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diff --git a/33522.txt b/33522.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6dab445 --- /dev/null +++ b/33522.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1523 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie and His Cousin, 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 and His Cousin + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 24, 2010 [EBook #33522] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://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. VOL. II. FOR YOUTH. + VOL. 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. VOL. 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: UNPACKING NELLY'S TRUNKS.] + + + + +LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN. + +BY + +MRS. MADELINE LESLIE, + + AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S + JUVENILE SERIES," ETC. + +[Illustration] + + 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 AND HIS COUSIN. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +FRANKIE'S COUSIN NELLY. + + +IN another little book I have given you an account of Frankie when he +was a baby, and have spoken of some things which he said and did when he +began to talk and to walk. + +In this book I shall tell you more about him, and also about his cousin +Nelly, who came to pass some months in his father's house, while her +parents visited Europe. + +Nelly was six years old, while Frankie was but just past his fourth +birthday. Nelly was a pale, delicate child, with light flaxen hair, +which curled in ringlets about her face. Her features were very small; +but her eyes were bright and sparkling, and her motions quick and +graceful. + +Sally, the nurse, used often to say that Nelly looked like the great wax +dolls which were put up in the shop windows; but her cousin Willie +laughed, and said, "Nelly flies about so, I can't tell what she does +look like." + +When Nelly was a baby, she had learned to suck her finger; and since +that time she had never been taught to give up the habit. Before her +mother went to Europe, Mrs. Gray showed her that the poor little finger +was wasting away, and would never grow like the others, unless Nelly +would stop sucking it. But the lady only laughed, and said, "I have not +the heart to forbid her, she takes such a world of comfort with it." + +Mrs. Gray said no more, but she determined to break up the habit before +Nelly left her. + +The little girl was to have a small room, opening out of her aunt's +chamber. There her trunks were carried for Sally to unpack, and put the +clothes into the wardrobe and drawers. + +"Come in here!" said Nelly to her little cousin, "and we will take out +the playthings. This trunk is full of them." + +Frankie's eyes grew very round and large as Sally selected the right +key, and displayed a great variety of toys packed as closely as +possible into the large trunk. + +"Goodness me!" exclaimed nurse, holding up both hands. "Why, you'll be +able to set up a toy shop, miss." + +"I have more at home," said Nelly. "Maria couldn't get them all in." + +Maria was the name of the colored woman who had taken care of Nelly ever +since she was a tiny baby. She had wished to come with her to Mrs. +Gray's, and cried bitterly when she knew that she could not. But her +aunt was sure that if Maria was there, Nelly would be too much indulged, +that is, she would have her own way, and would be spoiled. She loved her +little niece, and was sorry that her brother's wife did not take more +pains to teach her little girl to be good and kind. She hoped Nelly +would learn, while her mother was away, to wait upon herself, and to be +generous and truthful. + +When Sally had unlocked the trunk of playthings for the little miss, she +went on unpacking the other one. She took out the dresses, and laid them +on the bed. There was a pink muslin, and a blue tarleton, and a white +one with the skirt tucked up to the waist. Then there were two silks, +and one or two delaines, and ever so many French calicoes. + +Mrs. Gray came in at this moment, and Sally exclaimed, "Where I am to +put all these dresses, ma'am, is more than I can tell. The wardrobe +won't hold half of them." + +The lady glanced toward the bed, and said, "You may hang the best ones +in the parlor-chamber closet." + +By this time Frankie had helped his cousin to take out the toys; and +they were spread all over the floor, so that neither his mamma nor nurse +could walk at all without stepping on them. + +"Why, Nelly," said her aunt, "what a quantity of playthings you have +there!" + +"May we play with them here?" asked Frankie. + +"I am afraid you will be in Sally's way," replied mamma. + +"She can wait, then, till we are done," said Nelly, taking up a large +dolly. + +"No," said her aunt; "nurse has a great deal to do; and first of all she +wants to clear up this room. See how untidy it looks, with the clothes +all lying about." + +"Can't we go up in Willie's play room, then?" asked the little boy. + +"Yes, my dear; there is a large case up there, which will make a nice +play house for Nelly. You can have one shelf for the parlor, and put +these little sofas and chairs in it. Then have another for the closet, +and set out the cups and saucers. You and your cousin may carry them up +stairs; and when Margie comes home, she will love to help you arrange +them." + +"O mamma, see this pretty carriage!" cried Frankie. + +"That's a pedler's wagon," said Nelly. "There is the front seat for him +to sit on, and the top comes way over