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diff --git a/33517.txt b/33517.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c695a55 --- /dev/null +++ b/33517.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1435 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie on a Journey, by Madeline Leslie + +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: Little Frankie on a Journey + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 23, 2010 [EBook #33517] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + +MRS. LESLIE'S BOOKS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. + +THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES. + + + + + BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED + By A. R. BAKER, + AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. + + QUESTION BOOKS on the Topics of Christ's Sermon on the Mount. + + VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. + " II. FOR YOUTH. + " III. FOR ADULTS. + LECTURES ON THESE TOPICS, _in press_. + + MRS. LESLIE'S SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS. + + TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER. + SEQUEL TO "TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER." + PRAIRIE FLOWER. + THE BOUND BOY. + THE BOUND GIRL. + VIRGINIA. + THE TWO HOMES; OR, EARNING AND SPENDING. + THE ORGAN-GRINDER, _in press_. + + QUESTION BOOKS. The Catechism tested by the Bible. + + VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. + " II. FOR ADULTS. + + THE DERMOTT FAMILY; or, Stories Illustrating the Catechism. + + VOL. I. DOCTRINES RESPECTING GOD AND MANKIND. + " II. DOCTRINES OF GRACE. + " III. COMMANDMENTS OF THE FIRST TABLE. + " IV. COMMANDMENTS OF THE SECOND TABLE. + " V. CONDITIONS OF ETERNAL LIFE. + + MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE. + + VOL. I. CORA AND THE DOCTOR. + " II. COURTESIES OF WEDDED LIFE. + " III. THE HOUSEHOLD ANGEL. + + MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES. + + VOL. I. THE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN. + " II. PLAY AND STUDY. + " III. HOWARD AND HIS TEACHER. + " IV. TRYING TO BE USEFUL. + " V. JACK, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER. + " VI. THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER. + " VII. LITTLE AGNES. + + THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES. + + THE ROBINS' NEST. + LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST. + LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY. + LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE. + LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS. + LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER. + + THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES. + + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER. + LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS. + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN. + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER. + LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY. + LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL. + + + + +[Illustration: FRANKIE'S BIRTH-DAY PRESENT.] + + + + + LITTLE + FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY. + + BY + + MRS. MADELINE LESLIE, + AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S + JUVENILE SERIES," ETC. + + + BOSTON: + CROSBY AND NICHOLS. + + 117 WASHINGTON STREET. + + + Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by + + A. R. BAKER, + + In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District + of Massachusetts. + + + ELECTROTYPED AT THE + BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. + + + + +LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY. + +CHAPTER I. + +FRANKIE'S BIRTHDAY. + + +"Frankie," said mamma one evening, just as he was going to bed, +"to-morrow you will be six years old; how should you like to have a +party of your young friends?" + +"I should like it very much indeed," replied the boy, his eyes +sparkling with pleasure. + +"You have been trying to improve lately, my dear, and have almost +conquered your hasty temper. Your father and I have been so much pleased +with your conduct that we wish to reward you; so if you would like to +have a party, I shall invite as many of your young friends as you +please." + +"O, what a kind mamma!" exclaimed Frankie, clasping his arms around his +mother's neck. "I mean to try to be just as good as I can." + +The little boy then knelt by his low bed, and said his evening prayer. +Perhaps you would like to hear it. + +"O God! thou art very good. Thou hast given me a kind father and mother, +and food to eat, clothes to wear, and many other favors. Wilt thou +forgive all my sins, and make me a good boy, so that when I die, I can +go to heaven to live with thee, for my dear Saviour's sake. Amen." + +This little prayer Frankie had learned when he was four years old, and +he had repeated it every night since that time. Beside this he said the +pretty verse beginning + + "Now I lay me down to sleep," + +and then added a short prayer of his own, asking God to bless papa and +mamma, Willie, Nelly, and Margie; to keep the house from being burned +while they were asleep; and to make the heathen good, for Jesus