Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-15

and ne was I'VE years ola on ms last
birthday.
1t was the naughty Charley that
awoke first that morning and before
he was fairly dressed he began TO whine
and tease.
Jimmy Niles hasa treeboggan. papa.
Can't have a treeboggan? say"
why. what could little boy like
You do with a toboggan, Charley" an
swered papa. besides didn't Santa
Claus bring You nice. new sled?'
Il waht a treeboggan. papa, repeat
ed Charley, rubbing tear out Of each
blue eye Please, papa: cause I'm
most big boy"
NO. no, my son. ] can't buy you any
thing of the sort. said his papa, open
ing the chamber door: "but when |
come home to dinner, if | find my good
little Charley here, and if mamma
thinks il is best, III take him 10 slide
on great toboggan 10 the park.
oh, will you, papa? Oh, thank you
ever so much cried good little Char
ley, who must have been all the time at
naughty little Charley's elbow. And
good little Charley and papa walked
down to breakfast hand in hand.
When mamma heard their plan she
smiled. and said that If Charleys cold
was no worse by afternoon. he certain
ly might go 10 the park. Then she
brought him his medicine.
Now this medicine was cough cor
dial, spicy and sweet. which the little
boy liked very much; and no sooner
than he begged for a second. But
mamma put the vial in the cupboard.
saying that for the present Charley had
taken quite enough
"Oh, dear! ! think my mammals sell
fish. Ny mamma wants me to be not
any better unused the old naughty lit
tie Charley, bouncing back again into
good little Charley's place. oh when
I'm big man. like papa. I'll drink up
every bit of mederson there is in this
house,
lie tried hard 70 cough, but nobody
seemed to notice; SO he sullenly ate his
breakfast with a longing look now and
then at the red vial on the lower shelf.
The more he looked at it, the more he
wanted il: and by and by, when he was
left alone in the dining-room. he slipped
down from the table and crept toward
the cupboard
My throat tickles. Wish / could
have some Of that sweet. pretty meder-
son. thought he. What pose makes
mamma aIius say no S'pose [ can reach
that cunning litt9 hottlca"
Alas and alas, this was the naughty
little Charley lIelstened. Nobody was
coming Next he climbed into babv's
high chair, and laid his hand on the
vial. Then h. listened again: and after
that he pulled out the cork quickly,
and took taste of tie strip. "Oh, it's
SO good; and I've rot such cough.
said he, taking d second taste. "S'pect
like TO cough. cough. forever n ever?''
And he slipped third time.
Harl1, that was mamma S step in the
hall The little meddler thrust the vial
back on the shelf and skipped to his
old seat in a twinklng lie thought
his mamma never would know he had
been naughty.
Poor foolish little fellow Mamma
did know that very morning, and papa
NlHfNs anu AA4t t1ttQI hlltA. ItT lllt
medicine made Charley very very in.
He had no toboggan slides FIAT year.
Long before he could raise his curly
head from the pillow. the freezing
weather was past, and there was moth
ing % coast upon, not even an icicle
Oh papa and ! wanted to slide so
bad. cried he, resting his pale little
check against his fathers shoulder, as
they took their first drive through the
green park. Il know Charley. but
Won must wait now till next winter,
said papa, sorrowfully. Isn't it sud
that the naughty little Charley should
have robbed NY good little Charley of
a lovely time, besides making him ill?'
Il hate naughty Charley" said the
little boy, Sowing. If naughty Char
ley comes again IN drive him away =
Penn Shirley. in Our Little Ones.