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diff --git a/28493.txt b/28493.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e50f0a --- /dev/null +++ b/28493.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1554 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Baby Nightcaps, by Frances Elizabeth Barrow + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Baby Nightcaps + +Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow + +Release Date: April 4, 2009 [EBook #28493] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BABY NIGHTCAPS *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Jen Haines and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + +[Illustration: The Night-cap Family out for a walk. + +I'll tell you all about it in my next book.] + + + + +BABY NIGHTCAPS. + +BY THE AUTHOR OF + +"NIGHTCAPS," "LIFE AMONG THE CHILDREN," "AUNT +FANNY'S STORIES," &c. + + NEW-YORK: + D. APPLETON & COMPANY, + 443 & 445 BROADWAY. + LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN. + 1860. + +ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by + +FANNY BARROW, + +In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States +for the Southern District of New York. + + + + + CONTENTS. + + + PAGE + + A NIGHTCAP LETTER FROM AUNT FANNY, 7 + + THE STORY TOLD TO MINNIE, 31 + + LILLIE'S SAYINGS AND DOINGS; OR, + THE EFFECTS OF A GOOD EXAMPLE, 51 + + JACK AND HIS FRIENDS, 94 + + LITTLE HELEN, 115 + + HOW LITTLE SUSIE WAS LOST AND FOUND, 120 + + + + + Dedication. + + THESE BABY NIGHTCAPS ARE FOR + YOU! + YOU DEAR LITTLE DARLING! + + + + +A NIGHTCAP LETTER FROM AUNT FANNY. + + +_You dear little darling_: + +A long time ago, that is, long for such a little speck of a +child as you, just before last Christmas, I wrote a story book +called "Nightcaps." I called it this funny name, because poor +little lame Charley to whom all the stories were told, called +them his "nightcaps," as he and his sisters and brothers had +to go to bed, the moment a story was finished for the evening. + +Did you read them? I am afraid they were _too old_ for you, +you dear little kitten! + +But since last Christmas, I have heard some of the funniest +little bits of stories! funny enough to make all the dimples +in your round face come out, or rather come _in_, and cause +you to look perfectly lovely: for the happy laughing face of a +little child, is the loveliest sight in the world; and if _I_ +should see those dimples, do you know what I would do? why I +would just catch you up in my arms, and give you a good +kissing. + +Then I have heard other little stories, that are sad; because +you know in this world we cannot always have perfect happiness: +things will sometimes happen to grieve even a tender little +child; but although your sweet lip may tremble as mine does +when I am writing, or listening to a sad story, you will not +love me less, I hope, because I have told the truth; for +remember, every thing is true in this little book, and all the +dear little boys and girls are living at this very moment. +What would you say if you knew some of them? Wouldn't it be +funny if you should exclaim, while your mamma was reading: + +"Why, mamma, _I_ know Lily; why that's the very Lily that +lives next door:" or, "Oh, mamma! stop! look here! that very +Willy goes to my school, he's got a kite as big as any thing! +and he said he would let me fly it, as soon as kite time +came. _Won't_ he stare, when I tell him he's in a book? I wish +Aunt Fanny knew _me_." + +You precious pet! Just ask Mr. Appleton to tell you where I +live, then come with a hop, skip, and jump to my house, and +you and I will have a nice little talk, and after that, take +care! you will find yourself in my next "Nightcap book." Won't +that be funny? + +I have a little daughter, named Alice; once upon a time she gave +away all the clothes she had on to a poor little shivering +child, without any clothes, only old rags. You see, Alice felt +so sorry for her; she had plenty of clothes in her drawer, but +she did not think of those, she just took off all she had on. +She is a dear "little Alice," and I call her by a great many +pet names; sometimes she is "my rosebud," sometimes I say, +"Come here, Mrs. Frizzlefits." When she is sick, it is always +"darling," and when she is well and hopping about, it is "you +precious little old toad." But they all mean the same thing. +She likes to be my "old toad" just as much as my "rosebud," +for she knows perfectly well, that they all mean LOVE. + +One day, when I felt as if I could not find a word to express +how much I loved her, I came out with, "Come and kiss me, you +dear little _donkey_!" How she laughed! and how I laughed! You +may be sure she told her papa the moment he came home, that +now she was a dear little donkey, as well as a precious old +toad. Does your mamma ever call you funny names? I hope so. + +I will tell you how I came to hear these stories. Lame Charley +has a sister, that last year was about as large as a pretty +large doll. I suppose you know how large I mean. She pattered +about on her cunning little feet all day long; she only sat +down long enough to eat her bread and milk; and so when the +sun went to bed, and the chickens went to bed, and the little +birds said chip! chip! to each other, meaning "good night," +Minnie (that was her name) would begin to poke her fingers in +her blue eyes, and say, "Pease mamma _cake_ Minnie: Minnie +_so_ tired." Then her mamma would lift her tenderly into her +lap and say, "Poor little kitten! _so_ tired:" and she would +unfasten her clothes quickly, and slip on her little night-dress, +and then she would kiss her four or five times to waken her, +and say, "Come, darling, kneel in mamma's lap and say your +little prayer." Then Minnie would smile and tumble about in a +funny way, till she got on her knees, and then she would fold +her hands and say, "God bess my dear mamma and papa, my bedders +and sisters, and poor lame Charley, my dear bedder; God bess me, +and make me a good little chile, for Jesus' sake, Amen." + +What a sweet little prayer that was! After the prayer her +mamma would kiss her again, and lay her gently in her pretty +crib; and before you could count one! two! three! Minnie was +fast asleep. + +But one evening lame Charley had crept sooner than usual into +his mamma's lap, and