Christ's +sake. + +When Frankie was nearly five years old, a large house in the +neighborhood had been burned to the ground. He was aroused from his +sleep by the loud ringing of the bells, and the cry of fire, and sat for +a long time gazing from his mother's window at the bright, red flame. +Ever since that time he had always prayed God to keep the house from +being burned while they were asleep. + +In the morning, Frankie said the Lord's prayer, and this pretty little +hymn, which perhaps you will like to learn:-- + + "Fled away are the shadows of night; + The morning is smiling and clear; + The sun has arisen all bright, + And the birds fly aloft in the air. + + "The sweet robins sing on the tree, + The little lambs skip on the hill, + And loud hum the bees as they work, + Their houses with honey to fill. + + "'Tis time for the children to wake: + Come, little ones, open your eyes; + And your thanks and your praises return + To the Being who governs the skies. + + "He has guarded you, all the long night, + From sickness, and danger, and pain, + And brought you, in safety and peace, + To a beautiful morning again. + + "Whatever your parents command, + Be ready and willing to do; + For that, my dear child, is the way + To be happy, and prosperous too. + + "But if (as is sometimes the case) + You should happen to do a thing wrong, + Just own it, and let not a lie, + In any case, come from your tongue. + + "For the child who is gentle and kind, + And obliges as far as he can, + May be sure to be loved while a boy, + And respected when grown to a man." + +The next morning, when Frankie went down to breakfast, Willie sprang out +from behind the door, and gave him six loud kisses. Then he took from +his pocket a beautiful new humming top, and said, "Here is your +birthday present." + +Frankie had hardly time to say, "O, how pretty! I thank you very much," +when Nelly came in smiling, and looking very happy, with something +hidden behind her. + +"Let me give you some birthday kisses," she said, reaching forward and +putting up her pretty red lips--one, two, three, four, five, six. "Now +guess what I've got for you;" and she began to laugh merrily. + +Frankie looked very grave, because he was trying to guess. He would have +said a new hoop, only he thought if it was that, he should see it +sticking out from behind her dress. + +"You can't tell, I know," shouted Nelly. "Will you give up?" + +"Yes," said Frankie. + +"There!" exclaimed the little girl, with a quick motion bringing from +behind her a large tin tip cart, with two red oxen waiting to draw it +along. "Isn't it pretty? I bought it with my own spending money, and +I've been saving it for your birthday ever so long." + +"O, I do thank you!" exclaimed the delighted boy; and he kissed his +cousin more than six times, and then began to roll the cart on the +floor. + +"Come to breakfast now," said mamma; "and then you shall play with your +new toys." + +After the children had been to prayers with their parents, they ran up +to the play room. Sally was turning the mattress in her mistress's room; +but as soon as she heard their voices, she presented little Frankie a +small handkerchief with two pretty pictures printed upon it. One was of +two little girls taking a walk, and meeting a poor, lame beggar man; +the other of a good boy standing at the door; calling his sister to take +a ride. Perhaps, some time, I will repeat to you the pretty hymns which +were printed underneath; but now it is time for me to close this +chapter. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +FRANKIE'S PARTY. + + +Perhaps you will wonder whether papa and mamma gave Frankie a present. +Yes, they did; but he did not see it until the evening when his little +friends came to his party. Jane, too, and even little Margie, remembered +it was his birthday, and had a present ready for him. + +Jane, with the consent of her mistress, had made a large frosted cake +for his company; and Margie gave him a beautiful white kitten, with not +one black hair on it. + +As it was a holiday, there were no lessons to be learned. Mamma took a +walk to the store; and she allowed Nelly and Frankie to go with her and +carry the basket in which she intended to bring back the nuts for the +party. + +But first she showed them a small basket full of notes which she had +written, inviting the little boys and girls to come and pass the evening +with Frankie, and help him to keep his birthday. Willie and Margie were +to carry them, as there was no school. + +Ponto was very lively that morning. He seemed to understand that his +young master was unusually happy; and he kept jumping up on him, +wagging his tail, and trying to lick his hands and face. Willie had +taught him to carry a basket in his teeth; and as soon as they started +on their walk he began to whine, and put his nose into the basket until +they gave it to him. Then he trotted along quite contentedly after them. + +It was a very hot day, and after dinner mamma tried to persuade the +little folks to lie down and get a nap, so as to be bright and fresh +for the evening. Nelly at last lay down on the lounge in her aunt's bed +room; and then Frankie brought his pillow, and lay on the floor by her. +They were so