to keep off the rain. The horses +can take out too. When I first had it, I used to play 'get to the +tavern, and put them up in the barn.'" + +"O Nelly!" exclaimed the little fellow, "let us play that as soon as we +get up stairs." + +"I'm tired," said Nelly, sitting down on the floor, and putting her +finger in her mouth. + +"I'll carry the things up then," said Frankie, running into the next +room for a basket. "See, I'm real strong." + +"If you are tired, you had better go and lie down on the lounge," said +her aunt. + +"No," said Nelly; "I want to stay here, and see Sally put away my +clothes." + +Nurse did not take a fancy to the little girl; that was very plain. She +kept muttering to herself all the time she was arranging the drawers, +and was quite vexed that her darling, as she called Frankie, should be +doing the work while Nelly sat idly looking on. + +At last, when her mistress had left the room, she asked, "Do you never +work any, miss?" + +Nelly shook her head. + +"Well, I expect your aunt will teach you to wait upon yourself," said +Sally; "you'd be a great deal happier if you had something to do." + +"Maria does every thing for me," said Nelly, still holding her finger in +her mouth. "If I don't like to stay without her, I shall send for her to +come. Mamma said I might." + +"Indeed!" said nurse, laughing. "We'll see what your aunt says to that. +Here, darling," she called out to Frankie, "let Sally help you carry +that heavy basket. I'm afraid you can't get it through the door alone." + +"Yet I can," said Frankie, "cause I belong to the Try Company." + +"I guess your cousin had better join it too," said nurse to herself. + +[Illustration] + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +MOSES AND THE ORANGE. + + +"MAMMA," said Frankie one day, "you promised to tell me a toly." + +"So I did," said mamma; "and what shall it be about?" + +"Bout Moses." + +"Moses in the bulrushes?" asked mamma. + +"No; bout Moses and the olange." + +The lady thought a minute before she could remember what he meant. Then +she smiled, and said, "O, yes, I'll tell that. Do you like to hear +stories, Nelly?" she asked. + +"I don't know," answered Nelly. "Maria sometimes tells me pretty ones." + +"Well, you may bring the cricket, and sit down by Frankie. I think you +will like to hear about Moses," said aunty. "He was just as old as you +are, Nelly; and like you, he was an only child. His father and mother +were very fond of him, and loved to do every thing to make him happy. I +don't mean that they always let him have his own way, or allowed him to +do what was wrong, for that would have made him grow very selfish and +wicked. + +"The day before he was six years old, his mother thought she would let +him have a party. So she asked his father to bring from the city some +oranges, and figs, and nuts, that the little folks might have a feast. + +"When papa had gone to town, which he did every day, because his store +was there, she went to the kitchen, and helped the cook make some light +sponge cake for Moses to have for his party. + +"The little fellow knelt in a chair close by the table, and watched her +sift the sugar and beat the eggs; then, when she put in the lemon, and +took a clean spoon to taste a little to know whether it was seasoned +right, Moses said, 'I should like to taste too.' + +"By and by the cake was done, and smelled so good that Moses asked for a +piece; but his mother told him to wait until his cousins were there to +eat it with him. + +"Then the carriage came up to the door, and James, the hostler, rung the +bell to let his mistress know he was ready to drive her out. She dressed +her little boy in his new suit, and told him he might go with her. + +"They drove first to aunt Mary's, and mamma invited George and Walter, +and little Katy. Then they went a mile farther, to uncle John's, where +Susy, William, and Grace gladly promised to come. On their way home, +they called upon three of their neighbors, where the number was +increased to eleven. + +"When his father came home from the city, he brought a basket in one +hand, and two large bundles under his other arm. + +"Moses ran to meet him, and said, 'Let me carry the basket, papa. It +isn't too heavy for me.' + +"Before he put it on the table, he peeped in, and said, 'O, what nice +oranges, papa!' The little boy was very fond of oranges. + +"That night Moses went to bed very happy. He longed for the time when +his young companions would come, and lay awake nearly an hour, thinking +what a very pleasant party his would be. + +"The next morning he was up long before his mother, and ran down stairs +to see if breakfast was ready. The table was not yet laid; and he went +into the large store closet to see where his mother had put the oranges +and cake. There was the basket upon the first shelf, and on lifting the +lid he saw that the oranges were still in it. How fresh and good they +smelt! He put in his hand and took one out. 'O, what a large one!' + +"The basket was so full, he thought there must be more than twelve; so +he stood up on a box, and began to count them. 'Yes, there are,' he said +to himself; 'there are twelve, and one more.' + +"Then he took the largest, and laid it on the next shelf, while he put +the others back again into the basket, wishing all the time that he +could have it for his own. He knew that he should have one at the party, +but he couldn't wait. 