Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-24
TWO LITTLE BOYS.

W. LII LIE 6OY0.
Girl Whom They Heard Some One
Calling.
Spring had just come. The trees
that had looked like old sticks along
the city street, and which Jimmy and
Jack had decided between them ought
to have been broken up for kindling,
had all of a sudden grown extremely
pretty, and were full of birds. After
breakfast the two small friends. who
were of one size and often of on Q
mind. set out hand-in-hand to take a
walk. Jack with the round patch,
the size of saucer, high in the back
of his coat, where the bulldog had
grabbed him; and Jimmy. with the
toes of his shoes cut open, because
they never wore out and his feet
would grow.
81 wonder what summer IS gong to
be like Jimmy was asking. ''They
say it's coming very fast"
Don't you remember SUMMER"
cried Jack. Il do"
''Well, begin to remember eating
some culrants." answered Jimmy.
"Oh, weren' they souri,
Both the little boys stopped all of a
sudden. Some one had called out, in
a startled voice. from one of the WIN
dows along the street: '.Ettar'
Never mind. we aren't either of us
Eta" said Jack.
Il wonder who she is, musea
Jimmy.
The voice sounded again. shrill and
earnest, calling: ''E5ta! Etta! as if
the mother of some little girl had lost
her, and was getting very much
alarmed.
''She mast be on the street," said
Timmy. Il don't see her mothers
head sticking out. but the windows
open. See that girl way down the
sidewalk. there guess that is Eta,
Jack.
What naughty girl to scare her
mother sol" exclaimed Jack. Let us
go and tell her to come home.
As they scurricd along on their err
rand. the voice rang out again and
again. calling the missing child. until
it seemed as if every body ought to join
in the search for her.
"Ettai Ettar'
When the little girl was accosted by
Timmy and Jack, who said '.Hallo!"
to her, and then stopped and stared at
her, she looked out from her very big
hat with astonished eyes. and would
not answer at all.
Your mothers calling you. Eta, -
Jack informed her. Don't you hear
her? LIDO. even from here"
MY name isn't E ta." remarked
the little girl, whirling round till her
back was turned toward them, and
then looking over her shoulder. Per
haps you think me ninny; but I never
was one vet" And with these words,
she danced off down the side walk.
gayly:
The two boys sat themselves on
doorstep and asked each other ques-
lions they neither of them could an
swer, as to what they were TO do in
order TO find Eta.
lit might be we'll to call her our
selves" said Jimmy. MAY be she'd
mind us better than she does her
mother. You shout first.''
A number of people looked out Of
their windows as the boys proceeded
the street, making the name
of Eta sound clear and shrill rs they
went, while the echo still rang high in
air behind them from the house the
child had left, where the female voice
called and called.
However, no little girl responded to
all this noise-and all at once Jimmy
made sound which caused Jack to
look round at him. He was crying:
She's lost" he sobbed; land we
can never. never find her!"
Jack put his kind little arm about
neck. which was very awk-
ward for them both. and they nearly
tripped each other up. especially as
Timmy could not see where he was
going for his tears.
There's little girl with a hat on
at one of those windows. Jack an
nounced We'll stop and ask her if
she is Eta; and I guess she ran in
there to make call on some other
little girl-named Jenny, I guess.
Accordingly the boys stopped under
the open window, quite persuaded
now that their search was successful,
and told her that her mother was
calling her. and wouldn't wait for her
any longer
The little girl at the window quickly
and soon opened the
door of the house, and came out.
you have frightened them very
much at your home" said Jimmy.
They think some
thing has happened to YOU"
The girl was starting off on a run.
when Jack exclaimed.
..Why, that's not the way! Dnn't
you know where you live. you funny
thing?"
.'Of course DOR she replied. stop
ping in amazement who are you,
if you pleaseP" A nd away she sped.
in entirely the opposite direction from
that of the high voice which could still
be family hearl in the distance.
1.-The fact u.s. cried Jack, ''that we
can never find her. Tim. No wonder
they keep on calling her. for don't
believe even policeman could tell
where she's gone"
do you think she has yellow hair.
or brown hair?' asked Jimmy. as II
that made any difference In little |
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