happy, they wanted to talk about the party. + +Mamma was lying on the lounge, too. She was very tired after her long +walk in the morning, and wanted to go to sleep. But the children's +tongues ran so fast, that she could not. She laughed, at last, at the +very idea of sleeping there, and took her pillow into Nelly's room, +where it was dark and cool; and presently had forgotten all her fatigue. + +About seven o'clock the little folks began to arrive. In August, you +know, the days are very long, so that it was still light, and as the sun +was down, it was the pleasantest part of the day. + +Mr. and Mrs. Gray sat on the large iron chairs belonging to the portico, +and shook hands with the little girls and boys coming up the avenue; +then joining the company on the lawn, where Willie and two of the larger +girls were planning some games for them. + +After they had enjoyed themselves in this way for an hour, Mrs. Gray +called Margie from the lawn, and told her to invite the children to +come in. Then she introduced them into the parlor, where on the table +they saw a large pile of cards, nearly half a yard in length, with +beautiful pictures on them, representing animals and birds; some of them +as large as life. + +These, which came in a long box, with a brass handle on the top, were +Frankie's birthday present from papa and mamma. + +At first the little fellow was so surprised, that he could not speak a +word; but then he ran, first to his mother and then to his father, put +his arms around their necks, and thanked them over and over again. + +His father went to the table and distributed the cards round among the +excited, happy group, and for half an hour there was one continued shout +of delight in examining them. + +"O, see this great elephant!" said one little boy; "he is winding his +nose around that baby, and is going to kill him." + +"No, indeed!" said mamma, "that baby is the child of his keeper, the man +who takes care of him, and feeds him. See, the soldiers are coming up, +and the good elephant is afraid they will hurt his little charge; so he +takes it very gently in his trunk, or proboscis, and puts it over behind +him into a safer place." + +"I like that elephant," said Frankie; "but I shouldn't think the baby's +mamma would leave him to take care of it. I should think she herself +would keep it in her arms." + +"What is this lion doing?" asked a pretty, blue-eyed girl, named Rosa. +"See, it is holding out its paw." + +"It is learning to shake hands, I should think," said Willie, laughing +aloud. + +"There is a very pretty story connected with that," said his father. +"There was once a slave who ran away from his master, and hid in a cave. +After he had been there a short time he heard a noise, and looking +around he saw he was in a lion's den. His heart began to beat faster +than ever, for he thought, 'I have run away only to be killed by this +lion.' He fixed his eyes upon the beast, expecting every minute that he +would jump upon him and tear him to pieces. + +"Presently the great lion came slowly up to him, and held out his paw, +as you see in the picture. The slave then saw that there was a large +thorn sticking in his foot. He pitied the poor creature, though he +expected every minute to be killed by him. He took the paw gently in his +hands, got firm hold of the thorn, and pulled it out. + +"The lion was very much obliged to him, though he could not say so in +words. He lay down at the slave's feet, to show him that he would not +injure him. + +"A few days after, some men were hunting in the forest; and they caught +the great lion, and carried him away with them; and they also caught the +poor slave, and took him back to his master, who was the king. The king +was very angry with him for running away, and ordered that he should be +thrown into a den with a hungry lion, who would eat him up. + +"This was a dreadfully cruel punishment; but as the king had ordered it, +a great many people gathered together to see it inflicted. The den was +opened, and a great, fierce lion came bounding in, leaping and roaring +for his food. Presently another door was opened, and the poor slave was +seen crouching back against the wall to escape from his terrible enemy. + +"As soon as the lion saw him, he gave one tremendous roar, and sprang +several yards toward the slave. + +"Then all the people gave a great shout, for they thought that, almost +before they could look again, the slave would be dead. But to their +great surprise, the fierce, hungry lion, that had had no food for two +days, was on his knees before the slave, who had his arms around the +animal's neck, embracing him as if he were his dearest friend. + +"The king was so astonished at this sight, that he cried out, 'Pardon! +pardon!' So they took the slave from the den, and threw in another +criminal, who was instantly torn to pieces." + +I have spent so much time telling you about these beautiful pictures, +that I can only say the children were invited into the dining hall, +where they were feasted on nuts, cake, fruit, and lemonade; and went +home, after thanking Mrs. Gray for inviting them to so pleasant a party. +Frankie, when he kissed his mamma good night, said, "I wish I could have +a birthday every week, I like them so much." