Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-16
Slonth's Golmtnll.
Some Good Times.

The warm weather had come, and
little Lois was a cross. fretful. I'M
happy child. She cried nearly all
the time she was awake, and it was
hard work to induce her to 90 to
sleep. Mamma was nearly worn out
taking care of her, when one day
papa came in and said something that
resulted in good time for the whole
family.
MARY" he said, sshow would you
like to go camping this summer
Mamma looked very much pleased !;
for she remembered the cool woods
and the restfulness of quiet summer
spent in the open air a few years be-
fore. So they all went to work,
packing and getting ready for the
trip. Lois forgot her troubles; for
she was very busy deciding what she
would take on the trip, and getting it
ready. Her dollies received more at
tention in that short length of time
than they had known since the first
week after Christmas.
When they left the the train that
carried them and their trunks, bus
took them several miles through
beautiful stretch of country to the
side of large lake. There, on a
high green bank the tents were put
up before the wondering eyes of the
little girl, who couldn't''s see how papa
could make houses out of just pieces
of clof %
But papa and mamma knew quite
we'll how to make a camp-ground
look very home-like, indeed, and,
with the help of the four cousins who
had come with them, not only finished
all preparations for the night, but
produced very nice supper.
The sun had to be very spry the
next morning in order to get up be-
fore the campers but he succeeded
in getting ahead of all but two eager
fisherman, who were out on the lake
in their gay little boat when the rest
made their appearance.
Lois looked at them so wistfully
that big Cousin Tom took her out for
a row in the little skiff which they
had left tied to the pier. This made
Lois very happy.
go Tom % she cried, show nice
this is I'm so glad / coined, ar'n't
you?'
Tom laughed, and said he was very
glad, indeed. Presently the call to
breakfast, in the shape of the toot of
a Dig horn, sounded over the lake;
and Lois thought it was the very mic
est breakfast she had ever tasted.
She ate the oatmeal so fast that her
mother was too much astOnished to
reprove her, and could hardly believe
it was the same little girl who had
lost her appetite at the sight of oat-
meal only the morning before.
After breakfast, Lois began to no.
tice that each one seemed to have his
or her own share of the work to per-
form; and she began puzzling her
little head to think what her share
should be. Finally, she thought of
something, but resolved to ''s'prise''
the rest when the time came.
The next morning, when mamma
wakened she was surprised to find the
little cot beside hers quite empty.
She dressed quickly and ran out to
look after her missing baby. As she
the boat landing she
heard little voice calling, "Mamma,
mamma y and there was little Lois
in an oarless boat, floating about in
the lake. Fortunately, the wind was
toward shore /; and the little boat had
drifted in from the end of the pier,
where it had been so loosely tied that
the little girl had easily set it loose.
You may be sure that Lois, with
her fishing pole and Undated hook,
had failed in her plan of supplying
the camp with fish; and she prom
lsed mama never to go in the boat |
alone again.
However, she found so many other
things to amuse her that mamma
hardly knew her for the same girl
and, when the month by the lake was
gone, and they were all at home once
more, her little head was so full of
plans for ''great big camp-out of
I'll the poor little children of the city,"
Turing the following summer that she
orgot to be naughty.
And the next summer was JOYOUS
me, indeed, for the little waits whose
'outing" was due to the generous
wish of little girl.-BOston Beacon.
A good deed is never lost; he who
ows courtesy reaps friendship and he
Who plants kindness gathers love.