The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-09
APPLE PIE AND CHEESE.
The Good Use Little Jake Made OF
the Dinner.

Little Jake filed the dinner-basket,
that morning. when they were getting
ready for school, going into the pantry
aud helping himself to just what he
saw fit. He wouldn't have been al
lowed 20 if they hadn't been late for
school and in a hurry.
Thankful. who was almost twelve.
usually attended 10 the basket, but her
hair was in such snarl that she
couldn''t get il braided. They had been
having the first snow-storm of the
season, and Luke. the nired man, had
harnessed old Jolly to the great sled
to carly them TO school, and jolly was
tossing his head and making all the
bells jingle in his Impotence, and Luke
was thrashing his arms to keep warm,
and whistling to them TO come. TWAS
a pity to be late on this morning, for
the roads were only partly broken out,
and they couldn't go very fast, and be-
sides. on the first sleigh-ride of the
winter one wanted time to have some
fun.
And SO when little Jake, who was
ready. and looked all boots and muffier.
with only the tip of his nose and two
bright eyes sticking out-asked If he
might get the dinner-basket ready.
Thankful said: Yes, yes. Only do
hurTym
Clemency, who came next to Thank
fnl. and was ten and a-half, said:
20 dear! don't suppose we shall
have thing but apple pie and cheese
if he gets it.''
But she was tying little Peace's
apron strings. and couldn't stop to
get it.
Little Jake didn't think there was
much that was good to eat but apple
pie and cheese. If he had been left to
himself he would have eaten scarcely
Aanything else. and as it was he ate a
sgreat deal too much; but he certainly
seemed 10 thrive upon it, for he was as
plump and rosy as possible; indeed he
was so very plump that his brother
Tobias declared that he was growing
the wrong way, and would soon be
much broader than he was long.
1t was Monday morning. and every
body was busy. Nabby, the hired girl,
was hanging out the clothes, so Jake
was all alone in tho pantry, and he de-
cided TO take advantage of an oppor-
tunity that he might never have again
and fill that basket just as he thought
dinner-basket should be filled. When
he came out of the pantry with the
basket there was not morsel of any,
thing in it but apple pie and cheese; he
did GO back, however. to get an uncom-
monty plump doughnut boy which
Nabby had made for him, and which he
put in his pocket.
All his brothers and sisters, eight OF
them, and as merry a crowd as one
could wish TO see, were already on the
big sled, and calling to him to hurry
Just As if fellow could hurry when he
was very plump indeed. and his legs
were very short. and he had big din
ner-basket. Jake was little fellow,
800; he had never been to school till
this autumn.
Hurry! hurry! JaIer' they all
called. and Jake perc6ed himself on
the back of the sled with his legs dang
ling over. Luke chir1uped, and away
Ncut oiu dOitt-
The drifts were deep. and Jack Frost |
nipped noses and toes, but there had |
been long, warm autumn, and they !
had fairly lonsed for winter.
Is was away up i'm Northern Vermont
that they lived. where winter seems to |
have been born and bred, and makes |
himself thoroughly AT home, and il was |
a long time ago. and there We're not so |
many ways for getting the better of |
Jack Frost as there are now, but for all |
that winter brought such fun with him |
that he never came too soon or STAYED |
too long for the children. The school !
house was more than two miles away.
Poor old jolly snorted and pulled and |
once or twice came to stand-still and |
looked round as if he wished to explain |
that he might have to give il mp.
Well, declare, if they haven't
cleared out the logging-road, alreadyr'
Luke, as they neared turn
in the road. II believe we'd better 90
down here. and. turn Of by Daddy
I-ong-legs: we shall get to the school
house sooner, if it is little farther,
because the road is cleaned out" jolly,
delighted to End the logging-road free
from the drifts that caused him IN