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diff --git a/34830.txt b/34830.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b19466 --- /dev/null +++ b/34830.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1290 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie and his Mother, 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 Mother + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: January 3, 2011 [EBook #34830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER *** + + + + +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: FRANKIE IN HIS JUMPER.] + + + + + +LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER. + + 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 AND HIS MOTHER. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +FRANKIE'S SILVER CUP. + + +DO you wish to know who little Frankie was, and where he lived? Come and +sit down in your pretty chair by my side, and I will tell you. Frankie +was not the real name of this little boy. When he was a tiny baby, not +much larger than black Dinah, his father came home one night from his +store, and asked, "Have you named the baby yet, mamma?" + +"No," she answered, "I have not; but I have been thinking that if you +are pleased, I should like to call him Frank." + +"Frank, Frank, Frankie," said his father, repeating it over and over +again, to hear how it would sound. "Yes, I like the name; and then my +friend, Mr. Wallace, is called Frank. Yes, Frank it shall be." + +"While he is a baby, we will call him Frankie," said his mamma. So that +was the way he obtained so pretty a name. + +About a week after this, there came one day a man on horseback riding up +to the front door. He jumped briskly down upon the wide stone step, and +rang the bell with a loud, quick jerk, which seemed to say, I am in a +hurry. Margie, the errand girl, ran to the door, when the man gave her a +box wrapped nicely in a piece of yellow paper, and tied with a small red +cord. Then he sprang upon the saddle, and galloped away down the avenue +into the road. + +Margie carried the box into the parlor, and gave it to her mistress. +Mamma looked at the name on the paper, and her bright, loving eyes grew +still brighter. She took her scissors and cut the cord which held the +paper around the box, then pulled off the cover, and what do you think +was there? Why, a large piece of pink cotton nicely folded about a +beautiful silver cup, on one side of which was marked the name _Little +Frankie_. + +Mamma laughed as she read it, and felt sure the pretty present came from +Mr. Wallace. She ran gayly up stairs into the nursery, where the baby +was sitting in the lap of his nurse, shaking his coral bells. "Here, my +darling," she said; "see what a nice cup has come for you; look! it is +so bright I can peep at your rosy face in it." + +Baby crowed and stretched out his tiny hands, but he could not quite +reach it; and if he could he would have tried to crowd it into his +mouth. So mamma took him in her arms, and squeezed him very tight, and +kissed him ever so many times, until the little fellow was quite +astonished. Then she held him off a little to look at him; and her eyes +were so brimful of love that Frankie was never tired of gazing into +them. + +By and by, mamma carried the baby and the new cup down to the parlor; +for papa had just come in, and was already calling for them. + +Papa admired the present very much, and said that his friend, Mr. +Wallace, was a noble fellow, and he should be glad if their little +Frankie made as good a man. Then papa danced around the room, "to give +his boy a little exercise," he said, "and make him grow." But mamma +screamed, and was afraid so much shaking would take away her baby's +breath. + +"Come, then," said papa, "we will sit down and trot a little." He +seated the little fellow on his knee, and began, "This is the way the +lady rides, trot, trot, trot, trot. This is the way the gentleman rides, +de canter, de canter, de canter, de canter. This is the way the huntsman +rides, de gallop, de gallop, de gallop." + +Frankie laughed and cooed, and as soon as his papa stopped, kicked his +little feet to have it go again. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +FRANKIE'S LITTLE NURSE. + + +FRANKIE lived in a quiet, pleasant village about twenty miles from the +city. His home was a pretty cottage with a steep roof rising above the +windows of the second story. In front there was a smooth, green lawn, +and at the side a lovely flower garden, with nicely gravelled walks +leading through it. Then back of the house there were beds of peas, and +beans, and turnips, and beets, and all kinds of good things for the +table. + +Frankie had a brother whose name was Willie, and who was five years +older than he. There had been a dear sister, too, but when she was only +one year old, the Saviour called her home to heaven; and she went with a +sweet smile upon her lip. + +Beside his father, and mother, and Willie, there were in Frankie's +home, Jane, the cook, Sally, the nurse, and Margie, a little girl seven +years of