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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Frankie at His Plays + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 24, 2010 [EBook #33521] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet +Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1>Frankie at His Plays</h1> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 373px;"> +<img src="images/coverpage.jpg" width="373" height="500" alt="Cover" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>MRS. LESLIE'S BOOKS</h2> +<h4>FOR</h4> +<h1>LITTLE CHILDREN.</h1> + +<hr style="width: 40%;" /> + +<h2>THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.</h2> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + +<h2>BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED</h2> + +<div class='center'><b>By A. R. BAKER,</b><br /> + +AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.</div> + +<hr style="width: 40%;" /> + +<div class='center'><b>QUESTION BOOKS on the Topics of Christ's Sermon on the Mount.</b><br /> + + +<span class="smcap">Vol. I. For Children.</span> <span class="smcap">Vol. II. For Youth.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Vol. III. For Adults.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Lectures on These Topics</span>, <i>in press</i>.<br /></div> + + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>MRS. LESLIE'S SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Mrs. Leslie's Sabbath School Books"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tim, the Scissors Grinder.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sequel to "Tim, the Scissors Grinder."</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Prairie Flower.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Bound Boy.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Bound Girl.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Virginia.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Two Homes; or, Earning and Spending.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Organ-Grinder</span>, <i>in press</i>.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>QUESTION BOOKS. The Catechism tested by the Bible.</b><br /> + + +<span class="smcap">Vol. I. For Children. Vol. II. For Adults.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>THE DERMOTT FAMILY; or, Stories Illustrating the Catechism.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="THE DERMOTT FAMILY"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Doctrines respecting God and Mankind.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'> II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Doctrines of Grace.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Commandments of the First Table.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Commandments of the Second Table.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Conditions of Eternal Life.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE."> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Cora and the Doctor.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Courtesies of Wedded Life.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Household Angel.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Motherless Children.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Play and Study.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Howard and his Teacher.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Trying to be Useful.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Jack, the Chimney Sweeper.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>VI.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Young Housekeeper.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>VII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Little Agnes.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES"> +<tr><td align='left'>THE ROBINS' NEST.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 40%;"/> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES"> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 386px;"> +<img src="images/i006.png" width="386" height="500" alt="TEACHING PONTO TO READ." title="" /> +<span class="caption">TEACHING PONTO TO READ.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> + +<h1>LITTLE<br /><br /> +FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS.</h1> + +<div class='center'>BY</div> +<h2>MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,</h2> + +<div class='center'> +<small>AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S</small><br /> +<small>JUVENILE SERIES," ETC.</small><br /> +<br /><br /><br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/divider.png" width="150" height="15" alt="divider" title="" /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br />BOSTON:<br /> +CROSBY AND NICHOLS.<br /> +<span class="smcap">117 Washington Street.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class='copyright'> +Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by<br /> + +A. R. BAKER,<br /> + +In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.<br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +ELECTROTYPED AT THE<br /> +BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.<br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> +<h2>LITTLE<br /> +FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE AND HIS WHEELBARROW.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">I have</span> already told you that +Frankie lived in a pretty cottage, +separated from the road +by a green lawn, which lay in +front of it. On the other side +of the street, the land was much +lower, a little shining brook running<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +through it, and sometimes, +after a rain, there was quite a +pond of water. In winter this +was a pleasant place for Willie +to skate. His mamma liked it, +because she could watch him +from the windows; Willie liked +it, because when his hands were +cold he could run home to warm +himself; and Frankie liked it, +because it made him laugh and +clap his hands to see his brother +bow and turn this way and that,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +run a few steps, and then make +such pretty figures on the ice. +He had no doubt at all but Willie +did all this just to amuse him. +If you could have seen him as +he stood in his chair at the front +window, how he jumped up and +down, and threw his head back, +and then held it far forward on +his breast, laughing so merrily, +bursting out afresh every time +Willie made a bow or stretched +out his arms, you could not have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +helped laughing yourself, out of +sympathy.</p> + +<p>Sally seemed to enjoy it as +much as he did.</p> + +<p>"I declare," she said one day, +as her mistress entered the room +and found her sitting by the fire +with her work, while Frankie +stood at the window, "I haven't +laughed so much in a month. +It does one's heart good just to +see how the little fellow enjoys +his brother's sport."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> + +<p>Back of the house where he +lived there was a barn. His +papa did not keep a horse in it, +but one day, after some months, +a gentleman came to pass a few +days at the cottage, and his horse +was put up in the barn. One +pleasant evening, when papa, and +mamma, and their friends were +walking in the garden, the gentleman +said he would lead his +horse down to the pond, and +give him some water to drink,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +and he invited Willie to ride upon +the horse's back. Willie's papa +helped him on, and he held fast +by the horse's mane. When he +came back, Frankie wanted to +ride too. Mamma was afraid he +would fall; but the gentleman +said the horse was gentle, and +papa said he would hold him +very tightly.</p> + +<p>So Frankie mounted the horse, +and took his first lesson in riding. +Papa was going to walk<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +about the grounds, but the little +boy said, "Pony want water +gen, papa; pony must have +more water."</p> + +<p>Frankie had never been to the +pond before. First they had to +cross the road, then go through +the rail fence into the field. The +gentleman let down two bars, and +the horse carefully stepped over +the other. Then papa held his +baby very tight, because they +were going down a steep place<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +into the water. The gentleman +thought pony would not drink +again; but he did, and Frankie +leaned over, and saw him suck +up great mouthfuls of water. +Then they turned back, and went +out of the field, papa holding the +horse, while the gentleman put +up the bars again.</p> + +<p>Mamma was very glad to get +her boy safely home. She had +been anxious all the time, for +fear he would fall and hurt himself,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +though papa laughed, and +told her there was no danger. +She had kept Ponto near her, +for fear he would bark and +frighten the strange horse. But +the moment Frankie was taken +off, he flew up to him, and licked +his face and hands, and tried to +spring on his neck, he was so +glad to see him.</p> + +<p>I don't know what Frankie +would have done without Ponto. +Willie and Margie were at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +school; and there were a great +many hours when he would have +had to play alone. But Ponto +was always ready for a frolic. +He was never tired or out of +humor, though sometimes he +was rather too rough; and then +he loved his young master so +much, that he wanted to kiss +him oftener than Frankie liked.</p> + +<p>Early in the summer, papa +had bought a wheelbarrow for +his boy to roll in the yard. It<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +was painted red, and on the sides +were pretty pictures painted in +gilt. It had long, smooth handles, +and a large wheel, so that +it ran along the walks very nicely +indeed.</p> + +<p>I wish you could have been +there to see what pleasant plays +Frankie had with his dog and +his wheelbarrow; but as you +were not, I will try to tell you +about it.</p> + +<p>Mamma had made a pretty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +sun bonnet, with a deep frill to +shade his face, and as soon as +the sun had dried up the dew, +she tied it on his head, and let +him run all about the grounds +with only Ponto to take care +of him.</p> + +<p>Ponto knew very well that +the little fellow was left in his +charge; and when mamma said, +"Ponto, look here, sir; take care +of your little master," he would +hold up his head, and wag his tail,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +and bow, wow, wow, as much +as to say, "Yes, indeed, ma'am."</p> + +<p>Then Frankie would run along +wheeling his barrow, and Ponto +close beside him, until they came +to the woodpile. Here the little +boy stopped, and began to fill his +barrow with sticks; and Ponto +picked them up in his teeth almost +as fast as Frankie did with +his hands. Sometimes he was +wild and full of fun, so that +when Frankie wanted to take<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +the stick from his mouth and +put it in the barrow, Ponto +would spring up into the air, +and run away; but when he +heard his master say, "Come +here, sir," he would be sober in +a moment. O, Ponto was a very +knowing dog indeed!</p> + +<p>When the barrow was full, +Frankie rolled it to the back +door, and put it in a basket set +there for him by Jane. When +she saw him coming, she called<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> +out through the window, "Sure +and he's not a baby at all, but +a man entirely, to be bringing +me all my wood. Sure and I'll +make him a nice cake for his +supper."</p> + +<p>Then Frankie felt very large, +and walked off with his head up +and his lips parted in a pleasant +smile.</p> + +<p>By and by Frankie would be +tired of wheeling wood; then he +used to take Jane's small kitchen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +shovel, and fill his barrow with +sand; and what do you think he +did with it. I am sure you +cannot guess. Why, he poured +it all over Ponto. The first time +he did this, the dog did not like +it at all; but when he heard +Frankie laughing so merrily, and +saw how much he was pleased, +he felt, I suppose, willing to submit. +So he lay down again in +the walk, and this time Frankie +laughed so that he did not half<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +fill the barrow before he poured +it over the dog again.