Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-16

! certain piece or pie. Pie ana pIat
! were broken and trampled upon th
kitchen carpet. We were coming to
"fist fight" when Sissy remembered
that there was another pie of the kline
in the cellar. She brought it, and We
devoured the most of it in peace.
While eating the pie we resolved
upon new plan. In our eagerness te
try it we forgot our noon work, and
again leaving the house went to the
orchard
Poor Daisy -Dingle 1t was a rather
warm day in July, and at noon the
heat was oppressive for poor worried
calf. Our plan did not work. Daisy.
Dingle would not stand, we gave her
more exercise until at last she was con.
Quered
Just as Sissy had taken her place
astride the calls back our neighbor,
who had returned from church, and
who had been watching us unobserved,
came along, interfered, and we were
obliged to abandon our sport.
We were mortified and worried tc
think we had been discovered, and thus
made liable to exposure as well as pun.
ishment. We ran into the barn to hide,
each blaming the other for what had
been done. Soon tiring of this, we
looked about to see what next we could
do unobserved.
Mr.. Jones made cider for vinegar.
He kept barrels of it in his barn.
There were three barrels that Sissy and
I had often thought might still be fit
to drink, but how to get some had al
ways been puzzle.
We thought this an excellent oppor.
tunity for tasting it.
The bungs were tight in each barrel,
and we saw no possible way to get
them out but instead of spigots there
We're plugs that we thought might be
easily knocked out. [ gave one hard
hit and the cider, or rather vinegar,
came suddenly squirting over both OF
us in stream, and we We're thoroughly
drenched.
We had planned to drink with
straws, but did not even taste it, for
we made an effort to replace the plug.
AS it finally ceased flowing we con-
cluded that we were successful in stop.
ping it.
We tried the second and third bar.
rels with almost the same result.
Next we hunted eggs. These We
took to the kitchen, made coal fire
filed the tea-kettle with eggs ani
| water, put it over the fire, and CLOSED
the stove.
While waiting for the eggs to boi
we remembered our work. As it wa
getting late we dropped everything
and, leaving the door wide open, pro
ceeded to water cattle.
In the midst of this Mr.. anC
Mrs. Jones returned. They had beer
very anxious about us, and came bacl
much earlier than was anticipated
When Mother Jones caught sight o
us she screamed, but when she reach
ed the kitchen door and saw at on
glance the hot stove and hungr
tramp feasting upon the remains o
our dinner, she gave one piercing
shrek and tainted away, which S
scared the tramp that he fled.
The kettle had boiled dry and wa
emitting a strange odor.
The stove was hot enough to burst
and the carpet was irreparably spoiled
Mrs. Jones was sick all night frol
fright The next morning Daisy -Dingl
was found dead.
Our neighbor came to tell of OF
doings in the orchard, Just at the mt
ment Mr.. Jones discovered, by til
smell of vinegar, what had happene
to his barrels.
Mrs. Jones about this time disco,
cred the eggs and the ruined conditio
of the teakettle. She could not fin
the dress she had wished to wear this
day. nor could she for long time &c
over the loss of two, or the ruined col
dition of our clothes, besides everythin
else.
They wisely concluded to never leav
us alone again.
Both were too indulgent to punish IL
severely, SO we got off with a mil,
reprimand. They blamed themselve
for not getting an older person to taxi
charge of us.
Years have passed. Both Mr.. ant
Mrs. Jones are dead. Sissy and / are
married From this we learned goot
moral and it serves us well in our owl
family of little ones. 1t is this Neve
leave children alone with the care of {