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +FRANKIE'S JOURNEY. + + +A few weeks after this birthday, Frankie went a journey with papa, and +mamma, and Willie, and Nelly. + +Nelly's father and mother had been home two or three months; but they +found their little girl improving so fast under her aunt's care and +teaching, that they did not like to take her away. + +Nelly was very well contented to remain with her kind friends; and when +she found Frankie alone in a room by himself, crying because he thought +her mother had come to carry her home, she promised she would live with +him always. + +Mr. Gray hired a carriage and a span of handsome horses, and one fine +morning in September they started off; papa and Willie on the front +seat, and mamma with Frankie and Nelly on the back. Sometimes, though, +they wanted to change, and the two little ones rode in front with papa, +while Willie took their place behind. + +Then once in a while, when they were tired, papa would stop the horses, +and let them all get out and walk up a long hill; and O, how fast the +little feet would fly, trying to see who would reach the top first! + +It made this good papa and mamma happy to see their children enjoy +themselves so well. + +They travelled on for several days; and one night they came to a small +town, where Mr. Gray said he would put up. They drove to the tavern, and +soon were shown to a room up stairs. While they were waiting for supper, +Frankie asked, "What is the name of this town, papa?" + +"It is Canaan, my dear," replied his father. + +The little boy now gazed around with great interest; went to the window +and looked out, and presently said, "It don't seem very pleasant, papa; +but I suppose the Israelites were glad to get here." + +Frankie thought this Canaan was the pleasant land which God promised to +his chosen people. If you don't know about it, ask your mamma to tell +you how the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years, +eating manna for bread, and quails for meat, all the time longing to +reach Canaan, where there was an abundance of milk and honey, and you +will know why Frankie thought they would be glad to get there. + +Papa and mamma laughed heartily when he said this, and papa told him +that Canaan was a great way off from this place. It was the name of a +whole country, while this was only a small town. + +When Frankie heard this, he walked away from the window, and sat quietly +by mamma until they were called to tea. + +The next morning the road led through a large forest of pine trees. The +wind was blowing quite a breeze, and Frankie was glad to get under his +mother's shawl on the back seat of the carriage. He lay so still that +she thought he was asleep; but at last he asked, "Are these mulberry +trees, mamma?" + +"No, dear, they are pine." + +"Well, mamma," said the little fellow, "they sound like mulberry trees." + +"Where did you ever hear any, my dear?" asked his mother. + +"Why, you know," said he, "that you read me in the Bible about 'the +sound of the going in the tops of the mulberry trees,' and I think it +was just like this." + +Before they started from home, Mrs. Gray had partly promised her +sister-in-law that she would stop there with Nelly and Frankie on their +return, and make a visit; but on the last day of their journey, it was +quite cold and rainy. Mr. Nelson, her brother, lived in a town several +miles out of their way; and so she concluded to go directly home, and +start again when it was pleasant. + +After riding ten or twelve miles, Frankie and his little cousin became +very tired. The rain prevented their getting out of the carriage for a +run, neither could they sit on the front seat and watch the horses. + +"I wish I had a watch," said Frankie; "I don't like to trouble you, +mamma, to take yours out so often; but I do want to know what time it +is." + +"I mean to ask father to buy me a watch," said Nelly, "just as soon as I +go home." + +"How much farther have we to go, papa?" asked Frankie. + +The rain was pattering so fast on the top of the carriage, that he did +not hear at first; but when Willie repeated his brother's question, papa +said, "We have ten miles to go before dinner; and then twenty-two +afterwards. How many does that make?" + +Frankie thought for a minute, and then answered, "Thirty-two, papa." + +"If you're so tired," said Willie, "why don't you play school? I'll be +the first class." + +"So will I," said papa, laughing. + +"O, that will be splendid!" said Nelly, clapping her hands. + +"Will you be the teacher, mamma?" asked Frankie, quite forgetting his +fatigue. + +"No, dear, Willie may turn his back to the horses, and be the teacher +first. You can take turns." + +"Why didn't I think of this way before?" said Willie; "it's real nice. +The rain came pouring right in my face. Now I can put this shawl up, and +keep it all off." + +"You crowd my knees dreadfully," said Frankie. + +"Don't be impatient, dear," said his mother. "We must all try to be +accommodating when we are out in the rain. Your brother has been sitting +very patiently with the rain beating in his face, and you will be glad, +I'm sure, to have him with us behind." + +"I can't move