The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-12
The Time / Cheated.
rYouth,s Communion.

youths Companion.
julie aud wipe dishes three times every
day. Mamma washes them and we wipe.
We don like to do it very we'll, Specially
the big platter
JuIe dou't like to wipe that n neither de I.
We most always take turns wiping it, 'cept
sometimes when we forget whose turn it is.
Then julie wipes one side of the platter n
wipe the other.
Jules my sister. She goes to school cause
she's ten years old. I'm only eight, n don't
90 yet. That's why l have TO wipe all the
dishes Moons. | mean every noon 'cept Sat
urday n Sunday.
julie don't have more'n time to come
straight home from school n eat her dinner
N go right back again. So she can't wipe
any dishes 4 sometimes there's lots n lots of
them to do.
Well. one day, Miss Crafton-that's Jules
teacher-tOld all the girls that she had some
picture cards that she was going to give to
the ones that weren't late to school for
whole month.
julie said Miss Grafton held up some of the
cards to show them IN they were real pretty.
They had flowers on them in cOlors just like
real flowers IN julie said she was going to try
ever so hard to get one.
So every morning she'd start at half past
eight, so shed be sure to be early enough, n
moons she d run both ways, n for three
weeks she wasn't late once.
Well. ore Thursday mammad been bak-
ing. She always makes ever so mary dirty
dishes when she cooks N this time the sink
was just heaping full. Course I'd had to
help her all the forenoon, n my feet were
awful tired doing so many errands, n Just
hated to think about the dishes.
did wish julie would stop N help me But
she ran in Just the same she always does n
sat down n ate her dinner, n while she
was eating l went into the sitting room.
Mamma had most washed the dishes hut
i didn't feel like washing them just yet.
Sometimes let my dishes get stone cold be-
fore l wipe them, l hate to do it SO.
Well. went into our sitting-room N there
was our old clock. It's big one that reach
eS from the floor way up high above my
head. n father winds it. But don't you
think, he'd forgotten to wind it that morn
ing. n there it had stopped just fifteen min
utes past twelve.
And then / don't know what put it in my
head. but Just made up my mind I'd make
julie help me anyway; IN L went back n /
said, "JUie. it's only fifteen minutes past
twelve. You've got lots of time yet. Do help
me about the dishes"
Well. she didn't want to at first, n she
said, NO" but / leased, n told her l was so
tired, n told her again that it was only fif-
teen minutes past, n so she got dish towel
IN hurried round to help me, N l wiped to.
Oh my, you don't know how mean / did
H.
truly lie you know, the clock really did say
fifteen minutes past, N julie needn't have be-
heved me n never have gone in to see for
herself. guess she won't be late. Anyway,
tisn't any worse than an April Fool" =
But all the same / was real glad when julie
got through N picked up her hat n started
of on run. She'd stayed until the very last
dish was wiped, n I was getting real scared
Tor fear she'd be late.
Well when o'clock came l didn't want
to see julie much, N l didn't run to meet
her the way 1 do sometimes. But Just the
minute she came inside the yard l knew
what had happened.
l guess she cried pretty much all the af-
ternOOn. She looked like it, anyway, N she
went right TO crying again.
30 Lulu said she, what made YOU tease
NE to stay this noon? II was ten minutes
late, n now / can't have my card?'' N she
cried so hard that--oh, I'd rather have wiped
dishes hundred years than had her feel so.
Well. she cried most all the evening n
didn't want any supper, n all the time she
lever even s'pected that I'd told her the
time wrong
And ! went round feeling just like Judas
n Mas n Sapphira until couldn't stand it
any longer. N then / told mamma N julie
everything. n | cried; n julie wasn't mad at
all, N we made up, N mamma went N told
Miss Grafton all about it next day, IN she
gave julie one of the cards, same as the other
girls.
Is'pect Miss Grafton thinks Jules got an
awful wicked sister n | agree with her, for
really believe il was truly lie after all.
Benevolent Birds.
lst Nicholas1
There is one very odd case of benevolence
OF one animal toward another which shows
that help is often needed where least sus-
pected-
Who would suppose that the elephant,
With its great size and massive strength,
could be in need of such aid as so insignifi-
cant a creature as bird could give itP
Against such large animals as lions, tigers,
and rhin ocer roses it can defend itself but
against tiny insects, which it might crush
under its feet by the hundred, il has no pro-
lection except what is given it by a little
feathered friend. With such thick skin as
it has. one might we'll SUPPOSE that that ele-
plant would haveno trouble from insects;
but, in truth, it is the very thickness of its
hide which makes the small insect dan
gerous.
Ticks which are abundant in all forests,
work their way into the cracks in the skin of
the huge creature, and as the skin is so thick
they are enabled to bury themselves so com.
Pletely that they can not be scraped off when
the smarting animal rubs against rocks or
trees. A differently constructed animal
could use its teeth or feet to remove the an.
noyance; but for the elephant, there is
nothing but suffering and torture, unless
some Kind friend lends helping hand--or
bill.
And this kind friend is not lacking: for no