Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-06-02
THE MOTHERS WAL.
A Small Girl Is as Trying as a small
Hoy, IL seems.


and 1t was not long before all the
passengers were listening to tale
of woe breathed into her friends
sympathetic ear by the woman in the
furtrimmed ulster
Everybody tells you: Wait till
she walks and talks. and then she'll
be comfort to you" she was say
ing, "but for my part I'd almost
rather she'd remain baby, | never
have any comfort any more, sun
days, when Ed is home. | do get
chance to draw straight breath.
but all the rest of the week she
drives me nearly distracted He
finds that about the second hour OF
her company lacks the charm that
the first had, and then | say: Well,
what do you think of mea | have
it this way all week.
she gets on his knee and wants
to ride a ock,horse to Banbury
Cross, and he keeps that up until
both legs are so tired that he cannot
ride her any more. Then she says:
Papa, git down She wants him to
lie on the carpet. II he saws No,
papa's busy she comes TO me. takes
me by the hand and leads me. to him
to intercede with him. lie gets down
on the floor and she sits down on his
chest and bounces up and down there
till his ribs crack.
/ Then she wants TO see the pick
shers.' You never know how many
/ lot In.
you have a young one about years
old. 1t is 'Nass satg all the time.
Then she is always into some
thing. You find the poker in bed
! and your spool of thread under the
| dressing-case. She gets the scissors
and when you notice that she is very
4 quiet, you find her in the parlor
shipping the lace curtains
/ ''She has TO have her walk out
every day when it IS at all pleasant,
and just as she gets to the front door
she says: Mamma, cay.
''She's so heavy | can't carry her,
and she won't ride in her carriage.
I II make her walk she throws her.
self down on the ground and screams.
and | simply can't make up my mind
to take her across my lap and spank
her in public So | bought her "A
little red wagon to push so that she
would walk along by herself And
that's as much bother as a whole
| circus caravan. She runs it off into
the gutter or down somebody's area
way and falls down after it herself,
and how she has missed cracking
her skull | don't know.
when she isn't falling down with
it or upsetting ii and calling, Nam
ma, tick a waggie, she is mixing IL
I'D with the feet Of somebody, get.
ting it tangled up in some woman's
skirts and shouting. Go way. lady,
or nearly upsetting some man in
/ hurry TO catch a car.
''Ed never gets q chance to read
the sunday papers and my only OPP
/ portunity to read is after she goes to
bed at night. try to teach her to
say her prayers.
Now | lay me
"'Now | way me
Down to Sleep
Down a shrccp. Wass Margie
doin'?
"Margie's saying her prayers, like
good little girl pray the Lord -
'Margie get her tocIiie OFF,
Yes, Margies got her stockings
off. pray the Lord
"'Dollie got her 'tockie off. too?
Yes. yes. pray tho Lord -
"'Pay a Lor'. Dolly goin sbreep,
tooo'
Eyes, dear. Now il Margie isn't
good girl mamma'lI have to spank
"''Pank Margie good? Pank
dolly good"
~ pray the Lord my soul to keep.
''Soul q keep.
"If should die
'Fi-she.dL Mamma, dollie got
'tockie'-
''Before | wake
"'Fo' wake. Mamma, dolly got
took
~ pray the Lord
"'Pay Lord, soul take. Nam
ma, dollie got 'tockie OFF,
Ives. dear. Now kiss mamma
mighty night and go to sleep like
good little girl.
"'Then I've got to tell her a story
and sing The Bowery' and oh
Where, Oh Where Is My Little Dog
Gomez and must hold her hand.
Pretty soon she drops asleep and
the long day is over and have
chance to see IL / have forgotten
what a printed page looks like.
Mind you. I'm not through with her
yet for I've got to keep watch over
her all night. for no human being
can pin the covers on so securely
about her that she won't kick them
Off"
And the other women sighed sym
patheti cally."
Prepared for Hard Work.