The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-14

ing, if you will let me take the corn
knife, / will cut down the big weed.
that the cows and Towser and / didn't
mean to plant."-Yoath's Companion.
NAUGHTY FOXY.
Elsie" said her mother, do see what
Foxy has in his mouth"
The little brown and white fox ter
rier sat under the dining-room table
working his jaws as | have seen some
little boys and girls do when they have
chewing-gum. He rushed and lodged
around the room when Elsie tried to
catch him, He wasn't going to give up
his prize so easily as that no indeed.
At last Elsie cornered him and forced
open his mouth. "Oh, Mamma, what
do you think2 My new rubber elastic
band that / put around my school books !!
How ever did he get it? No, sir, you
can't have this again." for Foxy was
jumping up to snatch it away. "You
grow naughtier every day. Here's a
newspaper for you"
Foxy grabbed the paper, shook it, and
dragged it around the room. What a
nice time he did have tearing it to pieces
and tossing those pieces in the air. And
how pretty the room looked when he
got through.
What a puppy" said Mamma. Eyes
terday he knocked down that little clay
lion of yours, Elsie, and chewed the
S of before / caught him."
Naughty, bad Foxy" Elsie said
frowning. what have you got now1
Those brass tacks We got to put up
pictures with. Oh, Mamma, they'll kill
him if he eats them" And she pick1d
the ,seks one bg n u of Foxy's
Il guess not" said Mamma. Foxy
has more lives than a cat: Go away:
sir" and she gave him a KNOCK, that
sent him sprawling, bp:rzg2y Endn't
care. He knew how to Chew shoes, he
did, and liked it, too.
"He's only a baby, and l s'pose it's
his teeth coming that makes him bite
at everything. | never did see such a
bad little dog as you," said Elsie, shak-
ing her finger at Foxy. He sat looking
at her with his head cooked to one side
looking so funny that she had to laugh
Then he barked and sat up begging her
to take him in her lap. Elsie could not
help cuddling him.
Fox, what makes you so bad? Some
times you're just as good as gold" she
said, holding him so that he looked right
into her face. Foxy sneezed and shook
him naughty little head. He didn't
know, and he didn't care.
Elsie tied a pink ribbon around his
neck and Fox didn't even take the
trouble to tear it off. Plenty of time
later on; he was tired now. So he
curled up and went to sleep in Elsle's
lap.-BrookiyH Eogk.
TINKIE'S DREAM OF A STAR
One day Tinkie's sister went away
to be gone all summer, and Tinkie had
to 70 to bed alone, At first it wa hard.
and she could not go to sleep; add she
cried just q little, and would have cr'sd
more, but through her tears, as the
e.ept down upon the hills, she
saw q star. 1t was Just peeping through
the tree-tops on Mt Tom, and seemed
so friendly and so lonely way out there
in the night that Tinkie became inter
and forgot her own troubles.
She thought how cold il must be out
there, and wondered why the star wink
ed so. And, while she was wondering
it began to come nearer; and Tinkie
was glad, for she thought it would come
in and get warm. But, as it came nigh
it seemed to be a mirror; and shs saw
faces looking at her from il, and they
to be her W face and Buddie's
gone away. She saw herself
down hill in front of the house
where she vas born; and she was SO
little that her feet did not reach the
and her sled carried her where
weuId. Then she saw herself in that
star-mirror going to school, a little
Observation-Disclosures Buddie went to
school and she cried TO SO with her.
She saw the fields in blossom, and her
self plucking the daisies and buttercups
IS she returned from school alone. She
Jaw herself again playing with potato
bugs, her apron filled with them crawl
all over her, while she picked them
I'D one by one and put them in barns
made Of blocks. And the star kept
nearer, and the pictures came
,ut clearer. One Of them she liked very
she was picking up q little spar
row on the lawn in front Of Trinity
Church in Boston.
ALI these pictures seemed to be more
pictures, or live pictures; for they
moved and talked and shouted, and did
what any little girl would do
Who was playing out of doors, and not
Is they do in pictures. So picture fol-
owed picture until the star really came
ind peeped in at her window, and
her a little girl with tears in
Ter eyes, lying in her bed and thinking
low lonesome she was; and then she
no more-but the bright sunlig..
AT breakfast Tinkie told the prophet
that was her papa-about the star, and
le interpreted it for her.
sThis," he said, is the meaning o.
our dream: The star you saw is called
he Swan. Il takes ten years for the
light to come from it TO US; and just
he same time for light to go from us
j ii. II you were to take passage this
morning on a ray of light going to the
;wan, il would take you about ten years
8 go there But in your dream you
ravelled faster than a ray Of light. You