Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-01

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''keep house, just to-day, because it
was raining and he couldn't play out
doors anyway.
l told him I'd lend him my ''Dotty''
and my Sissy" and my very best dolly,
''Helena,'-if he'd be real good to her.
| And I'd keep Rose and Violet and Ma
| tilda myself, and then we would have
three children apiece.
Rose and Violet are twins. TIL Y are
made out of two dumb bells, with long
| towel pinned around each of them.
They look just exactly alike, and
they've got round, bald heads just like
| 1e0t babies.
But Eanny wouldn't play keep house.
He said he never be a tonight and
play with do Is no matter if it rained
forever and ever and ever:
And then he put his hands in his
pockets and looked the way he always
| does when he aoou't do ii. And then
| you know there isn't any use in teasing
him.
But after while it didn't rain so
hard, and Aunt Neiia said we might 90
! and play in the barn. But we must
stay ia the barn and not go out into The
yard, even ii it didn't rain one single
drop. z.-.,..-< ...........
we ike TO play In The barn.
There isn't anyth ng in it but big
pile of hayand in one corner there
lots of ears of corn.
We play Danny is dentist And tie
ears OF corn are ladies come to have
their teeth pulled.
[ walk them along over the floor to
Danny, and he screws the monkey
wrench down tight on one of the kerr
ncls-that s tooth-and then he gives
a pull and out it comes. And then l
| have to holler Ike everything for the
lady, because it hurts her so.
Danny talks to the lady. He says:
Madam. won't hurt you in the
least He heard a dentist say that
once to lady.
Danny had a tooth pulled that same
time that the lady did, and he never
and it hurt him asctut-and bIed and
bled.
! ut the ladu hollered
Danny thinks she was coward.
But / don't; think it did hurt her.
And Aunt Nelia said to Danny: wat
till You have double tooth out, and
see if you don boiler. toon'
We pulled ever so many teeth that
got tired of playing that. and we wished
we had the new little white pigs in the
/ barn with us to play with. They were
on y three days old. and they were just
as cunning and little as they could be.
Danny said he'd run across to the
shed and get us one apiece to play with.
But it was awful muddy in the cow
yard, and [ was AFRAID Aunt Nelia
would scold if Danny got his shoes
muddy.
But Danny said he would get Uncle
Eben's big rubber boots OFT from the
back porch and put on. and then. he
wouldn't get muddy a bit.
And SO he went and got them. And
he looked so funny with them on. they
came clear up to his jacket on him.
And then he went to get the little
pigs.
ut afterwards Danny and me wished
he hadn't gone for them at all.
He could not walk very we'll with the
big boots on, and when he got most to
the shed, he couldn walk at all. He
just couldn't take another sep, and bis
boots sank way down. And it began
to rain. and there was Danny sticking
in the mud!
Pretty soon he stepped out of the
rubber boots, and he began to pull at
one of the boots. to get it out, and the
boot flew up, and Danny fell right over
backwards into the mud.
He got up and oh, he was just as
n1utldVt
And then we had to 60 into the house.
for I couldn scrape the mud otf-and
Danny was so wet. .- r.....
And Aunt Nelia scolded like every
thing, and she put Danny to bed-all
alone upstairs. And she made me stay
downstairs.
But she didn't know a thing about
Uncle Eben boots-yet. To-. .t.
And | was AFRAID to tell. n
| could see one of them standing in
the mud there yet-out of the kitchen
window.
kept looking to see if it was there
and it always was.
After while Uncle Eben wanted his
boots, and he said: "Where are my
rubber boots?" .....- -.. Il
Then had to show him where enc of
the boots was, and | told him how it
got there, and he wasn't mail bit. He
laughed. But Aunt Nelia sad:
':Well. declare! If l hadn't sent
that boy to bed already, 1 certainly
should now!'
And when Uncle Eben went out and
got his boot, it was full of water, clear
to the top outh's Compani0n.