was resting his head against her kind +breast, and all his brothers and sisters had come out of the +corners and closets, and from under the tables and chairs, and +were chuckling and laughing, and saying, "Hush! take seats +everybody! mamma is going to tell us something real nice +to-night," when little Minnie, (who I forgot to tell you, +always went to bed before the story began; because she was +such a little bit of a thing, and did not know how to sit +still and listen,) little Minnie, all of a sudden trotted up +to her mamma, and taking hold of Charley's leg, began pulling +it and crying, "Get down bedder, get down 'ight away; let me +tome, I want a night_cat_ too, 'cause I's old now." + +"Why, Minnie!" said her mamma, "don't pull poor Charley; if +you are so old you can sit in Charley's arm-chair, and let him +stay here; can't you?" + +The honor of sitting in Charley's arm-chair was something to be +proud of; so Minnie climbed into it, and turned round, with a +little sideways tumble into the seat, her eyes sparkling with +delight; then, when she had twitched herself straight, and had +settled her feet and elbows quite to her mind, her mamma made +this little speech: + +"Dear Charley, and all my children, I meant to have told you a +story to-night, about a lady who went to teach in a ragged +school. This is a school where poor little children are +washed and fed and taught; who have scarcely any clothes to +wear; sometimes no shoes or stockings; and are so very, very +poor and dirty, that they cannot go to any other school. +Minnie is so young, she will not understand it all. Now, shall +I tell a _baby story_ instead?" + +"Oh, yes! yes! yes!" shouted all the good brothers and +sisters, "let Minnie have a nightcap, or a 'night_cat_' as +she calls it; dear little darling! isn't she a darling, +mamma?" + +"And what do you say, my Charley?" + +He lifted his curling head, and put up his sweet pale lips for +a kiss, and said: "Dear mamma, I love Minnie dearly; I love +all my brothers and sisters more than I can tell; I think a +little baby story will be _lovely_." + +Then what happened? I only wish you had been there to see all +the children rush up to Charley, when he stopped speaking. +Such a kissing, and laughing, and tumbling over each other! I +should think Minnie was called a "darling," about fifty times; +and Charley a "darling," about a hundred; because he was sick +and lame, you know, and _of course_ ought to be loved about +twice as much as anybody else, to make up for it; and their +mamma was hugged till her daycap was all pulled over one eye, +with the lace border resting on the end of her nose, which +made her look so funny, that the children laughed till some of +them tumbled down again; so what with the daycaps, nightcaps +and madcaps of children, it was quite a capital party. It took +a long time for them to settle down again; a great many +little short laughs had to be got rid of, and the dimples +would hardly go away. + +But at last they all sat quiet, and the baby story began. It +was so interesting, that you might almost have thought the +children had forgotten to breathe, or wink their eyes, they +were so still. + +When it was ended, Minnie kissed her mamma, and said: "I very +much 'bliged; I love you five dollars, and Charley five +dollars," and then she bade them all good night, and went +skipping and singing to bed, her dear little face all smiles +and dimples. + +After this, one of these little stories was told every evening; +then, if there was time, after Minnie pattered off to bed, her +mother would tell another to the older children; but all the +little nightcaps I have put in this book, by themselves, on +purpose for you, you sweet little thing! If you cannot read, +and I am almost sure you are too young, you must ask your +mamma, or some one that loves you, _very politely_, (_don't +forget that_,) to read them to you; because these nightcaps +are for the inside of your cunning little head. + +And now, just here, on the paper is a kiss from your loving + + AUNT FANNY. + +[Illustration: Little Johnny cutting capers.] + + + + +THE STORY TOLD TO MINNIE. + + +I know a little boy, named Johnny. He is a fat, rosy little +fellow, as round as a dumpling. He has two large black eyes, +two small pink ears, two sweet red lips, and only one little +white nose. + +"Oh, what a pity!" said Minnie. + +How the children did laugh, when they heard little Minnie +sigh, and say this; but their mamma kindly continued. Put +your hand up to your face, Minnie, or look in the glass, and +you will find that Johnny had just as many noses as you. + +"I'm so glad," said Minnie, with a merry little laugh: "tell +more mamma." + +I suppose you use your two bright eyes, to look at every thing +with. So did Johnny. + +When he was quite a little baby, his eyes sometimes got him +into trouble; if he saw a pin, or a button, or little bit of +thread on the carpet, he would creep up to it as well as he +could, pick it up with a good deal of trouble, because his +fingers were so fat, and he did not know very well how to use +them; and pop! it would go right into his mouth. + +You see, he had been here in this world such a very little +while, that he thought every thing in the world was made to +eat. Sometimes he would try to eat his own toes; and once he +got the end of his nurse's nose in his mouth, and gave it a +good nip with his two little white teeth; and was very angry, +and cried very loud, because she pulled it away. He was only +a baby you know. Such a dear little fellow. + +Johnny liked, of all things, to be put in his little bath-tub, +half full of water. The moment he saw the bath-tub, he would +begin to jump and crow and laugh, and when he was undressed, +and lifted up to be put in, his little feet would kick in the +air, as if he meant to jump over the moon! When he was in the +water, Oh! then was the time for fun! such a splashing and +dashing and thrashing as the water got! Such a noise! you +could hear him squealing with delight all over the house, and +very often every body in the house would come up to look at +him; even the cross old cook. She was never cross to Johnny; +she would come in the room, and opening her eyes would exclaim: +"My Sirs! if Johnny don't look just like the gold Koopid, +straddling over the top of the looking glass in