Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-21
Na1,nIas Hncy.

Nannies Bogy.
 Mamie was a ten-y year-old girl who had the good luck to be travelling abroad with her aunt. They had been in Paris and in Italy, and then went to Switzerland to spend the summer at a big hotel among the mountains.
 Mamie enjoyed the life perhaps more than most children would. She was imaginative, and the beauty of the scenery around her gave her great pleasure. Still, sometimes she felt lonely and hemesiek, for her aunt and nearly all the people she met were grown-up, and not very lively compan- ions for her; and she often longed for her brothers and sisters to play with. These homesick feelings came on worst at bedtime, and Mamie hated bedtime for other reasons besides. Her bed room was away up on the third floor, at the very end of a long corridor She was sent to bed early, as all we'll brought-up children are. and at that time her aunts room next door and all the rooms were empty for the grown up people were downstairs enjoying themselves.
 When her aunt's maid had seen her into bed, and said good night, and shut the door behind her, and Mamie heard Parker's footsteps echoing away in the distance down the long, bare 1 corridor Of the summer hotel, she felt dreadfully alone, and made haste to get to sleep so that she might forget it. She felt afraid, too. although she did not know exactly of what; but she would have been ashamed to confess her fears even to her kind aunt, for i she knew that it was silly for young lady who was grown-up enough to be travelling about Europe to have any; still, she couldn help having them all the same Every night she keat won dering su posing anything should happen to her. how she could make the people down-stairs hear.
 One night she hadn't been i'll bed very long when something made her want to open hef eyes. As she did so, she was startled to see a great blazing eye gazing at her through the darkness at the foot of her bed.
 Nannie's heaet went pitapat, and she felt terribly frightened. What could h be? She had heard stories about all sorts of strange separations, but she knew that these stories were not true, and she knew that ghosts and bogies did nc' evist. But it was all very well to know oneoC: she couldn't help feeling miserably frightened as long as this mystery was unexplained of the big. burning eye looking at her.
 Mamie, shiyering all over, and with her head buried under the bedclothes, tried to reason with herself what it could be, for she was a reasonable little girl She came to the conclu- sion that she must have dreamt it She did have nightmares soF times. So she cautiously peeped out to see whether the eye were still u a.
 It was staring at her as fie~eely as ever!
 It was dreadful! Mamie felt more frightened than before, for she knew now that she wasn't dreaming; she was only too plainly wideawake! She quickly took refuge again beneath the bedclothes, and racked her brains to think what she should do. It was no use screaming out, for everybody was too far away to hear her, and the thing might only come nearer and suf- locate her. or something. But the sus- pense was too agonizing to beari She had almost rather be killed than suf- fer it any longer. Then an inspiration came to her She said little prayer: 70 God. please send that eye away, or at least make me brave enough to get mp and see what it is!"
 After that she felt better, and it didn't seem to require SO very much after all to sit up in bed ready to jump out-when, behcld! the eye had vanished!
 Here was an immediate answer to her prayer. Mamie felt delighted. and was glad she had been brave, and lay down again contentedly feeling that 8 weight had been taken off her heart
 To! there was the eye again evAa on her! This was too awful Nan-,te felt desperate But snrely sure,v c,d