'I want one now,' he said. + +"He sat down on the box, and began to smell the large orange which he +had left out. Then he made a small hole in the peel, and began to suck +the juice through it. It tasted so sweet, he could not get his mouth +away. So he squeezed and sucked, and sucked and squeezed, until the +juice was all gone, and nothing remained but the skin and the pulp. + +"'O, dear! I'm sorry I've eaten it,' he whispered; 'I didn't mean to. I +only thought I would suck it a little. How quick it all came out!' + +"Just then he heard cook come into the room to set the table for +breakfast, and he knew his mother would soon be down. He began to be +very unhappy, and to wish he were back again in his little bed. Then he +remembered it was his birthday; but some how the thought of his party +gave him no pleasure." + +"I guess Satan was whispering to him," said Frankie. "If I had been +there, I would open the door, and say, 'Satan, go wight out.'" + +"Who is Satan?" asked Nelly, who had been listening with great interest. + +"Satan's naughty man," said Frankie. "He don't love good boys." + +"He is the evil spirit," replied aunty, "who tries to make boys and +girls, and men and women too, behave naughty and sin against God." + +"Does he live in Moses' house?" asked the little girl. + +"He is every where, my dear," said the lady, "trying to make people do +mischief. He was there in the closet with Moses, and when the little +boy's naughty heart said, 'I would steal one of my mother's oranges and +eat it,' he said, 'Yes; no one will know it, and if your mother asks +you about it, you can tell her a lie, and say you didn't touch it.'" + +"I wouldn't take your olange, mamma," said Frankie, putting his arms +round his mother's neck and kissing her. "I would ask you, 'May I?'" + +At this moment a lady called to see mamma, and she said, "You may go and +play now, and I will finish the story about Moses some other time." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +FRANKIE'S SICKNESS. + + +THAT night Frankie was quite sick, and his mother, after being up with +him several times, lay down by him in his trundle-bed. He was very much +pleased at this, and put up his little hot hand on her face. The fever +made him quite wakeful, and he wanted to talk. She began to repeat the +little rhyme,-- + + "Once there was a little man, + Where a little river ran," + +when he said, "Mamma, please tell me 'bout heaven." + +"Do you want to go to heaven?" she asked. + +"Yes, mamma, when I die; but I can't go 'lone. I want you to go with me. +Won't you please to ask God to let us take hold of hands and go wight up +to heaven together. That would be a pretty way; wouldn't it?" + +Mrs. Gray bent over her darling boy and kissed his cheek. She whispered +a prayer to God to preserve her dear child from death for a long time to +come. + +Pretty soon he spoke again: "How can you get up to heaven, mamma?" + +"God will send his angels, my dear, and take me there." + +"I 'fraid they can't lift you, mamma, you so heavy. But you can go up on +the barn, and then they can get you up there; can't they?" In a minute, +he asked, "Does God have horses in heaven, mamma?" + +Toward morning, he sank into a quiet sleep, and did not awake until +Willie and Margie had gone to school. When he opened his eyes, his mamma +was standing over him with a cup of milk and water in her hand. + +"Frankie feel better," he said, starting up to receive her kiss. + +As he still felt weak, his mamma held him in her lap, where he could +look at Ponto, who was washing his paws on the rug. Presently Nelly came +in, carrying a wax doll nearly as large as herself. She was a little +afraid of Ponto, and when he went and put his nose on her arm, and tried +to lick her hand, she cried, "Get away, you ugly dog! I hate you, I do!" +and she struck him with the doll. + +Ponto growled, and turned away to Frankie. The little fellow slipped +down from his mother's lap, and clasped his arms around Ponto's neck. +"O, you good dog," he said, "I love you, I do." + +Ponto knew very well what this meant, and he rapped with his tail as +hard as he could on the rug. Then Frankie made the dog lie down, and he +laid his head upon him. + +Ponto was delighted to have his little master use him for a pillow; so +he lay very still indeed. I suppose he thought Frankie wished to go to +sleep. + +Then Mrs. Gray told Nelly how the good dog had pulled Frankie out of the +water, and how much they all loved him. But Nelly only said, "I hate +dogs, I do, they're so ugly and cross;" and then she put her finger in +her mouth again. + +"Mamma," said Frankie, "I want to hear 'bout Moses 'gen. Pease, mamma, +tell me toly 'bout Moses." + +"Well," said mamma, "I'll get my sewing and tell you the rest of the +story." So Frankie lay with his head on Ponto, and listened to mamma. +Nelly sat in her little chair, and sucked her finger and tended her +doll. "I told you," said the lady, "that Moses began to wish he had not +touched the orange; but it was of no use to wish that now, for there it +was all squeezed and sucked, and what should he do with it? + +"When the cook had set the table, she rang the bell, and presently his +father and mother came down to breakfast. + +"'Where's Moses?' asked his mamma; 'I expected to find him at the +table.' + +"'He came down early,' said the cook; 'but I have not seen him for a +good while.' + +"'Won't you see if he is out doors?' said the lady. + +"Moses knew it was of no use for him to wait any longer; so he came out +laughing. + +"'Why, what were you doing, my dear?' asked the lady. + +"'I was hiding,' said the boy." + +"O, that was a naughty lie!" exclaimed Frankie. + +"Yes, dear, when children do one naughty thing, they almost always do +another. Moses had stolen his mother's orange, and now he told a lie to +hide it. His mother did not think he would act so wickedly. She asked, +'Do you remember, Moses, this is your birthday.' + +"'Yes, mamma.' + +"'You have a very pleasant day for your party,' said his father; and +then Moses began to talk about what he should play when his company +came. 