Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
MAMMALS BEST BONNET.

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MAMMALS BEST BONNET.
The parlor door stood open, and little
Kitty strayed in.
She stood before the mirror and
reached out her small hands to the little
girl in there. The little girl reached a
pair just like them to her, and smiled
Then Kitty laughed aloud, and said:
"Peek boo" But the little girl in the
mirror said nothing, though She moved
her lips, still smiling.
Then Kitty saw her mammals Sunday
bonnet, and put it on. Now she thought
herself all ready for a walk.
She went to the front door, but she
could not get out there! So she trotted
down the back stairs to the basement
door. Once or twice she stepped on
her long bonnet-strings and nearly fell.
The basement door stood aiar and
she went out. She had sometimes been
allowed to play on the sidewalk, while
mamma sat at the parlor window and
watched her; but now mamma was
gardening in the back yard, and did not
see her.
Kitty feared nothing. She thought
she would go and meet her papa. She
trotted along the walk, her bonnet
strings streaming out behind her in the
May breeze. She met a policeman.
who asked her where she was going.
"Doin' to meet papa" said Kitty;
and the policeman, looking behind him
and seeing a gentleman coming not far
Oft, concluded that was s'papa," and it
was all right, and let her run on.
She crossed n street and turned
Down another, and came out into one
where were horse-cars, and where MANY
busy people were moving up and down.
She saw beautiful plants in one window,
and stopped to look.
liked riding in the cars, and she went to
the curb-stone and held up her hand, as
she had seen her mamma do, to signal
the driver to stop the car. But he paid
no attention.
She saw a bird-store, and went there
and stood watching the birds till, by
and-by, another car anne along. Kitty
thought she would try again. She went
out into the street a little way, to make
sure that the driver should see her, but
just then a big ice-wagon came rafting
and crashing over the stone pavement,
as if it would run right over her, and
die hurried back to the sidewalk.
A puff of wind took her bonnet and
carried it under the horses feet, and
the wagon wheels went over it, and it
was all mashed down in the mud. Kit
tvs lip curled and quivered, and then
She burst out crying as loud as she could
cry.
Before this time mamma had come in
from the garden, and was looking high
and low for Kitty. She called and
called, and finally went and looked out
at the basement door, and there she saw
the prints of little shoes. So she knew
Kitty had run away.
She started off, without any bonnet or
shawl, to find her, looking up and
down with her scared eyes and her white
face, so that everybody who met her
knew that something dreadful had hap
pered.
One kind neighbor brought a bonnet
and tied it on her head, and advised her
to 60 straight to the police-station and
give the alarm.
But the little mamma had a mother
Of her own two or three blocks away,
and she thought nobody could help her
quite so we'll as she. So she ran till
she got there, and then she pulled the
bell so hard that her mother jumped out
of her chair, and ran to see what was
the matter.
When she heard the story she put on
her bonnet at once: She said Just as
the neighbor had done. that the first
place to go was to the police-station.
So they started, looking and inquiring
all the way.
When they got to the station-house
the door stood open, and there, sitting
N a great leather-covercd chair, sat
little Kitty, smiling and talking to a
policeman. and crunching, with great
satisfaction, the candy he was giving
her.
Her face grew sober as she met her
mothers eyes. She didn't think much
about the naughtiness Of running away.
What she thought of was the loss OF that
nice bonnet.
But her mamma Rugged and kissed
her SO long and so hard that she con-
Guided that was forgiven, and didn't
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that she had worn the bonnet. She slid
down from the chair and put her hand
nto mammals to go home.
"Dood-by!' she said to the man who
gave her the candy. Il loves 90; I'll
tum aden some over day."
The next Sunday Kitty's mamma got
herself and her little girl all ready for
church except the bonnet. Kitty didn't
exactly go to church, but she generally
had on her Sunday dress and went
with papa and mamma as far as grand
mas house, and stayed there with
grandpa, who vas too lame to go, while
the rest went to church.
When Kitty's mamma al down to
get her bonnet there was a great Won
dering whaz had become of it. 1t was
hard to understand Kitty's rather inco-
herent explanations about its going I'M
der the wheels, but at last they got al
the whole story.
''She ought to be scolded for taking
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