St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-03-03
A Little Girls Story.

and rGa71eU at Otif mouse, aHtl we nau 10
stay in. rams
thing, Aunt Ne ia said: ...sOh, stop that
noise, children!'
And if you took anything, she said:
..Let thatbe! let that be!'' And it was
awtut in the house. ATS s.I
/ got big shawl and spread it over
three chairs. and got my dollies and
my dishes and played under the shawl;
and | asked Danny wouldn't he play
..keep house, just to-day, because it
was raining and he couldn't play out
doors anyway.
/ told him I'd lend him my .sDotty''
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. tn y are
made out of two dumb bells, with a long
towel pinned around each of them.
They look Just exactly alike, and
they've got round, bald heads just like
real babies. IN3'' ss'5 1856
But Danny wouldn't play keep house.
He said he d never be a tom-girl and
play with dolls, 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 Uoa't do 1T. And then,
you know there isn't any, use in teasing
him. s.i,.sl y. s..4st.e.sssxsts. 5ss...
But after a while it didn't rain SO
hard, and Aunt Nelia said we might 60
and play in the barn. But we must
stay IN the barn and not 90 out into the
yard, even it it didn't rain one single
drop. @ ia q
We like to play in the barn.
There isn't anyth ng in it but a big
pile OF hay land in one corner there $
lots of ears OF corn.
We play Danny Isl dentist. And the
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
nels-that's tooth and then he gives
a pull and out it comes! And then I
have to holler Ike everything for the
lady, because it hurts her so.
Danny talks to the lady. He says:
h" Madam, I won't hurt you in the
least" He heard dentist say that
once to lady.
Danny had tooth pulled that same
time that the lady did, and he never
hollered a bit when his tooth was pulled,
and it hurt him aUtSl--and bled and
bled.
But the LADY, hollered.
Danny thinks she was a coward.
But dom think it did hurt her.
And Aunt Nelia said to Danny: swat
till you have a double tooth out, and
see if you don honer. too!''
We pulled ever so many teeth that
day in the barn. But after a while we
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 /
only 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 1Nelia
would scold il Danny got his shoes
muddy.
But Danny said he would get Uncle
Eben's big rubber boots off from the
back porch and put on and then he
wouldn't get muddy bit.
q And SO he Went and got them. And
he looked 50 funny with them on! they
came clear up to his jacket on him.
= And then he went to get the little
pigs. l4.
- But afterwards Danny and me wished /
he hadn't gone for them at all.
He could not walk very well with the
big boots on. and when he got most to
the she'd, he couldn't walk at all. He
just couldn't take another step, and bis
boots sank way down. And it began &
to rain. and there was Danny sticking
in the mud
q 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 few up, and Danny fell right over
backwards into the mud.
He got up and oh. he was just as
muddy!
And then we had to 60 into the house.
for couldn't scrape the mud off-and
Danny was so wet.
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 thing about
Uncle Eben' $ boots--yet. Il
And was afraid to tell.
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?''
Then had to show him where one OF
the boots was, and / told him how it
got there, and he WASH mad a bit. He
laughed. But Aunt Nelia said:
.sWell. I declare! II hadn't sent
81, IL. / ir11xy