age, who loved dearly to dance about and amuse the baby boy. +She was the daughter of Jane, and her father had been dead many years. +She had begun to go to school; but as soon as the teacher rang the bell +for the scholars to go home, Margie caught her bonnet from the hook, and +ran away as fast as she could go, she was so impatient to see little +Frankie. + +Early in the morning, long before his mamma was ready to awake, the +little fellow would open his eyes and crow, and sing his morning song. +Then he would try to get his tiny toes into his mouth. As soon as Margie +heard him, she would knock softly at the door, and ask, "May I come in +and play with Frankie?" + +If you were to see her, you would think she was quite an old lady; she +went around so steadily, and not at all like a school girl. First, she +took all the pillows from the cradle, and shook them up. Then she laid +them back so that the baby could sit up and see her play to him. When +all was ready, she would go to the side of the bed, and Frankie's papa +would put him carefully into her arms, and then turn over to take +another nap. + +It was very strange that with all Margie's singing and laughing, and +crying "catchee, catchee, now catch baby;" and with Frankie's happy +shouts of delight, papa and mamma could sleep quite soundly. But the +instant the little fellow cried, as he sometimes did when he hurt his +gums against his coral ring, and Margie said, "O dear! has he hurt him? +Margie's sorry," mamma would spring from bed and be wide awake in a +minute. + +There was one other member of the family whom I have not yet mentioned. +It was not a brother, nor a sister, but a large black dog, whose name +was Ponto. He was a very handsome fellow, with his shining black hair, +and his white ring about his neck; and he held his head up and looked +you right in the face, as if he knew that he was above common dogs. +Ponto liked to run in the garden with Willie, and catch the sticks his +young master threw to him between his teeth. But best of all he liked to +follow him to the nursery, and watch the motions of the new comer. +Frankie's eyes grew very large the first time he felt Ponto's cold nose +on his arm; and he cried, when the great, black creature began to lick +his hands and face. Mamma tried to push Ponto away, and Willie laughed +most merrily. + +This, you know, was Ponto's way of showing that he was fond of the dear +baby; and from this time a strong affection sprang up between them. +While Frankie slept, the dog lay down by the cradle, to be sure that no +harm came to his precious charge; and when he awoke, Ponto made a +noise, meaning, "I'll take care of you, baby." + +[Illustration] + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +FRANKIE'S JUMPER. + + +FRANKIE was now six months old. He had begun to sit upon the floor. +First he could only sit there by having pillows placed all about him. +Then one day nurse took away the pillows, and said the little fellow +must learn to do without them. She set him up very straight, and put a +large book outside his clothes between his feet, so that he could not +easily fall over. Then she took her sewing and sat down on the floor +beside him. + +Frankie laughed, and thought this was very fine; but in one minute he +reached a little too far, and over he went right on to his nose. + +Nurse caught him up before he had time to cry, and tossed him up and +down until he had forgotten his trouble; then she set him down again. +So that by the time mamma came home from a long walk, he had almost +learned to sit alone. + +O, how much pleased mamma was! She took off her bonnet and shawl, +laughing all the time, and then she stopped ever so many times while she +was giving the little fellow his dinner, and squeezed him closer to her +side, and told him he was getting to be a brave boy indeed. + +Hearing so much that was merry, Ponto roused himself from his sleep, and +began to rap with his tail on the floor. Then, when Frankie crowed out a +pretty sound, he sprang upon his feet, and looked around a minute with +his great, black eyes, when he gave a loud bark, "_bow, wow, wow_." +Little boy, I say, "_bow, wow, wow_." + +One day Willie went with his mother to call upon a lady who had a baby +girl just about as old as Frankie. The servant asked them to go to the +nursery and see the baby in her jumper. O, what a funny sight that was! +How the two mammas, and the nurse, and Willie laughed, to see the little +creature dance about from one side of the room to the other. Frankie's +mamma said her little boy must have a jumper too. + +The lady, whose name was Ida Mills, gave her the pattern of the little +jacket her baby wore when she jumped; and Mrs. Gray said she would ask +her husband to call and see the jumper, so that he could tell the +carpenter how to make one. + +In two days Frankie's jacket was ready, and his jumper too. His mamma +had told him all about it. But he only laughed and cooed the same as +ever, and did not seem at all to understand it. + +When papa came home to dinner that day, he heard such a loud noise from +the nursery, that he ran quickly up there to see what was the matter. + +When he opened the door he saw his little boy fastened to a long pole, +which swung about the room like a crane, and mamma on her knees trying +to teach him to touch his little toes to the floor, and make himself +dance. There, too, were Jane, the cook, and Sally, the nurse, laughing, +while Margie and Willie were clapping their hands every time Frankie +gave a spring. + +Just then Ponto came running up the stairs, and as soon as he saw his +little master, he began to bark most furiously. He did not like to see +him hung up so, and he meant to give his opinion about it. + +Frankie had for a long time been fond of using his feet, and had often +done so in his mother's lap, until he almost sprang out of her arms; but +at first he did not know what mamma wanted him to do. But presently he +began to jump; and when he found how easily he could set himself to +dancing, he was so much pleased that he gave a scream of delight. + +Willie ran to the other side of the room, and put his coral bells in a +chair, and called out, "Come, Frankie, come to brother;" and the little +dancer jumped across the room as briskly as if he had done it every day +of his life. + +O, what laughing there was then! What shouting! What clapping of hands! +Mamma ran to kiss her baby, and call him her darling boy. + +All this time the dinner was on the table; and at last, Jane said, "O, +dear, the dinner will be as cold as a stone!" But papa and mamma said +they had rather see Frankie learn to jump, than to eat the best dinner +that ever was cooked. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +FRANKIE'S BROTHER WILLIE. + + +IT was a long time before Ponto became reconciled to see Frankie in his +jumper. He barked loud and long, as if he was afraid his little friend +would hurt himself, tied up in so strange a manner. But baby grew every +day more fond of this exercise; and as soon as he saw his mother take +the jacket, he would spring so that she could hardly hold him still +enough to fasten the buttons tightly to the wooden frame. One day, when +he and his mamma were alone in the nursery, he grew very sleepy, and at +last his little head nodded down, down, quite upon his breast. Mamma +laughed softly, and she waited a minute to see what he would do. +Presently he awoke a little, and touched his toes to the floor to make +the jumper spring, and get himself to sleep again. Then she took him in +her arms, and after loosing the buttons to his jacket, laid him in his +cradle for a nice nap. + +One day Willie came running into the room when mamma was singing to the +baby, who was not well. He was a good boy, and knew that he must not +make a noise; so he took a cricket, and sat down by her side. He loved +to hear the gentle lullaby; but now he wondered why mamma looked so +sober. Pretty soon he saw one, two, three, tears drop right upon +Frankie's head. Her face was always so full of smiles that he knew not +what to make of it. She got up to put the baby in the cradle, and then +she saw Willie looking at her as if he wondered what this meant. + +"Come here, my dear," she said softly, laying his head on her shoulder. +"Mamma has been praying the good God for you and your little brother." + +"Are you afraid Frankie is going to die, as sister did?" asked Willie; +"I saw some tears on your cheeks." + +"No, dear," said mamma. "I was thinking how kind God was to give me two +such dear boys. Then I looked at Frankie's hands, such pretty little +fingers and thumbs, and I asked God never to let them do that which was +naughty, never to allow them to strike or take what did not belong to +them." + +Willie gazed a moment at his hands; I suppose he was trying to think +whether they had been naughty hands or good hands. Presently he said, +"Toes can't do wrong, I think, mamma, as hands can." + +"Ah, yes, my dear," said his mother. "Only yesterday I knew a little boy +whose feet were very naughty, and walked away where he had been +forbidden to go." + +Willie's face grew very red. "I forgot about that," he said in a +whisper. + +"Do you remember," asked his mother, "the lady who visited here with her +little girl, and how she used to kick and stamp her feet when she could +not do exactly as she wished? Were those good feet, and do you think her +heavenly Father was pleased to see how she was using them?" + +"O, no, indeed, mamma! But I guess God liked it when I used my feet to +carry James Wells's ball home, because he would have lost it if I had +not given it to him." + +"Yes, dear, your feet and your hands, too, were good then; and beside +that, there was a kind feeling in your heart, which made you wish to +carry the ball to the poor boy." + +"I'm glad I did it," said Willie, smiling in his mother's face. "Did you +think any thing about Frankie's mouth?" + +"Yes, indeed, I prayed that my darling baby might use his sweet little +mouth to praise God, and that never, no, never might a naughty word come +out of it. O, how dreadful it is to think that little boys or little +girls should use the