The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-12-23
Little Stories for the Amusement and
Improvement of the Nursery
Brigade.

Oh, what bad mamma to leave lit
tie Esther all a.one in the dark room
No wonder Esther is crying. She il
afraid big bugaboo will come dowl
the chimney and eat her up. Bugaboo
like to eat little children. Did you ev
or see bugaboo with its big fire eye
anG cold teeth all over bloodp Tn,
next time mamma leaves you alone il
dark room, perhaps one will come t.
eatyOu.
The old man is blind and cannot see
He holds his hat in his hand and there
is dime in the hat. Go up quietly
and take the dime out of the hat. Tht
man cannot see you. Next Sunday you
can put the dime in the Sabbath school
box and the teacher will praise you
Your papa will put some money in the
contribution box, too. He will put in
more than you do. But his OppOrtuni.
ties for robbing are better than yours
are.
Daisy is crying. Poor little girl, we
are sorry for her. James has hit her
in the eye with a Dornick. Fie on
James to do 80, and fie ON Daisy not to
hit him back. Will Daisy pray for
James to-nightP No. She will pull
the Stats from his bed, so he will fall
and break his arm on the floor. That
will be right, will it not, children?
w.
Has the printer tobaccop He has
but he will not tell you so. He carries
it in the leg of his boot and when he
wants chew he sneaks down the back
alley where nobody can see him. When
he spits tobacco, it sounds like duck
diving in tie water. The printer is a
queer man. He is a tickle person.
sometimes he has ten thousands Ems
on the String. but they are always his
dupes. If you are printer do not be a
black smith or you will get fired.
v.
This is boil. 1t is on the mans
neck. Would you like to feel ltp If
you do, the man will feel it, too. The
boil is mean thing, and it is cow
ard. If you strike it, it will run. But
the man will not run. He will dance
and make remarks. Boils may start
way down near a little boys waist
band. But they always come to head
at last.
vi.
The stove is red hot. Run, Ella, and
get the caster and put some red pepper
on the stove. Then when mamma
comes in, she will be red hot, too.
See the fish. The fish is trout and
breathes through his ears. He lives in
the brook and maybe if you try you
can catch him. Any little boy who
catches so many measles ought to be
able to catch one little fish. The trout
weighs four ounces, but you can say he
weighs four puunds. Do not call him
speckled beauty or you will be shot.
Eat him head, tail, inwards and all, and
get little bone in your throat if you
can.
The apple is in the basket. A worm
is in the apple. 1t is g. juicy little
white worm. Suppose you eat the ap-
pie, where will the worm bep
Here we have picnic. Is it not
jollyp The children are running around
and playing tag. But where is the
custard piep A moment ago it was
under the elm tree. Can it be that Mr..
Jones is sitting on the custard pie
Alas, it is too true. And Miss Smith
is laughing at him. He looks as badly
broken up as the pie, does he nOtp
Baby and In the weary night
Are taking q walk for his delight;
| drowsily stumble DER stool and chair,
And clasp the babe with grim despair,
For h~'s got the collie
And paregOric
Don't seem tn ease my sQuealing heir.
B lby and In the morning gray
Are griping and squaliing and walking away
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There's smell OF peppermint on the breeze.
The mamma wakes
And baby takes
And says snow cook the breakfast please"
This is diamond pin. The editor
won it at a church fair. There were
ten chances at ten cents a chance. The ed
itor mortgaged his paper and took one
chance. The pin is worth seven hun
dred dollars. Editors like diamonds
Sometimes they wear them in their
shirts, but generally in their minds.
XII.
Who put the salt In the sugar-bowl
Mamma is anxious to find out. Willie
is busy looking out of the window
Can you guess what he is thinking
aboutp Perhaps he is wondering what
mamma will give him before he goes
to bed without his supper. If we were
Willie, we would feel safer with latin
grammar in the seat of our pants.
XIII.
Can you see the ink bottle on the Ca,
BILE? 1t is full of nice black ink. II
you want to, you Can pour the ink ou,
on the carpet. 1t makes the carpe,
look black, too, does it notp Sit dowr
on the carpet and put both of yout lit
tie paddles in the ink. See, your fin
gers are covered with the inkl What
nice picture you can make on the
wall paper now. Make picture of 9
big man and little girl. Do you want
to put some ink on the lace curtain
Very well. Put it on carefully, fol