</p> + +<p>Much as he tried to like it, +I suppose Ponto was not very +much pleased, for he soon got +up and shook himself thoroughly, +and then barked a little, as +if to say, "No more, if you +please."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE AND HIS DOG.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A few</span> days after Frankie's +ride on horseback, he was out +of doors playing with Ponto, +and he thought he would take +a walk down to the pond. Before +this time, he had been a +very good boy, and had never +gone through the gate into +the road, though sometimes he +would stand at the fence, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +look through to see people passing +by.</p> + +<p>Mamma was busy in the parlor +with company; and Sally was +at work in the back part of the +house.</p> + +<p>When Ponto saw that his +master was going into the street, +he began to bark furiously, for +he knew this was not exactly +right. Mrs. Gray heard him, +and ran to the window; but +just at this moment Frankie was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +behind a tree, and she did not +see him; so she thought that the +dog was barking at something he +saw in the road.</p> + +<p>For a minute Ponto was very +much excited, and ran back toward +the house, but presently +turned and followed Frankie to +the water.</p> + +<p>The little boy did not seem at +all afraid, but went right down +the steep path where he had +rode on the horse. I suppose<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +he thought the water looked very +pretty, for he walked right into +it up to his waist.</p> + +<p>A few minutes after Frankie +went away from the back door, +Sally went out to shake the +hearth rug. As she did not see +him any where about, she called, +"Frankie, Frankie! Ponto, Ponto!" +She ran around to the +front of the house, still calling, +"Frankie, Frankie!" and "Ponto, +Ponto!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mamma heard her, and ran to +the door.</p> + +<p>"Have you seen Frankie, +ma'am?" asked Sally, pale with +fright.</p> + +<p>"Where's Ponto?" cried the +lady, without stopping to answer.</p> + +<p>"There he is," screamed nurse, +running as fast as she could +toward the water.</p> + +<p>Mamma ran too, and the ladies +who were in the parlor; but +mamma was so frightened that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +her head swam round and round, +and she could hardly stand.</p> + +<p>When Ponto heard them +coming, he barked louder than +ever, but he did not run toward +them; and Sally sprang over the +fence without waiting to let the +bars down, and in one moment +more caught the poor frightened +Frankie in her arms. Ponto +had taken the little fellow in his +teeth, and put him on the bank.</p> + +<p>He lay quite still, as if he were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +very tired, only when Sally placed +him in his mamma's arms, he +put up his little wet hand, and +tried to stroke her cheek. His +eyes were very red, as if he had +been crying, and his clothes all +dripping with water and stained +with mud. Sally ran forward to +get the bath tub filled with +warm water, while mamma carried +him gently toward the house.</p> + +<p>No one seemed to be in such +good spirits as Ponto. He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> +danced and jumped, trying to +catch Frankie's foot, and whisked +his tail up and down, and did +every thing he could to express +his joy at having his little friend +safe again.</p> + +<p>How and when the ladies +went away mamma did not +know. She carried her dear +boy up into the nursery, and +then sank down, and began to +cry. When Sally saw her, she +cried too; and Jane, who, was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +pulling off Frankie's stockings, +wiped her eyes with her apron. +They were all crying for joy that +dear, darling little Frankie had +not been drowned. And mamma +whispered a few words as she +bent over her boy. She knew +that God could hear, and so she +said, "O my heavenly Father, +I do thank thee for restoring +my precious child to my arms. +Once more I give him to thee."</p> + +<p>While she was washing him,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +she told Sally that she had heard +Ponto bark some time before, but +could not see that Frankie was +with him. "I shall always love +Ponto," she said, "for he saved +my boy."</p> + +<p>Ponto was lying on the hearth +rug, resting himself. He had had +a great deal to do that morning, +and he had done it well. Now, +when he heard mamma repeat +his name, he rapped with his tail +on the floor.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Good fellow!" said mamma; +"good Ponto!"</p> + +<p>He rapped again, louder than +before. This was the way he +meant to say, "I am as glad +as you are, that dear Frankie +is safe."</p> + +<p>When the little fellow had +been dressed in his clean clothes, +Sally said she would run down +to the water and bring up his +wheelbarrow, which she saw +there. Jane went with her, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +they found where he went in, +for his tiny shoe was sticking +fast in the mud. Then they +went round to the other side, +where Ponto had carried him, +and found it was very deep +water, so that if the noble dog +had not taken him out, he must +have been drowned.</p> + +<p>When Willie came home from +school, and heard what a trusty +friend Ponto had been, he put +his arms round the dog's neck<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> +and kissed him. Frankie had +kissed him very often, but Willie +had never done so before. But +Ponto seemed to understand it +very well; and when papa came +in, all the while mamma was telling +him about poor Frankie's accident, +he stood gazing into her face.</p> + +<p>For a few moments papa could +not speak; his heart was too full. +He walked away to the window +and wiped his eyes; but presently +he came back, and patted<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +Ponto on the head, and said, +"Noble Ponto! good fellow!"</p> + +<p>Then Ponto knew that he was +glad too; and he went to the bed +where Frankie was lying, and +putting up his fore paws, began +to lick the little fellow's hand.</p> + +<p>When Sally took up the wet +clothes to carry them to the +wash, there were the marks of +Ponto's teeth, where he had fastened +them firmly through the +dress, cambric and flannel skirts.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE IN TRIAL.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">I have</span> told you so much about +Frankie, I suppose you will want +to know whether he was always +a good boy. Did he never show +a naughty temper? Was he +never unkind to his brother +Willie? or to his little nurse +Margie? Did he never tell a +lie? never take what was not +his own? I am sorry to say<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +that he did some of these things, +and no doubt would have done +a great many more, but that he +had a kind mamma and papa to +teach him.</p> + +<p>One of the greatest blessings +which God can give a little boy +or a little girl, is a good Christian +mother. I hope, my dear +young friend, if God has been +so kind as to give you such a +mother, that you will thank him +every day of your life.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> + +<p>When you wake up in the +morning and repeat your little +hymn, thanking God for letting +you see another day, with the +pleasant sun and sweet-smelling +flowers, don't forget to thank +him, too, for giving you a dear +mamma to love you and watch +over you.</p> + +<p>And then, when you are tired +with play, and lie down at night +to rest your head upon the soft +pillow, don't go to sleep without<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +thanking him for preserving her +who has prepared you nice food, +made you warm clothes, and tried +to lead your little feet in the path +of right.</p> + +<p>I think whatever faults little +Frankie had, he dearly loved his +mother. Ever so many times in +a day he would run to her side, +sometimes right in the midst of +his play, and say, "I want to kiss +oo. I love oo."</p> + +<p>When he meddled with her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +work-basket, or did other troublesome +things, and she spoke +sharply, "Frankie, don't do so," +he would turn in a moment and +ask, with a quivering lip, "Am I +your darling now, mamma?"</p> + +<p>Once in a while Frankie would +get up in the morning, and instead +of the bright smile he generally +wore, his face looked cross. +Nurse used to say he got out of +bed the wrong way. When this +was the case, nothing seemed to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +go right with him. At breakfast +he pushed away his plate, +and would not let Margie fasten +on his bib, and seemed very unhappy. +This was not because +he was sick, but because he was +out of humor, and needed to be +brought right again.</p> + +<p>His mamma was very much +troubled about it, and she said +to herself, "If I do not correct +my little son, he will grow more +unhappy, and his temper will<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +become so sullen that no one +will love him; and what is worst +of all, God will not love him." +She went away alone into her +chamber, and knelt down by her +bed, and asked God to direct her +what to do in order to make +Frankie a good boy.</p> + +<p>I suppose God did put some +good thoughts into her mind, for +the next day, when the little boy +was naughty again, she arose +at once, and led him away to her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +chamber, and talked with him +a long time. And then they +knelt down together, and she +held his little hands while she +asked God to take away his +wicked heart, and give him a +good one, that would be full of +pleasant, happy thoughts, and of +love to the dear Saviour and to +every body.</p> + +<p>Perhaps you would like to +know one thing she told him. +It was this. She said, "My dear<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +Frankie, when you look so cross, +and speak unkindly to Willie, +and do not wish to obey me, do +you know who is close by you, +whispering in your ear?"</p> + +<p>"No, mamma," said Frankie; +"I didn't see any body."</p> + +<p>"It is the wicked Satan," said +mamma. "He likes to see you +naughty, and so he puts unkind +thoughts into your heart. He +would like to have you naughty +all the time, because then he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +knows you could not be happy. +He don't like good children, and +he can't bear to stay where they +are; so he has to run off by himself +when you are obedient, and +kind, and happy. Shall I tell +you what I think he was whispering +in your ear this morning?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, mamma."</p> + +<p>"Well, when you rubbed out +Willie's figures, after he asked +you not to do so, I think he said, +'I wouldn't mind my brother;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +I'd do it just to vex him.' Then, +when I forbade you to touch it +again, he whispered, 'Get away, +mamma; I don't love you this +morning.'"</p> + +<p>Frankie hung down his head, +and looked very sober. He did +not like to think he had been +pleasing Satan, but still he was +troubled, for he did not know +exactly what to do. In a minute +he said, "I will try to be +good Frankie, mamma."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> + +<p>"That is right, my darling. +If you try to be good, and when +you hear Satan tempting you to +do such wicked things, tell him at +once to go away, then the good +Spirit will come and help you to +be kind, and to do every thing +that is right. If you had not been +listening to Satan this morning, +you could have heard him, though +he talks very softly indeed."</p> + +<p>"What did he say, mamma?" +asked Frankie.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I suppose he was saying, +'Willie is a very kind brother, +and loves you dearly. I wouldn't +trouble him, my dear;' and then +when I spoke, perhaps he said, +'Your mother knows what is +right, little boy. She does it for +your good, for she wants you to +be happy.'"