The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-10
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said he thought 1t ought to DO more lively
on the annual holiday and he crept into
Luella's other shoe, which she hadn't yet
put on-for she took her breakfast In her
house slippers. And so when Luella came
to find her other shoe II was nowhere 10
be seen. Some looked high ana some
looked low. and the house was In a tur-
MOL. Luella's papa, who was reading the
market reports, went down town and
talked about shoes and stockings instead
of stocks and bonds, and Iuella's mammal
who was giving the butchers boy an or
der, told him to bring a leg Of lamb, when
all the time she had meant 10 have oolleu
capon.
Then the oldest Of the fussing COLLINS
became enxious because the youngest los
ing goblin had made such n sensation, ana
what did he do but interfere with Mary's
cowlicke He danced in and out of Mary 8.
hair. and he wouldn't be stu for a
moment. and Mary,s hair would not pc
curled smoothly and properly. For all the
nurse could do, Mary's hair persisted in
standing right up by the cowlck, seven
ways for Sunday.
'oh. how naughty you are, and such a
big girl. too" said Eliza. Then the goblin
danced in front of Mary again, and In
spite of herself she couldn't help moving
her head for a moment: Then the nurse
gave Mary the least little bit of a tap on
the hand with the bristle side of the brush,
but although it was such a little tap it
made queer little red spots on Mary
hand, and she wept bitterly. Then Mary's
great-uncle, James, who liked quiet. came
out of his study to see what was the mat
ter.
Then the musslng goblin-the middle
aged one-thought the family wasn't doing
enough, and so he interfered while the
cook was getting John's luncheon box
ready. Just as she was about to put an
egg in the kettle to boil for Johns lunch
box the mussing goblin jumped on top
of the egg and the egg fell out of the
cooks fingers. And would you believe 1t,
the egg fell all over the cook and all over
the clean kitchen floor, and the cook said
thai they were the worst children she ever
had seen-that is, John and Mary and
Luella and Teddy were-and she never
would, no, never, get their school lun-
cheons ready again.
Then the losing COLLINS thought 1t was
their turn again, and they hoped down
on Mary's spelling book. For some rea-
son or other Mary couldn't find the morn
ing's lesson and she wanted to look it
over again before recitation time. She
went carefully over the leaves again and
again, but the lesson wasn't there. For
every time She came, near the place the
entire family Of losing COLLINS began hut-
tering the leaves as hard as they could,
and so one leaf was sure to be missed.
Then the fusslng COLLINS thought they
ought to have a chance again, and so
they hoped up on Teddy's necktie.
Mamma did want Teddy to look nice. be-
cause it was exhibition day at the kinder
garten and Teddy had a brand new neck
come even? No, they wouldn't do 1t.
Mamma tied and united it and slnoothed
it out again and told Teddy to hold Up
his chin, and Teddy stood first on one
foot and then on another. and wouldn't
hold up his hin, and mamma grew dis
couragad and said that the necktie vas
much too large, and Teddy too restless,
and, mercy upon usi--well. sure enough,