Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07
SLEEPY Time TALES.
Mrs. Grasshopper's Adventure.


Once upon a time Mrs. G~rasshopper
went out for a walk. She had rocked
Doth her children to sleep and put them
to bed in their COO soft beds of leaves
and she knew they would sleep a long
tune, for it had been so hot in the
night they didn't sleep very much and
SO We're all tired out and quite ready
Tor their morning nap.
very slowly she Walke along think
lax how nice it was with the sun shin
ing and The leaves blowing in the trees,
when all at once she saw a little way
ahead of her a small black object that
seemed to move from side to side. Now
Mrs. G~rasshopper was pretty sure what
that black object was, but to make
houply sire she hurried along as fast
as she could. She needn't have hurried
so for the object moved more slowly
end Just before she reached it. stoned
short and rolled over
Dear me said Mrs. Grasshopper. Il
90 believe it is one of those young
beetles saw the other day out walking
WI Ilelr mother. Something has hap
pened to 1t, | must go and see"
Mrs. Grasshopper didn't usually talk
as much as that and she was quite out
" pFeath when she reached the bug.
lhefe is vas lying on one side with its
poor little wing all broken and dragging
ct one side.
Now the beetle had been taught TO
iook out for grasshoppers and such
tIi1lgs, so, when it saw Mrs. Grasshop-
per coming, 1t tried to get up and run
away.
Don't run away, l ont hurt YOU"
sali Mrs. Grasshopper and she went up
10 II and very carefully turned it over
hhd smoother out its little wing and put
IL IN place. With a tiny piece of grass
! place again.
There that will be alright in a few
I ia VS. iJ Won don't ,.N., - 90 -, -. 49,
and I will take you home" said Mrs.
Irasshopper With the g~rasshoppers'
Eelp the bug managed to crawl on her
Lack and off they started toward the
beetles home. They hadn't gone very
Tar, however. when they met Mrs.
Beetle coming out to look for her little
son and when she saw Mrs. Grasshop-
per coming she was afraid something
had happened to her little one and ran
to meet them.
Mrs; G~rasshopper told her all about
what had happened and Mrs. Beetle
was very grateful to her for taking
such good care of her little child and
together they carried him home and put
him to bed. Then Mrs. G~rasshopper ran
home to tell the children about her ad-
venture.
Mary'o Wish.
Once upon Il time little Mary was
given the wishbone of the chicken at
dinner. After she had eaten all of the
meat, she asked her mother if she
would wish with her, but her mother
told her that she must keep it for a
day or so and let it get quite dry be-
fore it would be ready to pull and
wish.
night, when Mary went to bed,
she asked her mother if she could take
her Wishbone upstairs with her and
hang 1t near the bed. Her mother told
her that she could. and Mary hung it
right in front of her, sc that she could
see it the last thing when she went to
bed and the first thing in the morning.
After her mother had kissed her good
night and gone down stars, Mary laid
awake a long time thinking what she
would wish with her wishbone and hop
ing she would get her wish. All at
once as she looked at it, it seemed to
get a pair of long, long legs and a very
tiny head, and it began to bow and bow
and walk in a funny way straight to-
| ward the bed, saying as it did: Mary,
/ want to talk with you a little while"
Mary didn't say a word, and the funny
| w~ishbone began to talk. DO You want
TO break my legs just SO you can wish?"
it asked.
IF you do, / can never walk again.
and sometimes they break so high up,
half my body is broken. too, and it
hurts as much as it would for You to
! get your leg broken. l hope you viii
be q good little girl and not use me to
wish with
Mary lay there very quietly, but she
was thinking hard and, when the wish
bone asked her again, she said, in u
very soft, little voice: No, won't
| wish. n break You. | will just keep
you 20 look at Then the w~ishbone,
with q low bow, turned and very lightly
hoped up right in the same place he
had jumped down from, and III a min
ute both he and Mary were sound
asleep.
In the morning when Mary woke up,
the very first thing she saw was the
! wishbone hanging just where she had
put it. She sat up in bed, rubhed her
eyes. and then jumped out of bed and
tool it down. Yes. it looked Just as it
had when she hung it up, but she knew
now that it a legs, a head, and could
talk.
She carried it down to her mother
and told her all about how the wish
Done had asked her not to wish with it
and she aid Il am not going to moth
er." Mary hung her wishbone up again,
where it hung for n long, long time.
When Mary tells her mother how the
wishbone talked to her, she only laughs.
but Mary says Fl really and truly
| did nOther"