the parlor." +He did look like a little fat Cupid. Any picture of a little +fat Cupid will show you how Johnny looked when he was a baby. + +When Johnny was almost a year old, his mamma and papa took him +to church to be christened. Do you know what that means? It +means that they would promise before all the people in church, +and what is a great deal more solemn, before God, our Father +in Heaven, to do their best to make little Johnny a good +child, to teach him to love, fear, and serve Him all the days +of his life. They would give their dear child to God. + +When the time came for them to go to the church, Johnny had +clasped tight in his fat fingers, a little wooden horse, about +half as long as Minnie's arm, with only one leg, and a very +short stump of a tail. The little fellow had managed to break +off the long tail and three legs, but _he_ didn't care, not +he! one leg was enough for him; he loved the horse dearly, and +sucked his head very often and banged it against the floor, +and kissed it and took it to bed with him every night, and +plunged it, sometimes head-first, sometimes tail-first, into +his cup of milk every day, so that the old horse had a very +nice time. + +When they tried to take it away from him, Johnny began to cry +as loud as he could. He was only a baby you know, and did not +know that an old broken wooden horse ought not to go to +church, so he puckered up his face in such a dismal manner, +that his mamma thought it best to let him keep it; and he +carried it to church in a state of perfect delight, sucking +the head all the way. + +When Johnny's mamma and papa stood up with him before the +minister, what do you think happened? Something surprising! +for he let his nurse take the old horse out of his hand and +never missed it. He kept perfectly still. + +The truth is, that he was wondering very much what in the world +the good minister had on the top of his nose. It shone like a +looking-glass every time he turned his head. The fact is, that +it was a pair of gold spectacles, and as none of Johnny's +family wore spectacles, the minister's face astonished him +very much indeed, and he stared at him with all his eyes. + +And now I shall have to tell you what Johnny did with his +little fat fingers, when the kind minister took him tenderly +in his arms, to christen him. You know I must tell the truth. +He did not cry; he was not the least mite afraid, because the +good minister smiled, and a baby knows very well what a kind +smile means; he just put up those little fat fingers, and in a +moment! he had twitched the spectacles off of the minister's +nose, and began to suck them. + +The good minister smiled, and the people smiled, and Johnny +_laughed loud in church_. He was such a little baby, you know, +he did not know he must not laugh in church, and he was so +delighted with his new play-thing, that the minister let him +keep the spectacles, and as he put the water on his face, and +gave him to God, Johnny did not cry; oh no! he _smiled_; and +all the people in the church looked with loving eyes on the +innocent child. + +As the minister handed Johnny back to his mamma, he bent down +his kind face and kissed him, and said: "I hope your dear +little boy will live and be a comfort to you. I have a sweet +little boy too, but he is not here. God is taking care of him +for me." Do you know what he meant? He meant, that his dear +little boy was dead, and had gone to heaven to live with +Jesus, the Son of God, who loves little children so dearly. + +Johnny soon gave up the spectacles, when he caught sight of +his dear old horse, with one leg and no tail; such a darling +as that old thing was! and he showed his joy at getting him +back, by sucking his head all the way home; once in a while +trying to poke it into his nurse's mouth to give her a taste. + +The nurse had a straw hat on, and Johnny, in his desire to get +at her mouth, pulled the hat as hard as he could, and tore it +nearly in two pieces. He did not mean to, you know; but when +he had done it he thought it a very funny caper, and laughed, +and put his hand through the rent, and snatched the comb out +of her hair, laughing all the time and jumping almost out of +her arms. What a baby! + +The poor nurse looked as if she had been in the wars; she did not +get angry, she loved Johnny so much; she only held fast with +one hand to her ragged old hat, and hurried home, laughing as +hard as Johnny. + +Let me tell you that the old horse and the baby had a fine +supper that night, and went to bed hugging each other, that +is, Johnny hugged the horse. + +Soon his beautiful black eyes were closed in sleep, and his +little fat fingers, that had done so much mischief without +meaning any wrong, were resting quietly on his breast. + +Those bright eyes and busy fingers wanted rest, don't you +think so? I do. So; good night, little Johnny. + + + + +LILLIE'S SAYINGS AND DOINGS; + +OR, + +THE EFFECTS OF A GOOD EXAMPLE. + + +Of all the precious, bright-eyed fairies I ever knew, little +Lillie was one of the very first and foremost. She was always +doing or saying something charming or funny; and sometimes, +_of course_, she was mischievous; but if you were ever so much +provoked at her mischief and its effects, _one_ look at her +sweet, innocent face, so unconscious of wrong meaning, with +the long golden curls floating round it, _one_ look, and the +great frown on your brow would soften into a little one; +_another_ look at the dimpled cheeks, and imploring blue eyes, +and the little frown would disappear entirely; but when the +sweet voice said, "Mamma, shall I put myself in the corner? I +_ought_ to go," why, one, two, three, presto!! all the angry +feelings would come right out of your heart, and fly away up +the chimney! and a very good riddance they were! + +Don't you wish, little reader, that angry feelings of all +sorts and sizes against everybody, would adopt the fashion of +flying up the chimney, and never come back again? I do. + +Lillie was five years old. She had two sisters older than herself. +One had already gone "home," and was now a little white-robed +angel in heaven, safe forever in Jesus' arms, from the temptations +and dangers of this sorrowful life. The other was a dark-haired, +dark-eyed little maiden, five years older than Lillie, and the +grave dignity of all