The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
How Margie Was Taught Prompt ODE.
dience.

Little Margie, with her mother, was
on visit to her grandmother, who
lived in fine roOmy old house in the
town of Fernley.
There was a beautiful porch in front
of the house, with great big white pill
lars reaching up to the roof of the
house; and the floor was made of
square stones, part white and part blue.
while broad stone steps led down to the
walk. But it was a rather dangerous
porch for little folks, because, although
it was almost full story from the
ground, it had no railing around it,
This d not matter much, most of the
time, as there were no little children
living in the house, but everybody was
uneasy about it when little Margie was
there; and this was the reason why
That title girl had a very bad habit of
never Obeying right at once when she
was spoken to. If her mother would
call "Stop, Margie," she would always
90 few steps farther before she
Obeyed. If she said: ''Don't do that,
daughter" when she was in anv mis-
chief, the little g,rI would almost al
ways 90 on for VIII lie instead of stop
Ping as soon as her mother spoke
Many bump and tumble she had got
ten n consequence of it, but as yet
moth ng 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 per eutlv,
and gave no uneasiness to anybody.
When the two little girls were run
ming on the porch together, as they
were very fond of doing. Just before
they got to the end, Lucy mother would
say quietly: stop now, Lucy" and
Lucy would stop right still that very
minute, while Margies mother would
cry: stop, Margie! stop! stopr and
then run after her and grasp her dress,
perhaps just in time to save her from
rum NC 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
o. the porch, and with her back to them.
She turned in time to see them almost
| at the edge, hut being too far off to hope
to reach them, she screamed frantically:
"Stop, Margie, you'll fall! you'll fallH'
but, as usual Margie would 90 a few
steps farther. So off she went, Just
where the por, h was highest, and fell
|
The mother did not wait for her bitter
cry OF pain, but, fastening round by the
steps, lifted and carried her carefully
into the house; one little arm hanging
helplessly, pitifully, with splnte"s of the
bone sticking through the tender flesh,
for it was broken.
Oh! how dreadfullyit 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 and
Aunt Mag both to hold her.
All this time, and for several days,
the suffering was too great to let her re-
member how it all happened; but the
tn mixing time came at last, when she
had to sit in the big chair all day long
with her arm in a sling, an nothing to
| do but remember how many times she
! had delayed and hesitated instead of
Obeying her mother promptly. and how
that very thing had been the cause of all
this trouble.
One day she called her mother and
putting her unbroken arm around her
neck, she whispered, while her little lips
| quivered: Mother, know why broke
my arm, and | am so sorry | was such
a naughty girl; | am going to try, when
get well, to mind you the very minute
you speak to me; and mother, won't
you punish me whenever l don TIFF |
don't m nd the rerY first MINUTE, moth
er?' And she held her tightly W tn
that one good arm until she got the
promise.
The next time they all visited grand
mothers. nobody could say that Marge
did not obey her mother as beautifully
as Lucy.-S. s. Times.