The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-06-25
KITTY AND HER MAMMALS BONNET.

KITTY AND HER MAMMALS BONNET.
TIE parlor door stood open, and little
Kitty strayed in.
She stood before the mirror aud
reached out her small hands to the little
girl in there. The little girl reached
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 walk.
n 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 ajar 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 60 and meet her papa. She
trotted along the walk, her bonnet
strings streaming out behind her In the
May breeze. She met policeman.
!. who asked her where she was going. I
..Doin' to meet papa" said Kitty,
and the policeman, looking behind him
and seeing q gentleman coming not iar
of. concluded that was papa" and il
was all right, and let her run ON. "
! She crossed one 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. ,A-HTrsfnAk
Then a horse.car catno along. Kitty
liked riding in the cars, and she went &C
the curb-stone and held up her hand, a:
she bad seen her mamma do, to sigma
The driver to stoplthe car. But he paid
, no attention. w it f''
She saw bird-store, and went there
and stood watching the birds till, W.
and-by. smother onr came along. Kitty
thought she would try again. She went
out into the street little way, TO make
sure that the driver should see her, but
just then big icewagon came rattlins
. and crashing over the stone pavement
as ifit wouN run right over her. ant
she hurried back 10 the sidewalk.
A puff Of wind took her bonnet ant
carried II under the horses feet, anc
the wagon wheels went over It. and i
was ali mashed down in the mud. Kit
ty's lip curled and quivered, and thor
she burst out crying as loud as she coulC
cry. III III. is' j
Before this time mamma had come II
from the garden, and was looking higi
and low for Kitty. She called anC
called, and finally went and looked on
at the basement door, and there she saw
the prints Of littie shoes. So she knew
Kitty had run away. ...--.-..--a..--'-
She started of, without any bonnet o
shawl, TO find her, loooking up, an'
down with her scared eyes and her whit
face, so that everybody who met he
knew that something dreadful had hap
apered.B ~F q az ~
m One kind ncighbor brought q bonnie
jaud tied II on her head, and advised he
TO 70 straight ", the -police-station an
give the alarm.
But the little mamma had mothe
Of her own two or three blocks away
and she thought nobody could help he
quite So we'll as she's So orshe ran I'll
she got there, and then she pulled tn
bell so hard that her mother Jumped on
of her. chair, and ran TO see what wa
the matter. ~-r tlr-14a rrUo
When she heard the story she put ol
her bonnet at once. She said Just a
the neighbor had done. that the iirs
place to go was to the police-statior
So they started, looking and inquirin
all the way.
When they got to the statlon-hous
the door stood open, and there, sittin
IN a great leather-covercd chsir. 81
little Kitty, smiling and talking to
policeman, and crunching, with grea
satisfaction, the candy he was givin
her. rT II
Her face grew sober as she met he
mothers eyes. She didn't think niue
about the naughtiness Of running away
What she thought Of was the loss of thi
nice bonnet. =
But her mamma hugged and kissc
her so long and so hard that she cor
cluded that was forgiven, and didn'
realize that mamma didn't even kno'
that she had worn the bonnet She sli
down from the chair and put her han
into mammals to go homo.
'.Dood-byp' she said TO the man VIII
gave her the candy. II loves 90; L
tum aden some over day."
The next Sunday Kitty's mamma e
herself and her little girl all ready Il
church except the bonnet. Kitty didn
exactly 90 70 church, but she. goneran
had on her Sunday dress and wcr
u Ewithapapa and mamma as fares granC
mas house, and stayed there wit
grandpa, who was too 1ameto 60, Will
THE rest went to church.
When Kitty's mamma ran down
Igetsher bonnet there was a.great wol
ldering what had become Of M ltws
lhartbto understand Kitty'sratherincs
bersnt explanations about TAGGING VI
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kho%h olesstory.
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