these years caused Annie to be impressed +with a lively sense of the great necessity that rested upon her, +of setting a good example to her sister, and brother Willie, a +curly headed little fellow, not quite three years of age. I will +tell you how Annie came to feel this responsibility so deeply. + +One day her mother asked her to go down stairs, and get a +book that she wanted; but Annie was very busy with her paper +dolls, and she answered in a low voice, for she hardly meant +her mother to hear her, "I shan't do it." When, what was her +amazement and sorrow, to hear her little Lillie say, right +after her, "Mamma, if you tell _me_, I _sant_ do it, too." + +Oh! my dear little reader, this was worse than the most +dreadful punishment to Annie, to think that she had been so +naughty, and that her example had caused Lillie to be naughty +too, and her heart sank, as she looked up and saw her kind +mother sitting there, the great tears falling one by one upon +her clasped hands, and her sorrowful eyes fixed upon her +children. + +With a grieved cry, Annie rushed to her mother and threw her +arms around her neck, and kissed her, and wiped the tears +away, and said, "Hush! hush! dear mother. Oh! do stop crying! +and I will never, never do so again," and little Lillie, who +was only three years old then, and hardly knew how wrong she +had acted, in her desire to imitate her sister, in everything, +clung to her mother and said, "What for you _ki_, mamma? don't +_ki_," and so it came to pass that Annie never forgot this +terrible lesson, but strove with all her might to set her +sister and brother a good example, and begged her good and +pious mother to make a little prayer for her, that she might +be strengthened from above. + +This is the prayer her mother made, which Annie said every +night and morning, with her other prayers, and Aunt Fanny who +is writing this, begs you, dear little readers, to learn this +prayer; if you only say it _from your heart_, I know it will +help you. + +"O God, my Heavenly Father, send thy Holy Spirit to help me to +be good myself, and to set a good example to others. Take all +the wicked disobedient thoughts out of my heart. Make me a +comfort and a joy to my dear parents, and prepare me to live +with Thee and my dear little sister now in Heaven. For Jesus, +my Saviour's sake, Amen." + +You have no idea how good and lovely Annie became after this. +God answered her prayer. + +In the summer time Lillie and the rest would go into the country +to see her grandfather, of whom she was very fond, and well she +might be, for he was one of the best and dearest grandfathers in +the whole world. He was a gentleman of the old school, and treated +even children with a stately courtesy; but while, at the same time, +the children nestled to him with the most fearless confidence and +love, they would as soon have thought of cutting their heads off, +as of giving him one disrespectful word or look. + +In the very next house to Lillie's grandfather's, lived "little +Alice," about whom you have heard in "Nightcaps." + +Alice always knew when Lillie had arrived. Every sweet summer +morning Alice would jump out of bed, and her mother would +throw the window open, letting in the delicious perfume from +the strawberry bed next door, and the joyous _morning hymns_ +of the little birds, and then, if Lillie had come all at +once, 'midst the songs of the birds, a small clear musical +voice would be heard, singing (for she made a little song of +it)--"Al--_lie_! Al--_lie_!" Then Alice would give a jump, and +answer, imitating her song, "What--_ee_! What--_ee_!" and then +the bird outside would sing, "Where's _you_? Where's _you_?" +and Alice would answer, "Here's I, Here's I!" and that would +finish the duet, for Alice would run to the window, and there, +just below, would be Lillie, standing on the daisy-spangled +grass-plot, looking, in her white dress and golden curls under +that blue sky, fairer and lovelier far, than any lily ever +looked, in any earthly gardener's conservatory. It is true, +that God made them both, but this Lillie was a flower blooming +for immortality, while the others would perish in one short +summer. + +Then Alice would run down stairs, and out of the house, and +scramble through a little hole in the fence at the back of the +house, and rush up to Lillie, and Lillie would rush up to +Alice, and they would knock each other down, without meaning +to, on the soft grass, and roll over together, and jump up +again, as good as new, and laugh! you never heard any thing +sweeter! and report themselves ready for any play that Annie +might propose. + +Lillie was very fond of singing. She could sing most delightfully, +"Old Dog Tray," "I want to be an Angel," "Pop goes the Weasel," +and many other beautiful airs. She had taught Willie to sing +"Pop--go--a--dee--sell," as he called it, and was unwearied in +her efforts to amuse him, for he was a delicate little fellow, +and had been sick a great deal. In this, Lillie was imitating her +sister Annie, (do you see the importance of a good example?) and +it was perfectly beautiful to observe the care she took of him: +she would tie the bib round his neck, when he was to eat his +dinner, so tight, as almost to choke him to death, but with the +most loving intentions, and would comb his soft curls down on his +face, and nearly scratch his eyes out with the comb, but Willie +never cried; not he! because he knew perfectly well, baby as he +was, from the sweet affectionate expression beaming from Lillie's +blue eyes, that she did it all in love, and it is really amazing +what a deal of knocking about, children will stand and laugh at, +if they know it to be done in love or play, when a slight touch +in punishment will set them crying. + +One pleasant morning, just before last Christmas, Lillie was +conversing with Willie while they were eating their breakfast +with the family; for Willie had been promoted to the dignity +of a high chair, and had commenced the business of feeding +himself, and did it very well, considering. About once in five +times he would stick the spoonful of hominy in the middle of +his cheek, or on the tip of his chin, expecting to find an +extra mouth or two, I suppose; so that in a little while his +face would be ornamented with a variety of white patches, +which made