The morning times., 1896-10-18

reasonably clear voice: '.Taters." and
held out the dime Significantly.
"Shure, me by, is it taters " want?"
The boy nodded.
"And dimes WORTH"
She had interpreted correctly yandagainthe
boy nodded.
God bless you'll fought y'd remember.
Go over 10 the gentleman with the sandy
whiskers and the blue slip. He'll treat ye.
well. me by. And eat this when y're
goin' home" and the kind hearted woman
slipped peach into his jacket pocket
When the butcher disposed OF his next
customer he came over to find out about the
boy, learning the story as above, together
with the fruit womAn's commentary that
MS no cacent woman wonld he sendin' SO
small boy as that To market
A PUZZLING LIST.
safer way is tosend a list of vegetables
wanted, then there is no probability of
juvenile memories playing treacherous us.
Most of the children carry bits of paper
with the items desired written out and the
stall Keepers are very careful to treat the
little ones right
81 always take pains Sith tie Children
hAi u Al EipNNi- Di NV Nouiiiihi
shoppers. ''Generaly more pains than
with grown people, for l know that if
they get tie wrong things or poor quality
or bad measure there's ii scouldng waiting
for them at the other end. \ grown person
has only himself 10 blame. He secs for
himself. l have three little customers who
are regular Is market days. one of them is
girl nine years Old who marSeis with a
list for family of eight. Shes bright as a
whistle and gets tie best of my stock
every time. Another is boy aEoutten.
He clerks in department storrbut is al ways
here at 6 O'Clock and has the purchases
home and breakfast eaten in time to get
to his store.
Speaking of lists, child came by
two mornings ago locking rs if she had sud
denly found herself in an unleard of land.
don tbelieve she ever saw a market before.
Without u word she handed me dirty piece
OF paper. read il as best could and asked
her If she had any money. She displa ycd
it, SO l sold her what the list called for,
but kept the paper as curiosity" He
took from his cash register the list in
question, and it certainly was an economic,
photographic and photographic curiosity.
There was tendency on the part of the
writer to slight silent letters and spell the
yaudinsert anoptomist:c
adjective with the double 20" merged into
"u." 1t read:
"a sup Bon about ten Sensts an ca bag hard
an gud an gud unyns as',i fer uID an tomatoes
fer IA Nisls wurth shuree an sum grenz an
Dribarly Be carlul yant cheted.''
Lizzie is something of an observer i'll
her limited way. There are certain things
that strike her attention, and when size
takes little Jamie off on their n.atGtnal
excursions she always has host of sights
ut show him.
He is very fond of il rouEd-faccd lady
on side aisle, who always appears TO be
in a hurry. She wears gold rimnIed glasses,
and, so far as either Lizzie or Jamie has
noticed, has never yet found time To draw
them down from under her bonnet, nor. i'll
deed, 10 tie the bonnet ribbons, which hang
down her back as if they Were well out OF
the way and forgotten She has a smile
which is alwa Us in evidence, no matter "hp
approaches, hut left alone she promptly
puts ii aside and looks severe and business
ike
jamie likes the sausage man who La aStte
Hamburger grinder He watches the iicl
Ttl llttdt CUNT tii VI wv il'tiS l'ltc III
manifold strings, and once compared them
to Il strand of coral beads which the Sim
mons girl next door Wore This struck
Lizzie S particularly good for the Sim
mons girl put on no end of GisagTeeable
airs.
These trips to market are usually an
award Of merit with jamie, but when he
has been especially good there is another
treat in store for him. He is given a
penny to spend. With his copper treasure
Inc goes from stall to stall pricing candies
and fruit and cakes, but by some strange
fatality he always winds up at the cake
wuman's and possesses himself of gin
grrbread horse. The life of the average
gingerbread horse, in service, is from
o'clock till noon. Then his legs having
disappeared and his body being suf-
fiCicntly soiled, he is devoured with
the r0pacious appetite that possessed the
hungry Frenchmen who ate real horses
during the Commune.
The little fellow is not always even thus
pardonably selfish in his purchases. During
the summer his mother had been sick Tor
a couple OF days, which Is long while to
a moor woman whose time is money. Jamie
went with his sister to market in possession
OF his cent and made the customary rounds.
Instead OF finishing at the horse stand he
approached a flower booth and priced n
big bunch OF roses. The man laughed
but told him the price. 1t was fabulous
price to Jamie. Then he turned to some
vioIets, but they, too, were beyond his
means, and SO were the pinks. But he
picked out single stem and askedthe man
if he wouldn't take the penny for it. AT
this he laughed again. and not only said
Yes ~ but put three instead OF one into the
bargain. His mother was very glad to
have the flowers. Something was said
about Lizzie suggesting this, but even sup
| pose so, it was Jamie who did it.
MIXES HER COUNTS.
Most familiar of the market children Is
the little girl who disdains memora ndum
book or even slip OF paper. She comes
in with an abstracted air and a concerned
| face, her lips moving rapidly as If she were
81 ying her prayers. She isn't, however.
| She is trying to remember what she was
| told to buy.
What she was told to get is this: Ten
cents worth of butter, cents worth OF
| rolls, and pound of ribs" She repeated
it over and over all the way to market
| She starts out something like this: Ten
| cents worth of butter, cents worth of
rolls, and pound of ribs. Ten cents worth
| of butter, 5 cents worth of rolls, and a
| pound of ribs
At first it goes slow, but comes easily
! and rattles faster Ten cents worth OF
| butter, pound of ribs, and cents worfa
| of rolls" 1t comes so easily she for
| gets she is saying it, and the words rattle
away: Ten cents worth of ribs, pound
| OF butter, and a nickel's worth Of rolls. v
| Presently she discovers she is mixed, and
| straightens herself out again.
| nrnr and oyer she pneS and the formula