The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-29
The Daisy Party.


II was rather hard for Hessie. when
she had planned on having such nice
time Mt grandpa's, that she should step
OH the big rock under the butternut
Tree IN the sheep-pasture, where she and
Ned and Bella were playing picnic, and
sprain her ankle, to say nothing of
splitting a whole small pitcher full of
lemonade.
OF course there was an end To Hessie's
good times for week at least
AT first it seemed pleasant enough TO
lie on the pretty lounge in grandma's
cool sltting-room and look at picture.
BOOKS; and to have them all wait on
her-even grandpa looked in occasion.
ally to ask If anything were wanted.
But after a little while Hessie got
tired of it. very tired indeed.
There were long hours when she could
picture Bella and Ned racing in the
bayfield,; tossing the new-mown hav
over one another, playing II spyi'
among the tumbIes; raking after the
cart and finally riding in triumph up
to the biz barns on load of sweet.
smelling clover-hay.
Nobody knew how she longed to be
with them.
So ] am sorry to say Hessie grew
fretfuI and impatient. Nothing quite
pleased her.
''Oh, | wish had something to do
and think Of said she. II wtSh Aunt
Gussie would comet WHY can't
Right here before she knew it. Hessie's
eyelds closed and she was fast asleep,
1t was an afternoon in the last of June.
and the sun was shining hot and bright;
ont grandma came softly in and drew
the curtains, shutting out the light and
heat and dust.
81 hope the child will have good
long nap, said she, going back to
Aunt Nan in the next room.
81 wish Gusse would come.n said
Aunt Nan, tearing OIL the breadths of a
bic apron; "Shc would amuse her. Why
why, there she is now"
And indeed, Aunt Gussie was lust
stepping out of the old yellow stage
coach which had stopped before the
garden gate.
More than an hour after, when Hes
sic awoke from a wonderful dream, in
WHICH she dined with Queen Victoria,
she pinched herself to make sure she
was not still dreaming.
For there, on the little stand beside
the lounge, was the funniest sight she
ever saw-eight little old ladies with
faces round as moons, framed in snow
white cap-horders, with white strings
under the chins.
Their table was big toadstool, spread
with burdock leaf, and their chairs
were small toadstoolS- all set upright
in shallow box of sand. Their dishes
were roeeleaves and buttercups, and in
the centre Of the table on a platter.
shaped leaf was a great green grasshop-
per.
1t was so very queer Where did
everything come fromp Hessie lay still
and stared and wondered for long
time
At last she cried, clapping her hands
with gleeful laugh:
Its Aunt Gussie come home! No
body else would have thought of such
thing
Aunt Gussie put her bright face in at
the door just then.
Maybe wouldn't. if somebody had
not told me-" said she.
ITS real fun to make them, dear:
just take bis oAeye daisy, clip off the
petals all around, except two, and YOU
have the cap-border and strings; then
mark eyes and nose and mouth on the
yellow part with ink, stiffen the stem
with bit of fine wire, and dress little
Madam Daisyina blue-bell and morn
lng-g Tory, or anything you please
That's the way made these. But I
didn't kill the poor little hopper-grass
took him away from Biddy Speckle,
Just as she was going to swallow him."
what fun" cried Hessie. looking at
the little old ladies; and in the DAYS
which followed she was rs merry as a
robin, making the little Daisy people.
She made Pansy people, too, in the
same way, except that pansies already
have faces Won know munb ,,,att;n,,