Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-05
Grace and Marie Sanchez
Sorry That Petey Had
the Grip
Dear Juniors

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al have two sisters and one brother
Il Nv sisters names are Grace and Mary
y My brothers name is Willie. We go to
Pleasant Hill schol. Our teachers name
X 10 Edward F. Voltmor. We like him fine
We live on a farm near Hedrick. My
4 sister is In the sixth grade and am In
the eighth. We thought we would write
~ story.
We like to read the Junior page and
N always look for it. We also like to read
Z Bringing Up Father and Petey Dink.
4 We were both sorry to hear Petey
II had the grip. We are also sorry Mrs.
Jiggs didn't get to go to Mrs, Jones
reception. ..
THE Children and the Indians"
Once there was family which lived
In tho woods. They had three children,
two girls and one boy. The girls names
were Dorothy and Fern. Dorothy was
u eight. Fern was five. The boys name
was Raymond. He was twelve years old.
Dorothy was very pretty. She had
curly hair and blue eyes. Everybody
{ loved her. She had sweet gentle ways.
Fern was not like Dorothy. She had
i brown eyes and brown hair. She was
pretty also but not as pretty as Dor
& Othy. Raymond was very pretty. He
had dark hair and blue eyes. He was
IL.
him too He was a very good worker
and he was very thoughtful.
One day after getting the children
/ ready for school their father and moth
SCR started for town. The town was a
very long way off. They had to go
Through forest After school the chill
d dren came home. Raymond MIXED, fed
4 the horses and chickens. About dark he
Il started to feed the hogs. He thought
there were more hogs than there ought
4 10 be- But he didn't stop to count them.
& When he threw the corn over the hogs
4 got up. They began to prowl around.
but wolves. He ran to the house where
4 his two sisters were. Then he
i shut and bolted the door and started to
prepare supper. After they had had
n supper they went to bed. They very
soon went to sleep for they were very
tired and sleepy. Fern woke up in the
d midGo of the night She heard some
thing walking around the house She
s was very little, as you remember, and
10 she was frightened. She woke
Dorothy UP and told her some one was
\ walking around the house. Dorothy
went to the bed where Raymond was
Sleepmg. She woke him up and told
/ him some one was there. Raymond lay
there little while thinking. He told his
sisters to lie down and be very quiet.
Then he got a chair and all the boxes
he could find in the house. He put them
up on top Of one another and got up
on top of them. Then he told his sisters
Ito come to him and they did so.
He took Fern In his arms and put
4 her up In the loft Then he told Dor
J othy to get up in there. Then, taking
& the sheet from the bed and getting his
( fathers gun he also got up in there. He
was not too quick for just then the
i door opened and the Indians came in.
d Raymond peeped down and saw there
were just three Indians Then he tied
n knot in the sheet. He told Fern to
\ take hold Of it. Then he opened the
/ window and let Fern down to the
1 ground with the sheet Then he brought
the sheet back up where he was. He
then let Dorothy down and then got
II down himself. They went out to the
Blackberry patch and were very quiet.
X Soon thye heard some one coming to-
& ward them. They soon saw it was the
4 Indians Raymond shot and killed one
4 Indian. The others ran away as fast as
they could. The children then went
81 back to the house. When their father
and mother came home they said you
4 are very good children. We will never
B leave you again. and they never did.
Grace and Marie Sanchez,
Hedrick, Ia, r. No. s.