The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-15
FLossYS FUNNY DREAM.

She Goes to School With Her Great-SIrand-
mother-The Queer Things She Heard
and Saw.
Oh, girls, just come here, and hear
what funny dream Flossy Severance
had last night!''
When three or four more little girls !
came running over to the north side Of
the school house, where Flossy Sever
anee and Hattie Newton were seated on
a big fiat stone, Flossy began: II
know it was very queer dream, but
did dream it, truly. / suppose Miss
Ames' reading that old-fashioned story
in school yesterday afternoon made me;
mother said she guessed it did. You
know Miss Ames told us how the first
school house that ever was in this town
stood over in the field back of Mr.. Aims
worth's. Well, | dreamed it was stand
ing there now, and | was going there to
school Yes, did; it was just so queer.
There were the split logs for benches
that she told US about, and all. The
school house was made of logs, too.
1.-The first thing | dreamed about was
going up the path to that school house.
| thought it was winter, and | had on
my garnet suit trimmed with chinchilla,
and my chinchilla cap that | wore last
winter, you know. | had my books,
my Swinton's Geography and my Col
burns Arithmetic, and all the rest, in
my bag. The other scholars seemed to
be all there when / got up to the door;
| they were playing out in the yard, and
they were the funniest looking set. The
girls wore great thick shoes, and indigo
| dresses way down to their heels. Most
of them had little blankets pinned over
their heads instead of hoods, and every
! one had her hair parted in the middle
and combed, oh, SO smooth, over her
ears! Their cheeks were just as fat and
rosy; and the way they trudged through
| the snow and threw snowballsi We
couldn't begin to do it. The boys looked
funnier than the girls, in snutf-colored
clothes and the oldest shaped hats,
''When came up amongst them they
just stopped playing and started How
they did stare! Then they whispered to
each other and began to giggle.
couldn't see what they were laughing
at; it did seem to me that if it was any
body's place to laugh it was mine, for
| knew they looked more laughable than
/ did, and my dress was very stylish,
and theirs awfully out of fashion.
but began to cry. | felt so morti-
fed. Then one little girl stepped out
from the others and came up to me.
Don't be troubled, said she, if they
do laugh; they will soon be accustomed
to your queer dress, and no longer be
provoked to mirth. What is your
name?'
90 tFlossy Severance, said [.
g Your name is as singular as your
gown, said she. I never heard such
a name as Flossy; mine is Submit Fair
child Penniman,
"When she said that / jumped, fol-
that was my great-grandmother s name.
She was fathers grandmother, and ]
had heard him tell about her lots Of
times, and always remembered hel
name 1t was so queer. 1t came ovel
me, all of a sudden, that this was my
great grandmother, and / felt hal
scared and half tickled there was
something awful about it, and some
thing funny.
:" whats the matterp' said she, whel
I jumped.
g Nothing much, said I. I though
I wouldn't tell her what / had fount
out, for fear she wouldn't like it.
didn't know how she would fancy bein.
called great-grandmother by anothe
little girl.
just then, the teacher came to tn
door and called us in; she didn't rim
any bell. She had very pretty face
| if she hadn't worn her hair in such
queer fashion; great puffs on each sid
of her head, and the tallest shell CONT
Her gown was very short-waisted an
big-figured, and the skirt was plain.
ssWell, we all went in and sat dow
on the log benches, and the school be
, gan After the opening exercises, til
, scholars recited in the New Englan
Primer, like Miss Ames said; then the
had the Catechism and queer aritf
metic OF course ]. didn't know an,
3 thing but my Swinton and Colbur1
3 and for Catechism, my Sunday-sehot
lesson papers; and the teacher said
r was very backward, and would have
90 way back to the beginning, and
couldn't be in the class with my grea
I grandmother; / did feel so cheap.
s just sat there and heard the others r
y cite and felt like Ounce till moo
= Then there was an hours intermissiol
and thought my great-grandmoth
! and l sat down together on a log, ar
ate some Indian meal cake, which 81
!. had brought in little cotton bag fl
!. her dinner. We got to talking and no
: | the funny part comes. I mixed
: everything Miss Ames told with it, "
: know.
: Has your father paid the cord
: wood for your schooling?' said n
: great-grandmother.
Il said I didn't know.
! = Mine has, said my great-mothe
= "a cord of the very finest cedar to
= found in the forest Then she sat
:" very straight, eating her corn cake, a.
looked as If she felt 50 grand,