The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30
How Margie Was Taught PROMPT Ohe
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Little Margie, with her mother wa
ON visit to her grandmother, VIII
lived in a fine roomy old house in N
town of Fernley. -. 3D..
/ There was beautiful porch in froOl
OF the house, with great big white pill
lars reaching up to the roof of thl
house; and the floor was made "A
square stones, part white and part blue
while broad stone steps led down to th,y
walk. But it was a rather dangerouI
porch for little folks, because, although
it was almost a full story from M
ground. it had no railing around Ri
This did not matter much, most of tbd
time, as there were no little children
living In the house, but everybody was
uneasy about it when little Margie waa
there; and this was the reason whyI
That little girl had very bad habit d
never obeying right at once when shd
was spoken to-. If her mother would
call "Stop. Margie," she would alwsyI
go a few steps farther before sid
obeyed. If she said: }" Don't do that
daughter when she was in any miy1
chief, the little girl would almost all
ways go on for a while instead of stopN
ping as soon as her mother spokoE
Many a bump and tumble she had gotH
ten IN consequence of it, but as vel
nothing had cured her of this evil habit
Her little cousin Lucy was there on
visit at the same time; but she, although
younger, obeyed her mother perfectly
and gave no uneasiness to anybody.
When the two little girls were rum
ming on the porch together, as they
were very fond of doing, just befura
they got to the end, Lucy mother would
say quietly: "Stop now, Lucy,p and
Lucy would stop right still that very}
minute, while Margie' s mother would
cry: stop, Margie! stop! stop!" and
then run after her and grasp her dress
perhaps just in time to save her FROM
running Oft at the end |
One evening, however, they started
for a race. when Margie's mother was
talking to some one at the farthest part
OF the porch, and with her back to them.
She turned in time to see them almost
at the edge, but being too far off to hope
to reach them, she screamed frantically:i
Stop, Margie, you'll fall you'll falln'
but, as usual. Margie would go a fewi
steps farther. So off she went, JUST
where the porch was highest, and fell
in a little heap ON the ground, frH |
The mother did not wait for her bitterA
cry of pain, but, fastening round by the
steps, lifted and carried her carefully
into the house; one little arm hanging
helplessly, pitifully, with splinters ofthe
bone sticking through the tender flesh
for it was broken. 4
Oh! how dreadfully it hurt, even when
nobody touched it; but when the doe
tor came and pulled it ever so hard.
as he was obliged to do to get the poor
little bones straight, it took mother andi
Aunt Mag both to hold her. .aag
All this time, and for several days
the suffering was too great to let her re-
member how it all happened; but thel
thinking time came at last, when shel
had to sit in the big chair all day longi
with her arm in sling, and nothing to 4
do but remember how many times sheI
had delayed and hesitated instead Of
obeying her mother promptly, and howl
that very thing had been the cause Of all
this trouble. .s-.., -..-.f..., .te
One day she called her mother, and
her unbroken arm around her
neck, she whispered, while her little lips
quivered: Mother, / know why broka
my arm, and l am so sorry was such
a naughty girl; l am going to try, when
| get well. to mind you the very minute
you speak to me; and mother, won
you punish me whenever l don TIL
don't mind the Gerry first minute, moth
erP' And she held her tightly win
that one good arm until she got the
The next time they all visited granad'
mothers. nobody could say that Margs
did not obey her mother as beautifully
as Lucy.-S. S. Times. ... 4 l