Lillie laugh, and Willie laugh back; so upon the +whole he fed himself in what might be called an _entertaining +manner_, and began to grow fat upon it. + +Lillie was older, and of course ate her breakfast like a +dainty little maiden, as she was, in the neatest possible way, +but for all that, she liked plenty to eat, and presently she +held out her plate for some more cakes. + +"Why, Lillie!" said her father, pretending to be astonished, +"more cakes? you're just like Oliver! I am sure you must be +full up to here," and he pointed to his throat. + +"Oh! no, papa, you are mistaken, only look here, how loose my +skin is," and she grasped the skin of her white neck, and +pulled it up, and cried, "see papa, quite a big room left." + +Her father laughed, and gave her the cakes, and while she was +enjoying them, she cried to Willie: + +"I'm learning to spell and read, Mr. Willie." + +"_Is_ you?" answered Willie, "why for?" and in his earnest +attention to this announcement, he forgot the way to his mouth +again, and landed a spoonful of hominy on the end of his +nose. + +Lillie laughed, and polished his nose with her napkin; and +rubbed it so hard, that it made Willie wink, and said: + +"Because people must learn to read and spell, and you must +learn too--I'm going to teach you; come, spell 'cat.'" + +"But I _tant_," said Willie. + +"But you must," said Lillie, "you must spell 'cat,' and you +must learn to read the Bible; and you and I will read the +Bible every single morning, and a great many times besides." + +"Come, begin: spell 'cat.'" + +Willie looked gravely down, with very large eyes, at the cat, +as if he thought that she might tell him; then lifted his mug, +on which was elegantly painted, with about twenty-seven +flourishes, the words, "For Willie," to his lips, and took a +long drink of milk, staring over the top of it at the cat the +whole time, but the blinking old tabby only dozed away with +one eye opened, and slapped her tail on the carpet as if to +say, "you'll find no _spell_ in me," so Willie put his mug +down, and drawing a long breath, lisped again, "But I _tant_." + +"Well," said Lillie, a little provoked, "if you can't spell +'cat,' spell 'kitten:' that's _littler_." + +This made a great laugh round the table, and finally Lillie had to +teach Willie how to spell this difficult word, and she repeated +the lesson so often, and so kindly, that before an hour, Willie +could spell "cat" just as well as Mr. Appleton himself! think of +that! and he (Willie, not Mr. Appleton) was so proud of his new +accomplishment, that he took an opportunity to run away, and his +nurse went hunting after him, and found that he had scrabbled +down the stairs backwards, which was _his_ way of getting _down_ +in the world, (and I'm sure it is better than plunging headlong, +as some people do,) and trotted into the kitchen to teach the +cook and a little butcher boy who had just brought in the dinner, +to spell "cat," and asked her in return for this kindness, to +make him a "turnover pie," which you may be sure she did. + +[Illustration: Willie teaching the Cook to spell Cat.] + +A few days after this, the joyous Christmas came, the day on +which our blessed Saviour was born, when everybody ought to be +grateful and joyful, if they possibly can. + +On this day, Annie, Lillie, and Willie were in perfect +ecstasies, so many kisses, and so many presents poured in +upon them, and all tokens of so much love; _that_ made the +charm. + +Lillie, especially, was enchanted with two rings she received; +a pretty gold ring, and one of red cornelian. Only think! the +grandeur and dignity of two rings at once, on her little white +fingers! the very idea set her singing and skipping with joy. +"Dear me," she said, "two wedding rings! how delightful! I shall +begin a play 'mediately. Come, Annie and Willie, let's play I was +a grand lady dressed in two rings, coming to make you a visit." +Accordingly, Annie spread herself out as wide as she could, and +Willie, as he didn't happen to wear a hoop, concluded to spread +himself _up_ as high as he could, which he effected by putting on +a "sojer cap" with a long feather, and they sat up in state to +receive the company, and had a splendid time, when the two rings, +and the lady, walked majestically in. + +The next day, a lady called upon Lillie's mother, and said, +"How did Annie like the ring I sent her?" + +"Annie? _Lillie_, you mean." + +"Oh, no," said the lady, "I sent the cornelian ring to Annie." + +This announcement troubled Lillie's mother. She knew her +little girl thought more of this cornelian ring, than of all +the rest of her presents; but she promised the lady, who was +their cousin, it should be given to the rightful owner. + +Now, this good mother would gladly have bought another ring +for Annie, and let Lillie keep her treasure, but that would +not have been the _right thing_; so she took Lillie out +walking with her, and as the little girl skipped and danced +along, (for a little happy creature like that, scarcely ever +walks,) she began her painful duty by saying, "Lillie, what is +the golden rule?" + +"_I_ know," said Lillie, "Do as you would wish to be done by." + +"Well, do you understand what it means?" + +"Why, yes, mamma; papa says the golden rule means, that I +must be good and kind to everybody, because I always want +everybody to be good and kind to me." + +"Well, Lillie," said her mother, in a very kind tone, "I must +tell you about a mistake I have made. I am very, very sorry +for it. I gave you two rings on Christmas day, and your cousin +tells me, that she meant the cornelian ring for Annie. Now, +Lillie, what will you do?" + +"Oh, mamma!" exclaimed Lillie, and then she stopped, while a +painful flush came all over her face, her little breast +heaved, and her large and lovely blue eyes filled with tears. +She felt very miserable, for a moment, then checking a rising +sob, she said, softly-- + +"Mamma, you made _two_ 'steaks. You said Christmas day, that +I had too many presents; that was one 'steak, and Annie had +too few, that was two 'steaks. I--I must give this ring to +sister Annie. It is her ring. I shall only have _one_ ring, +but, _never matter_," and she sighed----and _then she smiled_. + +"That is right, my darling," answered her mother, "that is +doing just as you would wish to be done