El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

Sunday afternoon with mother.
Presently the bells stopped, and
Katie heard a tiny voice say, in rather
q grumy tone, though it was SO s; IL:
81 wish you wouldn't push 81 L
have hardly room to breathew
Then came an answer in little deep
er voice:
eff we all thought of each other and
not so much of ourselves whether we
are comfortable or not, no one woulC
know whether they were pushing o,
being pushed
heard that remark somewhere else.
WELL" cried the first voice rather
rudely, 'I'm not pushing. 1t isn't me:
it's
Katie listened very hard and tried to
catch the name, but she couldn't.
All wondered where all the voices
came from, and she could not make
out. At last little rustling on spray
of green leaves caught her eye, and, to
her surprise, she saw a very fat, big
pod humping about most Indignantly
on it's tiny twig.
TT will break off i'll minute,
thought Katie, land I'm sure it will
burst and the peas will roll outw
While watching it she could distinct
ly hear some little voices inside, am
then she knew it was the little greer
peas she had heard quarreling togeth
er. =
Now" she thought to herself, 'I'I
keep very quiet, and perhaps they'l
say some more"
Pretty soon they did.
81 never get a turn at being it, am
you know 1 like that part of the gam
best. / hate always being caught"
Again she thought she had hear
those words somewhere else. Wher
was it? =
Soon there was a good deal of blu:
ting in the fat pod, and, to Katie's as
constituent, one end came open, an
out dropped little, wrinkled, gray
dried up looking pea
THAT'S the one thought Katie
that's been so cross. 1 wonder wheth
er there's little maggot in it?"
She took the pea up, and there, sur
enough, was a white speck insiC
which she knew was the cause of i
being so ugly. Just at that momeI
the whole pod fell down close to *
ties feet and, bursting open, showed
row of nice little green balls.
The noise was so great that Kat
sat up and rubbed her eyes. There
her lap was the pod she had half she.
ed, but nowhere could she see the f. r.
one with the quarrelsome peas. SL|-,
looked all around, but she could
ind it.
"Why, Katiev' exclaimed a swe
voice. and loving face looked throue
the green leaves down at her. Ru
ming to her mother, she caught hold
her dress and said:
Mother, do come here! I've hi
such a funny dreamv'
Then she told her of all the we
voices she had heard and ended up b
saying: "And the funny part is that
have heard all that somewhere else b.
fore. Where was it mother?"
Mothers gentle face grew a lttI
grave. She stroked Katie's hair vel
gently as she said:
az think my little Katie is very ofte4
like that little gray pea. Instead o.
being happy and cheerful, whatever
she has to do, she grumbles, and when
little friends come in to play with her
she always wants to be first, and she
is cross if she is not. Her temper is
something like the maggot that so uP
set the little pea that 1t looked uglt
and cross and at last fell out of tn
comfy little home it had. upsetting a.
its brothers and sisters"
Katie's face began to get very pinl
and two bright tears fell down o
mothers hand.
Now she knew where she had hear
the discontinued little voice, and sh
felt ashamed. tC -.
So with a sob she said, "l'u try
remember, mother"
Mother smiled and gave her a yer,
loving kiss. And she did try SO har
that every one wondered at-her sweet
ness.