Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-11

| hungry. So mama opened the lunch box
and spread a napkin in his lap and gave
him little wooden plate with bread
and-lam sandwich, eooky and bana
ma on il, and he ate every bit and drank
cup of milk, too And mama laughed
and said he must be feeling better al
| ready
Then the little boy knelt by the win
COW again. but pretty soon he got tired
OF seeing SO many things flying by, and
he lay down on the seat and went sound
asleep with mama's shawl for pillow.
When he woke up the choo ehoo was
| getting pretty near the place where
grandma lived, so he and mama put ON
! their hats and gathered up their things.
and by and by there was graudma's
house away over on a lovely green hill
with shady trees all about it and red
ehimneys and white fences. lust as it
was in the picture in mama's dining
room
Presently the ehoo choo stopped. and
mama and the little boy hurried out,
and there was Jimmy to meet theml
Jimmy was big boy almost as big as
Dr. John-and he had two beautiful
gray ponies and pretty carriage with
yellow wheels. He took the little boy
up ON the front seat with him and let
him hold the ends of the lines. and
mama sat in the back seat with the
grips and the lunch box and the shawl
and the fan and the umbrella. Then
they drove away over the smooth coun.
try road, the air sweet with clover and
wild roses, and the birds singing their
sunset songs i'll the trees. BY and by
they drove through a wide gateway and
trotted straight up to grandma's house.
aud there was grandma waiting in the
porch to hug and kiss them. After she
had Rugged and kissed them she said.
supper is almost ready, but there's
SINE for him to pick his strawberries.
bless his hearth
So after he was washed and brushed.
grandma gave him a bright tin cup and
showed him where the Strawberries
grew. And wasn't that fung In a lit
tie while he picked the cup full. besides
three big ones which he carried in his
hand. And grandma pulled off the stems
and put the berries in pretty china
dish and poured yellow cream over them
aud sFriukled them with sugar. and the
little boy had them for his supper with
two great big slices of toasted
| whole wheat bread.
! Then after supper he went out to the
barn with Jimmy and helped him feed
the ponies and milk the cows. And Jim.
! my showed him little baby COW and
three baby sheep, and let him gather
the eggs from a hens nest and carry
them in his hat very carefully-to
| grandma
But the greatest fun was the next
day. The weather was bright and warm.
and mama and the little boy went down
through the orchard and climbed
fence, and pretty soon they came to the
nice clear water OF little brook And
mama took off the little boys shoes
and stockings and rolled his trousers
away up high. and let him 20 spul.lash,
ing about in the lovely water And he
played and splashed until they heard
the dinner horn toot footing for dinner.
And the next day, and the next day.
and the next dayand all the seventy
days they stayed at grandma s--the lit
tie boy played with the brook and the
lambs and the baby COWS and gathered
eggs very carefully and drank fresh
milk and ate fruit and brown bread and
chicken soup and soft boiled eggs, and
rolled and tumbled in the grass, until
when he went back home what do YOU
think ALI his cool weather clothes and
shoes and slippers were too small for
him, and mama had TO buy all kinds
Of new things for him right away!
And mama said il was so much nicer
than paying a big doctors bill Emily
Hewitt Leland in st. Nicholas