The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-18
"LlTTLE BUT THEM"
A Queer Name for n Little Girl. and How
She Came by 1t.

A Queer Name for n Little Girl. and How
She Came byIt
1t was a queer name for a little girl,
and it was not her real name-that was
Lizzie - but everybody called her "But
Then"
"Course my real name is prettier, but
then, ] like the other pretty we'll" she
said, nodding her short brown curls
merrilly. And that sentence shows just
how she came by her name.
II Willie complained tina. it was n
miserable, rainy day, and they couldn't I
play out Of doors, LIZZIE assented
brightly:
"Yes; but then, it's real nice day to
fix our scrap-books."
When Rob fretted because they had
so far to walk 10 school since they had
''moved TO this horrid out West" his
little sister reminded him:
"But then, it's all the way through
the woods you know, and that's ever
so much nicer than walking on pave
ments."
When even patient Aunt Maria pined
little because the rooms in the new
house were so few and small compared
with the comfortable Eastern home, a
rosy face was quickly lifted TO hers with
the suggestion:
"But then, little rooms are the best
to cuddle all up together in, don't you
think, auntieP"
Better call her Little But Then,
and have done with it, declared Rob,
half-vexed. half-laughing. No matter
how bad anything is, she is always
ready with her but them and some
kind Of consolation hitched on to the
end of il. pH,a .. t @
And SO, though no one really intended
It. the new name began. There were o
good many things that the children
missed in their new and ruder home In
the West Money could have bought
them even there, but If the money had
not gone first, their father would
scarcely, have thought 1t necessary, TO
leave his Eastern home. They had done
what was best under the circumstances,
still the boys felt rather inclined to
grumble about it one winter morning
when they were starting of to the vii
lage on an errand. d., r...... a
"Just look at all the snow going to
waste, without our having a chance to
enjoy it!' said Will; "and the ice too
all because we coJldn't bring our sleds
with us when we moved
f"But then you might make one your
self, you know. II wouldn't be quite
so pretty, but II would be just as good, "
suggested little But Then.
Exactly what mean to do as soon
as / can get money enought to buy two
or three boards; but havn't even that
yet, and the winter is nearly half
gone" ... u.
IF we only had sled to-day, Sis
could ride, and we could 60 on tho
river,n said Rob. "It's Just as near
that way, and we could go faster"
ut Is q pity" admitted the little girl,
with momentary clouding Of her
bright face. "But I've thought Of
something-that old chair in the she'd
If we turned IL down, its back would
be most like runners, and So"
"Hurrahl That's the very thingp'
Interrupted the boys, and the old chair
was dragged out in twinkling and
carried down TO the river. Then away
went the merry party, laughing and
shouting, on their smooth road between
the snowy hills, while Gyp followed,
frisking and barking, and seeming TO
enjoy the fun as much as any OF them.
snow wen draw our rig up here
close under the bank. where nobody
will see It, aud leave it while We go up
TO the store" said Rob, when they had
reached the village.
Their errand was soon accomplished.
and the children ready to retnrni but
as they set forth win pointed 10 dark
spot little way out on the ice.
whats thatp IL looks like q great
bundle Of clothes.N
IL was bundle that moved and
moaned as they drew near, and proved
70 be girl lls'le larger than Lizzie