St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-09-29
LOOKING UN.


LOOKING ON.
Sammy Bones. lived on the very top
of q hill, and the yard that he played in
was almost all hillside. So that If he
happened to fall down, and get to roll
inc before he could get up again, he
never stopped rolling until he reached
the fence at the bottom of the hill.
But this did not happen very often.
Really it never happened but just once
that know of. That time he DID roll
down hill, Just ike log of wood or a
key of molasses- to the bottom.
His mamma was sewing on the ma
chine, by the sitting-room window, at
the time, and CHANGING to look out, she
saw her precious son rolling away! And
what was worse, he rolled faster and
faster at every roll. Imagine her feel
ings! But if you're not mamma your
self, there's no use in trying to mag
ine-you can't But she need not have
been so alarmed about him, for half an
hour afterwards her son was safely on
the top of the hill again-in the house.
He had been rubbed with arnica
here, and anointed with scented salve
there. and he had long strip of court
plaster just above one of his eyes, and
another strip across the bridge OF his
nose Nevertheless, he was very hap
py. For besides having been a great
hero. ''achieved greatness as Shake
speare would say, he had also achieved
some blackberry jam. And he did not
get blackberry jam very often, not much
oftener than he took a roll down the
hillside. 1t was only because of the roll
that he got the jam now. Sammy I'M
derstooa this fact SO withal, he felt
that the accident was 'sall for the best
now that it was over.
While he ate his bread and jam, his
mamma with very red eyes, was giving
her neighbor, Mrs. Smith, an account of
the shocking affair, and of the mental
anguish she had suffered while her boy
was taking his wonderful circular jour-
uey.
"Why, I should think my hair would
have turned gray with horror at the
sight," she exclaimed, wiping away
some more tears that came at the
thought.
"Oh!' interrupted Sammy just as
Mrs. Smith began speaking, .'i if you'd
just been the fellow that was a-rolling
though! Looking ON amt nothing he
added, grandly.
But few days afterwards he found
that g looking on y acas something. 1t
came about in this way:
When Sammy's father, who was
doctor, came home at noon on this day,
he was in great hurry. Mrs. Buel,
who lived twelve miles out of town, had
another stroke of paralysis, and he must
go to see her right off.
"rll just take old Bill out of the
shafts, said the doctor, "and let him
get some oats and few minutes rest,
and then off / must go again
Then he put two stones before the
front wheels of the buggy to keep it
from rolling away, and went in to his
own dinner.
.sDon't NEEDLE with those stones,
Sammy he said, the last thing.
Sammy had had his dinner. and so
had his two little cousins Meg and Milly,
who were visiting, him. So they did not
90 into the house.
Lets get in the buggy and play
horse" said Meg.
And in she and Milly clambered.
while Sammy took hold of the shafts
and began pulling. Taking hold of the
shafts and pulling little was not med
ding with the stones. he thought. He
just pulled a slittle Bit when sad
denly the buggy began to push. 1t
pushed harder and harder, and Sam
my got very red in the face trying to
hold it in. But it Uouldae't be held in!
1t got away from him. and rushed pelI-
nell down the hill with those two little
cousins inside screaming ''iust awfully..'
And Sammy could only stand still and
look on, just as poor mamma hadSdone
when he rolled away a few days before.
Oh! he felt dreadfully!o Then his. papa
rushed out, and his mamma rushed
out, and his auntie, and Mary Ann, the
hired girl, they all chased the buggy
down the hill. But they did not catch
it--not until it stopped Of itself against
the fence.
Milly and Meg were not a bit hurt,
but they cried and cried; and both of
the shafts of the buggy were broken
clear off. ;@
So the doctor had to go on horseback
to see Mrs. Buel
Nobody scolded Sammy very much,
for he looked so pale and sorry, and no
body gave him any jam this time
either. But after while his mamma