The sun., 1912-07-14

Sonnet ines twelve yoar-od boys are
merely mschicvotis. and hat isn't so bad
But NJ other times twelve-vear- ODDS may
be a little bit cruel. and that certainly
is bad. Not all twelve wear olds. you
know. just few. are cruel. and then only
once in n while. rs | have said
! II was one of these once in "a while
times that this story is about. lf II will
make it any better for you TO think 1t is
a true story you may do SO. bccaus"
know Of u littl" boy who was ono" cruel
who il now u man and who says it really
is atr'in story
! One afternoon in midsummer on the
lawn of great to';se near the Hudson
u group of little boys were Whispering
and Ciggling At II great rate What il
was all abo'it you would have liked To
know had you seen them They laughed
and capered about and poked one an
other in the ribs to emphasize some funny
point.
Al last one of the twelne-year-olds,
Sammy he was called by his rapa. who
owned the hig house with the great lawn.
called out:
| "Oh. Jennie come here q minute.
want to tell you something. It's awful
funny"
| Now, Jennie vas u on-yeRr-old who
/ loved her brother sammy ever and eyer
! 50 much. She had been looking over
big rictnr" book AT her rara's knee,
asking all sorts Of questions.
Para. there's sammy calling me
! III have To 70 soc wha, he wants To- tell. +"
said 'cnni" rora,
1T. q,
! III go in the house and s.e wha, mamma
has 10 tell me about things while Sammy
IL telling you"
So Jennie ran to Sammy and pvt her
hand in his and asked Kim what it was
a.! about
"Jennie-Bird. we're going to have n
pageant on tho lawn and through the
woods next saturday afternoon and we
want you to take one Of the parts. I'm
to br "A cowbov and Billy is To be bull
fighter and Tommy /. ,o be Jack the
Giant Killer and all the boys have n
part. We want you to have a part too"
What part shall take" snid Jennie
Bird. clappinc her hands in delight
! why. YOU are to lie Little Red Riding
hood. All you have to do is to run and ask
7 iiHi'iit w IltNc 'Ii' W Iile XII Xel you "
hood of some kind or s,inshade. II
ought to I've rcd. but il il ism Z red maybe we
can paint it red I'll 20 GO, my box of
paints. Run in now. Jennie Bird. for we
want you to begin practising this after
noon"
So Jennie Bird ran as hard as her little
legs would carry her tn tho house. And
then Sammy and the other boys began to
laugh again and poke one another in the
ribs and cut up all sorts Of capers that
would have made you laugh too.
Presently Jennie Bird came runnir @
back. She not only had hood. hut il
was real rcd one that belonged To the
cooks little diugh,e-. She pu' i, on n.
she ran and there mover was a vrettier
Little Red Ridin chocd in any picture bool,
than she.
Now. Jennie" s,id Sunny. YOU are
to walk from here down over the Lawn to
tho brook AZ the edge of the woods Then
cross over the brook and go int % the woods
Go through the woods until YOU get to
our old bungalow. You 500. you are sup
posed to I've on the way TO visit your garnd
mother"
"Whv. that's - and Jennie BIRD
started 10 say something hut concluded il
WI. better not To talk to her big brother
on the topic. for he always seemed % know
everything hotter than she.
"Oh. and you'll have to have a basket
to make believe you are carrying food
to your poor grandmother. And il $ m RI
Of tine pageant that you must not look in
the basket And remember. no matter
whom you meet il they ask you what you
are doing you must say you are going 10
your poor grandmother's with food.
You sec. Jennie. that's part of play they
call it the proper dialogue concluded
Sammy pompously.
So little Jennie took the basket Sammy
handed her and walkei slowly o er the
tlawn. happy "a coull lie to take part in
the pageant After she had gone n few
feet she looked back over her shoulder
and not a boy was to bc seen. She won
dered where they had all gone to 40
quickly.
She got to the brook and right there
for the first tims she was temct ii very
much to open the basket and SEQ what
she was supposed to be bringing her poor
grandmother. But she knew that would
be wrong after she had been warned not
to peep, so she stepped from one little