</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE'S BLOCK HOUSE.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A few</span> days after mamma +talked with Frankie, he was building +a high house on the floor with +his blocks, when Sally passed +along and hit them, and over +they went. The little boy looked +very angry. "You naughty girl," +he said.</p> + +<p>Mamma laid down her work, +and gazed at him, and her eyes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +looked very sorry. As soon as +Sally went out of the room, she +said, "What is Satan whispering +to you now, my dear?"</p> + +<p>Frankie started up and looked +behind him: "I don't see him +any where," he said.</p> + +<p>"But didn't you hear his +voice?" asked mamma.</p> + +<p>"Yes, I did: he said, 'Throw +a block at nurse; she is so +naughty to knock your house +over.'"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Shall I blow Satan away?" +said mamma.</p> + +<p>"Yes, please."</p> + +<p>She blew very hard; then +opened the door, and blew again, +as if she meant to send him off. +"Now he's gone, I think," she said, +looking in Frankie's bright face.</p> + +<p>"The next time he comes I'll +whip him, mamma," cried the little +fellow, standing very straight, +"'cause he tells me naughty +things."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> + +<p>In a few minutes Sally came +in again, and glanced at the little +boy to see whether he felt happier +than he did before.</p> + +<p>Frankie looked at her, too, and +his mamma thought he seemed +sorry that he had called her +naughty. She called him to her, +and whispered, "Is any body +speaking to you now, my darling?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, mamma. It says, 'Tell +Sally you're sorry.'"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Are you going to mind the +good Spirit?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, mamma. I'm sorry, +nurse, I called you naughty."</p> + +<p>Nurse looked very much +pleased. "I am sorry myself, +dear," she said, "that my dress +hit your blocks; and, if mamma +is willing, I'll build you a high +house."</p> + +<p>"Yes, indeed," said mamma.</p> + +<p>So Sally sat down on the carpet, +and Frankie passed her the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +blocks; and she built a meeting +house, with a high steeple. +Mamma thought it was splendid, +and the little boy danced about, +and put his arms round Sally's +neck, and kissed her ever so many +times. "I'm so happy, mamma," +he said, when she had gone.</p> + +<p>"Children are always happy, +my dear," she said, "when they +have tried to be good."</p> + +<p>"Satan can't stay here now; +can he, mamma?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> + +<p>"No, he has gone to trouble +some other little boy with +naughty thoughts."</p> + +<p>The next morning, Frankie +had forgotten all about this; +and when papa said he must +not have so much sugar on his +cakes, his lips began to pout, +and they were all afraid he was +going to be very naughty.</p> + +<p>Mamma leaned over her plate, +and said, softly, "Is Satan here +again?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Yes, mamma," said Frankie; +"may I whip him out?"</p> + +<p>She nodded yes; and he then +jumped down from the table, and +began to blow with all his might. +Then he caught up a newspaper, +and whisked it all about, saying, +"Go long, old feller; go long out +of this house."</p> + +<p>"Whew! whew!" said papa; +"what is all this?"</p> + +<p>Mamma smiled, as if she understood +it well; and presently<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +the little fellow climbed up in +his chair, looking very bright +and happy, but quite out of +breath with his exercise.</p> + +<p>"Satan's gone, papa," he said. +"Now I'm your dear little +Frankie."</p> + +<p>"Yes, indeed, you are," said +his father, laughing heartily. "I +am glad we have found a way to +get rid of Satan so easily."</p> + +<p>"What does it mean?" asked +Willie.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I will tell you presently, my +dear," said papa.</p> + +<p>When they had done breakfast, +Mr. Gray opened the Bible +for prayers, and taking Frankie +on his knee, and calling Willie +to stand by his side, he said, +"In God's book, he tells us that +Satan is our great enemy, who +is trying to make us do wrong. +He is called a roaring lion, who +goeth about seeking whom he +may devour. This means that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +he loves to destroy our happiness, +and to see people miserable; +and he knows if we are +naughty, we shall suffer. He +goes about whispering in the +ears of little boys and girls, +prompting them to mischief, persuading +them to tell lies, to be +disobedient and unkind. If children +listen to his voice, they soon +become like him; but if they say, +'Get thee behind me, Satan,' or +drive him away, as Frankie did,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> +the Holy Spirit will come and +put good thoughts into their +minds, and teach them, as the +Bible says, what they ought to +say and what they ought to do."</p> + +<p>Papa then knelt down, and +holding Frankie's little hand, +prayed that he might always +listen to the voice of the good +Spirit, and be led by it to do all +that is right.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER V.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE AND THE SUGAR.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">One</span> morning Mrs. Gray was +finishing a piece of work which +she wished to send away, when +Frankie ran in from the dining +hall, and asked, "Mamma, may +I have some chucher?" He +meant sugar, but he could not +speak the word plainly.</p> + +<p>"Where is the sugar that you +want, my dear?" asked mamma.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> + +<p>"On the table," said Frankie. +"Nurse is washing the dishes."</p> + +<p>"Look in my face, darling," +said mamma, "Did you take +any sugar without my leave?"</p> + +<p>Frankie looked up with his +clear, truthful eyes, and said, "No, +mamma, I didn't take any."</p> + +<p>"Then go and get two large +lumps, and bring them to me."</p> + +<p>The little boy ran off, saying, "I +will, mamma; I will get some."</p> + +<p>Presently he returned with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +them; and she said, "Now, my +dear, you shall have these, because +you didn't take any without +asking leave."</p> + +<p>A few months before this time, +Willie one day found Frankie in +the store closet dipping up sugar +with his hand from the barrel, +and crowding it into his mouth. +His whole face was covered with +sugar, when Willie lifted him +down from the chair, and led +him to his mother.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> + +<p>When mamma had washed +his hands and face, she took +him in her lap, and told him it +was very naughty to take mother's +sugar without her permission. +When he wanted sugar, +or candy, or figs, he must always +ask for them. Since that time +she had not known him to touch +any thing until he had first asked +leave. Once she had left a paper +of cough candy in her drawer +for several days, and she knew<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +he often went to this drawer on +errands for her. She was coughing +severely one afternoon, and +said, "I really wish I had some +candy."</p> + +<p>"I will get you some," he said. +"I saw some in the drawer;" and +away he ran for it.</p> + +<p>Mamma was so much pleased +that he had not taken any, that +she gave him a small paper of +sugar plums. The cough candy +was not good for him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p> + +<p>Ever since Frankie could remember, +his mamma had told +him the pretty stories in the +Bible. The account of Adam +and Eve in the garden; the sad +death of good Abel, and the punishment +of wicked Cain; the ark, +and the dreadful flood; the stories +of Joseph and his brethren, +of Samuel and of Ruth, were as +familiar to him as the names of +the family circle. Indeed, the +little boy seemed to connect the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> +events of the Bible with every +thing he saw.</p> + +<p>One day a gentleman gave +him a short cane. He had often +seen Frankie play horse with his +father's cane, and he thought it +would please the child to have +one of his own.</p> + +<p>Frankie was very much delighted, +and ran around the garden +with it for several hours, +Ponto following close at his +heels, quite delighted with the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +new sport. At last he came in, +and, sitting down by his mamma, +began to play with the string +she had tied around the head of +the cane. Then he looked very +thoughtful for a minute, when he +said, "I don't like that cane any +more."</p> + +<p>"Why don't you like it?" she +asked, in surprise.</p> + +<p>"Because it killed good Abel, +you know."</p> + +<p>"O, no," said mamma, with a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +laugh. "That Cain was a man, +and not a stick."</p> + +<p>The little fellow was once playing +out near the barn, when he +fell and cut his finger against a +piece of glass. It bled very +freely, so that mamma could not +bind it up. She told Sally to +bring a bowl of water, and held +his poor finger in it. The water +was soon red with the blood; +and Frankie cried louder than +ever. All at once he stopped,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +and said, "Mamma, it seems like +the Red Sea. How could the +Israelites get through so much +blood?"</p> + +<p>"That was not red with blood, +my dear," said mamma. "It was +only the name of the sea. There +are the Red Sea, and the Black +Sea, and the White Sea."</p> + +<p>Frankie was very fond of cake, +and would have liked to make +his whole supper of it. But +mamma knew it would make him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +sick. Sometimes, when he was +in the kitchen, Jane gave him +a piece; and one day his mother +was very much pleased when he +came running to her with a rich +cake in his hand, fresh from the +oven. "May I eat it, mamma?" +he asked. "I didn't taste it +without your leave."</p> + +<p>Mamma broke off a small +piece, and gave it to him, and +then took him in her lap, and +repeated a pretty little hymn<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +she had learned when she was +a child. I think you will like to +hear it too.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"Mamma, do hear Eliza cry;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She wants a piece of cake I know;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">She will not stir to school without;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Do give her some, and let her go."</span><br /> +<br /> +"O, no, my dear; that will not do;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She has behaved extremely ill;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">She pouts instead of minding me,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And tries to gain her stubborn will.</span><br /> +<br /> +"This morning, when she had her milk,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She gave her spoon a sudden twirl,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And tipped it over on the floor;</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">O, she's a naughty, wicked girl!</span><br /> +<br /> +"And now, forsooth, she cries for cake;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">But that I surely shall refuse;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">For children never should object</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To eating what their parents choose.</span><br /> +<br /> +"The pretty little girl who came<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To sell the strawberries here to-day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Would have been very glad to eat</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">What my Eliza threw away;—</span><br /> +<br /> +"Because her parents are so poor<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">That they have neither milk nor meat;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">But gruel and some Indian cake</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Are all the children have to eat.