'Shall you have the supper first?' he asked. + +"'No, my dear. I shall wait until you have played a while.' + +"After breakfast the lady swept and dusted the parlors, to have them +ready for the party. Then she sat down to her sewing, while she heard +Moses read and spell. After this he went out doors to play with his +hoop. + +"In the middle of the afternoon she began to arrange for her little +feast. First, she took the nut-cracker and cracked the large walnuts, +the almonds, and the filberts, and put them in the glass dishes ready to +set them on the table. Then she cut the cake into square pieces, and +grated sugar over them. After that, she put the figs into plates, and +then brought out the basket of oranges. + +"All this time, Moses had been kneeling in his chair by the table, +watching her as she worked. He looked very sober. He was thinking about +the orange, and wished he had not taken it. + +"When his mother began to take the oranges from the basket, he felt as +if he should cry, he was so afraid she would find out what he had done. + +"'Why,' said the lady to herself, 'here are only twelve. I asked him to +get thirteen.' She counted them over again. All at once she looked at +Moses, and said, 'I hope you have not eaten one of mother's oranges, my +dear.' + +"'No,' said the little boy, 'I haven't touched one.'" + +"O, dear!" said Frankie. "I'm afraid God won't love Moses any more, he +is so naughty, and tells so many lies." + +Frankie jumped up when he said this, and Ponto took the opportunity to +turn himself over. He had lain very still before, for fear of disturbing +his little master. + +"'What did you want thirteen for?' asked Moses. 'You said there would be +twelve at the party.' + +"'Because I meant to send one to Sarah Christie. Joseph and Belle are +coming, but Sarah is sick, you know; so I meant to send her one. I +suppose your father forgot it; but I'm very sorry.'" + +Mrs. Gray was going on to tell the rest of the story, but she saw that +Frankie looked very pale, and she stopped. + +"I want to womit," said he, and she ran quickly to get the bowl. Then +she gave him some medicine, and put him into bed, while she sent Nelly +to play out doors until he awoke. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +NELLY'S PUNISHMENT. + + +IN a few days Frankie was quite well again, and able to play merrily +with Nelly, who had sadly missed him in her out-door exercise. + +The little girl had not been long with her aunt before the lady saw that +the right training of her niece would require much skill and patience. +Nelly had never been taught to obey, and could not be made to +understand why she should not have her own way, as she had done at home. +There was another thing which made her aunt feel very badly. She found +that, young as Nelly was, she had already learned to deceive, and no one +could trust her word a moment. Then she was selfish, and while she would +not oblige her cousins by lending them her books or toys, she was very +angry if they did not at once yield theirs to her, when she asked for +them. + +She was so pert and uncivil in her talk, that Sally, and even Jane, +disliked to have her about; and at last her aunt was obliged to shut her +in her own room, she spoke so impudently to the servants. Instead of +asking the nurse to do her a favor, as the other children did, she used +to say, "Go right up stairs quick, Sally, and get my bonnet;" and once, +when Sally did not start, she said, "You're an ugly girl," and struck +her in the face. + +Nurse started forward to hold her hands, when at this moment Mrs. Gray +entered the room. + +Nelly was ashamed that her aunt had heard her, for she loved her aunt +better than any one in the house; but when the lady took her hand firmly +to lead her up stairs, she screamed and struggled to get away. "I don't +like to stay here," she cried; "this is an ugly house. I wish my mamma +would come home and take me away." + +Mrs. Gray led her to a chair in her own room, and going out locked the +door after her. But Nelly kicked and pounded the door so hard, and threw +over the chairs, that her aunt was obliged to call Sally to help her tie +the naughty girl to a chair. + +She was very sorry to do this, and the tears were in her eyes; but Sally +was right glad to have the child punished as she deserved. Indeed, she +had told Jane the day before that she did not see how mistress had so +much patience with the naughty child. + +Mrs. Gray did not intend to hurt Nelly. She only meant to fasten her +hands and feet to the chair so as to prevent her doing any more +mischief. She took large towels from the washstand to do this; but Nelly +kicked and screamed, and at last made a great scratch on her aunt's +face. After that Sally took the child in her arms, and held her so tight +she could not move. + +When they had fastened her firmly to her seat, they went out, and left +her to think of her bad conduct. + +Mrs. Gray went into her closet, and asked God to direct her what to do +in order to make Nelly a good, obedient child. + +After an hour she went back, and said, "Are you sorry, my dear, that you +have