Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-04-03
TOM MY'S WISH.
The Lesson Necessary to Teach Boy How
Dear to Him Was Little Sister.

Dear TO him was Little sister.
81 don't care" and Tommy looked
very much as if he meant it. 81 dom
care, I'm tired Of having to amuse thu
baby, Every time l want to do an,
thing somebody says: Tommy, viii
you please take care of the baby?'
just wish there wasn't any baby" ant
Tommy showed both hands down to tn
bottom of the pockets of his kniclier
bockers, and almost bumped his hea'
against the window pane, and quit
tened his nose against it as he
"Do you really mean hat. IT
Do you really wish there was Ii
in this house?" asked Tommy'sI
very quietly.
eyes, l do, there" and
almost stamped to prove how IN
meant it.
81 am glad you told me, Tom
l was planning to take you wit
grandma's. Baby must go, but
quite large enough to stay wi
and Ellen. 1t will be great
YOU not to have the baby abou
you get home from school. }
amuse yourself without intern
And before Tommy had time t
word, he was so astonished, his
had gone out of the room.
Tommy was always extrava
his words; that is, he said more
meant to say; and this habit
been checked, so you can imagi
amazed he was to find himself t;
his word. Not like to have Il
around! Why, of course he di
was the dearest, sweetest
in the world, But just
Tommy remembered that
day he had to stay with b
an hour because she would nc
the new nurse, and mamma had " oul
Tommy turned back to the window
Yes, last Saturday she wasn't well, an
wanted Tommy to stay with her, al
he had to stay all the morning. Yes,
would be nice to run out and play ju
as soon as he was through his lesson
| He concluded he would not go to gram
mas; baby was much more troub
| away from home-he had heard h
mamma say so. If he was there, 81
would want him every minute. Ton
my stood up very straight when he el
tered his mothers room, where the bat
was. Can you imagine why Tomm
had such a queer feeling in his throi
when the baby screamed with deligl
when she saw him, and why he w;
glad he had not left his handkerchief
his overcoat, for his eyes were vel
watery?
Tommy felt left out, somehow, fl
the next few days. He knew his moth'
was very busy, but he noticed that 81
did not ask him to take care of the bah
who never seemed sweeter or more 10
able. Two or three times Tommy fe
like asking if he might go to grandma
TO make the visit, but there was alwa.
something in his mothers face that d
not invite him to go. Monday cam
and mother, baby, and Katy started f
the depot Baby said ever SO maj
times; MY Tom, go with babyg al
every time she said 1t that queer lun
would come right into Tommy's thro'
And he had TO wipe his eyes in the me
public manner when she thumped
the car window and screamed; II a
my Tom"
"Be good boy, dear heart, and no
you will have a delightful time, witho
any cares or interruptions, said moth'
Tommy felt very uncomfortable, a
vet he had the secret conviction that
would be very nice to play, or read,
sit perfectly idle without the baby
interfere with or bother him.
/ When he got back home the hor
t was very still, and then he found the
, would be three more hours in which
play than he had other days, for
. mother was his teacher, and now th'
: were no lessons. He coasted down
Z until he was tired; the other boys W,
3 In school, and it really was not mt
. fun cnasting alone. He read after lun
a but the house was so still he felt 10
s some in spite of the exciting story. ]
!. cook was cross, and she would not
J him stay in the kitchen de went