Marthy Kerru, ther
She goes. Didn't tell youP Look q
her stockin's! VIII call her in, SO
you can git acquaintedP'
al guess not to-day; you can brin
her with you some time. Think hes
the baby now, SO, if you wish, we wi
go upstairs"
This we at once proceeded to dt
Dame burden perking her head on on
side like bird. and giving eyerythin
she passed on the way notice of som
|, kind
"Myr' she exclaimed, stopping
the hall TO inspect the baby -eerriagr
II don't like that willow thing At al
I've seen awful prettier ones. II Iva
Mr. Babe, I'd tumble out Of it.N
Az this nurflI ihrnnl the yellow haa