been so naughty?" + +"I don't love you. I want to go to Maria," was the only reply. + +Her aunt sighed, when she found the little girl was not at all subdued, +and she went out again. + +If Nelly could have put her finger in her mouth, it would have been no +punishment for her to stay there, for she could lie back in the chair +and go to sleep. + +When her uncle came home to dinner, he found Willie, and Frankie, and +mamma, sitting silent and sad in the parlor, while from above stairs +came the sound of loud and angry crying. The lady wept as she told her +husband how naughty Nelly had behaved. "I had no idea," she said, "that +she had so bad a temper." + +"Shall I go up and talk with her?" asked the gentleman. + +"If you think it best," replied mamma; "but I fear it will do no good. I +have already been to her three times." + +"Well, perhaps I had better leave her with you, then. I hope this will +be a good lesson to her." + +After dinner, Mrs. Gray carried a plate full of pudding to Nelly, and +offered to feed her with it; but the stubborn child refused to eat. She +made up faces at her aunt, and said many naughty words, which I should +not want any little boy or girl to hear. + +The lady came out of her room looking very pale and anxious, and at last +began to cry. She was quite discouraged, and thought she would write to +her brother, and tell him she could do nothing with his child. But if I +do so, she thought, Nelly will be ruined. If she grows up with such a +bad temper, is so untruthful and selfish, she will be a trial to herself +and to her parents; and what is more than that, she can never have the +blessing of God. "I will not give up yet," she said, aloud. "I will try +her a little longer." + +She then went down stairs, and told Frankie he might go out doors and +play with his wheel-barrow; but the little fellow said, "I want to stay +with you, mamma. Nelly makes my head ache." Poor child, he did not feel +like play while his cousin was so naughty. + +It was almost time for tea, when the lady, having once more asked God to +direct her, entered the little chamber where her niece was sitting. +Nelly was quiet now; but her lips stuck out with an ugly pout. + +"My dear child," said the lady, sitting down near her, "it makes us all +very unhappy to have you up here by yourself, when you might be playing +and enjoying yourself with your cousins. When you came to live with us, +we thought it was so pleasant to have a dear little girl running and +dancing about the house! But now it seems sad because we know by your +naughty temper you have not only offended us, but you have displeased +God. I wish you would let me untie your hands, and see you my darling +little Nelly once more." + +"I'm sorry now," said Nelly, her lip quivering. "I will be good, aunty." +The tears ran down the little girl's cheeks, but this time they were not +angry tears. + +Her aunt made haste to untie the towels, and took Nelly in her arms. + +"I love you now," sobbed Nelly; "I love you dearly." + +"And I love you, my dear, or I could not have kept you here so long," +said her aunt, kissing her again and again. "I came a great many times +to the door, and longed to take you from this great chair, and hear your +happy voice once more; but I knew it would be wrong in me to do so +until you were ready to say you were sorry, and to promise to be a good +girl. You have offended God, my dear child. Shall I ask him to forgive +you?" + +"Yes, aunty." + +Mrs. Gray then knelt with Nelly by the chair, and prayed God to forgive +all her sins, and to help her to keep her new resolution to be good. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +TAKING MEDICINE. + + +AFTER tea Nelly had a fine romp with her cousins on the lawn. Margie and +Ponto were there too; and papa and mamma sat on the front steps, +laughing and enjoying their sport. As the children ran round and round, +the lady saw that Nelly's apron was unbuttoned, and that it troubled her +as she played. She called, "Nelly, come here a minute." + +The little girl stopped at once, and then ran to her aunt. Before this, +when any one called her, she would say, "I can't come now;" or, "In a +minute I will." The lady was very much pleased to see that the child +obeyed promptly. When she had fastened the apron, Nelly clasped her arms +about her aunt's neck, and kissed her. Her uncle smiled, and said, "You +look very happy now, Nelly; I wish your mamma could see your rosy +cheeks." + +"Come, Nelly, it's your turn now," shouted Willie from the lawn. + +A few days after this, Mrs. Gray sat busily sewing, while Frankie made a +barn with his blocks, in which to put up the pedler's cart, and Nelly +was undressing her doll. The sleeve did not come off easily, and as she +pulled it roughly it tore. The little girl was angry, and began to cry. + +"What is the matter?" asked her aunt. + +"Dolly's dress is ugly, and it's all torn." + +"Should you like to have a needle, and mend it, my dear?" + +"O, yes, aunty." + +"May I sew some too?" asked Frankie. + +"Yes, darling, you may mend this stocking." She then threaded a needle +for the little girl, and showed her how to put the stitches through, and +afterwards gave Frankie a darning needle with some yarn. He had often +sewed before, and he liked the business very much. There was no knot in +the thread, and so he pulled it through and through. But he thought it +was sewing for all that. + +Nelly sat steadily at her work for a minute; but at last she threw it +on the floor, and said, "I hate sewing, it's so hard." + +"Let