The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-06
"BuT THEM"


A Queer Name for Little Girl, and How
She Came b. IL. ~
It was queer name for a little girl,
andit was not her real name THAT was
Lizzie = but everybody. called her ..But
Them lylasS --tAs s. -
Course my real name IS prettier, but
rtheh, I Ike the Other pretty WELL" she
said, nodding her short brown curls
merrilly. And that sentence shows just
how she came by her name
II Willie complained that it was a
miserable, rainy day, and they couldn't
play out of DOORS, Lizz.e assented
brightly: sion sag .si
Eyes; but then: il 9 q real nice day to
fix our scrap-books." ~
When Rob ffetted because they had
SO far to walk to school since they had
ssmoyed to this horrid out West" his
little sister reminded him:., 81 = fy>3fx
: s'.Bnt then, IT'S an the way through
the woods you know and that's ever
so much nicer than walking on pave
ments.
When even patient Adn Naris pinned
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 suggestions:
ssBut then, little rooms are the best
to cuddle all up together in, don't you
think, auntie?''
Better coll her Little But Then, ,
and have done with itr' declared Rob,
half-yexed balf-laneAing. No srnatter
how bad anything is, she, is always
ready with her 'bht' then" and some
kind of consolation hitched on to the
end of it y 81, ,.aa... a. sn,ss
And SO, though no one really intended
it, the new name began. There. were a
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 it necessary to
leave his Eastern home. They had done
what was best under the circumstances,
still the boys felt, rather inclined to
grumble about ii one winter morning,
when they. were, starting. of to the vii
Gage on an GRAND
<"Just look at all the snow going to
waste, without our having a chance to
enjoy it!,'5 saftf VIII; , and itlie Zoe too
all because we couldn't bring our sieds
with us when we moved
But then you might make one your
self, You know. 1t wouldn't be quite
so pretty, but it would be Just as good, y
suggested little But Then.
Exactly what l mean to do as soon
as can get money enought to buy lpKo
or three boards; but I havn't even that
yet, and the winter is nearly hall
gone. alas sf
IF we only had sled to-day, Sis
could ride, and we could go ON, the
river" said Rob-, ..It's Just al near
that way, and we could 60 faster"
ut is a 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 it down, its back would
be most like runners, and So
"Hurrah! That's the Very thingr'
interrupted the; boys, and the old chair
was dragged ont in a-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,
fisking and barking, and seeming to
enjoy the fun as much as any of them.
'.Now we'll draw 1oiir rig up here
close under the bank, where nobody
viii see it, and leave if,whjle VIC go. up
to the store, said Rob. when they had
reached tho village ,eal si.. -<sssg "a
Their errand was soon accomplished,
and the children ready 20 return; but
- they set forth VIII pointed to dark
spot little way out on the ice ss
p what thalf II looks like q great
bundle Of clothes - - y
Il was bundle that moved and
i. moaned ss they drew near. and proved
70 be = Eff 4 little Larger than Liz1ie.