Show walk oae cool morning in the fall when be was about year old he slept very late and when he awoke he seemed to be alone in the house to tell the truth it was so late that all the older children had gone to school and his mother was out be hind the shed hanging out clothes sammy found his lettla jacket and trotters and taking ahm on his arm went all over the home for some one to dress him but nobody could he find I know what Ill doi he said to himself ill go over to mr packers ashes a good womac and shell dress me me had never been over there more than two or three times for his family had lately covol there and the house was quite out of sight over the hill across lots but he remembered the way and trudged along it was a morning and th weeds and bushes he bad to go through were as high as his bead and BO wet that when he got there his little shirt and the clothes be carried were a wet as if they had been dipped in the brook mrs packer was busy working over butter when she heard a very gentle tap at the door come binl ebe said both hands being in the butter in came bammy dripping like a drowned rat and hia legs so covered with the blossoms from the golden rod through which he had come that they were as yellow a a brahma chickens why sammy bronal exclaimed mrs packer our folka WM all gone but I knew you would dresa me aid sam cay by the giove lucky abr sammy mrs packer had a house full of boys go she could send him home in some dry clot lica and one of her big boys carried him on his back through all the high weeds and grass and put him over the fence into his fathers yard how late sammy does sleep this morning his mother thinking when the front door opened and he came in im dressed mother said sam my but these are ally packer s clothes for min WM awful wet and oh my legs as yellow as they be when I got over its a dreuy cold damp baom ins sammy brownl his mother began but she had to stop and laugh morning star |