The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-03
TOoT'S MISTAKES.
story Of = Queer Little Girl Who Said aud
ID Funny 1hings,


story of = Queer Little Girl who Said and
Id Funny 1hings.
I've been wanting to go to Sunday
school a long time. Mamma said: I'm
afraid you would not be a good girl,
loot" And Minnie said: Don't you
let her 60, mamma. She will be sure to
do something 'sgraceful." Uncle Jack
said: ''Toot you are kiro. and you
shat go to Sunday school, If l have to
take you myself said: Uncle Jack,
what is kiro?" and he said: You find
out, loot, and will give you big sill
yer dollar" So went TO Sunday sch DOL.
All the way Minnie kept saying: Now.
loot, you mustn't do this and you
mustn't do that" and said I wouldn't.
liked the sup'tendent; he looked like .
long black lead pencil. He said: How
do you do my dear?" to me- And said:
I'm @. n. How are you?" just like
our hired man. And Minnie jerked my
hand and made me sit down. l just
'joyed the singing; / didn't know the
song, but l sang Little Sallie Waters"
as loud as could, and once they all got
through before l did, and Minnie
jerked me awful.
The teacher was prettier than Minnie.
She had roses in her hat, and two little
hole, in her cheeks when she laughed.
She told buful story about angels go
ing up and down ladder. She said they
was white with big wings. And now,
children, ''of course. none of you ever
saw an angel
Il have said. as loud as could.
why Toot!' she said.
''Yes, l have" l said. ''We've got
EN- at our house, mprc'n fifty Of EN-.
They're white with big wings; and they
swim on the pond, and say 'quack.
quack.'" Then all the children laughed
and the teacher said
NO, loot, those are ducks"
They passed around plate with
money in it, and ! took two bright
pennies, and said: Thank YOU"
Minnie wanted them herself, and tried
to take them away from me, but held
on them tight, and she couldn't get
them.
The superintendent said ii any one
and I got up and So d: what is a
kiro? Uncle Jack said he would give
me silver dollar if found out Min
ME. you stop pulling my sash. I'll tell
mamma OF you when get home" Then
they all laughed again and wouldn't
stop. and the superintendent said: 4
guess it is little girl that means right,
but makes mistakes sometimes" And
said guessed it was. Then they all
stood up and said: Our Father" and
l said Amen as loud as could.
Going home, said to Minnie:
Wasn't it tore'ys I'm going every
Sunday" But Minnie wouldn't talk,
and made me walk SO fast | almost fell
down. When we came to Mr.. Mays
Jennie stood by the gate and Min
ME stopped to talk to her. looked
through the gate and saw some flowers
and went in. Oh, it was beaWiful, SO
many flowers! l picked nice bouquet
of red ra'nums, the kind mamma has in
the house. These grew in tho ground
Then l was smelling rose and an ugly
big fly jumped out of it and bit me on
the nose, and 1t burned like fire. /
screamed and cried, and Minnie came
running into the garden and pulled me
through the gate. and j rked me all
the way home Minnie's an awful
jerker, and screamed and every one
looked at me. And one gentleman said
to Minnie; Aren't you ashame to hurt
your sister?' When got home my
nose was all swelled up and red. Mann
ma put something on itand it stopped
aching. Uncle Jack said: foot, vou
look like Squire Roberts with that big
red nose" said: did fly bite hes
nose, toe? ?" And Uncle Jack said: mo,
loot. whisky bit his nose."
Minnie made great fuss and said
Il didn't have myself at Sunday
school," but she said the most about
what the gent man said couldn't see
why.
About twenty weeks after went to
Sunlay.school Squire Roberts and his
wife came to see u.s. The squire and
papa and Uncle Jack was sitting on the
piazza smoking and talking politics.
shines so. went out on the piazza and
said: ''How do you do, Squire; how's
every thing?" That's what papa sa. ID
when he saw him. The Squire sa d.:
Every things all right, my dear; come
and sit on my lap" and went. kept
looking at his nose and thinking how
bad it must feel, and at last l said:
docs your nose ache much, Squire?"
He said; why. what do you mean,
loot? My nose don't ache at all, why
should it?' ] said: '.Ain't 1t funny,
Squire; our noses was just alike, and
the same thing didn't bite them, did it?
A fly bit mine, and whisky bit yours,
Uncle Jack says So"
guess papa swallowed something the
wrong way just then cause he choked
SO, and Uncle Jack never laughed at all
as he gently does when l talk. Then
papa said real cross: go in the house
this minute, loot" and | went And
the Squire and his wife went right on
and they've never come since.-Bessie
G. Hart in Detroit Free Press