The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-08-18
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Grave Alice and laughing allegro
And Edith with golden hair
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BY II. L. kINER

bright the trio's eyes, and the grand
mas very dim. There's been trouble
at the table, we must sometimes shout
a halt, or the grandma's tea'd be briny
with a heaping spoon of salt. Re-
Gently the dear old lady sugared fine
plate of trout. How the trio giggled
twisted, when the fishes were cast out!
She declined more fish, and stately
stared, but not a word she'd utter
Then she spread her bread with mus
tard, thinking she had got the butter.
Fiercest frowns won't quell the laugh
ter OF the giggleistic three You'll
make errors. too" quoth grandma,
when you are as old as me-"
Now. when things go wrong with
grandma, she retreats across the way,
to the home of Cousin Ella, where
she wears the mood away. The clouds
are always cleared by evening. smiles
headlight her homeward way; radiant
as the rosy sunshine, she's as jolly a
jay.
Jennie, June and Jessie sobered
April-like, from sun to rain, when
grandma grimly grabbed her bonnet
Oh, their panic! Oh, their pain!
Dearest grandma, we're so sorry!
Well not laugh at you again!" Girls,
growled grandma, 'age has feelings
and this goes against the grain"
In her sputter, poor old grandms
turned to give the girls this crack, got
the old black beaded bonnet with the
front toward the back. oh, these
bounding springs of laughter, How
they strained to hold it in! But il
bursted shrill when grandma tied the
bow beneath the chin.
Grandma, don't go looking thai
wayl" shrilled the three. while all die
press close about her, pulling. clingine
at her arms, and hands and dress.
Seldom grandma sees the mirror;
says it's Satan's fad of fashion, so she
ably laid about her and departed in
passion. In about a half a minute
from Cousin Elias open door, ululat-
ing DER the highway, came mirthful
Shrek and roar. In another half a
minute. the eager trio did behold
grandma, with her bonnet backward,
In swift black storm of scold
Come back here!" thus Cousin Ella.
"I'll not listen!" grandma cried.
Grimly down the staring highway,
grandma stalked with strident stride
Forth few Jennie, June and Jessie:
dishabilled Coz. Ella flew, chasing that
reversed black bonnet, while its sable
ribbons blew. The quartette surround.
ed grandma. BY main strength their
quarry captured, while the roaring
street. roared louder and the Arabs
were enraptured.
All day long sequestered grandma
nursed her predetermined pout; tied
her head up in towel, camphored
odors blew about.
Tear stained Jennie. in the silence
Of her little white-walled room, poured
the silver she had gathered from its
little slotted tomb. she shall have
brand new bonnet wept the con-
trite little miss THAT old black thins
is just hateful. I'll buy something
gay with this" Jessie, in her sanctu-
airy, took her tiny savings bank. and.
by dint Of so keytwists, got it open
with yank. "She shall have it, new,
with flowers, rudy cherries, neat as
wax, red and radiant, gay and pretty,
and her Jessie pays the tax" June.
with many feints and lodges, got away
all by herself. got her savings from
her closet, on the dimmest, farthest
shelf. We'll, what if am but seven"
said June. i've got as muchas they. Jen-
MES Ii, Jess IL; here's ten dollars.
anyway. That old crows nest of a
bonnet grandma d on hindside before,
Granny'll have a hat as pretty as my
mamma ever wore"
Surreptitiousness developed in the
household after that Girls went prowl-
ing through the Railways, furtiye as
faltring cat Ambush, lurking, masque-
rading, ambuscading, hide-and-seek
Missing maiden at all hours, the re-
main1er of the week. Thrice | saw
my mystic maidens In clandestine
moods down town, each alone, and
bearing bundles tied in paper Whitley
brown.
"Grandma's birthday is tomorrow"
at breakfast cried little maid. There
Is trout upon the table, and there's
custard, I'm afraid. And, | thought"
the face grew frightened at the antics
strange of June, that I'd give Grand
ma her present and not wait till after.
noon" June was wriggling, like
wise Jessie. Jennie, from beneath her
chair, brought whitey-brownish bun
die, which she wavered in the air
Here's another present, grandma"
cried the other girls in chorus. Ano
in less than 30 seconds three gorgeous
"lids" Ieposed before US.
What's all this?" demanded grand.
ma 'Has milliner had a fire." Puz.
zled gir:s, convulsing parents, put
poker to her ire.
Some snids milliner's gone bank
rupt!" Grandma knocked the hats
about. Then, excited and "ferhoodled,'
sprinkled sugar on her trout. "Dont
do that" I cried, while grandma
poured the cream into the mustard
and with muttered maledictions, spread
her slice of bread with custa-d.-K n.
sas City Star.
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