The record-union., 1898-11-14
LOUISE'S LAST TkNTRUM.

You can't expect your cousin to
make any difference between you two.
Now stop pulling, l say, Louise, stop
pulling"
Louise hidden away in her slat sun
bonnet. was the exact reproduction of
Luella in straight lines of pink calico.
AS her mother spoke the sunbonnet
fell away from her round face, and
opening her mouth, she screamed shril-
ly. shaking from head to foot.
Now, Louise, you know what hap
pens when you have tantrums. Are
you going to have one?"
For answer Louise stiffened rigidy.
Her face became the color of soapstone,
and she fell forward into the deep
grass.
"She's in one! Run for pa, Luella!"
Luella strolled leisurely out of the
yard and crossed to the big red barn
on the other side of the road.
''Pa. Louise is in a tantrum,' she
said, calmly.
Her father sat on the barn floor husk
ing corn. He sprang up and ran past
her toward the house.
Luella sat down in the barn door, and
looked out of her pink sunbonnet across
the warm October fields and frowned.
That's how Louise always gets what
she wants." she thought. They'll
tend her and ma will say, Luella, your
sister amt so strong as you. Don't you
think you might give in and let her go
to town this once?' And pa will say:
Yes. LuelIa, supposing your sister was
to die in one of these spells, how bad
you'd feel And Louise will trem<
BILE and quiver her lips, and I'll give in,
like 4 always do. If she wasn't so
proud of having them, / wouldn't mind
Now I'll go back and see if it won't
happen just as I say"
LuelIa walked slowly back into the
yard, where Louise still lay, seemingly
unconscious. Her father was chafing
her hands and her mother was sprink-
ling water in her face.
You haven't any feeling, Luella
Brockway," her mother began. you
saunter about and don't think to do a
thing for your sister,
That's what you always say re-
piled Luella, with unusual daring.
Every time she has one of them you
turn on me-"
Il never saw her so long coming to-"
said her father, looking up with an
anxious face. Run and get another
dipper of water, Luella."
81 know a quicker way than that to
bring her out" replied Luella. Il
don't care if do tell"
What way do you know, Luella?
Don't stand there and say that you
know and not do a thing" said her
mother.
Luella threw her sunbonnet on the
ground. Louise squirmed and showed
signs of coming to.
But before she had time to recover
Luella had rolled her over and over
three times, and ended by giving her a
sharp slap on each cheek.
stop that, Luella Brockway! Stop
that" cried Louise. clutching at her sis
ter's arm, and drawing herself into a
sitting position, and then, looking from
her mother to her father she began to
cry.
"Of course I'd come to if she slaps
me in the face like that" she replied.
Mr.. Brockway turned and walked
away to the barn without a word. Mrs.
Brockway, after standing a moment
in open-eyed amazement, exclaimed:
Louise Brockway, do you mean to
tell me you were letting on? Luella,
was Sne letting on
mo not edzactly She's done it so
long she thinks she can't help it, so she
don't try" answered Luella.
You get right straight up and go
and dig the potatoes for dinneri Lu-
ella, don't you help her."
She caught her youngest daughter to
her feet, and pushed her toward the hoe
and pail that stood by the kitchen door.
Louise took them and walked away
quite firmly for one who had been so
recently unconscious.
How did you find out you could
bring her to that way, Luella? 1 don't
see how you ever dared" said Mrs.
Bfockway
''Once when you and pa were gone to
town. 1 got excited when she was in
one. and did it before 1 thought
She's always had 'em since she was
a baby. She couldn't have been let
ting on" said the mother, meditatively
I don't believe she'll have one in a
hurry again now you and pa know
new way to bring her out" said Luella.
'She coaxed me not to tell, but didn't
care; she just has 'em to get paid at
tention to-
We'll, you are the one that is going
to town with your cousin this after
neon, that's settled so go right upstairs
and get ready"
Louise wasn't asked to go, anyway.
/ was pinching her in fun to make her
say she wasn't asked. when she got
angry"
THE idea! A great girl, u years old
pinchingi I must say, l don't know
what you two will come toi"
Mrs. Brockway went into the house
and closed the door behind her. Luella
went out to the potato field and going
up softly behind her sister, caught the
hoe out of her hand.
You go on to the house and lie down
and I'll dig the potatoes she said.
Amt you mean, Luella Brockwav.
making pG and ma think 1 could helm
1t? You know I couldn't and you said
you wouldn't tell"
II isn't anything to tell. Perhaps
all they know is that making you angry
will bring you out"
They think there is nothing the mat
ter with mel" sobbed Louise.
Well, there amt, 1 don't believe
You've just got used to thinking there
IS so you'll get your own way" an
sWered Luella calmly, drawing a largo