The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-09-11
WHAT WAGGIE DID.
Naughty Little Dog Spoils = Promised
Feast.


mamma, may I 60 over to gran
na's?"
..Yes, dear"
1t would be hard to tell how many
lines a day Patty asked this and her
mamma answered it. II any little girl
who reads about her lives right across
the street from her grandma's, perhaps
she can give guess about il.
Patty had only lately come to live so
near. and you may be sure she thought
It very delightful.
What kind of day is this?' asked
Patty one morning when she awakened.
"A very nice day, think" said her
mamma.
81 mean, do you think it's bake-day?
[ mean gran'ma's bake-day?
YES" said mamma. This is Sat
lrday. and grandma always bakes on
saturday,"
May go oyers"
Yes"
The other little girl who lives near
grandma can tell you exactly why Patty
wanted to 60 She knows all about the
loughnuts and ginger-snaps and GUS
sards and pies. Grandma and Hilda.
The Swede girl who could not speak
word of English, were making pies when
Patty toddled into the kitchen.
% gran'ma she said. what a
beautiful pie. never saw plaid pie
before"
Didn't you p said gran'ma. Bring
patty-pan here, Hilia.'
Hilda knew what the patty pans we're,
Tor at least one of them was always
ased on gran'ma's bake-day. Patty
thought they were named so because
the little pie or gingerbread or custard
was always for her. But other little
girls know we'll enough that patty-pans
are for little kittys or Pollys or Prues
Or hundred others, especially the ones
who live near gran'ma.
IIilda smiled as gran'ma made the
patty-pan plaid pie. The big one was
6lled with apple-butter and had strips
Of crust crisis crossed all over it. The
patty-pan pie was such very little one
that there could be only two pieces
crossed on it.
That's little bit of plaid" said
Patty, laughing till the dimples were
all over her face.
YES, only sample" said grandma,
but it will taste good
.Yes," said Patty. 'One streak for
mamma, one streak for auntie, one
streak for Elsie and one for me-"
Dear me-. said grandma, "how came
| to forget that you always divide every
thing you have? Eat the patty-pic
little one, and we'll make q
for you to take home"
The patty-pan pie was almost cooked
by the time the plaid was put on the
Patty waited for 1t to cool
l little and tlcn ate it, thinking it was
as good as it looked, and that there was
nothing in the world which quite came
IN to plaid pie.
When the saucer-pie was done, she
could hardly wait for it to cool she was in
such a hurry to take it home. Hilda
set it in the kitchen window. but Pat
ty, after watching it for q little while,
and finding that it cooled very slowly,
took hold of it with towel and carried
1t out on the back porch.
Then she went out to see the little
ducks and chickens. When she came
back she saw gran'ma's little dog,
Maggie, standing close to the plaid
saucer-pie.
Was he smelling it? Patty gave a
little cry and ran towards him.
20 Wag. you naughty doggie"
Maggie was very pretty white dog
with q little pink nose, and Patty was
usually quite willing that he should
help himself to share Of what she had.
But as is often the way with dogs he
mad chosen the part he liked best. He
aad left the apple-butter and very care
fully picked out the strips OF crust.
With woe-begone face Patty tool
the pie back TO the kitchen. Gran'ms
mad gone up stairs, and only Hilda was
there.
lies eaten up all the plaid" sale
Patty.
Hilda did not understand. Sht
thought Patty had eaten the crust and
was sorry.
Yah, YAH" said Hilda, smiling /:
great deal and nodding her head yer,
hard.
She smoothed the apple-butter with {
spoon, took little pie-crust which hai
been left, cut it into streaks and in /;
few moments the plaid was all or
again. Into the oven it went, and came
out as beautiful as before.
Patty let it stay on the window-sil
this time, and before long it was read,
to take home to mamma and the others
How good i. looked! Patty felt as i
she could eat it all; but she neve
thought of such thing as not divid
ing it.
I've brought you plaid pie. Gran
ma made it," she said to mamma ant
auntie and her sister Elsie. And it,
good"
Eyes, l know it's good if gran'm,
NJ ade it," said Elsie. She went for som,
little plates and a knife, and MANN;
began cutting II in four pieces.
If | hadn't hurried you wouldn'
have had it," said Patty. Il caught Wa,
Just in time. lie ate all the plaid of.
.Otf what?" asked mamma.
.Off the pie."
This pie?" asked auntie.
"Yes, and Hilda put some NOR
streaks on. Hilda's good girl"
Patty" said mamma, run back :
eran'ma' and ask her to lend me thre
eggs"
Patty had to look for the eggs in tn
| barn, and it took her some time. Whe
she came back there was no pie to b
seen.
us it all gone?"' she asked, in littl
dismay.
"All gone, dear" said mamma. "bu
here are some peaches for you. 70
like them just as we'll, don't you?"
| "Yes." But she could not help VOL
dering why they did not leave any pi
for her.
And to this day the darling littl