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+Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie at His Plays, by Madeline Leslie
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+Title: Little Frankie at His Plays
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+Author: Madeline Leslie
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+Release Date: August 24, 2010 [EBook #33521]
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+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. At any rate, I'll try
+to keep my temper."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Page 83, "toming" changed to "coming" (Eddie was coming to)
+
+
+
+
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