my feet at all," said Frankie, in an impatient tone. + +"Move a little this way, then; I am sure we can make room for all. +Perhaps," she said softly, "there is somebody in your corner who ought +to be driven out." + +The little boy turned quickly round before he thought that his mother +meant Satan; and this made them all laugh. Frankie was still rather +fretful, but Willie began blowing with all his might. Willie and Nelly +both looked so merry that he put away his naughty feelings, began to +laugh, and soon found plenty of room on the seat. + +[Illustration] + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +PLAYING SCHOOL. + + +"Now I'll give you a word to spell," said Willie; "I bet none of you can +spell it right." + +"Don't say _bet_, my dear," said his mother. "It is not a good word to +use. Beside, you are a teacher now, you know." + +"The boys at school all say _bet_, mother," answered Willie. "I don't +see any hurt in it." + +"But do they really bet?" asked his father. + +"O, no, indeed, sir! It is only a habit they have of saying so." + +"It is a low expression," said his mother. "I wish you wouldn't use it." + +"Well, I won't, mother, when I can think of it. But I'll give you the +word. It is Constantinople." + +"It is a long word," said mamma. "But I will try it;" and the lady's +eyes twinkled as she began, "C-o-n, Con; s-t-a-n, Constan!" + +"Stop! please stop, mother!" shouted Willie, laughing heartily. "You +know it; let me try father?" + +"No, try me," said Nelly; "try me once!" + +"Well, I will. Spell Con." + +"C-o-n, Con," repeated Nelly slowly, looking steadily in her cousin's +face. + +"That is right; stan." + +"S-t-a-n," said Nelly. + +"Yes; now spell ti," added Willie. + +"T-i, ti." + +"No," said the boy, shaking his head solemnly. + +"T-y," again tried the little girl. + +"No," said Willie still more seriously. + +"T-i-e," shouted Frankie. + +"No," again repeated Willie. + +"N-o, no," said his father. + +Nelly and her cousin looked astonished. + +"O father! That wasn't fair," cried Willie. "They wouldn't have spelt it +at all." + +"When I went to school," said his father, laughing, "any body in the +class had a right to spell the word if the others missed it." + +When the travellers stopped for dinner, it rained so hard, that Mr. Gray +said he didn't know as they would be able to go on. They were in a +small, poorly-furnished tavern; and it did not look as if they would +have a very good time if they staid. + +"We are quite comfortable behind," said the lady; "but it must be very +bad for you." + +"The boot comes up so high that it keeps the rain out, except from my +face," said Mr. Gray. "Perhaps I can manage in some way to carry an +umbrella." + +"That would be too hard," replied the lady. "If you think it best, I am +willing to stay." + +After waiting at the tavern about two hours for the horses to rest, Mr. +Gray told the children to make haste and put on their clothes, as the +carriage was coming to the door. They did not know, until then, whether +they were to go or stay. + +"Do you think it best to go?" asked the lady. "It is raining so hard, I +am afraid you will be very wet." + +"O, look at the carriage, papa!" shouted Frankie, as it drove past the +window. + +"I found a nice leather curtain in the box," said the gentleman, "which +will shield me entirely." + +"What a pity you did not find it this morning!" said Willie. + +When they were seated in the carriage, they rode for nearly a mile +before there was much said by the children. The new curtain proved a +good screen from the rain, so that Mr. Gray was able to enjoy the ride +as well as the rest of the party. + +Frankie had been watching the drops as they fell from the lower edge of +the curtain upon the leather boot; at last he said, "It seems as if we +were in the ark." + +"Why?" asked his mother, with a smile. + +"Because--because it seems as if we were out in the rain, with waters +all around us; but we are safe in here, and nothing can harm us." + +"What shall we do now?" asked Willie. "Play school again? I call it real +good fun." + +"Let us sing," said Nelly. + +"So we will; so we will!" and they began the sweet hymn commencing,-- + + "Jesus, thou heavenly stranger, + Who dwelt in mortal clay! + Thy cradle was a manger, + Thy softest bed was hay." + +"O, mamma!" cried Frankie, when they had finished the tune, "can I read +the pretty verses on my handkerchief?" + +"Yes, dear, I should like to hear them," said mamma. + +This was Sally's birthday present, which he had kept nicely folded in +his coat pocket. I have already described to you the picture, which was +of a little boy calling his sister to take a ride. Frankie could read +now quite well, though he was obliged to pronounce the words slowly, +once in a while stopping to spell one to himself. He began,-- + + "The coach is ready, sister; run, + And put your gloves and bonnet on; + It is about a week ago + Our parents promised us, you know, + If we were good, that we, to-day, + Should have the coach and ride away. + Our cousins, too, are all at home; + How glad they'll be to see us come! + And they, such lovely girls and boys, + Will have so many pretty toys! + And we shall have the sweetest ride, + Through trees along