Iron County register., 1888-07-19
STORY OF A KITE.

STORY OF A KITE.
1t Gives an Account of Its Adventure, and
Tells HOW 1t Came to BE Where 1t Was.
The parior of the Appletree Cottage
had been entirely refurnished. In the
center of the floor lay large square
rug of green and gold. All around it
ran bright border of red mating.
A wicker rocking-chair, bedecked with
crimson ribbons, looked out of the bay
window. Two low, gray-cushioned
chairs were placed on each side of an
odd little center-table, which was made
of cherry-wood, and it had three queer,
crooked legs. On the mantel was a
pretty clock that told the hours and
half-hours in a silvery voice. At its
right was snow-white vase holding
bunch of pansies. At its left was a
sister vase, holding bunch of violets.
On the wall above it hung a Japanese
fan. A lady with long, narrow eyes,
who was on this fan, was having
her hair dressed by her maid in the
teapot style, which is very fashion
able in Japan. A picture of a cunning
little kitten peeping out OF a shoe hung
on one side of the fan, and a picture of
notwithstanding old cat, half
asleep in a basket, hung On the other;
and just opposite all three, over the
lounge, hung a common paper kite.
framed in golden frame. It's long
tail was wound round it, forming a
sort of inside frame. The family had
gone out visiting, and as the front
door closed on them the violets called
across the clock to the pansies: ''Do
stop making faces at us! What have
we ever done to you that you should
make faces at us?"
Nothing" replied the pansies.
s'We're only doing it for fun. It's a
pity you don't like it. All our friends,
the gardeners, do. And what's more,
the funnier faces we make the better
| they are pleased"
s'Well, there's no accounting for
| tastes" said the violets. eve don't
| make faces ourselves. In fact, we
never even look at any one, but hide
away under our green leaves as long
as we cam"
'Oho! say you so?n exclaimed the
pansies, winking at the Japanese lady
and her maid. ''How is it, then, that
you are so easily found? Simply be-
cause you never fail to carry that ex-
quisite perfume about you, the secret
of which you alone know. People
have only to follow their noses to find
you, my dears.
| ~ int fn6 tho
clock, ''stop disputing. You are both
two lovely flowers and well you know
it,
.And what I'd like to know" said
the Japanese lady, sis why a common
kite should be framed in q golden
frame, and hung in this beautiful par
lor?"
'.I'd like to know that, too," purred
the sleepy cat.
Have you any objection to tell us
kite?" joined the odd little table, tilt
ing lightly backward and forward on
it's queer, crooked legs.
..Not the slightest" answered the
kite, mot the slightest; but it's a rath-
e,. long story. Are you sure you won't
! be tired before / am done?n
.'Oh, sure!' came the reply in a
| chorus.
1.-The first thing remember is being
| in the window of a small store in a
| great city. A little boy dressed in a
| velvet jacket and velvet l1nickerbockers
came into the store"
II beg your pardon interrupted
the Japanese lady, but what may
knick-er-bock-ers be?"
"Knee-breeches that is, short
trousers" explained the kite.
"Oh, thank you," said the Japanese
lady. Pray go on"
And the kite went on This little
boy bought me for few cents, and
took me home with him. He lived in
one of a tall row of fine houses on q
magnificent street. I peeped into
the parlor as he carried me past, and
1t was magnificent, too"
More beautiful than thisp" suddenly
asked the cunning little kitten who was
peeping out of a shoe.
well, not more beautiful accord
ing to my way of thinking" said the
kite, ''but grander by far. The little
boy never stopped until he reached the
play-room- There he found his sister,
little older than himself, and his
brother, 3 little younger. They were
all very pretty children"
'sPrettier than our children, one.
| two, three?" said the clock.
Not according to my way OF think
ing replied the kite, .sbut, as said
before, they were very pretty.
.sAnd their namespn asked the
Japanese lady.
..Madge, Ralph and Carl" said the
kite.
..Oh, thank you." said the Japanese
lady. pray go on.
And the kite went on. Ralph tole
his sister and his brother that he couls
not buy finer kite because he ha<
spent all the rest Of his money for bon
bons."