by." + +So Lillie, with her great resolution filling her noble little +heart, said not a word more, but hastened home with her mother, +and walked straight up to Annie, with such a heaven-sent smile +illuminating her sweet face, and took the precious ring off her +finger, and said, "Here, Annie; this is your ring, take it; it +was meant for you all the time, but mamma didn't know it," and +here the rosy lips began to tremble, and Lillie was silent. + +"Would you _rather_ I should take it?" + +"Yes," said Lillie. + +"Well, then, I will. If I had got the two rings by mistake, I +should have given one to you right away! indeed I would, +Lillie." + +[Illustration: Horse with tail like a water-spout] + +"Would you?" answered Lillie, brightening wonderfully, "well, then, +I am glad I have given it to you," and the painful shadow passed +away from her face, and Willie was so impressed with this +interesting scene, that he forthwith brought out one of his +dearest treasures, a horse with a tail like a water-spout, drawn +for him by his father, which he had painted such a bright apple +green, that it set your very teeth on edge only to look at it, +and bestowed it then and there upon Lillie, with a hug and a +kiss, that was worth all the green horses, and brown ones too, in +the universe; and thus happiness was restored to the hearts of +these three lovely children, and Lillie got along like other +people, with only one wedding ring, and came to think it quite +enough; but that I believe is the general opinion, though I am +not absolutely certain. + +And now, if you little folks cannot see by this story, the +good effects of setting a good example, and how great the +responsibility even little children incur in their relation to +each other, Aunt Fanny will have a heart-ache, and she will +be brought to wish, that instead of writing stories that do no +good, she had taken to growing pumpkins or hard-hearted +cabbages, _and that's all_. + + + + +JACK AND HIS FRIENDS. + + +Once upon a time, there was a little boy, named Jack. He lived +in a house with his papa and mamma, who were so fat that they +had to be very good-natured, because you know, it don't answer +at all for fat people to be cross, it makes them feel so very +uncomfortable. So it does everybody else, for the matter of +that! Who likes to see any one cross or angry, with a face +flaming with rage, and talking in so sharp a voice that it +sounds like a pack of fire-crackers, going off? Why, nobody. +So, suppose you and I try which can keep the brightest and +sweetest face all this next year. Will you? you dear little +thing! + +Well, Jack had a pretty little brown dog, named Carlo, and a +nice little white cat, named Minnie; and Jack the boy, and +Carlo the dog, and Minnie the cat, were the best friends, and +had the greatest fun together, that ever a boy, and a cat, and +a dog had, since the world began, and a little before. + +When Jack had eaten his pudding, and Carlo had munched his bones, +and Minnie had lapped her milk, they would all rush out in the +garden together, as if they were distracted with joy; and then +such a hurrying, and a scurrying, and a scampering, and a +scattering, and a cutting round corners, and a hiding under +bushes, and a jumping out of unexpected places, was never seen +or heard of, I do believe. Wasn't it funny? Did you ever +have such fun? + +One day, Jack's father and mother had gone out to spend the +day with Mr. and Mrs. Thingumbob, and the cook forgot to give +the poor little boy his dinner. + +Into the kitchen he rushed, and nearly tumbled head first into +a tub full of soap-suds. If he had, I couldn't have finished +this story, which would have been a pity. But he did not fall +in; for he immediately shouted out--"Mary! Mary! Mary! I +want a piece of bread and butter! I want my dinner!" + +[Illustration: You can't have any dinner, said the cook.] + +"But you can't have your dinner yet," said the cook; "I'm just +making the dumpling; the baker has not come, and there isn't a +speck of bread in the house." + +"Well, give me a piece of cake then," said Jack. + +"Haven't got any cake," said the cook. + +"Well, candy then," said Jack. + +"Haven't got any candy," said the cook. + +"Well, sugar, or sweetmeats, or something; I'm just as hungry +as a little bear," said Jack. + +"Haven't got 'em, Master Jack," said the cook; "but I tell you +what! here is a penny; go to the baker that lives on top of +the hill, and buy a loaf of bread for yourself." + +"Oh, yes! so I will!" shouted Jack, jumping over a chair and +upsetting the knife-board, and all the knives which the cook +had just been cleaning; and this provoked her so, that she +caught up the broomstick, and ran after him, and fell over the +wash-tub herself; so Jack got off safe. Aren't you glad? + +Then he called Carlo, the dog, and said--"Look here, Carlo; +do you want to go to the baker's with me to buy a loaf of +bread?" + +"Bow, wow, wow," said Carlo; which meant, "Of course I do. +Hurrah!" + +Then he called Minnie, the cat, and said--"Look here, Minnie, +do you want to go to the baker's with us to buy a loaf of +bread?" + +Minnie opened her eyes, stiffened her tail, and made her back +as round as a hoop, and said, miau! miau! miau! which was +cat-talk for "Of course I do. Hurrah!" + +So they all started off together in a state of perfect +delight. Presently, they came to where Bunny the rabbit lived. + +"Bunny, Bunny," called Jack. Out popped little Bunny, flapping +his long ears, and winking his red eyes, and gave a funny +little squeak; which meant, "How-de-do, Jack, what do you +want?" + +"Bunny," said Jack, "do you want to go to the baker's with us +to buy a loaf of bread?" + +"Oh! of course I do," squeaked Bunny. So Jack the boy, and +Carlo the dog, and Minnie the cat, and Bunny the rabbit, made +quite a party. + +Pretty soon they came to Jenny Wren's house, high up in a +tree. "Jenny, Jenny," called Jack. + +Out she popped from her nest, where she was sitting on top of +her children, and jumped on a branch, and wagged her little +head, and fluttered her little wings, and cocked up her little +tail in the air, to show how glad she was to see her friend +Jack. + +"Jenny," said Jack, "do you want to go to the baker's with us +to buy a loaf of bread?" + +"Chip, chip, chip," said Jenny; which was bird-talk for "Oh! +of course I do." + +"Well, come along, then," said Jack. Down flew Jenny, and +hopped along with the rest. So Jack the boy, and Carlo the +dog, and Minnie the cat, and Bunny the rabbit, and Jenny the +wren, made a jolly little party, all going to the baker's +together. I wish I had been there, don't you? + +Pretty soon they came to where Ninny the goose lived. "Ninny, +Ninny," called Jack; "do you want to go to the baker's with us +to buy a loaf of bread?" + +"Gabble, gabble, gabble," said Ninny; which was goose-talk for +"Oh! of course I do;" and she flapped her wings, and stretched +out her long neck, and made more of a goose of herself than +ever, and was so glad at getting the invitation, that she +created quite a hullabaloo with her gabbling; but for all +that, Jack the boy, and Carlo the dog, and Minnie the cat, and +Bunny the rabbit, and Jenny the wren, and Ninny the goose, all +talking together, made a most enchanting party. They were all +nice people; no owls, or tigers, or cross old cooks with +broomsticks, or grisly bears. No, indeed! They were all +perfect darlings; and were quite ready to travel to the very +top of the North Pole, if there was any fun to be found there. + +But the baker lived considerably this side of the North Pole, +on the very top of a steep hill; and up they all ran, and +hopped, and leaped, and jumped, till they got to the house. + +But when they arrived there, they found the front door locked. + +So Jack began to knock, and Carlo began to bark, and Minnie began +to mew, and Bunny began to squeak, and Jenny began to chip, and +Ninny began to gabble; but for all the knocking, and barking, and +mewing, and squeaking, and chipping, and gabbling, nobody came to +the door; and poor little Jack began to think he would never get +his loaf of bread after all. + +All of a sudden, Jack thought of the back door. Off they +hopped, and ran, and leaped, and jumped, to the back of the +house. + +The hill went down on this side perfectly straight, like the +side of a house, and there was scarcely room for them to +stand. + +Dear me! that door was locked too. So they each began again to +knock, and bark, and mew, and squeak, and chirp, and gabble, +as hard as ever they could; all crowding round the door in a +bunch. + +Just as they were making all the noise they could, +suddenly--open flew the door! and out jumped a TREMENDOUS +DOG!!! right into the middle of them, growling, and barking, +and making his great white teeth snap together like a pistol +shot!! + +Frightened to death, Jack tumbled backwards over Carlo; Carlo +tumbled backwards over Minnie; Minnie tumbled backwards over +Bunny; Bunny tumbled backwards over Jenny; Jenny tumbled +backwards over Ninny; and they all tumbled head over heels +down the steep hill, with the TREMENDOUS DOG on top of the +heap; and that's the last I ever heard of them. + +"Oh! aren't you sorry?" + + + + +LITTLE HELEN. + + +One day last spring when Aunt Fanny was in Charleston, she was +walking up Meeting Street. Just before her she saw a pretty +little girl, almost as white as snow, carried in the arms of a +tall black woman, nearly as black as ink. + +Aunt Fanny went softly up behind them, and heard the old nurse +say--"You make nurse shame, for carry such a big girl." + +"But I so tired," said the little thing. "O my!" + +"How much you tired?" said the old black nurse. + +"I tired a dollar," said the child. + +Then Aunt Fanny laughed, and went up to her, and said--"Get +down my little kitten, and walk with me." + +So the nurse put her down, and she took hold of Aunt Fanny's +finger, and trotted along, quite pleased. + +"What is your name little one?" said Aunt Fanny. + +"My name Helen, and I'm mamma's dear little baby. Here's my +house; come in my house, do, please?" + +So she pulled Aunt Fanny in; and there at the side of the house +was a large yard, and in it was such a lot of little children! +all playing soldiers together; some were white;--they were +Helen's sisters and little brother;--and some were black; they +were old nurse's children; and they were having such a nice time; +and the last little black boy was ringing the dinner bell. Aunt +Fanny was glad enough to see them, but she could not stay; so she +kissed Helen, her little new friend, and went away down the +street, and that's the whole of this story--there! + +[Illustration: All playing soldiers together.] + + + + +HOW LITTLE SUSIE WAS LOST AND FOUND. + + +Once upon a time there was a little old gentleman, very old +indeed; his hair was as white as snow, his eyes were dim, and +he had no more teeth than a baby. As to his ears, they were no +use to him at all, for he could not hear a single word that +was said. You might have fired off twenty cannons close to +him, and he would not start half as much as when some one +comes behind you, and says--Boo!!! + +What a pity! because he was such a kind, little old gentleman. +If he saw a little child like you, he would smile, and put his hand +in his pocket, and take out a piece of candy, and say--"Do you +love candy?" then the child would say--just what you would say, +if anybody should ask you--_you_ know. Then the little old +gentleman would say--"I can't hear you, but I know you love it, +so here is a famous piece for you." + +One day the little old gentleman thought he would take a walk; +so he put his hat on his head, his great coat on his back, his +spectacles on his nose, took his cane in his right hand, and +off he went. + +[Illustration: Man pointing] + +It was a bright, cold day in spring; the little birds were +very busy building their nests, but he could not hear them +chirping to each other so sweetly. Indeed, he could hardly see +them. Poor little old gentleman! + +As he was walking quietly along, he felt something very soft +take hold of his hand, and grasp it tight. What do you think +it was? He looked down, and there walking by his side, and +holding his hand, was a tiny little girl. + +She was looking up in his face, with her sweet blue eyes; her +little bonnet had fallen back, and the fresh wind was blowing +her pretty curls all about. + +"My name is Susy," said the little girl; "please take me home; +mamma will say--'Where is little Susy?'" + +"I can't hear a word you say," answered the little old +gentleman. + +"Well, then, take me home 'ight away," said Susy; "_mamma_ can +hear what I say. Please take me home, _grandpa_." + +The dear little thing called him "Grandpa," because she +thought all old gentlemen must be grandfathers. + +"I can't hear a word, my poor child; I am deaf. Oh dear! what +is it she wants? she must be lost," said the poor little old +gentleman. + +"Yes, I am lost," said the child; "and mamma wants Susy. She +can't do without me. Papa, too. I'm his little mouse. I bring +him his slippers when he comes home, and I sing to him about +'Three little kittens, lost their mittens.' Come, grandpa, +take Susy home; ah, _do_;" and she looked up into his face +with a sweet, coaxing smile, and clasped his hand tighter +with her soft and pretty fingers. + +"Oh, dear! oh, dear!" said the little old gentleman, "if I +only could hear! But I can't! I am deaf." + +So they walked along quite a distance, through the green lane, +where the tender grass looked so dewy and fresh, and the first +spring violets were peeping up; but no one came in sight, and +the little old gentleman in his trouble, looked north, south, +east and west, for somebody to come that could hear what the +little one said. + +All at once he thought, I will ask God to help me; and he said +aloud, in a voice trembling with age--"Oh, my Heavenly Father! +help me to find assistance for this tender little lamb." + +When Susy heard him say that, her rosy lip began to tremble, and a +great tear came into each of her blue eyes. Poor little darling! +She knew something was wrong, but she did not understand why he +could not hear her. She could hear _him_, and she did not know +what it meant, to be deaf. + +But now, as if in answer to the prayer, a carriage was seen +approaching; and the little old gentleman said--"Don't cry, my +little one; here, eat this candy, and don't cry. I will get +you home safely." + +As the carriage came near, he saw that there were two ladies +inside, and he held up his hand and beckoned them to stop. One +of them was a kind-looking lady, with soft gray hair; and he +said to her-- + +"Madam, I am deaf. I cannot hear a single word. I was taking a +walk, when this little child came up and put her hand into +mine. I think she is lost; but I cannot hear what she says. +Will you take her with you, and restore her to her home?" + +"Certainly, I will, poor little darling," said the kind lady; +and the door was opened, and Susy tenderly lifted in, and +placed on the lady's lap. + +The little old gentleman kissed Susy, and thanked the ladies; +then taking off his hat, he made them a low bow, and then +they drove away. + +"Can you tell me where you live?" said the lady. + +"Oh, yes; I live with mamma and papa," said Susy, "and my +kitty, and my doll; we all live together." + +The lady smiled, and said--"Well, dear, we'll try to find them." +So they rode on a little way, and soon came where the houses were +nearer each other. Susy looked out of the carriage window, and +did not cry any more; because she thought she would very soon +see her dear mamma. + +Suddenly she screamed--"Mamma! mamma! here is Susy." Sure +enough! there was a lady hurrying along; looking in every +direction. As soon as she heard Susy, her face lost its +troubled expression, and she ran to the carriage door, and +opened it, caught her little child, and hugged her to her +breast, and said--"Oh, my darling! my darling! Thank God you +are safe!" and then she burst into tears--tears of joy and +gratitude. + +The kind ladies told her how Susy had strayed away into the +green lane; and how the little deaf old gentleman had given +her to them to take home; and Susy's mother thanked them +again, and again; and carried her precious child home. + +What a kissing Susy got that evening from her father! and how +glad he was that his little girl was there to bring him his +slippers! They did not get angry with her--of course not! Dear +me! who ever heard of such a thing? She did not _mean_ to do +wrong; she had just wandered off, singing a little song, and +talking to herself, and picking the pretty butter-cups that +grew in the grass; and when she looked up, she could not see +her home; she only saw the little old gentleman that she +called "Grandpa." + +So her papa and mamma talked kindly to her, and kissed her, and +made her promise that she would not go so far again--never! +never! never! which little Susy was very glad to do, for she +had no idea of losing her dear parents. No, indeed. + +But after that, she saw the little deaf old gentleman very +often; and he grew to love little Susy dearly; and though they +did not talk to each other, they smiled; and he always had +something in his pocket for her. Guess what it was? Candy? +Yes, that was the very thing. + +[Illustration: The three friends.] + +Sometimes he would come to her house, riding on a nice old white +horse; and Susy would run out and smooth down his nose; the +horse's nose I mean; and the old white horse liked it very much; +he would not have bitten her little hand for a thousand dollars; +and ever after that Susy, and the little old gentleman, and the +old white horse, were called--"The Three Friends;" and that's the +end of this story; rorum corum torum. How do you like it? + + + THE END. + + + + + * * * * * + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES + + +The following have been identified as typographical errors and have +been emended. All other colloquialisms, typographical, spelling and +punctuation errors have been left as in the original book. + + + Page 23--added closing quotation mark + to + Now, shall I tell a _baby story_ instead?["] + + + Page 111--changed "tp" to "to" + in + The hill went down on this side perfectly straight, like + the side of a house, and there was scarcely room for them + [tp] stand. + + + Page 112--changed "caowling" to "growling" + in + and out jumped a TREMENDOUS DOG!!! right into the middle + of them, [caowling], and barking, + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Baby Nightcaps, by Frances Elizabeth Barrow + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BABY NIGHTCAPS *** + +***** This file should be named 28493.txt or 28493.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/4/9/28493/ + +Produced by David Edwards, Jen Haines and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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