the river side! + Come, sister; come, make no delay! + 'Tis time for us to start away. + What ails you, Mary? ar'n't you well? + What makes you cry so? sister, tell!" + "Harry, I can't; don't ask me why; + And yet I must--_I've told a lie_! + And here shut up I'm doomed to stay, + And mourn and weep the livelong day. + I shall not dare my face to show, + Nor join the children's plays, you know; + They'll see my tears, and then inquire + What I have done--and call me _liar_. + And, Harry, I'm afraid that you + And Harriet will hate me too. + But what is worst of all, mamma + Don't speak to me, nor does papa; + Not once upon me have they smiled, + Since I was such a wicked child. + O, it will break my heart, I'm sure! + I never told a lie before, + And never, _never_ will again, + If I their pardon can obtain. + Go--it is time that you were gone, + And leave me here to cry alone." + +Nelly sighed two or three times while her little cousin was reading; and +when he had finished, she said, "I'm glad I don't tell lies now. I +didn't use to know how wicked it was." + +Mrs. Gray bent down and kissed her little niece, and then said, "I am +sure, my dear, God will forgive the past, if you ask him, for the sake +of his dear Son." + +"I wonder whether her mother let her go to ride," said Frankie, fixing +his eyes on the picture. "I should think she would, when the little girl +was so sorry." + +As no one replied to his remark, he said, presently, "Here is another +pretty piece; may I read this too, mamma?" + +"Perhaps Nelly would like to read," said the lady. + +"O, yes, aunty," said the little girl; "may I, Frankie?" + +He passed her the handkerchief, though he did not do it very cheerfully. + +"Thank you," said Nelly. "You can look over with me, if you want to." +Then she began to read the verses that were underneath the picture of +the little girls and the poor beggar:-- + + "Look, sister, see how rich I be! + Six cents mamma has given me, + Because it is a holiday; + And now I'm going off to play. + But let me think: what shall I buy? + A cake--or else some pretty toy! + I've wanted long a Jumping Jack. + Well, that I'll buy, and not a cake. + But stop, dear sister; who is this? + A poor old man!--how lame he is! + How lean he looks, and ragged too!-- + Give him some dinner, sister, do. + Now he will have to go away, + And beg his dinner every day. + I wish I had a dollar now; + Six cents will buy some dinner, though; + And as he travels on the road, + Some biscuits would taste very good; + And he shall have them--so I'll play + Without a Jumping Jack to-day." + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +NELLY'S PRESENT. + + +When Mrs. Gray reached home, she found a letter there for her from her +brother. She read it through, looking very much pleased; and then she +told Nelly that her father and mother sent their love to her, and hoped +she would come home very soon. + +It was now more than a year since she came to live with her aunt; and +she was delighted with the idea of the visit. "But I shall come right +back again with you, shan't I?" and she gazed earnestly in her aunt's +face. + +"We will see about that," said the lady, "when we get there." And then +she added, "I couldn't spare you at all, my little girl. I hope to have +you with me for a good many years yet." + +Nelly was so much pleased at this, that she jumped up and kissed her +aunt, and exclaimed, "I love you dearly, dearly!" + +Two days later, when they were a little rested from their journey, the +same carriage and horses came to the door, and they drove away toward +Nelly's old home. It was only twelve miles, and the horses trotted over +the road very quickly, so that in less than two hours they came in sight +of the pleasant orchards and gardens surrounding Mr. Nelson's house. +Then Mrs. Gray, after a smiling glance at her husband, said, "Nelly, +your mamma has a pretty present for you at home." + +"What is it, aunty? I can't think of any thing that I want." + +"It is the best present you ever had, my dear," said the lady, smiling. + +"O, I guess it's a watch," cried Frankie, in an animated tone. + +"No, it's a little brother," said aunty; "a darling baby brother." + +Nelly opened wide her bright blue eyes, and then gave a scream of joy. +It was well they were just riding up the avenue to the house, or they +might not have been able to keep the excited child in the carriage. + +"Where's my baby? Where's my brother?" she called out, running up the +steps and into the front door. + +Fortunately her father was in the library. He came quickly to the door +to welcome Nelly and his friends. + +She could scarcely stop to give him a kiss, before she said, "I want to +see my baby, papa--where is it?" + +"Run very softly up in the nursery," said the gentleman, laughing at her +impatience. "You will find it there with Maria." + +Nelly darted up the stairs, and was presently kneeling on the floor by +the cradle which held the tiny form of the baby. When her aunt gently +followed her into the room, she saw her, with flushed cheeks and +wondering eyes, still gazing at the sleeping babe. + +Presently she turned away with an air of disappointment. "It isn't as +large as my great dolly," she said. + +Maria, who