Show TAKING cabic OF till yes i is a bother I 1 dont mind taking caro 0 agnes one bit borshc runs is real good natured lint nora can t walk 3 01 and I 1 have to airy her everywhere and she cries alio whole ami lie crossar I 1 am the more she erica I 1 know im cross but I 1 dont mean to 10 SO well last saturday jones ghandi promised me ten cents if I 1 picked cherries enough to till two laih for liidi anil sam said lie would help me to do it sam is my brother iio often help nn we did not want lo 10 take nora with ui so wo out of the back door me and sam ami aggie hut nora saw us going and be c cry and said 1 must take anro of her aci abo she was going to town so I 1 lugged nori across alc tlc street aggie carried alic pails and sam went on ahead ond fun of me for being so slow M how hot and dusty it sam was real goud when we pot to alit held anil went up alic tree quick a a alish and picked lots of diema i aggie wl god too and me ever so much but nora was as naughty as be fretted and cried and swallowed a cherry stone and nearly choked to death ind then she the that was all billed alic cherries rolled all over and I 1 was to angry I 1 just slapped her I 1 did oh dear I 1 am so when I 1 about it I 1 slapped our poor dear precious lit alo babiy thil I 1 to be so good to the minute I 1 did it 1 waso ashamed and ran ut by myself and bean to cry I 1 was so sorry and bome fome aary too clial I 1 cried and I 1 cried till I 1 fell n the first tiling I 1 knew a great drop of rain fell on my bosc abid me up it was pouring and thundering and and the wind was blowing anil there was an alfid storm I 1 ann homo and never thought of baby till I 1 saw aggie in the hall you get home I 1 cried mu said aggie and fcc nii fixed oni cherries nil nice whore s ora I 1 cried dunno alic answered shaking alic pails heres sam des de s lie gone to jimmy jones grandfathers garret to phy I 1 threw oil my hat it was a new one ibid ran back to lie field for I 1 thought poor little nori was all aloni out there in alie il rained so hard it seemed as it my be wet right through my skin I 1 thought I 1 could biear ora crying but alio was not there I 1 looked under the blackberry bushes anil lien and I 1 called at the top of my coite but answered was a big black cow in the pasture and I 1 thought perhaps lie might have cairn her oh do cruver cv ent little girls or suppose an cigle had blown away with lier aliu way an baglo new away with a baby in a story I 1 read once I 1 w s awfully frightened I 1 thought nora was dead and I 1 had killed her what would mamma say I 1 waa most crazy theia it hashed across me hat sam might h ivo taken her willi him ho never doc docs s take alic children anywhere but I 1 thought he might have this once so I 1 rushed over to johes and up to their garret without sit hout slopping for permission alic garret was empty As I 1 ran by alio stable T saw sams fact fr ticking out nl alio window in thu hay olt aad I 1 climbed up the ladder with my feirt going aop w I 1 could bardh breathe and tharo oil joy there was nora ii ngou the hay as good us a kitteau yam ay I 1 ought to have known he would take caru of alic baby rout is companion |