</span><br /> +<br /> +"They have four little girls and boys;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mary's the oldest of the whole,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And hard enough she has to work,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To help her ma—poor little soul!</span><br /> +<br /> +"As soon as strawberries are ripe,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She picks all day, and will not stop</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">To play or eat a single one,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Till she has filled her basket up.</span><br /> +<br /> +"Then down she comes and sells them all,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And lays the money up at home,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">To buy her stockings and her shoes,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To wear when freezing winter's come.</span><br /> +<br /> +"For then she has to trudge away,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And gather wood through piles of snow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">To keep the little children warm,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">When bites the frost, and cold winds blow.</span><br /> +<br /> +"And then, when she comes home at night,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Hungry and tired, with cold benumbed,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">How she would jump to find a bowl</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Of bread and milk all nicely crumbed!</span><br /> +<br /> +"But she, dear child, has no such thing;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Of gruel and the Indian cake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Whether she chooses it or not,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Poor Mary must her supper make.</span><br /> +<br /> +"Eliza, dear, will you behave<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">So ill again, another day?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Be cross and pert, and cry for cake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And fling your breakfast all away?"</span><br /> +<br /> +"Ah, never, never, dear mamma!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">I'm sorry that I gave you pain;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Forgive me, and I never will</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Be such a naughty girl again."</span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> + +<h2>CHAPTER VI.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE'S ROCKING HORSE.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">When</span> Frankie was between +three and four years old, there +were a good many words he +could not pronounce distinctly. +He could not say kitchen, but +called it chichen; and he called +sugar chucher. He could not +say sing, but said ting. His +papa was afraid he never would +be able to pronounce them; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> +he took a great deal of pains to +have him try to say them over +and over again. He used to +take Frankie on his knee, and +make him sound s-s-, and then +say s-sing. But Frankie always +said s-ting.</p> + +<p>One day his mamma was passing +through the back hall, and +she saw her little boy kneeling +in a chair by the table where +Jane was making bread. He +was talking very earnestly, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> +she stopped a moment to hear +what he was saying.</p> + +<p>He was giving Jane a lesson. +"Now say knife," he began. So +Jane said "knife."</p> + +<p>"No, that not wight; you +must say s- knife."</p> + +<p>Jane laughed: "knife is right," +she said.</p> + +<p>"No, no!" he repeated; "papa +say s- knife; so you must say it +wight."</p> + +<p>He thought it was as well to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span> +put s- on any other word as on +sing.</p> + +<p>He was very fond of playing +school, and was quite happy when +Willie and Margie would be his +scholars. Dinah was always set +up in her chair too, and another +dolly whose name was Lily +Gray. Frankie would set them +all before him, and then ask, +"Margie, who first man?"</p> + +<p>"Adam."</p> + +<p>"Now, you good girl, you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> +may go wight to your seat. +Willie, who first boy?"</p> + +<p>"Cain."</p> + +<p>"Yes, that's wight; now you +be vely till, cause I shall peach." +Then he would stand in his chair +and preach very loud, spreading +his arms, and always closing +with a long amen.</p> + +<p>Once, when he was kneeling +with his father, he thought the +prayer rather long, and putting +up his face, he whispered, "Say<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> +amen, papa;—can't you say +amen?"</p> + +<p>Frankie was very happy one +day when his mamma told him +that his aunt and cousin were +coming to make them a visit. +He packed all his playthings in +a trunk, to have them ready for +the little baby, and then went +round the house telling every +body that Eddie was coming to +see him.</p> + +<p>The day before they were expected,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> +a beautiful present came +for Frankie from Mr. Wallace, +the same kind gentleman who +had given him the silver cup.</p> + +<p>Can you guess what it was? +It was not a cup and ball, nor +a top, nor an iron hoop, but a +rocking horse with a carriage +fastened to it large enough for +him to get in it. Then there +was a place for the whip, and +two pairs of reins for him to +drive with.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> + +<p>At first, Frankie stood looking +at it, his eyes growing larger and +larger, until papa asked, "Well, +Frankie, how do you like your +new horse?"</p> + +<p>"Is it for me, papa, for mine +own telf?" exclaimed the little +boy, clapping his hands and +dancing up and down. "O, +I'm to glad!" Then raising his +eyes, he said, soberly, "Tank +you, Dod. Tank you vely much +indeed."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p> + +<p>His mamma had taught him +that all our blessings come from +God; and the dear boy wished +to thank him for this new favor.</p> + +<p>I can hardly tell you how +much pleased he was with his +present. He could scarcely stop +riding to eat his dinner; and +then had to put up the horse +in the corner of the room he +called the stable, and tie him +very tightly to a chair, for fear +he would run away. Then, before<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> +his mother noticed what he +was about, he slipped from his +seat, and carried his silver cup +of water to the pony, and held +it to his mouth to drink.</p> + +<p>"Pony hungry," he said, when +she called him back. "Pony +vely hungry indeed."</p> + +<p>When Willie and Margie came +from school, mamma watched her +boy, to see whether he would +be generous, and allow them to +share in his rides.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> + +<p>"O, my!" called out Willie, +"how pretty it is! Let me +get in."</p> + +<p>"Yet, you may," said Frankie, +stepping out of the carriage. +"Here, take Dinah too. Dinah +wants to wide."</p> + +<p>While Willie was whipping the +horse to make him go as fast as +he could, Frankie danced up and +down, every now and then calling +out, "Go long, pony, go long!"</p> + +<p>In the mean time, Margie stood<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> +awaiting her turn, hardly daring +to expect that Frankie would +give up his new plaything to +her. Mamma was looking on +too, and was very happy when +he said, "There, Willie, you must +get out now, cause Margie wants +to wide. Top a minute, Margie; +I'll fix the reins for you," he +cried; and he went to the pony's +head, and patted him, and said, +"Whoa, sir, whoa!" just like +any gentleman.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p> + +<p>The next day, when Eddie and +his mamma came, Frankie seemed +very happy to share his pleasure +with his little cousin. They rode +away together to visit other papas +and mammas, but always +came back at last to the stable +in the corner of the room.</p> + +<p>Can you tell what it was made +Mrs. Gray so happy, when she +looked at the pretty pony? It +was because her darling boy had +not been selfish with it, and tried<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> +to keep it all to himself, but had +liked to see others riding in it, +and enjoying it too. When little +boys or girls are generous +and kind, then look for smiles +and kisses from their mammas.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i093.png" width="300" height="260" alt="Frankie and the dog" title="" /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> + +<h2>CHAPTER VII.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE TRY COMPANY.</div> + + +<p>"<span class="smcap">O mamma!</span>" cried Willie, one +day, running home from school +in great haste, "the boys are +going to have a little company; +may I have a soldier cap and +belong to it?"</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray sat busily at work, +but she at once laid down her +sewing in her lap, and thought a +moment, and then she said, "I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> +want you to belong to my company, +my dear!"</p> + +<p>"What company, mamma? +Will they wear soldier caps, and +jackets with red all down here, +and stripes on their pantaloons?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, they will be all dressed +up with plumes and stars on +their shoulders. It will be called +the Try Company."</p> + +<p>"May I have a cap too?" +asked Frankie.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Yes, any little boy may join +who will agree to the rules."</p> + +<p>"Rules, mamma," said Willie, +"Do companies have rules?"</p> + +<p>"O, yes, my dear! Soldiers +always have to obey the captain; +and if an enemy comes, +to go and fight him."</p> + +<p>"Shall we fight, then?" asked +the boy in surprise.</p> + +<p>"There will be one kind of +fighting, my dear; but it will +not be fighting with swords.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +You may ask all the little boys, +who wish to form a company, +up here after school this evening, +and I will talk with them. Perhaps +they will like to join my +company."</p> + +<p>Willie laughed quite heartily. +"Yours, mamma! Shall you be +the captain?"</p> + +<p>"If they choose me I shall, +my dear."</p> + +<p>As soon as Willie had gone to +school, Mrs. Gray began to cut<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> +long strips of colored paper and +wind them into plumes. There +was a very long waving one of +yellow for the captain, and one +of blue for the lieutenant, and +twelve of pink for the soldiers. +She did not think there would +be more than fourteen at first. +Then she cut sheets of paper, +and taught Sally to form them +into caps; and after they were +done, she sewed the plumes on, +and laid them all out on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span> +table, which stood in the hall, so +as to attract the notice of the boys +when they came in from school.</p> + +<p>Next she sent Sally to the +attic for some strips of red and +blue cloth. Of the red she made +pretty stars to fasten on the +shoulders, while nurse cut long +smooth stripes to trim their +jackets and pantaloons.</p> + +<p>They had but just finished their +work when a shout from Willie +called mamma to the door, where<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> +she saw a company of boys +awaiting her orders.</p> + +<p>"Come in," she said, smiling +at their bright, expectant faces; +"come in, and we will form the +company."</p> + +<p>As they entered the hall they +stopped short at sight of the +beautifully plumed caps. "O +mamma!" was all that Willie +could say.</p> + +<p>She led them into the dining +hall, and then told them her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> +plan. "I want to form a company +of boys," she began. "It +will be called the 'Try Company,' +because every one belonging to +it must learn to try to do things +for himself. But first of all I +must tell you the rules. No +little boy can join my company +unless he will promise not to +use one naughty or vulgar word, +not to tell a lie, and not to be +unkind. If he has ever told lies, +he must try to do so no more.