Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — Rebuked by a Child. [ARTICLE]

Rebuked by a Child.

“Papa, what makes the rain come down?” said a very small girl to her parent, as they stood, father, mother, and child, waiting under the shelter of a grocery sign till the car should come along. “Don’t bother me,” said the father. “Really, Maria, that child is getting to be a perfect nuisance. She is always asking absurb questions.” “I think she’s real cunning,” said the mother. “That’s the way you spoil her. Yon encourage her to be cunning and she makes the most ridiculous ass of herself all the time.” “ Well, she’s going to be very clever.” “I don’t believe it. I don’t believe she’ll know her way home when she: grows up." “It’s time that car was coming along,” said the wife, quietly. “I suppose there’s some blamed jam. down tao street. I don’t see any in sight yet. and we’ve been here twenty minutes.” “Pa.” said the small child, “I don’t see any car track on this street.” It was so. They were on Tyler street, and they were waiting for the Turk street car. The mother hummed the “Nanon” waltz all the way home, but the old- man was very mad, and the child was quite unconsciously mistress of the situation.— San Francisco Chronicle.