me see it, dear," said aunty. + +Nelly picked it up, and put it into her hand. + +She laughed when she looked at it, and Nelly laughed too; and then +Frankie said, "O, what funny sewing!" + +"I'll baste you some easier work," said her aunt; "and you shall have a +little thimble to put on your finger. Then you will like to sew." + +Nelly had behaved much better since she was punished, so that her uncle, +aunt, and cousins loved her better than ever. Still there were many +things in which they hoped she would improve. + +One day her aunt found her sitting on the piazza alone, eating +something, and as soon as she saw some one coming, she put it hastily +in her pocket. It was not more than an hour before she complained of a +bad pain in her stomach. + +"What have you been eating, my dear?" asked her aunt. + +"Nothing," said Nelly. + +"Are you sure?" and the lady looked earnestly in her face. + +"Yes, I am very sure," answered Nelly. + +Mrs. Gray sent Sally for some warm peppermint water, and then laid the +child on the lounge. + +For some time she lay quite still, sucking her finger; but when her aunt +glanced toward her to see if she were asleep, she noticed that Nelly +looked very pale about the mouth; and presently she jumped up, and +carried her to the closet, where she threw up a great quantity of +raisins, which she had stolen from her aunt's box. + +She continued very sick all that night, and in the morning the doctor +came, and said she must take a large dose of castor oil. + +The sight of oil always made the lady very sick, and so her uncle said +he would give it to her. He poured it out, and mixed it with a little +hot milk, and held it to her lips. But she would not take it. He tried +to persuade her, promised her a ride, told her she would be very sick +if she did not obey the doctor, but all was of no use. She shut her +teeth, and would not touch it. + +Then Sally tried her skill. "I'll make your great dolly a new dress," +she said; "come, now, be a good girl, and then I'll tell you how Frankie +took his medicine." It was all in vain; Nelly still shook her head, and +refused to obey. + +Mrs. Gray then took the child in her lap, and spread a large cloth under +her chin, at the same time telling Sally to bring a cup of blackberry +jelly from the store closet. "Now, my little Nelly," she said, "you must +take this to make you well. If you will open your mouth and swallow it +all down like a good girl, I will give you some nice jelly to take the +taste out, for it is very bad. But if you don't take it before I count +three, I shall hold you and force it down your throat." + +Then she began to count,--"one, two,"--but before she could say three, +Nelly caught the spoon and swallowed the medicine, and then took some +jelly so quickly, that she hardly tasted the oil. + +"That was a right good girl," said her uncle. "I couldn't have taken it +any better myself." + +When Nelly was well, her aunt kindly talked with her of the great sin +which she had committed. "You have done just as naughty Moses did," she +said. "First, you stole the raisins, as he stole the orange; and then +you told a wicked lie to hide it from me, as he did to hide his sin from +his mother." Then she told Nelly, "God hears all we say, and sees all we +do. We can hide nothing from him; and he says in his holy book, 'liars +shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and +brimstone.'" + +Nelly cried; and promised over and over again to be a good girl, and she +really tried to improve. She saw how happy her cousins were, and how +every body loved them, and she said to herself, "I mean to try to be +just as good as I can." + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THE LOST ORANGE FOUND. + + +WHEN little girls or boys try to do right, every body loves to help +them. Mrs. Gray knew that for six years her little niece had been +indulged in every wish, and that she had never been taught to restrain +her ill humor. She could not, therefore, expect her to be cured at once +of all her bad habits; but she was much pleased to see that Nelly grew +every day more amiable, more ready to give up her own wishes, and to try +to make others happy. Sometimes, in playing with Frankie, she would +forget, and say an unkind word; but the moment she saw the eye of her +aunt fixed mournfully upon her, she would say, "I'm sorry, Frankie." + +When she said this, the dear child always put up his little red lips to +kiss her, and say, "I sorry, too, Nelly." Sometimes he would add, "God +is sorry, too." + +It was very rainy one morning, and the children were obliged to keep in +doors. Frankie had for some time been amusing himself by hiding a ball, +which he made Ponto find and bring to him in his teeth, while Nelly +shouted and danced at every new discovery, saying "I never saw such a +funny dog before." + +At last they grew tired of this, and even Ponto began to think they had +played this game quite long enough; so Frankie sat down on the floor, +and putting one arm around the dog's neck, said, "Mamma, I want to hear +a toly." + +"You said some time you would tell us some more about Moses," exclaimed +Nelly. + +"So I will," said mamma. "I told you that his mother counted the +oranges, and found there were but twelve. 