Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
er little girl going past she called o.ss:

er little girl going past she called o,ts:
"Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Don't you
want to come in and see me eat custard
pie" And Mary Ellen went in and
saw her eat custard pie, and she did not
give Mary Ellen any of it. [Groans
from the audience.
My aun told me q story of three boys
who had cakes sent them. One boy alto
his cake all up himself, right away, and
made himself sick. Peter put his in q
box, to save it, and went every day to
nibble off a little piece, when nobody
was looking. But Bill cut his cake ur
and passed it round. Which boy dc
you like best? [Shouts from the audi
ence: "Billy!']
We have the most food Thanksgiving
Days, but q great many cousins and
other people you like come to see you,
and your stomach is so glad you can
not eat half the things on your plate.
We eat food three times a day. These
times are breakfast, dinner, supper.
Breakfast comes the earliest. My auns
knows some children, very small ones,
that always want the best in the dish,
and knows some that when they ask for
any thing at the table call out: ''Meat!"
.Bread!" '.Milk!" and make such
noise calling out that nobody can hear
anybody talk. People do not like to
eat dinner at that house because the
children make such a noise at the table.
My aunt says she supposes they don't
know any better.
Once when I was a little fellow, I did
and took SOME of the things off the
1,1ofoc onH lro,,~ht <horn h0roo ~ ~,r
pocket. My mother made me feel
up in a paper, and wrote on the out
side; From a greedy boy who took
it back to the lady. To begreedy means
to get all you a away from others.
To be stinggy means to keep all you get,
and not give any away. To be a glut-
ton means to stuff yourself with food
after you have eaten a plenty. My aunt
says this is the right way to ask forfood
at the table. You speak to the one near
est the squash-if you want squash
and say that PERSONS name. If it is
your uncle, you say, "Uncle John''-if
his name is John.-"will you please give
me some squash?"-if you want squash.
I heard of a boy that called out, sPud-
ding!' and his father said, "Nhat are
you calling to pudding for? Pudding
can't hear you!" Laughter. Ny
mother knows some children that are so
poor they can not get much food if they
ask ever so well for it. They are glad
to get a crust, or a piece of cold johnny
cake. =
Once l heard a story of a girl, quitea
small one, that wanted to begin at the
beginning and make a johnny-cake, and
she said to her mother: 81 want to be-
gin at the beginning and make a johnny
cake. How does it begin?" Her
mother said: elf you want to begin at
the beginning, you must go into tho
kitchen and begin it with meal" She
went to the kitchen and said to Bridget:
"Does a j%ohnny-cake begin here? I
want to begin at the beginning and
make a johnny-cake. Please give ME
some meal!" Bridget said: "If you
want to begin at the beginning you
must go the grocer's. Meal comes
i from the g%rocer's." She went to the
grocer and said to him: "Does a john
ny-cake begin here? Iwant to begin at
the beginning and make a jo~hnny-cake."
The grocer said: eff you want to begin
at the beginning you must 60 yonder to
the miller's. My meal comes to me
from the miller" She went yonder to
the miller's and said to him: "Does a
johnny-cake begin here? 1 want to be-
gin at the beginning and make a john
ny-cake." The miller said: elf you
want to begin at the beginning you
must run over the fields to the farmers.
The farmer brings corn to my mill, my
mill grinds it into meal for the grocer,
the grocer sells meal to people
living in houses, and people liv-
iAg in houses make the meal into
johnny-cakes.n She ran over the fields
to the farmers and said to him: "Does
a johnny-cake begin here? 1 want to
begin at the beginning and make a
johnny-cake." The farmer said: 1.-The
beginning was last spring when I
planted my corn. When the snow had
all melted away 1 planted my corn.
From the seed corn sprang up corn
stalks. All summer these grew and
grew and grew taller and taller and
taller, and when summer was over there
were gathered from them bushels of
corn. I sell corn to the miller; the
miller grindssit to meal and sells the
meal to the grocer; the grocers sells meal
to people and people make it into
johnny-cakes. But you see if you be-
gin at the beginning it takes all sum-
mer to make q johnny-cake! If you
want to begin at the beginning, como
next spring and plant some seed corn"
The story did not tell if the girl went
in the spring to plant some seed corn
My big sister says ever that would not
be beginning at the beginning, for she
saws the seed corn that Won plant had t,
be grown omewhere.-Mrs a. ". Diaz,
IN Vide 4aUake.