Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — THE LITTLE FOLKS. [ARTICLE]

THE LITTLE FOLKS.

A Rear Guard. Little Jimmy Botts brought home apeeled nose and a garter snake from a picnic the other day. and hid (he latter inside the piano. When his sister’s oung man put up the lid that evening to perpetrate “Where Did You Get lhat Hat?” he thought he had ’em agaiu, and yelled like a pirate chasing a stage coach in ahead of time. Jimmy failed to prove an alibi, and his father said he would reason with him in the wood-shed after supper. When the family sat down to the table Jimmy solemnly entered in his stocking feet and carrying a pillow, upon which he carefully sat down. “What new monkey-shine is this?” grow led old Bptts. "S-s-s-li, papa, ’ whispered Jimmy, “I was playing tire-works with Tommy MeGlue this afternoon, and I swallowed a torpedo.” “Did, eh?” “Aes; and if anything should touch) me kinder sudden, I might go off and. be tored all to pieces. ” And the snake indemnity bill was laid on the table.— Puck. Gum. “I hope you will never want to chew gum, Angelina. , I should hate to see a, dolly of mine ch|wing gum.. You will never catch me* doing such a foolish, thing.

“Of course I did use to,, but that was nearly a whole week ago. “I know plenty of little girls—and boys, too—that chew gum every day right on the streets, and! it does not look pretty, Angelina. If you could talk you would say so yourself, “And I know just a few little girls — • and boy 3, too —that take their gum with ’em whan they gp. to. church. Isn’t that too bad,? “And the-other niglbkl went to our school concert—l would, have sung in, it only I had a coldl when they were practicing—and. thene was. little Laura Bascom that bad) such pretty curls and big brown, eyes,. What do. you s’po~e she did;? “Why, she- kept, liter gum in her mouth all the-toime-ina tliae grand chorus,, and chewodi lit some, at the end of every line. Now, Angelina, wasn’t that perfectly shocking: 1 “But I know another little girl that did pretty near as bad ’bout a week ago. “ She- Sorgot and laid her gum right on the what-not, near some sea-shells and pretty stones. “And there was company that day, and a nice old gentleman was looking at the stones, and he picked it up and said: ‘Bless me! what sort of stone is this?’ and looked at the little girl just as hard as he could. “And her face wa3 hot as lire, and she just said, so you could hardly hear her, ‘That’s my gum.’ “Aud then she just aan away to her own bed-room, and didn’t even go down to tea. “No, Angelina, I’d rather not tell you her name. But you’ll never see me chewing gum any more,”- Youth’s Companion. ~ , Gathercole is the name of 0.. c ol Pennsylvania’s coal baroaa. ,