Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1858 — Obeying; Orders. [ARTICLE]

Obeying; Orders.

“Edward,” said a mother to a boy of eight years, who was trundling a hoop in the front yard,‘-‘Edward, you musn’t go out of that gate into the street.” “No, mam, I won’t,” was the reply. A few minutes afterward his mother had occasion to go to the window.- To hor surprise she saw Edward in the street, engaged in the edif'yiug employirfent of manufacturing mud-pies; “Didn't I tell you,” she said angrily, “not to go through that gate?” “Well, I didn’t, mother,” was the sajifactory reply—“ l climbed oner the fmer!"