Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-12-19
4 CHRISTMAS BREEZE
BY SOPHIE MAY.

ny LaIueos lebLlug DerSeH Ieel so Gross
that afternoon at Mrs. Springs I am
sure all of you little girls and boys, too,
know very we'll how
One little heart with anger stirred,
Two littlo lips by naughty word
Banish the angel Of psarly wing,
Darksoms spirits instead they bring.
"Oh, it's dreadful to have your chill
dren act so when you're speeding COM
pany," said Zaidee shaking her largest
doll. "Why, Bluebell, how rude you
are! Now, if you go and get the friz
out Of your hair you sha'n't have any
cake for your party"
my Butterfly is just as bad as your
Bluebell, only worse" cried little Jes-
sic Spring. "Someti1nes I wish hadn't
any childrenl And we working 80 hard
to make 'em happy, and give EN-
Christmas party. Zaidee, how long
will it be before Christmas?"
Zaidee always knew chow long" it
would be before anything, and could
actually tell the time on the clock,
though she was only seven years old.
1T will bethree nights, and two days,
and one afternoon, replied she, prompt
ly. "Why, Christmas is almost here,
and my naughty children haven't made
any presents for their mother" went on
Zaldee, growing more indignant the
moro she thought of their base ingrati-
tude.
So she shut up the whole family
there were nine of them--in a large
basket which served as dark closet.
Then Jessie found that her children
never made her any presents, and they
must go into the wood-box and stay
there till they very sorry.
While this severe and just punish
ment was going on, the two wise little
mothers sat on the rug and fell to talk
ing about Christmas trees.
81 know one present that will be on
our tree, and wish I didn't know it )"
said ZAidee, who seemed to look gloom
ier every minute. cts gold bracelet,
asplendid beauty. Aunt Fanny bought
it last week because I asked her to; and
I promised her I'd forget all about it;
but somehow 7 can't forget. Don't you
think it must be awful when you try to
forget and can't?"
"Y-s-s. Only some things are aw-
fuller" SAID Jessie, a little spot in her
heart aching with envy. ''Some folks
don't have any aunties to-. buy EN-
bracelets. I never saw girl have so
many things as you do, Zaidee Seldom,
never!"
"Woll, you needn't be 50 cross at me
for that; I can't help it, Jessie Spring.
There, now, our children have been in
long enough to feel sorry, 50 we'll take
'em out and pacify 'em. Oh, III tell
you what my Bluebell wants to do.
She has been teasing me ever so long to
go up in = balloon; and She shall go up
so she shallp'
Upon this the little girls proceeded
to tie their dollies to some toy balloons
and give them q ride in the cir.
"Away they go, mp iu3the sky. Isn't
loon myself" SAID Jessie, daintily set
thing the white plume in Butterfy's
bonnet.
And perhaps it was at this precise
minute that tho breeze really began;
for za,dee said very sharply indeed:
"Well, I don't want to go UP in bal
loon. I shouldn't think anybody'd
want to. should think they'd rather
wait till they are dead"
"There, now, Zaidee Selden, you
needn't say anything about me being
cross. It's you are cross! You keep
saying. NO, no. to everything I say!
And it's just because you're so proud
about that bracelet"
"No, it isn't either" said Zaidee, with
dignity. She was subject to little at
taoks OF dignity. 81 forgot all about
that bracelet. It's the first time I've
forgot it this whole day. I only said I
didn't want to go up in the sky; and
why should I want togo up in the Ky,
when I'm NOT dead at all.
AS she spoke, she glared at Jessie
with her large black eyes in q remark
able way; and Jessie, whose patience
had been tried ali the afternoon, was
moved to say now the most unkind and
cutting thing she could think of:
"Well, you needn't go up iii the. sky,
Zaidee Selden. But now I'm going to
tell you what my uncle Horace said
about your aunt Fanny. Yes, I am
He said she had q human nose" {
Jessie meant Roman; but it was all
the same to Zaidee. Aword against her
best friends nose was more than SHE
could bear; and the visit which might
have been such happy one, ended, at
last, in a quarrel. .
"Why, what has happened?" ex-
claimed Mrs. Selden, when Zaidee
rushed home long before time, look
ing wildly unhappy. r.. ~ -, a.EF.FF
40 mammal" replied the little girl,
almost sobbing from excitement, "Jes-
sizes very disagreeable !; and besides, she
knocked me down." VI & ~ 4 4ess 4
+ Mrs. Selden looked very much sur
prised. II
ut doesn't seem possible, said she.
II never heard of Jessie's behaving like
that. What had you done to make her
angry" s..s.@ .,.s..
Il "Oh, it was she that made nae angry,
talking about aunt Fanny bracelet, and
aunt Fanny human nose r. A Il
Mamma let her work fall il her lap,
and laughed and laughed. .z !. 4
# a human nose is the very incest in
the world, !" said she, at last. q 6 But Jes-
j sic didn't knock syon down for, that?n
ss 8 Nom" and 5zaidee bowed her head
very low in shame. g ( ON; j knocked
her down first = ii 5s. 5 .s5s
Then 1t was all out. Zaidee had been
/. the one really at fault;; and she had