Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-03-17

not if you stood tiptoes-y enough |
Sometimes, though, You didn't want to
read it. 1t kind of scared you to see
how many things you'd lost.
Inside the room somebody was
storming around and banging things.
1t was Phillip, and he was cross-no.
Cross. Perhaps it ought to be spelled
CROSS. That was why mamma had
stolen up outside and written "One
temper in the Lost list. 1t was plain
enough he had lost that.
THE finder will be suitably reward
ed" printed mamma in bits of letters
after it,
AS fast as things were found they
were crossed out in the list but a
great many were never found. Nam.
ma shuddered at a dreadful thought
-supposing the zone temper" was
never found!
81 can't get that 'xample--I can't
get any O. my 'xamples! They've got
the answers wrong in the back O. the
book. wish my 'rithmetic was
was drownded!" Philips cross little
voice came out through the cracks OF
the door.
"'Tisn't any use subtracting any
more 'xamples. I'm a-going to give
it up, so there!'
Mamma, outside softly sighed. She
1t out her pencil again.
"One courage she wrote in the
Lost list. Then she opened the door
into Philips room
Philip she said in her gentle
voice, did you get mammals yeast
cake on your way home? l can't fnl
it in your REFER pocket"
"Oh!' Philip said. Then he said
"Oh!" again, and mamma knew he
had forgotten just as plainly as
though he had said it. She turned
away with another sigh.
'It slid right out O. my mind,
mamma you never saw such slip
perry place!"
But l should think you'd have re-
membered when you got to Mr.. Pen
ney's grocery store. You say that al
ways reminds you of yeast cakes"
.Y-yes'm,' hesitated Philip, but
but didn't get to Mr.. Penney's
store"
This time it was mamma who said
"Oh!" Then she said "Oh" again,
and Philip knew she meant: "You
didn't come straig--J home, them"
just as plainly as though she had
said it.
Nom" he answered guiltily. 81
just went around by Reggie's house to
see his guinea pigs. l didn't s'pose-
yes'm m,"-honestly-"I did s'pose you'd
care But went
81 see," mamma said gravely She
had taken the pencil out of her pock-
ct again.
How many things have you lost
today. dear?" she said. "Here are
two more. l must go and write them
down with the rest Come with me-"
Philip went reluctantly, the puz-
zled look on his face mixing up with
the reluctance. What did mamma
mean by "two more" things he'd lost?
Instinctively he felt in his pocket.
Out in the hall mamma stopped be-
fore the little bulletin board and
wrote two more items in the Lost
List. Philip stood up as tiptoes-y
as possible to watch her. Then he
began at the beginning and read the
| Lost List through from beginning to
end his round brown little face get
| ting rather red as he proceeded. This
is the Lost List Philip read:
"One knife"
"Three pencils"
'Two pocket handkerchiefs."
cone temper"
Zone courage"
cone memory"
"One way"
"Oh!" Philip murmured Then he
murmured "Oh," again and mamma
knew he understood lust as plainly
as though he had said SO. One tenn
per-he had lost that when he had
gone storming around his room, bang
ing things. One courage-he had lost
his courage when the examples
wouldn't come right One memory
that was when he forgot the yeast
cake. One way-what did mamma
mean by his losing his way-oh. The
redness in the round, brown little
face got little redder. She meant
going round by Reggie's to see the
guinea pigs; that was when he had
lost his way.
"The finder will be suitably re-
warded." mamma said softly. And sud
denly Philip whirled round and hug
ged somebody, and somebody hugged
him-and that was mamma. And
somehow they both knew what the
hugging meant as plainly as though
they had said it.-The Young Peoples
Weekly.