The San Francisco call., 1910-04-16
THE AMERICAN EAGLE GIVES LESSONS IN PATRIOTISM
ny RUPERT HUGHES

nau Deen DIG reception the nlBHt
before and everybody had sat up till
the early hours and wanted to sleep
late the next morning.
But the little girl had wakened with
the new day and it was such a beau
tiful sunrise that she had begun TO
sing and to cavort and to cut up and
to turn unadylike somersaults across
her bed and to sprinkle cold water on
her nurse Marys sleepy head and to
shout Hoo 100! hoo-oo!" to the milk
man through the window.
When Mary whispered Ssh -h.' and
Keep still, everybodys asleep" she
would answer what did you say
Mary?" and ''Wha- -atF'
Finally her mother came to the door,
looking very drowsy. and whispered.
For mercys sake. keep quiet this
morning of all mornngs! And the
little girl sang out, "All right, mumm
syr and gave the door cheerful slam
and kept still for nearly two minutes.
Then she decided to dress herself and
play in the yard. and made so much
racket in the bathroom that all the
guests groaned. And she shouted down
the hall, Mary where's my hair rib
bon?"
Later she fell down stairs with her
arms full of tin pals and doll dishes
and got the dog to barking, and tried
to wake the little boy next door by
yelling on the front steps till her
father put his tously head out of an
upper window and howled: You go
inside and keep quiet or Tll"- Then
he closed the window She thought
breakfast never would be ready. and
when at last it was they wouldn't give
her any.
Her father wouldn't speak to her, but
her mother did-oh, such a talking to!
She said that the little girl had made
herself perfectly obnoxious. or some
thing like that, and one of the guests
had been overheard to say to another.
"Why oh, why did we ever visit this
awful place with that awful child?"
So she was locked in her room. Her
breakfast was salty tears and her
luncheon was just lot of things, that
are said to be very nourishing. but
have very little taste And her din
ner was also nourishing and nothing
else. And the company had ice cream
for dinner--two kinds-and when she
cried because she didn't get none of
neither" even Mary told her her gram
mar was bad.
But her grammar was the least of her
troubles and it was the unhappiest day
of her life since the last time she was
punished.
Still, the next morning she was so
quiet that the guests thought the child
must have gone away, and her mother
came running to see if she We're ill.
But she was just behaving herself
So she had a nice breakfast with the
guests, and they all said. What dear,
sweet child So quiet, and such perfect
deportmentr'
This was so surprising that she had
to look at her mother and wink She
had not learned to wink one eye at
time. so she blinked both.
After breakfast she was put in her
best bib and tucker and sent out into
the park with money to spend on the
goat carriage, the squirrel peanuts, the
merry go round and the pony go round.
She thought she'd take a little walk
in the zoo too. Mary opposed it, of
course. and said:
What's the good of the zoo? There's
nothing in it but animals"
But the little girl dragged her along
She wanted to say good morning to
the lions and ask the hippopotamus il
he caught cold when he got his feet
wet
Sure. he's more apt to be catching
cold when he gets his feet dry" said
Mary. Doesn't he spend his life in
the bathtub?'
On the way to the lion house they
passed the cage where the two solemn
old eagles always sat
'Iooky!" said the little girl. 'srhey's
three eagles there this morning."
Maybe they left the cage open and
one more few In" said Mary
"HumphP said the little girl. II guess
If they'd have left the cage open there'd
be no eagles at all instead OF an extry
one" She stared at the birds while,
then she turned to Mary.
Say, Mary, do you like eagles?"
II don't know. | never ate one"
ugh! l don't mean~that. mean
do you like to see eagles?
ION money. yes-I love EN-"
mo. / mean do you like eagles-er-
personality"
II never met one. But what's all
this talk about eagles. anyway"
The little girl was very serious. "Oh.
mean that my father says the eagle is
our national bird, and we sing about
him in school, and they say the eagle is
the king OF the air, like what the lion
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