People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — Taken at Her Word. [ARTICLE]

Taken at Her Word.

She 1« four years old and something of a tomboy. There is nothing thaV the Uttle boys in the neighborhood can. do that she wiH not attempt, and she is usually successful. A few days ago she was playing with some of the other children, while her mother satj near watching her. The boys wera trying all sorts of gymnastic tricks, and, after watching them awhile, she walked into the middle of the littlai grass plot, went down on her knees and quick as a flash turned a somersault “Oh, Ethel,” cautioned her astonished mother, deprecatingly, “I wouldn’t do that” The child got up, smoothed out her dress, surveyed her mother critically and then replied, approvingly: “I shouldn’t think you would.”—* Chicago Post.