Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-08-13
MURIEL-.
Good Advice that the Moon Gave a Little
Girl-How TO BE Happy.

Good Advice that the Moon Gave a Little
GirI-How TO BE Happy.
The sun had set and its last rays had
kissed the lake goodnight an hour be-
fore, and everything seemed at rest
60 --emed, for it is not everybody that
could have heard, or who, if they had
heard, would have understood the fol-
lowing conversation:
"Wel, said the turtle, for he gen
orally opened the evening talk, II was
sorry to see Muriel in such trouble to-
day and really it appears to me hui
mans have not much sense anyway
What a fuss to make just because an
old doll fell in the lake and was lost "
Il don't agree with You there" said
the bull-frog's wife, for ] know when
you lose your child, it's enough to
break anybodv's heart, and Muriel is
such womanly little girl Oh, but
what difference there is in people.
Some little girls just seem to have been
meant to be boys; anyway they act
like boys and throw stones at us and
plague us dreadfully; instead of being
proud of being little girls and having
everything love them, they seem to be
so sorry And with this she had to
stop for breath, as it was long speech
for her.
81 was sorry, too, said the alligator;
for l saw it drop in the water and
thought it was something good to eat,
but soon found it was only Muriels
doll: it was TOO bad" and then the ALI
gator commenced to cry. No one paid
much attention to him, because he shed
tears SO easily, and then nobody was
quite sure what he vas crying about
1T was great fuss to make about
nothing, said the bullfrog. IF Muriel
felt poorly, like | do, she might have
cried. Then no one spoke, because
they did not want to be rude; but every
one knew that the bullfrog was not
feeling well because he had eaten too
much, and it was all they could do not
to laugh.
While all this conversation was going
on Muriel lay in her bed, crying as
though her little heart would break, for
she had never had such a sorrow before
in her whole life, and she felt sure she
would never have another doll that she
could love half as much as Henrietta and
poor Henrietta was drowned and she
would never see her again, and she com
menced to cry and sob more than ever.
Muriel was really a sensible little girl,
and at last she said to herself: "Muriel,
you are a baby to cry so and if you are
going To cry this way you had better
wear baby-clothes again. The differ
ence between little girls and babies is
that babies cry because they can not
help it and don't know any better; but
you. Muriel, are not baby. for you are
six years old"
Then the old moon got out of bed to
start on her nightly rounds, and little
while aftorward stopped to look in at
Muriel's window, as she did every night
when She got up at all, to see how her
little friend was getting along, for the
moon IS very lovable old lady, and
especially fond of little people.
And then Muriel thought she heard
some one calling "Mu-ri-el, Mu-ri-el, Z"
and she answered az last, and the moon
looked at her so kindly. as she always
does TO people in trouble, and said:
"Muriel. dear what is the matter?"
Muriel was not the least afraid, for
nobody could be at the moon. and told
herall about Henrietta getting drowned,
and tried NOT to cry ever SCI hard, and
pressed her teeth together tightly when
She had said AN She could and waited to
hear what me moon had to say.
And this j. what the muoa suid "O1
/ course, Murirl it is very ~a3 that YOU