The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-03-03

Copyright 1909, The Bobbs- Merrl!L company
CHAPTER !.
Ethel Maud sews Her Thumb.
"If grown-ups would Jest chaw one
m Il er's good luck, they could get
heap of satisfaction from 1t.
Miss Seliny Lue! Oh-Oh-o-
no Miss Seliny Lue! Boo-hoo-hoo
-"
You, Bonnie, honey, quit crying this
n mute and tell me what the matter
Come here and let me see!" And
S Selma Lue made a grab for the
-contorted youngster who was
l.ng with excitement in the gro
2 door. Now where is the place?
our hand where you hurt If you
say it,"
A-ho-ho, faint me a-tall! It's
Maud. and she's sewed herself
& sewing-machine and pas Gus
something orful and mas sick to
omick. Please, ma'am, come
and git her out!"
nds alive!" said Miss Selma Lue
reached with one hand for a
net hanging on the wall and
the top on the pickle barrel
he other Miss Cynthia, honey,
YOU stay here for a few minutes
can send Mr. Dobbs back to
lie store? And whatever you do,
let nothing happen to the babies
i ne soap, boXes. The red-headed
y twin has been trying 20 turn
"a over all morning; watch him.
hand me that turkey-tail buster
ug over there on the wall, while
gmen out my water waves. They
an, nothing like burnt feathers or
hair to bring up them that's in faint,
and | never go without EN- to burn.
after a quick glance into her lit
lie bedroom mirror, Miss Selma Lue
hurried down the street, leaving an
unnertainty as to whether the turkey
ta ~ her own soft waves were to be
sacrificed in the cause of resuscita-
ton.
I'll dClOub luS, MISS O6Iluy Luz
who's hurt now" called Mrs. Kinney
froo her side door, standing with a
/ atiron dangling from her hand.
s Jim Peters also hailed from her
/ hen window, but Miss Selma Lue
kent sternly on her course, piloted by
the sobbing but important Bonnie.
In the first of the three rooms that
formed the Dobbs residence Miss Sc
lima Lue found the pathetic little fig
ure of Ethel Maud hanging against the
corner of the sewing machine while
N Dobbs, red and embarrassed, stood
trembling by the window, and the ma
ternal relative of the young sufferer
leaned against chair, white and heaV.
Ing
sight of the deliverer, Ethel Maud
gave a relieved whimper and her tou
seled head fell over on Miss Selma
Ives bosom, the depths of which we're
stirred by more than the mere suffer
ing of a pinioned finger, and which
took sympathetic note of sweating,
masculine misery and white-faced, in
efficient mother-hutterings
Hurry on over to mind the store
for me, Mr.. Dobbs," she said with a
kind glance at him. Il can git her
loose in minute. And, Mis- Dobbs,
quick as you can, set the kettle on the
stove IN the kitchen for some hot wa
ter TO take out the swell. Wen be
r. dy as soon as you git back with It,"
So vastly relieved, with one accord
II parents disappeared through oppo-
site doors, thus leaving Miss Selma
Lue with the limp and whimperlng bag
to hold
There. there. chlckie-biddie," she
crooned to the little white ear buried
against her neck as she raised the
arm and hand and with a quick, dex-
ferrous turn of the needle released the
small pink thumb. 1t amt injured
much, However did you come to sew
your thumb?"
We was trying to see what made
the top OF it 60 and she got in the
way volunteered Bonnie, who was
the only member OF the family that
had stood by the afflicted one. Al.
though his distress had been genuine,
there is an attraction to ten years in
flowing blood, even though that same
b GOD be consangineous "Shoo. that
sn't bleed half as much as my toe
d. asst week" he further remarked.
did! 1t did" walled the small
81 er, for the first time giving away
t, e to-be-expected lamentations of
ole injured. Everybody stumps they's
toss but they didn't ever anybody get
seved up in sewing machine before"
b nnie was on the point of arguing
Il question when he was overtaken
b swift retribution for his seeming
h rtlessness in the shape of a wet
.-ntoWel that spanked across his
shoulders with a sting
"Bennie Dohbs, am ashamed of you
fer your unfeelingness to your little
sister" cried his mother. who stood In
The doorway with a cracked. yellow