The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-29
will, without let or hindrance, because I want to

will, without let or hndrance, because want to
be good.
Cecilia Morgan Madigan (called sissy, d.,
Aged II last birthday. 80
p Sand I feel sure do 1t ALL God
helping me- except No. 1o-which is the hard
est. go
tinues:
dress in the back she had such sensation OF
holiness, such a consciousness of forbearing.
pure and gentle spirit, tht her sisters malicious
pretense of ignoring her presence appeared to J
her nothing less than sacrilege.
"Ain't you going to button me, Split?' she de-
manded.
name honored a gymnastc feat which other
Madigan, however athletic, could accomplish half
so successfully as the second. .Say please.
II won't do anything of the sort. You know
you've got to do it. and you've no right to
expect me to say please every time. You
don't do it yourself. you hateful thing
"Why don't you cry?'
Because I won't for you-because you can't
make me-because-'
because you are crying in spite Of yourself.
Because anybody can make you cry, cry baby
| Sissy is ready to storm, but, remember
| ing her contract, she says instead:
| "Split, dear, will you please button me?"
| A look of outraged establishment at the
! heard Of endearment came over Irenes face.
The Madigans' demonstrative affection was pure
afrectation at its BEST at Its worst it little
short OF indecent.
Split, dear Knocked Irene, as soon as she
Stand straight dear. Wait minute, deaf
And then Split quickly picks up a piece
| Of ice from the window sill and slips it
down Sissy's back, and part Number 10
of the contract in Sissy's mind promptly
becomes null and void. We should say
quite warrantably, too.
And that Is only glimpse of the life
Of this family Qovable, we say again,
| %r = of tha ic1r
etempers and warm hearts of the race
/ from which their name proclaims their
descent
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No work Of fiction should be more than 800
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] The Autobiography Of Dog.-Yours
With All My Heart adds another volume
to the crowded shelf of animal auto
: biographies. It is written with the same
) general idea as that OF Black Beauty
{ the story Of horse. one of the books
, read by everybody a few years ago.
: Therefore 1t may be said to have been
. written for purpose-"that children may
} be moved to a closer observance of, and
t q greater compassion toward all dumb
: animals, so mutely dependent upon their
: sympathies.' In the preface the author
Fl says:
And in all little Fairy's experiences, as well as
h those of other dogs which she cites have
not allowed myself to depart from the truth; my
whole motive has been to consctentiously mir
ror her loving life of thirteen years that all my
readers may know and feel that they are perusins
: true annals.
! AS the story Is one for children, the
5 life and death of Fairy will not necessar-
e lily interest the same readers who were
!. attracted by Richard Harding Davis
!. story, .'The Bar Sinister, but the author
:. has carefully followed the standard SCI
3 In the preface.
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