Little Grandmother

about her own little hear

ading trough, with both arms in dough as far as the elbows. In the farthes

Chase has got a calico g

both hands, putting it on a cabbage-leaf, and patting it into shape like a large ball of

stand all alone, mother

" said Moses. "

laimed little Solly. "Georg

id Patty; "now, mamma, why

ding with the rolling-pin, "and papa's got a hatchet; but we

!" said Moses, tickling l

as Linda," said Patty, rais

o open the door of the brick oven. The oven had been heated long ago, and Dorcas had taken out the coals. It was just the time to put

ie-crust; but not a word had she to sa

lean the mortar nicely, a

a's father had a gold watch with a chain to it, and Linda's big brother drove two horses, and looked very fine, not at all like George and Silas. Pat

trying to mothers, "I have to eat bread and milk and bean p

listen to idle complaints. Solomon, put down tha

y, "why can't I have th

e state in which God has placed her," said

g a tear into the cinnamon; "I live in the Distric

alf pas

't afford

from the

y. Up she sprang, and put on her cape-bonnet to star

ut, "you have a happier home than poor Linda Chase. Don't cry f

me than poor

her meant; but when she got to school there was

e and stay all night with m

over night; but the child pleaded so hard that she gave her consent, only P

ndow very grandly dressed. She kissed Patty, without once looking at Patty'

" said she, "for Linda has no little s

co gown which cost "four and sixpence" a yard, and almost

ase was so very polite and stiff, and Fred always talked to her as if she w

lady's fingers, and at the pictures on the walls, and wondered why it wasn't a happy home, and what made Mrs. Chase's eyes so red. Then all

. If she really had a strong preference for crying into a bottle, why didn't her rich husband buy her a bottle, a glass one, b

had such pretty furniture, Mrs. Chase kissed them go

k so?" said Patty; "has

ittle Linda; "but she says s

Patty, thoughtfully. "I

great noise. It was a sound of scuffling, and something being dragged up stairs. She saw the glimmer o

hispered Patty.

ith the sheet, and whisp

Freddy'

ed Patty; "hear h

very sick," r

, and saying dreadful words, such as Patty had never heard b

e is sick?" sai

hought

nine of them, and it took two, besides the dog Towler, to get them to pasture. She told her moth

es Fred Chase have such sick tu

; "that fellow keeps a bottl

at once that perhaps that was the reason Mrs. Chase didn't have a b

"if it was his mamma's bottle;" so

sant at Linda's house, even if she doe

ite stand al

again, my daughter, for

s mother 'feels bad round her heart,'

makes Mrs. Chas

on't ever cry to have th

's right!-Now, darling, run an