The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-04

PeI.l,cv 0MM Tinker.

Judlths Grandma Blake was in the
Observation-Disclosures weaving n long, white,
woolly web of blankets. Judith was
there, too, watching the slender shuttle
shoot back and forth in its little tunnel
of threads, and the streadles" hop uD
and down as grandma pressed them,
first one, then the other, in turn with
her foot, and the heavy claag. claaag!
of the "batten" as it heat the weft of
the cloth close together. 1t fairly
made the little chamber tremble, and
Judith's short curls danced as she
leaned against the loom.
Then there were the quiet-funny
little things, made from short pieces of
elder branches, with the pith pressed
out, then stuck on to the spindle of the
spinning-whcel, and wound full of white
yarn from a skcin on the whirling
"swifts."
Grandma used to let Judith wind
quilts sometimes for her to weave, but
she was apt to let the yarn run off and
make n naughty nose." as grandma
called it.
1t was Judith's birthday. She was
eight years old, and in her honor
grandma had baked n nice custard-pie
and frosted it, and set it on the broad
dresser" shelf to cool. Judith had
watched it with longing eyes, and could
scarcely wait for supper, which was to
be eaten out in the grape arbor.
All at once grandma's shuttle struck
midway in the tunnel,-one of Judith's
naughty noses" had done it,-and sew
eral threads of the warp were broken.
Grandma must stop and mend them.
II was then that a racket was heard in
the kitchen observation-disclosures!
Hipper-hlappcr, Over went a chair,
and the tin plates OH the dresser rat
tied.
"Oh, dear, Judy! 1 do believe some
things afoul OF our pie! You don't sup
pose it's that rascally Pepper and
Tinker? Run, Judy, run, do"
And Grandma Blake hurried out of
the loom and followed Judy, who Mt the
very first alarm had given the wheel
one long Wl,iss-ss-Ss.. and started down
stairs Mt q run.
1t certainly was Pepper and Tinker
the goats-and where do you think
they were? Pepper was up in grandma's
big chair, which stood against the
dresser. with his fore-feet upon the
dresser-shelf-cating the middle right
out of tie frosted pie. And Tinker
had mounted the table heal by and
was looking on in n panic because he
couldn't get at it, too.
Now they both jumped at seeing Jul
dith bounce in upon them! They knew
they were i'll mischief and tried to get
away, Tinker tipped the table over
and Pepper ran off with the crust of the
pie in his mouth. In spite of the dis
appointment, grandma sat right down
and laughed till tears stood in her eyes.
Judy a after the goats with grand
pas cane. but they hopped owe the
wall and into a big tllistle-patch in the
pasture. where they felt themselves
quite safe.
The pie was gone, to n certainty, but
Judy was confronted with currant jam
and the promise OF a ride out to Willow
Lake, and the sunshine of happiness
again shone out for her. But she did
not quite forgive Pepper and Tinker,
and as a penalty for their naughty
theft she made them draw great loads
OF wood i'll her blue wagon to fill the
kitchen wood-boS, and did not give
them as much as III crust for a week.
-IOutA's Companion.