had charge of the infant, now returned from the next room, +and began to welcome Nelly home again. She courtesied to Mrs. Gray, +though the lady could see that she had never forgiven her for not +allowing her to remain with the little girl. + +"How is Mrs. Nelson?" asked Mrs. Gray. + +"Very poorly as yet, ma'am. She is in the next room." + +"Why, mamma, are you sick?" inquired Nelly, running into the chamber, +and climbing on the side of the bed. + +"Take care, Nelly," cried her aunt. "Don't jar the bed so; your mamma +has been very ill." + +"I'm sorry," said the little girl, affectionately, and she kissed her +mother's pale hand. "May I show Frankie my baby now?" she asked, turning +to her aunt. + +"If you will go very softly, dear. Remember, noise will make your mamma +worse." Then Mrs. Gray went into the next room, and took off her bonnet +and shawl. After this, she returned to the nursery, where the baby was +still sleeping. + +Nelly and her cousin were just going out, each walking on tip-toe, so as +not to hurt mamma. + +"I never saw a child so much changed," said the old lady who took care +of Mrs. Nelson. "I was here two years ago to nurse her mother; and she +was the torment of the house." + +"She is very easily managed, now," answered Mrs. Gray. "She obeys my +slightest look." + +"We've a little mite of a fellow in there," said the good nurse; "he +only weighed three pounds and a quarter with his clothes on. I never +thought he would live till this time." + +"Is he quiet?" asked the aunt. + +"He has turns of screaming dreadfully," answered the nurse. "That is +what has kept his mother so ill." + +At this moment they heard Mr. Gray and Mr. Nelson coming up the stairs, +and the nurse opened the door and beckoned them into the nursery, as the +sick lady was trying to get some sleep while the baby was quiet. + +Maria had been sitting in the room with her work; but now she arose and +said, "Baby will be likely to sleep a spell now, and I'll go down to the +kitchen and do my ironing." + +"I will take care of him till you return," said Mrs. Gray. + +Her husband and Willie were to ride home in the afternoon, and so her +brother had invited them up to see his little son. He seemed very +anxious about the baby, and asked his sister whether she thought it +would live. + +Before she answered, the lady bent gently over the cradle, and put her +ear down to its chest. It was in such a deep sleep that it almost seemed +as if it were already dead. "I cannot tell," she said, seriously, "until +I have seen it when awake." + +After dinner, before her husband returned home, she called him into the +parlor, and told him she was afraid Maria gave the baby something to +make it sleep so heavily, and she was determined to stay and watch her, +and try to save the dear child. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THE WICKED NURSE. + + +For two days Mrs. Gray scarcely left the nursery for a moment. The poor +little babe would lie and sleep for hours together, and when he was +awake he would scream and throw his head back as if he was going into a +fit. The lady would take him from Maria, and hold him on her breast, and +carry him about the room trying to soothe him, until at last he would +fall asleep again. All this time she had never been able to see that +Maria gave him any thing but his food. This was cream and boiling water, +made pretty sweet with loaf sugar, and she fed him with a spoon. + +One day the lady came in just as she was going to feed him, and asked to +taste of it. + +Maria held up the cup without speaking. + +"It is very nice," said the lady. "I can't see why it distresses him +so." She then turned to leave the room, but as she did so, she saw a +strange kind of smile come over Maria's face; and it brought all the old +suspicions to her mind. When she reached the entry, she came suddenly +back again, and saw Maria pouring some dark-colored drops from a small +vial into the cup. Then she took the spoon and began to feed the baby +again, laying the vial close behind her on the chair. + +Mrs. Gray sprang forward before Maria knew she was in the room, caught +it, and held it up to the light. The word Laudanum was printed on the +label. + +For one moment, her heart beat so fast that she could not speak; then +she snatched the poor baby from Maria's arms, threw a large cradle +blanket around him, and ran down stairs to the library, where her +brother was writing. + +"Here, Edward," she exclaimed,--"here is the food Maria feeds your +little son upon;" and she held out the bottle toward him. "I have +suspected her all along; but to-day I saw her pouring some into the +cup." + +"Where is the wretch?" asked the poor father, his cheeks growing very +white. "How dared she do this?" + +When they returned to the nursery, Maria had run away to the chamber in +the attic, where she kept her trunk; but she had forgotten to take care +of the cup into which she had poured the laudanum. + +While they were tasting and examining it, the doctor came in, and said +that he wondered, with such feeding, that the baby had not died long +before. "We have all been to blame," said the doctor; "and if it had +not been for your sister, Mr. Nelson, I think the child could not have +lived many days." + +Mrs. Gray pressed the poor suffering baby to her heart, and resolved +that she would watch over it until a good, faithful nurse could be +provided. She then rang the bell for some fresh cream and water, while +her brother went to the attic to send Maria from the house. + +He found her busy packing her trunks, for she had sense enough to know +that she would not be allowed to stay longer. He told her she must leave +immediately, and that her trunks should be sent after her. He took out +his pocket book, and paid her the week's wages that were her due, saying +he would not have such a wicked creature in the house another minute. + +Maria cried, and begged on her knees to be allowed to take her trunks +with her, until her master began to think she had some things in them +which did not belong to her. + +He stepped back into the entry, and told Nelly, who was in the lower +hall, to tell the cook to come up to him. This was a good woman, who had +lived with him ever since he was married. When she came, he told her to +examine Maria's trunks, and see whether there was any silver in them, +or other articles belonging to the house. + +Maria cried, and wrung her hands, and said it was cruel to treat her so; +but her master stood by the door, his countenance growing every moment +more stern, while the cook drew out from the bottom of the trunk three +small jars of jelly, four silver teaspoons, one silver fork, a gold +thimble, and three richly-worked collars, all of which the gentleman +recognized as belonging to his wife. + +In spite of the tears and groans of the wicked woman, Mr. Nelson sent +for an officer to arrest her, for he felt sure, if she would steal and +lie, and more than all, if she would give a child that which she knew +would destroy its life, she ought to be punished for her crimes. + +Mrs. Gray did not return home for nearly two weeks, and then she left +the little baby, who had been named Eddy, in the care of a good woman, +who gave him nourishing milk from her own breast. The little fellow now +began to thrive and grow, though the doctor said he would be a long time +in recovering from Maria's cruel treatment. + +Mr. Nelson was so much delighted with the improvement in his little +girl, that he consented to her returning with her aunty, though it was +a great trial to have her remain from home. + +Nelly and Frankie had taken almost the whole care of themselves during +the three weeks of their stay, improving the pleasant autumn weather by +running all over the garden and grounds. + +Back of the house, there was a beautiful grove of chestnut trees, from +two of which was suspended a swing. Here the children passed many happy +hours. Sometimes they sat under the delightful shade with their books in +their hands, reading aloud by turns as they did when at home. Sometimes +they would sing their pretty songs, or repeat favorite verses. Then, +when they were tired of these quiet amusements, they would skip through +the walks with arms interlaced, or jump the rope, or play at hide and +seek. + +At the lower end of the garden, the smooth gravelled walks were lined +with high lattices upon which were trained peach trees, in the shape of +fans. These afforded fine places to hide, which were eagerly improved by +the children. Mrs. Gray often found herself joining the merry shout +which echoed through the garden when either Nelly or her cousin was +successful in the search. + +"O, how I wish Ponto were here!" exclaimed Frankie one day, sinking on +the grass and panting for breath. "He would have found you out long +before I did. That was a real funny place to hide. I kept hearing you +call, 'Coop, coop,' but never thought of looking in there." + +"Yes, indeed!" cried Nelly, laughing and shaking back her curls. "At +first I was afraid I couldn't creep in, the bushes grew so close to the +ground. I could peep through the leaves and see you looking every where. +When you were near, I kept as still as I could; but when you ran away to +look in another place I'd call 'coop' again. O, it's splendid fun!" + +"Well, Master Frankie," said Nelly's papa on the morning when they were +leaving for home, "I am much obliged to you for taking such good care +of my little girl. Your mamma has promised to leave you and Nelly here +while she goes a journey in the autumn." + +"We have had a real good visit, uncle," replied Frankie, his eye +sparkling with joy, "and I shall be very glad to come again." + +"Now," said Nelly, as they drove away from the door, "we are ready to +begin school again." + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + +Spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained as they +appear in the original publication except as follows: + + Page 29 + gently in his trunk, or probosis _changed to_ + gently in his trunk, or proboscis + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie on a Journey, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY *** + +***** This file should be named 33517.txt or 33517.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/5/1/33517/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +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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