'I'm sorry,' she said to +Moses, 'because I wanted one for Sarah Christie; but I suppose your +father forgot to get it, and I'll send her one another time.' + +"'You can give her some figs,' said Moses. + +"'So I can,' replied his mother; and then she went on cutting the peel +and tearing it down a little way, so that, when they were put into the +large glass dish, they looked like great yellow flowers. + +"'O, how pretty they are!' said Moses. + +"His mother then set all the dishes on the sideboard, and covered them +over with a clean table cloth. After tea, she said, 'I will set them out +on the table, and then when the children have done playing, they can +come here and eat them.' + +"When Moses' father came home from the city, the lady said, 'I'm sorry +you forgot to get thirteen oranges. There were only twelve in the +basket.' + +"'There were thirteen when I brought them home,' said papa; 'I am sure +of it, because I counted them myself, and they were nice ones too; I had +to give three cents apiece for them, though they are quite plenty now.' + +"'I don't know where the other can have gone,' said mamma, looking very +sober, as a painful suspicion flashed through her. + +"'I hope Moses wouldn't take one without leave,' said the gentleman. + +"'I asked him,' replied mamma, 'and he said he hadn't touched them.' + +"'Where is he?' asked papa, 'I will ask him. I don't care at all about +the orange, because I can easily get another; but somebody must have +taken it, and I am afraid it was our little boy.' The gentleman then +went to the door and called, 'Moses! Moses!' + +"Presently Moses came, and his father took him in his lap, and said, +'Tell me, my dear, have you taken an orange from the basket?' + +"'No, papa,' said the boy, his face growing very red. 'I told mamma I +hadn't touched them.' + +"The gentleman couldn't think that his darling child would tell a lie; +so he put him down to the floor, and inquired, 'Have you asked cook?' + +"'No,' said mamma; 'I am quite sure she wouldn't meddle with my things.' + +"'Just then, cook came in with the cloth for supper, and mamma said to +Moses, 'I shall have time, I think, to dress you before tea. Run up +quick to my room, and I will get a clean ruffle, and baste it in your +new sack." + +"While she was doing this, he pulled off his sack and pantaloons that +he had worn every day, and threw them on the floor. Then his mother +washed his face, and neck, and arms, and hands, very clean, and brushed +his hair smoothly off his forehead, so that he looked very nicely +indeed. And all the time Moses was talking about his party, and telling +what a pleasant time he should have. + +"'It's your birthday,' said his mother, kissing him, 'and you must +remember to be a very good boy. Be kind to your dear little cousins and +playmates, and let them play with any of your toys. Here, let me hang up +your clothes, and we will go down to tea.' + +"She took the pantaloons from the floor, and said, 'Why, Moses, what +have you stuffed into your pocket? Here is your handkerchief wet +through.' She pulled out first an India rubber ball, and then--O, what +do you think?--why, the lost orange, all sucked and gone except the +peel. + +"'O Moses!' was all the poor mother could say. She sank into a chair, +and covered her face with her hands; but the tears trickled down through +her fingers. + +"The little boy began to cry; he wished his mother had not found him +out, because it made her feel so badly. Presently the tea bell rang; +but the lady never stirred from her seat. She was mourning over her son, +and thinking what she ought to do to punish him for his great sin. + +"'Supper is ready,' called out papa from the stairs. + +"'Don't wait for me,' answered the lady; 'I can't go down.' + +"'What is the matter?' asked the gentleman, springing up the stairs and +coming into the room. + +"Mamma began to weep again. She could not speak, but she held up the +skin of the orange, and glanced toward Moses, who was sitting in a chair +by himself crying bitterly. + +"'So he did take it, after all,' said papa, in a stern voice. + +"'I'm sorry, papa,' sobbed the boy. + +"'What a wicked boy you must be, to steal and lie, and on your birthday +too,' said his father, 'when we were trying to make you so happy!' + +"'I never will do so again,' said Moses. + +"'You must be punished, so that you will remember it,' said his father. + +"'Stay here,' said his mother; 'I will send cook up with some supper for +you.'" + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. + + +"SHE sat down at the table, and poured the tea, but she could not eat. +Her heart was too sorrowful. She arose, and returned to the chamber, +where Moses was eating a slice of bread and butter. When he had finished +it, she said, 'Wipe your hands on the towel, and take off your +clothes.' + +"'Are you going to whip me, mamma? I never will be so naughty again,' +exclaimed the boy, beginning to cry louder than ever. + +"'No,' said his mother, 'I am going to put you to bed.' + +"'I can't see my party, then,' screamed Moses, catching hold of his +mother's dress. + +"'Nor eat any of the good things, my child. You have been a wicked boy, +and broken God's holy commands; and I must punish you. You don't know +how you've made mother's heart ache,' said the lady, trying to keep back +her tears. 