Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
HOW TOTTY BOILED THE EGG.
A Story for Children

Mamma was sick. Every one said SO,
from the doctor way down to Bridget the
cook. Totty knew it must be so, because
Katie the nurse wouldn't let her go up
stairs, not even when she promised to walk
on the very tips of her toes. Oh. dear! oh,
dear! it really seemed as if the world were
coming to an end. Mamma sick Why the
sun itself might lust as well not shine at
all.
lofty went into the kitchen: but Bridget
was busy, and didn't want her there.
I'll go out to the back yard, and look at
the chicks, guess, said lofty to herself.
So she took down her sun bonnet from the
hook in the entry, and went out just then
the old speckle hen jumped on the edge
of barrel, and cackled with all her might
II declare" said Totty, she's laid an
egg. I wonder where it is? hope 1t isn't
in the shoe-box nest, way up high." But
it was, and Totty almost tumbled off the
ladder, trying to reach it.
Why! There are two. can feel EN-
1 tell you what, I'll boil one for my sick
mamma"
Putting one carefully in her apron pocket,
she crept down the ladder, and then went
across the yard to the kitchen. Bridget
wasn't there, so lofty looked around. There
was the tea kettle putting away, with boiling
water all ready What could she want bet
ter than that? She reached the holder, and
took off the cover and dropped her egg in.
Now, I'm sorry to say lofty couldn't tell
time by the clock. She knew perfectly we'll
that the egg must boil for three minutes !;
but, although the clock was a very large
one, she couldn't make anything out of the
ong hands and straight figures.
It'll run around the kitchen seven times
and I guess that II take about three minutes,
she said. Of course, she had to do it very
softly, SO that no one upstairs should hear.
There! it must be done now, because
I'm so tired"
She had counted one every time she went
by the clock, for seven times. There was
the egg dancing up and down in the kettle.
How to get it out was the question. Totty
tried the poker and the tongs, but the egg
course, why didn't she think of that before?
Now she has the egg, safe and sound, on a
little saucer It was Totty's own Saucer. be-
cause it had A B C's IN blue letters all round
the edge. It'll carry my spoon, too," she
said; and then mamma will know who fixed
it. Carefully up the back stairs she went:
through the long entry to mammals room
The door was shut. She could just reach
the keyhole; and she whispered through it,
"Please can come in, it's burning my fin
gers" Some one said, "Hush!" but some
one also said: That's my baby girl. OF
course she can come in.
The door was opened, and lofty walked
up to the bed.
Its an egg for mamma" she said; "and
I fixed it all alone"
But she can't eat it, - 6. said the doctor,
because she's sick"
'But can see how nicely it's done, baby"
and mamma took the spoon and struck the
egg. But it didn't break. Then she struck
it again very hard, but no, it wouldn't crack
bit; and all the time the doctor was laugh
ing as if he never would stop.
"What's the matter, doctor?" said
mamma. g ~,a'e-s- ss--
''Just look your esq.," said the doctor.
So mamma took up the egg, and she laughed
too, so very hard that the egg rolled off the
bed and across the floor, but it wasn't hurt
bit.
For what do you think?) it was nothing
but the glass egg that Totty took from the
nest. But, even if mamma didn't eat it, the
doctor said it made her we'll for she laughed
so that she was ever so much better the next
day. And as for the egg, why, mamma
thinks it the very best one in the world,
and you couldn't buy it,-no, not for all the
money in your savings bank.