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> +Next he must try in his lessons. +Sometimes the words are very +long, and boys say, 'I can't learn +them;' but my company will +never say so.</p> + +<p>"My boys will say, 'I'll try.' +If the geography lesson is difficult, +and you can't readily find +the places on the maps, you will +think of your pretty plumes, and +say, 'I won't give up; I'll try +again.'</p> + +<p>"Then, when the sum is long,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +and it makes your head ache to +add up four and ten and two +and five, you won't mind that, +but keep on trying until you +succeed."</p> + +<p>"Mother wants to know if my +little brother can't join your +company," asked a dear boy +whose name was James; "but +he don't learn sums; he is too +small."</p> + +<p>"O, yes, indeed!" said mamma; +"Frankie has a cap like the rest,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> +and your brother shall have one +too, and a star on his shoulder."</p> + +<p>"May I carry my drum?" +eagerly asked Willie.</p> + +<p>"Certainly, my dear; but wait +a little. I have not told all the +rules yet. My company must +try, too, when they are at play. +If James throws a ball, and hits +John, he must <i>try</i> not to do so +again. And if John feels a little +angry, and thinks it very hard +for James to hurt him, he must<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> +<i>try</i> to put all these naughty +thoughts away, and call it an +accident, and say 'I don't believe +he meant to do it.' Then, if +James or Willie wants to be +captain, and the company choose +another, James or Willie must +<i>try</i> to be pleased and good humored +about it."</p> + +<p>"I thought you were to be +captain, mother," cried Willie.</p> + +<p>"I am afraid you would all +laugh," said mamma, "to see me<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> +marching round at the head of +such a troop of boys."</p> + +<p>"We would <i>try</i> not to," exclaimed +Willie, laughing.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray laughed too; and +then she said, "I want to see +whether you understand about +my rules; so I shall ask you a +few questions. I once saw a +boy sawing a stick of wood. It +was a very large stick, and the +saw went hard; the little fellow +sat down and looked at it. 'It's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span> +too large,' said he; 'I can't get +through it. I may as well give up +first as last.' But presently he +said, 'I'll try once more though;' +and he started up, and sawed +away, up and down, up and +down, until the stick fell in two. +Then the boy laughed and wiped +his forehead, which was quite +wet with perspiration, and said, +'There, I'm right glad I tried +again. I never should have done +it without trying.' Now tell me,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span> +could that little fellow be admitted +into the Try Company?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, ma'am, O, yes, ma'am!" +answered all the boys.</p> + +<p>"He ought to be the captain," +said one.</p> + +<p>Willie blushed, and held down +his head.</p> + +<p>"I knew another boy, who was +winding some silk for his mother," +said the lady. "He jerked +it so much that it snarled badly. +He pulled it, and twitched it,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> +and made it worse than ever; +and then he said; 'I can't do +any thing with it.' When his +mother came back for the silk, +there it was upon the chair, so +tangled up that she could not +use it."</p> + +<p>"He can't belong," called out +the boys.</p> + +<p>"I think you understand quite +enough to form the company," +said mamma. "Now I will put +the vote. Would you all like to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span> +form a Try Company? If you +would, you may hold up your +hands."</p> + +<p>Every small hand was quickly +raised.</p> + +<p>"And you promise to <i>try</i>, according +to the rules?" said the +lady.</p> + +<p>Each little hand was raised +again.</p> + +<p>"Who is the oldest boy?" she +asked.</p> + +<p>"Sammy Lanman, ma'am."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Then I advise you to let +Sammy be the captain the first +time, and then each of you take +turns, until it comes down to little +Frankie."</p> + +<p>"May I run home for my +brother?" asked James.</p> + +<p>The lady stopped a moment +to count the boys, and finding +there were only twelve with +Frankie, and that there would +be caps enough for all, she +said yes.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> + +<p>While he was gone, Willie +ran to his play room for his +drum, and Mrs. Gray dressed +the Try Company in their new +uniform, which did indeed look +very fine. Then James came +leading his little brother Walter; +and when they were all +dressed, their captain arranged +them in order, and they then +marched off down the yard, +into the road, looking as happy +as you please. Mamma<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span> +and nurse stood at the door +gazing after them, while Jane +and Margie stood in the walk, +shading their eyes and laughing +heartily.</p> + +<p>Poor Sammy, indeed, found +that the office of captain was a +most responsible one. His face +grew very red as he perceived +the younger members marching +out of line, and a sharp word of +rebuke rose to his lips, as little +Frankie laughed aloud in his glee.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> + +<p>But suddenly he remembered +that he had promised not to +speak unkindly, and his heart +beat fast as he said to himself, +"Any body will know such little +boys can't train very well the +first time. At any rate, I'll try +to keep my temper."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class='tnote'> +<p>Transcriber's Notes: </p> + +<p>Obvious punctuation errors repaired.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_83">Page 83</a>, "toming" changed to "coming" (Eddie was coming to)</p></div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie at His Plays, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS *** + +***** This file should be named 33521-h.htm or 33521-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/5/2/33521/ + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet +Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Frankie at His Plays + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 24, 2010 [EBook #33521] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet +Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + +MRS. LESLIE'S BOOKS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. + + * * * * * + +THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES. + + + + +BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED + +By A. R. BAKER, + +AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. + + * * * * * + +QUESTION BOOKS on the Topics of Christ's Sermon on the Mount. + + VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. VOL. II. FOR YOUTH. + VOL. III. FOR ADULTS. + LECTURES ON THESE TOPICS, _in press_. + + +MRS. LESLIE'S SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS. + + TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER. + SEQUEL TO "TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER." + PRAIRIE FLOWER. + THE BOUND BOY. + THE BOUND GIRL. + VIRGINIA. + THE TWO HOMES; OR, EARNING AND SPENDING. + THE ORGAN-GRINDER, _in press_. + + +QUESTION BOOKS. The Catechism tested by the Bible. + + VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. VOL. II. FOR ADULTS. + + +THE DERMOTT FAMILY; or, Stories Illustrating the Catechism. + + VOL. I. DOCTRINES RESPECTING GOD AND MANKIND. + " II. DOCTRINES OF GRACE. + " III. COMMANDMENTS OF THE FIRST TABLE. + " IV. COMMANDMENTS OF THE SECOND TABLE. + " V. CONDITIONS OF ETERNAL LIFE. + + +MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE. + + VOL. I. CORA AND THE DOCTOR. + " II. COURTESIES OF WEDDED LIFE. + " III. THE HOUSEHOLD ANGEL. + + +MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES. + + VOL. I. THE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN. + " II. PLAY AND STUDY. + " III. HOWARD AND HIS TEACHER. + " IV. TRYING TO BE USEFUL. + " V. JACK, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER. + " VI. THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER. + " VII. LITTLE AGNES. + + +THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES. + + THE ROBINS' NEST. + LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST. + LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY. + LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE. + LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS. + LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER. + + * * * * * + +THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES. + + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER. + LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS. + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN. + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER. + LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY. + LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL. + +[Illustration: TEACHING PONTO TO READ.] + + + + +LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS. + +BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE, + + AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S + JUVENILE SERIES," ETC. + + BOSTON: + CROSBY AND NICHOLS. + 117 WASHINGTON STREET. + + + + Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by + + A. R. BAKER, + + In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of + Massachusetts. + + ELECTROTYPED AT THE + BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. + + + + +LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +FRANKIE AND HIS WHEELBARROW. + +I HAVE already told you that Frankie lived in a pretty cottage, +separated from the road by a green lawn, which lay in front of it. On +the other side of the street, the land was much lower, a little shining +brook running through it, and sometimes, after a rain, there was quite +a pond of water. In winter this was a pleasant place for Willie to +skate. His mamma liked it, because she could watch him from the windows; +Willie liked it, because when his hands were cold he could run home to +warm himself; and Frankie liked it, because it made him laugh and clap +his hands to see his brother bow and turn this way and that, run a few +steps, and then make such pretty figures on the ice. He had no doubt at +all but Willie did all this just to amuse him. If you could have seen +him as he stood in his chair at the front window, how he jumped up and +down, and threw his head back, and then held it far forward on his +breast, laughing so merrily, bursting out afresh every time Willie made +a bow or stretched out his arms, you could not have helped laughing +yourself, out of sympathy. + +Sally seemed to enjoy it as much as he did. + +"I declare," she said one day, as her mistress entered the room and +found her sitting by the fire with her work, while Frankie stood at the +window, "I haven't laughed so much in a month. It does one's heart good +just to see how the little fellow enjoys his brother's sport." + +Back of the house where he lived there was a barn. His papa did not keep +a horse in it, but one day, after some months, a gentleman came to pass +a few days at the cottage, and his horse was put up in the barn. One +pleasant evening, when papa, and mamma, and their friends were walking +in the garden, the gentleman said he would lead his horse down to the +pond, and give him some water to drink, and he invited Willie to ride +upon the horse's back. Willie's papa helped him on, and he held fast by +the horse's mane. When he came back, Frankie wanted to ride too. Mamma +was afraid he would fall; but the gentleman said the horse was gentle, +and papa said he would hold him very tightly. + +So Frankie mounted the horse, and took his first lesson in riding. Papa +was going to walk about the grounds, but the little boy said, "Pony +want water gen, papa; pony must have more water." + +Frankie had never been to the pond before. First they had to cross the +road, then go through the rail fence into the field. The gentleman let +down two bars, and the horse carefully stepped over the other. Then papa +held his baby very tight, because they were going down a steep place +into the water. The gentleman