Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-06

Johnny Jump-,up,. Johnny Jump-up
Rnles us with his tiny hand
Lord and master king and kaiser,
II, the realm of Nurseryland
Take your pleasure without murmur,
laugh and crow, and whoop and CALL
Johnny Jump-up, Johnny Jump-up.
We're your faithful servants ali
1QaYd f. HichdfdS.
In School.
"Are YOU doing Your best at school.
Isle 2" asked her mother.
well. / don't believe I exactly am.
ANNA" said the girl, half laughing.
ali soberly. "You see, there are SO
am girls there"
yes: but they all go there to study.
bit they?"
"I-suppose So" said Elsie, slowly,
il there might be some doubt in the
AFTER But Lulu Grant and Annie
I'LL do so many funny things behind
Leir desks, I can't help laughing when
see them"
"But if you were busy with your
yulies, you would not see them"
No, but l like to look. And then.
bmetimes, We have to write notes to
bch other about going to the woods,
going to see each other after school.
nd sometimes we pass round candy.
lien the teacher isn't looking, and
It it.
Cant that all be done out of
hool?"
Yes, of course, mamma; but all the
(rls do it"
Are you sure of that?"
"Well. mean almost all. Hattie
fpy never does. She and Mary Hen
(lson and few of the other girls
uly away just as if they We're big
PlS. L threw bit Of candy at Hat
the other day, but she wouldn't
se her head, and it rolled out of her
and fell on the floor. Miss Row
it. and she asked aboutit and gave
q bad mark
i wish you were more like Hattie,
daughter"
'oh; mamma, I'm going to study hard
zen I am older"
/ If you do not begin forming habits
faithful industry while you are
id, You may be very sure they will
YER come to you when you are older"
Well, mamma" said Elsie, fret
lyy, I'm sure 1 should do better if
would send me to Miss Cars
POOL. She always gives prizes, and
girls there study like everything to
TO get them"
am sending you to what I think
best place for you, Elsie" said her
ther. soberly. "You are sent there
learn what will be of use to you for
pr whole life. If you do we'll what
are expected to do, you will grow
wise woman, able to do whatever
hes the Lord may send you. But ii
spend the best part of your life in
ling you will be worth very little.
me, dear, do you think that some
all prize, or even the qualification Of
lnlng it, would be equal to the pleas
YOU ought to take in feeling that
are doing your best, that you are
s,smg God and your father and
ther?"
No. mamma, I really DON'T" said
le' kissing her, "and I'm going to
to do better"
She really did mean it, and for day
Two kept her eyes resolutely on her
'k IN spite of notes thrown by Lulu
ant and tempting bunch OF grapes
ID up by Annie Hill. But she found,
so many Of us do, that bad habit
e formed is not easily rooted out,
the foolish little lassie Quoted her
science by saying to herself;
IL IS almost the end of this term.
S' term I'm going to begin right and
epit up"
Do you think she ever asked herself
uaty ever belongs to one time more
N to another?
see some visitors going into the
asstlon-room," said Lulu, Fastening
the entry just as the first bell
Tor the afternoon session. Dear
I'm glad don't have to recite the
thing. Don't keep me, girls;
NJ NJ, to study my geography"
oh, [ have to recite history the
thlng!" exclaimed Elsie, in great
Emay.
And SO have T." said Annie.
ana haven't looked at mine, said
Ee. Where is my book? OH
1t home last night and forgot it
morning"
annie had flung down her history in
alcal despair. Elsie seized it and
gan "a; studying it with all her might.
at. y, came to look over with her, and
j.; .ns second bell rang they went to
y desks striving in the few moments
."is t, the class-bell rang to glance
me neglected lesson. Elsie was
u 'l history and was familiar with
Incident which formed the princi-
ID part of the lesson. eff nobody was
- ~, 'Aere | know I could get through
M n;'ef fashion," she whispered to
si but it always upsets me to re-
'ylofe strangers"
y, was not strangers who were to
" w 70 her recitation. That would
;t.,' peen bad enough, but how in
,sa worse to find herself, with her
pared pa, lesson, face to face with
NV ,,9lAsr and some one else-Aunt
i IT,, =, "no had come for a few days
aAo had always taken such pleas
,'>'tcSt In all HOP cchoo1 affairs