Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-13
i've years old on his las,

and he was five years old on his last
birthday.
1t was the naughty Charley that
awole first that morning. and before
a was fairly dressed he began towhine
and tease.
Jimmy Niles has treeboggan papa.
Can't hive a treeboggan? Say
why. what could little boy like
you do with toboggan. Charley?" an
severed papa. 'Besides. didn't Santa
Claus bring You nice. new sieds'
Il vaht a treeboggan. papa, repeat
ed Charley, rubbing tear out OF each
blue eye. Please. papa; cause I'm
most a big boy
mo. 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. I'll take him to slide
on a great toboggan in tic park.
''Oh, will you, papa? Oh. thank You
ever 50 muchl'' 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 Charley's cold
was no worse by afternoon, he certain
ly might go to 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
had he swallowed one teaspoonful Of IT,
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 mamma S sell
fish. My mamma wants me to be not
any better unused the old naughty lit
tie Charley. bouncing back again into
good little Charlcy's place. ''Oh, when
I'm a big man. like papa. I'll drink up
every bit Of mederson there is in this
house"
lie tried hard to cough but nobody
seemed TO notice; so he sullenly ate his
breakfast wltd longing look now and
then ~ TIE red vial on the lower shelf.
The more he looked at ii. the more he
wanted it; and by and by. when he was
left alone in the diling-room. he slipped
down from the table and crept toward
the cupboard.
My throat ticlSles. Wish | could
have some Of that sweet. pretty meder-
son, thought he. what s'pose makes
mamma allus say no S'pose can reach
that cunning little bottle?"
Alas and alas! this was the naughty
little Charley! Ielistened. Nobody was
coming Next he climbed into baby's
high chair. and laid his hand on the
vial Then he listened again; and after
that he pulled out the cork quickly,
and took a taste Of the sirup. "Oh. it's
50 good: and I've got such a cough"
said he. taking a second taste. "S'peet
] like to cough. cough. forever n ever?'
And he slipped a third time.
Hank! 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 twinltling. lie thought
his mamma never would know he had
been naughty.
Poor, foolish little fellow! Mamma
did know that very morning, and papa
knew ami the doctor knew, for the
medicine made Charley very, very i'll.
He had no tohoggan slides that year
Long before he could raise his curly
head from the pillow, the freezing
was past, and there was moth
ing to coast upon. not even an icicle.
"Oh papa! and | wanted To slide so
bad, cried he. resting his pale little
cheek against his fathers shoulder. as
they took their first drive Trough the
green park II know. ca riley but
you must wait now till next winter
said papa. sorrowfully. liant it Sed
that the naughty little Charley shou,
have robbed my good little Charley of
a lovely time besides making him ill?''
II hate naughty Charley" said the
little hoy. Sowing. III naughty Char
ley comes again I'll drive him away
Penn Shirley, in Our Little Ones.