thought pony would not drink again; but he +did, and Frankie leaned over, and saw him suck up great mouthfuls of +water. Then they turned back, and went out of the field, papa holding +the horse, while the gentleman put up the bars again. + +Mamma was very glad to get her boy safely home. She had been anxious all +the time, for fear he would fall and hurt himself, though papa laughed, +and told her there was no danger. She had kept Ponto near her, for fear +he would bark and frighten the strange horse. But the moment Frankie was +taken off, he flew up to him, and licked his face and hands, and tried +to spring on his neck, he was so glad to see him. + +I don't know what Frankie would have done without Ponto. Willie and +Margie were at school; and there were a great many hours when he would +have had to play alone. But Ponto was always ready for a frolic. He was +never tired or out of humor, though sometimes he was rather too rough; +and then he loved his young master so much, that he wanted to kiss him +oftener than Frankie liked. + +Early in the summer, papa had bought a wheelbarrow for his boy to roll +in the yard. It was painted red, and on the sides were pretty pictures +painted in gilt. It had long, smooth handles, and a large wheel, so that +it ran along the walks very nicely indeed. + +I wish you could have been there to see what pleasant plays Frankie had +with his dog and his wheelbarrow; but as you were not, I will try to +tell you about it. + +Mamma had made a pretty sun bonnet, with a deep frill to shade his +face, and as soon as the sun had dried up the dew, she tied it on his +head, and let him run all about the grounds with only Ponto to take care +of him. + +Ponto knew very well that the little fellow was left in his charge; and +when mamma said, "Ponto, look here, sir; take care of your little +master," he would hold up his head, and wag his tail, and bow, wow, +wow, as much as to say, "Yes, indeed, ma'am." + +Then Frankie would run along wheeling his barrow, and Ponto close beside +him, until they came to the woodpile. Here the little boy stopped, and +began to fill his barrow with sticks; and Ponto picked them up in his +teeth almost as fast as Frankie did with his hands. Sometimes he was +wild and full of fun, so that when Frankie wanted to take the stick +from his mouth and put it in the barrow, Ponto would spring up into the +air, and run away; but when he heard his master say, "Come here, sir," +he would be sober in a moment. O, Ponto was a very knowing dog indeed! + +When the barrow was full, Frankie rolled it to the back door, and put it +in a basket set there for him by Jane. When she saw him coming, she +called out through the window, "Sure and he's not a baby at all, but a +man entirely, to be bringing me all my wood. Sure and I'll make him a +nice cake for his supper." + +Then Frankie felt very large, and walked off with his head up and his +lips parted in a pleasant smile. + +By and by Frankie would be tired of wheeling wood; then he used to take +Jane's small kitchen shovel, and fill his barrow with sand; and what do +you think he did with it. I am sure you cannot guess. Why, he poured it +all over Ponto. The first time he did this, the dog did not like it at +all; but when he heard Frankie laughing so merrily, and saw how much he +was pleased, he felt, I suppose, willing to submit. So he lay down again +in the walk, and this time Frankie laughed so that he did not half fill +the barrow before he poured it over the dog again. + +Much as he tried to like it, I suppose Ponto was not very much pleased, +for he soon got up and shook himself thoroughly, and then barked a +little, as if to say, "No more, if you please." + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +FRANKIE AND HIS DOG. + + +A FEW days after Frankie's ride on horseback, he was out of doors +playing with Ponto, and he thought he would take a walk down to the +pond. Before this time, he had been a very good boy, and had never gone +through the gate into the road, though sometimes he would stand at the +fence, and look through to see people passing by. + +Mamma was busy in the parlor with company; and Sally was at work in the +back part of the house. + +When Ponto saw that his master was going into the street, he began to +bark furiously, for he knew this was not exactly right. Mrs. Gray heard +him, and ran to the window; but just at this moment Frankie was behind +a tree, and she did not see him; so she thought that the dog was barking +at something he saw in the road. + +For a minute Ponto was very much excited, and ran back toward the house, +but presently turned and followed Frankie to the water. + +The little boy did not seem at all afraid, but went right down the steep +path where he had rode on the horse. I suppose he thought the water +looked very pretty, for he walked right into it up to his waist. + +A few minutes after Frankie went away from the back door, Sally went out +to shake the hearth rug. As she did not see him any where about, she +called, "Frankie, Frankie! Ponto, Ponto!" She ran around to the front of +the house, still calling, "Frankie, Frankie!" and "Ponto, Ponto!" + +Mamma heard her, and ran to the door. + +"Have you seen Frankie, ma'am?" asked Sally, pale with fright. + +"Where's Ponto?" cried the lady, without stopping to answer. + +"There he is," screamed nurse, running as fast as she could toward the +water. + +Mamma ran too, and the ladies who were in the parlor; but mamma was so +frightened that her head swam round and round, and she could hardly +stand. + +When Ponto heard them coming, he barked louder than ever, but he did not +run toward them; and Sally sprang over the fence without waiting to let +the bars down, and in one moment more caught the poor frightened Frankie +in her arms. Ponto had taken the little fellow in his teeth, and put him +on the bank. + +He lay quite still, as if he were very tired, only when Sally placed +him in his mamma's arms, he put up his little wet hand, and tried to +stroke her cheek. His eyes were very red, as if he had been crying, and +his clothes all dripping with water and stained with mud. Sally ran +forward to get the bath tub filled with warm water, while mamma carried +him gently toward the house. + +No one seemed to be in such good spirits as Ponto. He danced and +jumped, trying to catch Frankie's foot, and whisked his tail up and +down, and did every thing he could to express his joy at having his +little friend safe again. + +How and when the ladies went away mamma did not know. She carried her +dear boy up into the nursery, and then sank down, and began to cry. When +Sally saw her, she cried too; and Jane, who, was pulling off Frankie's +stockings, wiped her eyes with her apron. They were all crying for joy +that dear, darling little Frankie had not been drowned. And mamma +whispered a few words as she bent over her boy. She knew that God could +hear, and so she said, "O my heavenly Father, I do thank thee for +restoring my precious child to my arms. Once more I give him to thee." + +While she was washing him, she told Sally that she had heard Ponto bark +some time before, but could not see that Frankie was with him. "I shall +always love Ponto," she said, "for he saved my boy." + +Ponto was lying on the hearth rug, resting himself. He had had a great +deal to do that morning, and he had done it well. Now, when he heard +mamma repeat his name, he rapped with his tail on the floor. + +"Good fellow!" said mamma; "good Ponto!" + +He rapped again, louder than before. This was the way he meant to say, +"I am as glad as you are, that dear Frankie is safe." + +When the little fellow had been dressed in his clean clothes, Sally said +she would run down to the water and bring up his wheelbarrow, which she +saw there. Jane went with her, and they found where he went in, for his +tiny shoe was sticking fast in the mud. Then they went round to the +other side, where Ponto had carried him, and found it was very deep +water, so that if the noble dog had not taken him out, he must have been +drowned. + +When Willie came home from school, and heard what a trusty friend Ponto +had been, he put his arms round the dog's neck and kissed him. Frankie +had kissed him very often, but Willie had never done so before. But +Ponto seemed to understand it very well; and when papa came in, all the +while mamma was telling him about poor Frankie's accident, he stood +gazing into her face. + +For a few moments papa could not speak; his heart was too full. He +walked away to the window and wiped his eyes; but presently he came +back, and patted Ponto on the head, and said, "Noble Ponto! good +fellow!" + +Then Ponto knew that he was glad too; and he went to the bed where +Frankie was lying, and putting up his fore paws, began to lick the +little fellow's hand. + +When Sally took up the wet clothes to carry them to the wash, there were +the marks of Ponto's teeth, where he had fastened them firmly through +the dress, cambric and flannel skirts. + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +FRANKIE IN TRIAL. + + +I HAVE told you so much about Frankie, I suppose you will want to know +whether he was always a good boy. Did he never show a naughty temper? +Was he never unkind to his brother Willie? or to his little nurse +Margie? Did he never tell a lie? never take what was not his own? I am +sorry to say that he did some of these things, and no doubt would have +done a great many more, but that he had a kind mamma and papa to teach +him. + +One of the greatest blessings which God can give a little boy or a +little girl, is a good Christian mother. I hope, my dear young friend, +if God has been so kind as to give you such a mother, that you will +thank him every day of your life. + +When you wake up in the morning and repeat your little hymn, thanking +God for letting you see another day, with the pleasant sun and +sweet-smelling flowers, don't forget to thank him, too, for giving you a +dear mamma to love you and watch over you. + +And then, when you are tired with play, and lie down at night to rest +your head upon the soft pillow, don't go to sleep without thanking him +for preserving her who has prepared you nice food, made you warm +clothes, and tried to lead your little feet in the path of right. + +I think whatever faults little Frankie had, he dearly loved his mother. +Ever so many times in a day he would run to her side, sometimes right in +the midst of his play, and say, "I want to kiss oo. I love oo." + +When he meddled with her work-basket, or did other troublesome things, +and she spoke sharply, "Frankie, don't do so," he would turn in a moment +and ask, with a quivering lip, "Am I your darling now, mamma?" + +Once in a while Frankie would get up in the morning, and instead of the +bright smile he generally wore, his face looked cross. Nurse used to say +he got out of bed the wrong way. When this was the case, nothing seemed +to go right with him. At breakfast he pushed away his plate, and would +not let Margie fasten on his bib, and seemed very unhappy. This was not +because he was sick, but because he was out of humor, and needed to be +brought right again. + +His mamma was very much troubled about it, and she said to herself, "If +I do not correct my little son, he will grow more unhappy, and his +temper will become so sullen that no one will love him; and what is +worst of all, God will not love him." She went away alone into her +chamber, and knelt down by her bed, and asked God to direct her what to +do in order to make Frankie a good boy. + +I suppose God did put some good thoughts into her mind, for the next +day, when the little boy was naughty again, she arose at once, and led +him away to her chamber, and talked with him a long time. And then they +knelt down together, and she held his little hands while she asked God +to take away his wicked heart, and give him a good one, that would be +full of pleasant, happy thoughts, and of love to the dear Saviour and to +every body. + +Perhaps you would like to know one thing she told him. It was this. She +said, "My dear Frankie, when you look so cross, and speak unkindly to +Willie, and do not wish to obey me, do you know who is close by you, +whispering in your ear?" + +"No, mamma," said Frankie; "I didn't see any body." + +"It is the wicked Satan," said mamma. "He likes to see you naughty, and +so he puts unkind thoughts into your heart. He would like to have you +naughty all the time, because then he knows you could not be happy. He +don't like good children, and he can't bear to stay where they are; so +he has to run off by himself when you are obedient, and kind, and happy. +Shall I tell you what I think he was whispering in your ear this +morning?" + +"Yes, mamma." + +"Well, when you rubbed out Willie's figures, after he asked you not to +do so, I think he said, 'I wouldn't mind my brother; I'd do it just to +vex him.' Then, when I forbade you to touch it again, he whispered, 'Get +away, mamma; I don't love you this morning.'" + +Frankie hung down his head, and looked very sober. He did not like to +think he had been pleasing Satan, but still he was troubled, for he did +not know exactly what to do. In a minute he said, "I will try to be good +Frankie, mamma." + +"That is right, my darling. If you try to be good, and when you hear +Satan tempting you to do such wicked things, tell him at once to go +away, then the good Spirit will come and help you to be kind, and to do +every thing that is right. If you had not been listening to Satan this +morning, you could have heard him, though he talks very softly indeed." + +"What did he say, mamma?" asked Frankie. + +"I suppose he was saying, 'Willie is a very kind brother, and loves you +dearly. I wouldn't trouble him, my dear;' and then when I spoke, perhaps +he said, 'Your mother knows what is right, little boy. She does it for +your good, for she wants you to be happy.'" + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +FRANKIE'S BLOCK HOUSE. + + +A FEW days after mamma talked with Frankie, he was building a high house +on the floor with his blocks, when Sally passed along and hit them, and +over they went. The little boy looked very angry. "You naughty girl," he +said. + +Mamma laid down her work, and gazed at him, and her eyes looked very +sorry. As soon as Sally went out of the room, she said, "What is Satan +whispering to you now, my dear?" + +Frankie started up and looked behind him: "I don't see him any where," +he said. + +"But didn't you hear his voice?" asked mamma. + +"Yes, I did: he said, 'Throw a block at nurse; she is so naughty to +knock your house over.'" + +"Shall I blow Satan away?" said mamma. + +"Yes, please." + +She blew very hard; then opened the door, and blew again, as if she +meant to send him off. "Now he's gone, I think," she said, looking in +Frankie's bright face. + +"The next time he comes I'll whip him, mamma," cried the little fellow, +standing very straight, "'cause he tells me naughty things." + +In a few minutes Sally came in again, and glanced at the little boy to +see whether he felt happier than he did before. + +Frankie looked at her, too, and his mamma thought he seemed sorry that +he had called her naughty. She called him to her, and whispered, "Is any +body speaking to you now, my darling?" + +"Yes, mamma. It says, 'Tell Sally you're sorry.'" + +"Are you going to mind the good Spirit?" + +"Yes, mamma. I'm sorry, nurse, I called you naughty." + +Nurse looked very much pleased. "I am sorry myself, dear," she said, +"that my dress hit your blocks; and, if mamma is willing, I'll build you +a high house." + +"Yes, indeed," said mamma. + +So Sally sat down on the carpet, and Frankie passed her the blocks; and +she built a meeting house, with a high steeple. Mamma thought it was +splendid, and the little boy danced about, and put his arms round +Sally's neck, and kissed her ever so many times. "I'm so happy, mamma," +he said, when she had gone. + +"Children are always happy, my dear," she said, "when they have tried to +be good." + +"Satan can't stay here now; can he, mamma?" + +"No, he has gone to trouble some other little boy with naughty +thoughts." + +The next morning, Frankie had forgotten all about this; and when papa +said he must not have so much sugar on his cakes, his lips began to +pout, and they were all afraid he was going to be very naughty. + +Mamma leaned over her plate, and said, softly, "Is Satan here again?" + +"Yes, mamma," said Frankie; "may I whip him out?" + +She nodded yes; and he then jumped down from the table, and began to +blow with all his might. Then he caught up a newspaper, and whisked it +all about, saying, "Go long, old feller; go long out of this house." + +"Whew! whew!" said papa; "what is all this?" + +Mamma smiled, as if she understood it well; and presently the little +fellow climbed up in his chair, looking very bright and happy, but quite +out of breath with his exercise. + +"Satan's gone, papa," he said. "Now I'm your dear little Frankie." + +"Yes, indeed, you are," said his father, laughing heartily. "I am glad +we have found a way to get rid of Satan so easily." + +"What does it mean?" asked Willie. + +"I will tell you presently, my dear," said papa. + +When they had done breakfast, Mr. Gray opened the Bible for prayers, and +taking Frankie on his knee, and calling Willie to stand by his side, he +said, "In God's book, he tells us that Satan is our great enemy, who is +trying to make us do wrong. He is called a roaring lion, who goeth about +seeking whom he may devour. This means that he loves to destroy our +happiness, and to see people miserable; and he knows if we are naughty, +we shall suffer. He goes about whispering in the ears of little boys and +girls, prompting them to mischief, persuading them to tell lies, to be +disobedient and unkind. If children listen to his voice, they soon +become like him; but if they say, 'Get thee behind me, Satan,' or drive +him away, as Frankie did, the Holy Spirit will come and put good +thoughts into their minds, and teach them, as the Bible says, what they +ought to say and what they ought to do." + +Papa then knelt down, and holding Frankie's little hand, prayed that he +might always listen to the voice of the good Spirit, and be led by it to +do all that is right. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +FRANKIE AND THE SUGAR. + + +ONE morning Mrs. Gray was finishing a piece of work which she wished to +send away, when Frankie ran in from the dining hall, and asked, "Mamma, +may I have some chucher?" He meant sugar, but he could not speak the +word plainly. + +"Where is the sugar that you want, my dear?" asked mamma. + +"On the table," said Frankie. "Nurse is washing the dishes." + +"Look in my face, darling," said mamma, "Did you take any sugar without +my leave?" + +Frankie looked up with his clear, truthful eyes, and said, "No, mamma, I +didn't take any." + +"Then go and get two large lumps, and bring them to me." + +The little boy ran off, saying, "I will, mamma; I will get some." + +Presently he returned with them; and she said, "Now, my dear, you shall +have these, because you didn't take any without asking leave." + +A few months before this time, Willie one day found Frankie in the store +closet dipping up sugar with his hand from the barrel, and crowding it +into his mouth. His whole face was covered with sugar, when Willie +lifted him down from the chair, and led him to his mother. + +When mamma had washed his hands and face, she took him in her lap, and +told him it was very naughty to take mother's sugar without her +permission. When he wanted sugar, or candy, or figs, he must always ask +for them. Since that time she had not known him to touch any thing until +he had first asked leave. Once she had left a paper of cough candy in +her drawer for several days, and she knew he often went to this drawer +on errands for her. She was coughing severely one afternoon, and said, +"I really wish I had some candy." + +"I will get you some," he said. "I saw some in the drawer;" and away he +ran for it. + +Mamma was so much pleased that he had not taken any, that she gave him a +small paper of sugar plums. The cough candy was not good for him. + +Ever since Frankie could remember, his mamma had told him the pretty +stories in the Bible. The account of Adam and Eve in the garden; the sad +death of good Abel, and the punishment of wicked Cain; the ark, and the +dreadful flood; the stories of Joseph and his brethren, of Samuel and of +Ruth, were as familiar to him as the names of the family circle. Indeed, +the little boy seemed to connect the events of the Bible with every +thing he saw. + +One day a gentleman gave him a short cane. He had often seen Frankie +play horse with his father's cane, and he thought it would please the +child to have one of his own. + +Frankie was very much delighted, and ran around the garden with it for +several hours, Ponto following close at his heels, quite delighted with +the new sport. At last he came in, and, sitting down by his mamma, +began to play with the string she had tied around the head of the cane. +Then he looked very thoughtful for a minute, when he said, "I don't like +that cane any more." + +"Why don't you like it?" she asked, in surprise. + +"Because it killed good Abel, you know." + +"O, no," said mamma, with a laugh. "That Cain was a man, and not a +stick." + +The little fellow was once playing out near the barn, when he fell and +cut his finger against a piece of glass. It bled very freely, so that +mamma could not bind it up. She told Sally to bring a bowl of water, and +held his poor finger in it. The water was soon red with the blood; and +Frankie cried louder than ever. All at once he stopped, and said, +"Mamma, it seems like the Red Sea. How could the Israelites get through +so much blood?" + +"That was not red with blood, my dear," said mamma. "It was only the +name of the sea. There are the Red Sea, and the Black Sea, and the White +Sea." + +Frankie was very fond of cake, and would have liked to make his whole +supper of it. But mamma knew it would make him sick. Sometimes, when he +was in the kitchen, Jane gave him a piece; and one day his mother was +very much pleased when he came running to her with a rich cake in his +hand, fresh from the oven. "May I eat it, mamma?" he asked. "I didn't +taste it without your leave." + +Mamma broke off a small piece, and gave it to him, and then took him in +her lap, and repeated a pretty little hymn she had learned when she was +a child. I think you will like to hear it too. + + "Mamma, do hear Eliza cry; + She wants a piece of cake I know; + She will not stir to school without; + Do give her some, and let her go." + + "O, no, my dear; that will not do; + She has behaved extremely ill; + She pouts instead of minding me, + And tries to gain her stubborn will. + + "This morning, when she had her milk, + She gave her spoon a sudden twirl, + And tipped it over on the floor; + O, she's a naughty, wicked girl! + + "And now, forsooth, she cries for cake; + But that I surely shall refuse; + For children never should object + To eating what their parents choose. + + "The pretty little girl who came + To sell the strawberries here to-day, + Would have been very glad to eat + What my Eliza threw away;-- + + "Because her parents are so poor + That they have neither milk nor meat; + But gruel and some Indian cake + Are all the children have to eat. + + "They have four little girls and boys; + Mary's the oldest of the whole, + And hard enough she has to work, + To help her ma--poor little soul! + + "As soon as strawberries are ripe, + She picks all day, and will not stop + To play or eat a single one, + Till she has filled her basket up. + + "Then down she comes and sells them all, + And lays the money up at home, + To buy her stockings and her shoes, + To wear when freezing winter's come. + + "For then she has to trudge away, + And gather wood through piles of snow, + To keep the little children warm, + When bites the frost, and cold winds blow. + + "And then, when she comes home at night, + Hungry and tired, with cold benumbed, + How she would jump to find a bowl + Of bread and milk all nicely crumbed! + + "But she, dear child, has no such thing; + Of gruel and the Indian cake, + Whether she chooses it or not, + Poor Mary must her supper make. + + "Eliza, dear, will you behave + So ill again, another day? + Be cross and pert, and cry for cake, + And fling your breakfast all away?" + + "Ah, never, never, dear mamma! + I'm sorry that I gave you pain; + Forgive me, and I never will + Be such a naughty girl again." + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +FRANKIE'S ROCKING HORSE. + + +WHEN Frankie was between three and four years old, there were a good +many words he could not pronounce distinctly. He could not say kitchen, +but called it chichen; and he called