The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-25
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EVERY ONE FORGOT.

The Queer Country Which Georgie Wis.,
 ited, Where Nc One Could Remember
 Any Thing.
 Georgie meant to be good boy, but he very seldom did any thing that he was told to do. He nearly always for got it Once, when his sister May was very sick, he was sent after some medi- cine for her. So he started in a great hurry; but he met Fred Smith with his dog, and Fred coaxed him to go and coast ''just once" down the long Red Hill. Then he forgot all about May and the medicine until it was quite dark, and he felt so sorry and ashamed that he ran home and crept up the back stairway to bed, hungry and lonely and cold
 By and by he fell asleep, and when he awoke he was in a new and strange place. He found himself in house which was only partially covered by a roof, and the rain came in through the uncovered part and dropped upon his bed. Georgie sat up and looked around him. There was a fire place in the room, besides some wood and kind lings. which the poor, shivering little fellow eyed very wistfully, thinking that some one m. ght perhaps light fire. It was very chilly, and his teeth chattered. There was a wee old woman sitting in the chimney corner, and George spoke to her.
 "What is it that you want, JimmieP" she said.
 Twill you please tell me what your name is, and where 1 amp" he asked.
 My name-well. really, forget it just now," she replied, ''but you are in land of short memories-that, I am aware off
 But what shall I call YouP" asked Georgie.
 "O6, call me Mite! That will do as we'll as any other name till you forget it, Henry"
 My name is Georgie"
 "Is it? We'll, I will try and recollect it. 'Tom,' you said it was. didn't youP"
 No, I didn'tr' retorted Georgie, getting cross with the old lady, for he thought she meant to tease him.
 'There, therer' cried Mite; ''the doc tors said that you must not get excited, or else that you must, forget which. Do you want any thing to eat?"
 ''Yes, should like to have some gruel."
 ''I will make you some, :" said she. have, only that seem to have forgotten to light the kindlings."
 While she was bustling around, busy with the gruel, Georgie lay quite still, looking out where there was no roof, at the blue sky, which he could now see, for it had ceased raining.
 'Why don't you have the roof cover the whole of your house?" asked Georgie of the old lady.
 1.-The rest of the roof is somewhere around" said she. 'I guess the work men forgot to put it on. Now, here is your nice gruel all ready for you"
 "Why, it is coldr' exclaimed the dis appointed Georgie, who was quite hun gry.
 Sure enough; forgot to boil it!n' said the old lady.
 And I don't see any thing in the bowl but waterT'
 'Dear me! Dear mer' said Mite. 'I must have forgotten to put any meal in itr'
 Georgie now began to cry.
 Don't cry, don't cry, Johnnie" said Mite, "I will boil chicken for you by and by, if don't forget it. Here are the doctors coming to see you now, and you must sit up and talk to them"
 Pretty soon two doctors came in, and one of them asked Mito if she felt better to-day.
 'Yes, 1 think do,'' said she.
 Ibid you take the medicine Iordered for youP" asked the other doctor.
 T suppose did, but don't remem- ber," answered Mite.
 Then the doctor felt her pulse, looked at her tongue, and said she must take some salts, and went away. Georgie began to cry louder than before
 ''What is the matter, Fred?" de- manded Mite.
 ''My name is not Fred, I tell your' scream ed Georgie.
 Never mind; I always forget your name, so I call you by anything l can think of. But tell me what makes you cry?"
 '.Why, am sick, and thought the doctors were coming to see mer'
 'Bless my starsr' exclaimed the old lady, "sure enough. was not the one that was sick! 1 meant to have remembered and told the doc tors that they came to see you; but forgot it when they looked at my tongue. I'll run after them and call them back!'