'I did not think you could be so naughty. When I know how +displeased the dear Saviour must be, I tremble for you.' + +"'I didn't mean to eat the orange, mamma; it smelled so good, I only +thought I would suck it a little.' + +"'If you had told me that at first, I would gladly have forgiven you,' +said mamma; 'but you told wicked lies to hide your sin. You forgot that +God was looking at you all the time, and knew all that was in your +heart. You must pray to him to forgive you, and to make you a good boy.' + +"Moses cried so that he could hardly stand. His mother took off his +clothes, put on his night gown, and helped him into bed. Then she knelt +by his bed side, and prayed that the means used to punish him might help +him to remember what a great sin lying is. She asked God to forgive him, +and help him from that hour to be an honest, truthful boy. + +"Moses slept in a small room, next to her own, and as the lady thought +some of the little party might run up there, she locked the door, and +went herself down the back way. + +"Pretty soon the bell rang, and Moses stopped crying to listen. He heard +happy voices of children running through the hall. Then they asked, +'Where's Moses?' But he could not hear what his mother answered. + +"In a few minutes a carriage drove up, and there was another ring of the +bell. This time it was his cousins, and he heard them laughing and +talking together. + +"Before half an hour all the company had assembled. Some of the little +girls went up to the front room, and he could hear his mother's voice as +she went with them. She was talking very kindly, but he thought she did +not feel happy, it was so sad. + +"O, what a long evening that was! He could not go to sleep, for every +few minutes there was a merry burst of laughter from the room below; +and he knew that his papa was teaching them some pretty games. Every +time he heard this he began to cry again. And then he wondered whether +his mother would tell them why he was not there, and what they would +say. + +"At last he heard them all walk out into the dining room, and papa's +voice saying, 'I will take Katy because she is the youngest.' Now he +knew they were going to sit at table and eat the nice fruit. + +"'O, dear!' he sobbed, 'how sorry I am!' And then, for the first time, +he began to think how wicked it was to deceive his dear parents, who had +been so kind to him all his life. 'I made mamma cry,' he said softly. +'I'm sorry for that, too.' + +"As soon as Satan heard Moses say that, he ran away and hid; and the +good Spirit came, and whispered to Moses, and presently he got out of +his bed, and knelt down by his low chair, and prayed softly. But Jesus +heard what he said, and looked into his heart, and saw he was really +sorry he had been a wicked boy, and then God forgave him. + +"Pretty soon the children all came rushing up the stairs to put on their +clothes, for the carriages had come to take them home. Moses was not +crying now. He lay quiet and still; and he heard them say, 'Good by! +good by! Please give my love to Moses;' and then the door was shut, and +the house all still again. + +"When mamma came up stairs she carried the light into her little boy's +room to see if he was awake. His eyes were wide open, and as soon as he +saw her, he said, 'You might give my orange to Sarah Christie, mamma, +because I wasn't down there to eat it.' + +"Then mamma put up her handkerchief quick to wipe the tears from her +eyes; and she went up to the bed and kissed her boy, for she knew that +he had repented of his sin. + +"'I am sorry, very sorry,' he said, pulling her face down to his; 'I +prayed hard to God to forgive me, and make me good. Will you forgive +me, mamma?' + +"'Yes, my darling. I will gladly forgive you, and I hope this may be a +lesson to you as long as you live.'" + +Nelly looked very sober while her aunt was telling this story. She began +to see how naughty she had been, and to hope that God would forgive her +too. + +As soon as his mother had finished, Frankie said, "O, I'm so glad Moses +became a good boy! Did he ever steal or tell lies again?" + +"No, my dear, I am happy to tell you that from the hour when he so +heartily repented of his great sin, and so earnestly asked God to +forgive him, he became an honest and truthful boy. But I have talked a +long time, and can only add one incident, which occurred nearly six +months later than the birthday party. + +"Moses had a cousin whose name was Eugene. He lived in a city many +hundred miles distant. He was also an only child; but unlike Moses, he +had been foolishly indulged in every desire of his heart, until he had +become exceedingly selfish, wilful, and passionate. Eugene accompanied +his parents on a visit to his aunt, and though younger than his cousin, +began at once to tyrannize over him. + +"One day a loud cry was heard from the play room, and presently Eugene +came running to his mother, complaining that Moses had broken his little +wagon, and then had struck him with his Indian bow. + +"'How is this, Moses?' asked his mother; 'did you strike your cousin?' + +"The little fellow fixed his large, earnest eyes full upon hers, as he +exclaimed, 'O, no, indeed, mother! Eugene knows I did not touch him. We +were playing together, when the wagon wheel hit the trunk and broke it. +Then he got angry, and pinched me on my arm. + +"'I don't mind that,' he added, as his aunt pointed to a large red spot +near his elbow; 'but I'm dreadfully sorry he didn't tell the truth.'" + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Obvious punctuation errors repaired. + +Page 108, word "to" added to text (next to her own) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie and His Cousin, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN *** + +***** This file should be named 33522.txt or 33522.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/5/2/33522/ + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://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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