The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-01
How 1 Took Care Of Mimy.

Mimy ism t. my truly sister. Icall her
SO, but that's because she hasn't any
mamma of her own. Her real man.
mas dead, and SO l gave her half Of
mine to keep always.
don't really believe she knows the
difference though, for she's only three
years old. I'm seven. She's real cum
ming, and love her just as well as if
she was my real sister.
Mimy don't like it because nay little
kittie will drink without having a nap
kin around her neck, the way she does
herself when she eats at the table. Last
week she ran all around the yard after
kittie. holding out her napkin, and call
ing, Exit kit put on nap" But kit
tie ran into hole under the house, SO
Mimy couldn't catch her after all.
Mimy can't talk plain yet. She says:
'Oh, punny punny r when she thinks
a thing is funny; and she said the other
day, that man went right on the
''walk-side," instead of the sidewalk.
Whenever she tears hole in her apron,
she says it is ''broken."
She is real good most always, but
the other day she climbed up on the
kitchen-table and stuck both her hands
into a squash pie. ] don't believe she
meant to be bad, though. She only did
it because she likes pie SO.
Mamma says ought never to be bad,
so as to set Mimy good example,
cause I'm so much older than she is,
and she always wants to do everything
| do. try to be good, but sometimes
forget, the way [ did the other day.
You see, / like to go barefoot ever so
much, only mamma don't let me do it
very often; and the other day I asked
her, but she said: ''No; it's too cold"
Well, that afternoon mamma went of
to see some folks, and she left Mimy
and me out in the yard, and told me to
take good care of Mimy; and / said
''Yes'm m, Iwould," and so she went of,
and Mimy and L played with the dolls"
But by-and-by we got tired, and the
green grass was SO nice and the sun
was so warm that | thought may be
mamma wouldn't care if l took off my
shoes and stockings. / wasn't real
sure, but thought T. try it, so did.
The grass felt real soft and cool, and
just as soon as Mimy saw me she began
to tease and say: "Me too" and She
tried to pull off her own little shoes.
But l said: mo, no." until she be-
gan to cry, and then / thought I'd Just
take off her shoes one minute and not
let her run around any.
Mimy liked it just as well as / did,
and l said: "This little pig went to
market, this little pig stayed &C home"
on her cunning little pink toes.
But after awhile we got to running
around, and we went into the back
yard. l got a rope and we played
horse there.
But in minute or two heard Mimy
scream, and looked around and there
she was, standing right in the pile of
ashes. and she just hollered and cried
dreadfully. And ran and picked her
up and found that she'd burnt her foot
real badly.
You see, Bridget had just emptied
the ashes, and there was lot of hot
coal among them, and that's the way
Mimy was burnt. Mimy cried and
cried, and Bridget and Iput her foot in
to a pail of water.
was real glad when mamma camo
home, only was afraid she'd talk. to
me because I'd gone barefoot. But she
didn't, then, only she looked real sorry.
She had to sit up ever so late with
Mimy that night. Every time she took
Mimy's foot out of water she'd wake up
and cry, SO she had to sit up and hold
her for long time. And didn't go
to sleep either, for awhile, because I
cried SO to think I'd made Mimy get
hurt when L was the bad one that de-
served to be hurt instead.
Mamma talked to me the next morn
ing, and I'm going TO try always after
this to be good, SO Mimy will be good,
too, and not get hurt. Mary E. BrGn1-
ford, in YOUTHS Companion.