The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-05
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wILLIE's DELIGHTFUL VISIT.

WILLIEs DELIGHTFUL VISIT.
Old Mrs Mulkittle was delighted to see
her grandson. She had not seen him for
some time, which fact, together with her
bad memory of everything about children
but the ills to which their little flesh is
lawful heir, greatly tended to increase her
pleasure in seeing him. 1t was late in
the afternoon when he arrived, and he had
not time to explore the premises; however,
he succeeded in sitting down on painful
of duck eggs that had been encased in
cotton and placed by the fire. The old
lady, in the heartiness Of good humor born
of hale old age, readily forgave him, but
when he tried to catch the cat and turned
over the crock churn, and split three days
collection of cream, her aggravation was
not to be confined by the ordinary bounds
of self-control; for in the life of an old
woman there is no perplexity like that of
losing ''churnin'.'
''Deuce take the boy y she exclaimed.
"He's ruined me"
"But | got the cat, gran'ma
'OOnlOuHu IHc Cdb, IulH hCl iooSC
There, I'm glad she scratched you" and
she got a rag and began to mop up the
milk. Il wouldn't have had this to happen
for putty" she said, in genuine sorrow.
care you mad, grammar
ooh, I'm hurt"
''Did the churn fall on you?'
''No it didn't
"What hurt you then p
"Oh, don't bother me-, and she arose
and began to sweep the floor. "This is a
putty mess"
II didn't 90 to do it. -
"Oh, no, you never go to do anything.
$40 you go to do anything p
''Yes, | do"
WHAT"
Don't talk to me; I'm bothered
"About the churn ?"
"Hush, or I'll make you go to bed.
''Just cause | turned over the churn =
''Yes. don't see why you wanted the
cat, anyhow
''She licked out her tongue at me, an
pretended like couldn't catch her, but L
did, didn't ~
Il don't see what makes children so bad.
They wasn't that way in my raisin.'
sYou wasn't bad boy, was your
'No, wasn't" and she sat down with
an annoyed air.
you wasn't boy, was you p - -
'No thank the Lord.
But grandpa what's dead was, wasn't
he?"
Yes. he was. Now hush up.
If he hadn'ter been boy he couldn' ter
been man, could he?"
Il won't put up with your foolishness.
You can't run over me like you do your
mother and father. Take off them clothes
and get into that bed.
':It's too soon.
Move, tell you, and she took down
a turkey-wing fan, and the boy stood no
longer upon the order of his going, but
went at once. He arose early the next
morning and went out into the lot. He
left the gate open and the calves ran into
the cow-pen.
'Merciful Heavens ?" yelled the old
lady. ''Come here !" calling to a servant.
lis her name Merciful Heavens ?" asked
the boy climbing on the fence and placidly
survey ing the turbid scene.
I'LL attend to your case presently.
Sock, red sock red The boy saw that
affairs were not shaping themselves in a
way calculated to advance his ideas of en-
joyment and he went into the house.
.'Now you have done it, said the old
lady. busting into the ROOM ''The calves
have got all the milk, and we fed the cows
on pumpkins, too. | never saw the like
since the day l was born. y
THE bad man will get you if you don't
stop talking that way
''What's that, you little rascal? Don't
you come around me with your catechism.
but amt it a sin to get mad -
''Yes," replied the old lady after mo-
ment's reflection, ''it is Il sin and may the
Lord forgive me for il"
'But if He forgives you every time yop
get mad it'll keep Him pretty busy won't
it,"
flush, you mustn't talk that way
''Is it sin p
"Yes, it is"
"But the Lord will forgive me, won't
HEP"
No, He won't
.'Then why will He forgive you when
you get mad an sin p
Lord a-massy, child, let me alone"
"If you were to get married again you'd
make my new grandpa hop, wouldn't you ?"
iJane have old John hitched up. I'm goin
to town." and hustled out of the room.
When the buggy was announced she led
the boy out. She stuffed cotton in her
ears and drove rapidly to town. Arriving
at Mulkittle's house, she was putting the
boy out, when Mr.. Mulkittle came out and
said
" Mother, won't you get OUT? Willie
isn't sick is he?"
"No, l won't get out, and no, he amt
sick. l want you to keep him at home,
he tormented me until | forgot that had
the rheumatism but give me the rheuma-
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