. Little helpers . mother, draw-ing a chair to the bedside and sitting down. Begin at thebeginning, and tell me. Wny> you know all that happened, mammy, repliedJohnny. « But Ill go over it, if you like. First, I had some good fun with Tiny, becauseshe played fort so nicely, andthen you made us laugh withthe doughnut woman and gin-gerbread man, and then Kittycame with those beautifulapples, and then I beat herthe very first game of checkerswe played — and I dont see why in thund— I mean why Ididnt beat her any more, for we played six games after that,and she beat me every single one. And the
. Little helpers . mother, draw-ing a chair to the bedside and sitting down. Begin at thebeginning, and tell me. Wny> you know all that happened, mammy, repliedJohnny. « But Ill go over it, if you like. First, I had some good fun with Tiny, becauseshe played fort so nicely, andthen you made us laugh withthe doughnut woman and gin-gerbread man, and then Kittycame with those beautifulapples, and then I beat herthe very first game of checkerswe played — and I dont see why in thund— I mean why Ididnt beat her any more, for we played six games after that,and she beat me every single one. And then Tiny made uslaugh telling about the doll-party, and then papa kept Kitty totea, and gave us those jolly papers, and if that isnt a prettygood day, I should like to know what is !: But you didnt begin at the beginning, said his mother. Now I am going to suppose. Suppose, when you found youcould not go out this morning, you had kept on looking out ofthe window and watching the boys until your vexation and dis-. LITTLE HELPERS. 59 appointment had made you cry, I am very certain that wouldhave set you to coughing, and then your body would have feltworse, as well as your mind. Suppose that, instead of offeringto play with Tiny, and doing it heartily, you had been cross andsulky, and hurt her feelings, and had spent the morning bemoan-ing your hard fate, and thinking how ill-used you were; youwould have been in such a bad way by dinner-time that mydoughnut woman and gingerbread man would scarcely havemade you smile, and by the time Kitty came, the sight of yourface would have been enough to make her turn round and gohome again. Fretting and fuming all the afternoon would haveleft you too tired of yourself and everything else to care forTinys account of the party and papas papers. In short, every-thing would have looked to you the ugly color of your own darkthoughts. Then its just like checkers ! exclaimed Johnny, sitting upin bed ; if you get the first move, and make that all
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