sugar chucher. He could not say +sing, but said ting. His papa was afraid he never would be able to +pronounce them; and he took a great deal of pains to have him try to +say them over and over again. He used to take Frankie on his knee, and +make him sound s-s-, and then say s-sing. But Frankie always said +s-ting. + +One day his mamma was passing through the back hall, and she saw her +little boy kneeling in a chair by the table where Jane was making bread. +He was talking very earnestly, and she stopped a moment to hear what he +was saying. + +He was giving Jane a lesson. "Now say knife," he began. So Jane said +"knife." + +"No, that not wight; you must say s- knife." + +Jane laughed: "knife is right," she said. + +"No, no!" he repeated; "papa say s- knife; so you must say it wight." + +He thought it was as well to put s- on any other word as on sing. + +He was very fond of playing school, and was quite happy when Willie and +Margie would be his scholars. Dinah was always set up in her chair too, +and another dolly whose name was Lily Gray. Frankie would set them all +before him, and then ask, "Margie, who first man?" + +"Adam." + +"Now, you good girl, you may go wight to your seat. Willie, who first +boy?" + +"Cain." + +"Yes, that's wight; now you be vely till, cause I shall peach." Then he +would stand in his chair and preach very loud, spreading his arms, and +always closing with a long amen. + +Once, when he was kneeling with his father, he thought the prayer rather +long, and putting up his face, he whispered, "Say amen, papa;--can't +you say amen?" + +Frankie was very happy one day when his mamma told him that his aunt and +cousin were coming to make them a visit. He packed all his playthings in +a trunk, to have them ready for the little baby, and then went round the +house telling every body that Eddie was coming to see him. + +The day before they were expected, a beautiful present came for Frankie +from Mr. Wallace, the same kind gentleman who had given him the silver +cup. + +Can you guess what it was? It was not a cup and ball, nor a top, nor an +iron hoop, but a rocking horse with a carriage fastened to it large +enough for him to get in it. Then there was a place for the whip, and +two pairs of reins for him to drive with. + +At first, Frankie stood looking at it, his eyes growing larger and +larger, until papa asked, "Well, Frankie, how do you like your new +horse?" + +"Is it for me, papa, for mine own telf?" exclaimed the little boy, +clapping his hands and dancing up and down. "O, I'm to glad!" Then +raising his eyes, he said, soberly, "Tank you, Dod. Tank you vely much +indeed." + +His mamma had taught him that all our blessings come from God; and the +dear boy wished to thank him for this new favor. + +I can hardly tell you how much pleased he was with his present. He could +scarcely stop riding to eat his dinner; and then had to put up the horse +in the corner of the room he called the stable, and tie him very tightly +to a chair, for fear he would run away. Then, before his mother noticed +what he was about, he slipped from his seat, and carried his silver cup +of water to the pony, and held it to his mouth to drink. + +"Pony hungry," he said, when she called him back. "Pony vely hungry +indeed." + +When Willie and Margie came from school, mamma watched her boy, to see +whether he would be generous, and allow them to share in his rides. + +"O, my!" called out Willie, "how pretty it is! Let me get in." + +"Yet, you may," said Frankie, stepping out of the carriage. "Here, take +Dinah too. Dinah wants to wide." + +While Willie was whipping the horse to make him go as fast as he could, +Frankie danced up and down, every now and then calling out, "Go long, +pony, go long!" + +In the mean time, Margie stood awaiting her turn, hardly daring to +expect that Frankie would give up his new plaything to her. Mamma was +looking on too, and was very happy when he said, "There, Willie, you +must get out now, cause Margie wants to wide. Top a minute, Margie; I'll +fix the reins for you," he cried; and he went to the pony's head, and +patted him, and said, "Whoa, sir, whoa!" just like any gentleman. + +The next day, when Eddie and his mamma came, Frankie seemed very happy +to share his pleasure with his little cousin. They rode away together to +visit other papas and mammas, but always came back at last to the stable +in the corner of the room. + +Can you tell what it was made Mrs. Gray so happy, when she looked at the +pretty pony? It was because her darling boy had not been selfish with +it, and tried to keep it all to himself, but had liked to see others +riding in it, and enjoying it too. When little boys or girls are +generous and kind, then look for smiles and kisses from their mammas. + +[Illustration] + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +THE TRY COMPANY. + + +"O MAMMA!" cried Willie, one day, running home from school in great +haste, "the boys are going to have a little company; may I have a +soldier cap and belong to it?" + +Mrs. Gray sat busily at work, but she at once laid down her sewing in +her lap, and thought a moment, and then she said, "I want you to belong +to my company, my dear!" + +"What company, mamma? Will they wear soldier caps, and jackets with red +all down here, and stripes on their pantaloons?" + +"Yes, they will be all dressed up with plumes and stars on their +shoulders. It will be called the Try Company." + +"May I have a cap too?" asked Frankie. + +"Yes, any little boy may join who will agree to the rules." + +"Rules, mamma," said Willie, "Do companies have rules?" + +"O, yes, my dear! Soldiers always have to obey the captain; and if an +enemy comes, to go and fight him." + +"Shall we fight, then?" asked the boy in surprise. + +"There will be one kind of fighting, my dear; but it will not be +fighting with swords. You may ask all the little boys, who wish to form +a company, up here after school this evening, and I will talk with them. +Perhaps they will like to join my company." + +Willie laughed quite heartily. "Yours, mamma! Shall you be the captain?" + +"If they choose me I shall, my dear." + +As soon as Willie had gone to school, Mrs. Gray began to cut long +strips of colored paper and wind them into plumes. There was a very long +waving one of yellow for the captain, and one of blue for the +lieutenant, and twelve of pink for the soldiers. She did not think there +would be more than fourteen at first. Then she cut sheets of paper, and +taught Sally to form them into caps; and after they were done, she sewed +the plumes on, and laid them all out on the table, which stood in the +hall, so as to attract the notice of the boys when they came in from +school. + +Next she sent Sally to the attic for some strips of red and blue cloth. +Of the red she made pretty stars to fasten on the shoulders, while nurse +cut long smooth stripes to trim their jackets and pantaloons. + +They had but just finished their work when a shout from Willie called +mamma to the door, where she saw a company of boys awaiting her orders. + +"Come in," she said, smiling at their bright, expectant faces; "come in, +and we will form the company." + +As they entered the hall they stopped short at sight of the beautifully +plumed caps. "O mamma!" was all that Willie could say. + +She led them into the dining hall, and then told them her plan. "I want +to form a company of boys," she began. "It will be called the 'Try +Company,' because every one belonging to it must learn to try to do +things for himself. But first of all I must tell you the rules. No +little boy can join my company unless he will promise not to use one +naughty or vulgar word, not to tell a lie, and not to be unkind. If he +has ever told lies, he must try to do so no more. Next he must try in +his lessons. Sometimes the words are very long, and boys say, 'I can't +learn them;' but my company will never say so. + +"My boys will say, 'I'll try.' If the geography lesson is difficult, and +you can't readily find the places on the maps, you will think of your +pretty plumes, and say, 'I won't give up; I'll try again.' + +"Then, when the sum is long, and it makes your head ache to add up four +and ten and two and five, you won't mind that, but keep on trying until +you succeed." + +"Mother wants to know if my little brother can't join your company," +asked a dear boy whose name was James; "but he don't learn sums; he is +too small." + +"O, yes, indeed!" said mamma; "Frankie has a cap like the rest, and +your brother shall have one too, and a star on his shoulder." + +"May I carry my drum?" eagerly asked Willie. + +"Certainly, my dear; but wait a little. I have not told all the rules +yet. My company must try, too, when they are at play. If James throws a +ball, and hits John, he must _try_ not to do so again. And if John feels +a little angry, and thinks it very hard for James to hurt him, he must +_try_ to put all these naughty thoughts away, and call it an accident, +and say 'I don't believe he meant to do it.' Then, if James or Willie +wants to be captain, and the company choose another, James or Willie +must _try_ to be pleased and good humored about it." + +"I thought you were to be captain, mother," cried Willie. + +"I am afraid you would all laugh," said mamma, "to see me marching +round at the head of such a troop of boys." + +"We would _try_ not to," exclaimed Willie, laughing. + +Mrs. Gray laughed too; and then she said, "I want to see whether you +understand about my rules; so I shall ask you a few questions. I once +saw a boy sawing a stick of wood. It was a very large stick, and the saw +went hard; the little fellow sat down and looked at it. 'It's too +large,' said he; 'I can't get through it. I may as well give up first as +last.' But presently he said, 'I'll try once more though;' and he +started up, and sawed away, up and down, up and down, until the stick +fell in two. Then the boy laughed and wiped his forehead, which was +quite wet with perspiration, and said, 'There, I'm right glad I tried +again. I never should have done it without trying.' Now tell me, could +that little fellow be admitted into the Try Company?" + +"Yes, ma'am, O, yes, ma'am!" answered all the boys. + +"He ought to be the captain," said one. + +Willie blushed, and held down his head. + +"I knew another boy, who was winding some silk for his mother," said the +lady. "He jerked it so much that it snarled badly. He pulled it, and +twitched it, and made it worse than ever; and then he said; 'I can't do +any thing with it.' When his mother came back for the silk, there it was +upon the chair, so tangled up that she could not use it." + +"He can't belong," called out the boys. + +"I think you understand quite enough to form the company," said mamma. +"Now I will put the vote. Would you all like to form a Try Company? If +you would, you may hold up your hands." + +Every small hand was quickly raised. + +"And you promise to _try_, according to the rules?" said the lady. + +Each little hand was raised again. + +"Who is the oldest boy?" she asked. + +"Sammy Lanman, ma'am." + +"Then I advise you to let Sammy be the captain the first time, and then +each of you take turns, until it comes down to little Frankie." + +"May I run home for my brother?" asked James. + +The lady stopped a moment to count the boys, and finding there were only +twelve with Frankie, and that there would be caps enough for all, she +said yes. + +While he was gone, Willie ran to his play room for his drum, and Mrs. +Gray dressed the Try Company in their new uniform, which did indeed look +very fine. Then James came leading his little brother Walter; and when +they were all dressed, their captain arranged them in order, and they +then marched off down the yard, into the road, looking as happy as you +please. Mamma and nurse stood at the door gazing after them, while Jane +and Margie stood in the walk, shading their eyes and laughing heartily. + +Poor Sammy, indeed, found that the office of captain was a most +responsible one. His face grew very red as he perceived the younger +members marching out of line, and a sharp word of rebuke rose to his +lips, as little Frankie laughed aloud in his glee. + +But suddenly he remembered that he had promised not to speak unkindly, +and his heart beat fast as he said to himself, "Any body will know such +little boys can't train very well the first time. 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