gifts of the good God to disobey his holy laws!" + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +FRANKIE'S NEW LESSONS. + + +WHEN Frankie was a year old, his mamma thought it quite time for him to +learn to go to bed by himself. So she took him up in her chamber, and +shut the blinds, to keep out all the flies. Then she gave him his +luncheon, and laid him on Willie's trundle-bed. This was low; and she +thought, if he tried to get off, it would not hurt him as much as if it +were higher. "Now," said she, "my darling must be good, and shut his +eyes, and go to sleep; and then mamma will come and put on his pretty +cap and shoes, and take him to ride in his little wagon." She kissed +him, and went into the dressing room, to see what he would do. + +But Frankie did not like this at all, and he began to cry as loud as he +could, and call for his mamma to come back. When he found this did no +good, he stuck up his stomach, and kicked his feet, and at last he held +his breath until his mamma was frightened, and ran to hold him up. + +"Frankie is naughty," she said; "mamma can't kiss a naughty boy." Then +she laid him down again, and started to go away. But he cried as loud as +ever, until mamma was obliged to pat his dear little hands until they +looked quite red. She went away, and stood where she could look through +the crack of the door. He called "mamma," two or three times, and then, +tired with his crying, he fell asleep. + +"Dear little Frankie!" she said, coming to the bed and kissing the tears +off his rosy cheeks. "It made mamma's heart ache to whip him." + +In a few days the little fellow had learned this new lesson; and though +he missed his mother's arms folded tenderly about him, and the sweet +smiles which mingled with the hushaby in his infant dreams, yet he grew +reconciled to it at last, and became a very good baby. + +Every day now he learned something new; first to say, "Wee," for Willie; +then to hide his tiny head behind a handkerchief, as Margie did when +she played peep a-boo with him. Another time he held out his hand for +the brush, and tried to smooth Willie's hair; but instead of that he +tangled the close curls most terribly, so that the poor boy could hardly +keep from crying when mamma combed them out again. + +One morning Sally was ill, and obliged to stay in bed. Margie wished to +play with Frankie while her master, and mistress, and Willie were at +prayers; but mamma said, "No; Frankie may come to prayers too." + +Papa took the large Bible, and Willie stood close by his side, his +little finger pointing to the verses as the reading went on; and the +baby sat on his mother's knee, his eyes very wide open, to see all that +was going on. He looked first at mamma, and wondered, I suppose, that +she did not smile. Then he turned to papa, who was reading serious +words in a solemn tone. He gazed next in Willie's face; but Willie was +intent upon the book. At last he caught a glimpse of Margie's laughing +eyes, and he spoke right out. The little girl had not heard one word of +the reading. She had been watching Frankie, to see how he would behave; +and now, before she thought where she was, she laughed aloud. But when +she saw that her laughing had made Willie smile and turn from his book, +and that her mistress looked very sorry, she was sorry too, and covered +her blushing face with her little apron. + +Frankie sat very still while they sang a pretty hymn beginning:-- + + "Majestic sweetness sits enthroned + Upon the Saviour's brow." + +But when papa and mamma kneeled down, he tried to kneel too; and seeing +that mamma shut her eyes, he closed his, but opened them again in a +minute, and tried to get away to run to Willie. + +"Frankie is now a year and a half old," said papa, "and must learn to be +still at prayers." + +"Can't he come to dinner, too, papa?" asked Willie. "I am almost sure he +will be good." + +"I am willing, if mamma is," said papa. + +"We will try him," said mamma. + +In the middle of the forenoon a man came to the door bringing a new high +chair for Frankie to sit at dinner. Papa had been to the store and +bought it for his baby boy. "O, what a kind papa!" + +Frankie was very good the first day and the second day he came to +dinner; but after that he did not behave as well. He pushed away the +plate on which mamma had mashed a nice potato for him, and tried to +reach a dish in which Jane had put some squash. His little fingers were +covered with squash, and mamma had to ring the bell for Margie to bring +the sponge and wash them. + +The next day, when papa held down his head to ask God to bless the +food, Frankie bent his face down to the table, and muttered over +something. I suppose he thought he too was praying. + +"Will God care?" asked Willie. "Baby don't know that it is naughty to +pray so." + +"God never expects children to behave any better than they know how," +replied mamma. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +FRANKIE'S TEETH. + + +FRANKIE'S brother Willie had never been to school, but had learned to +read and spell at home, reciting his lessons to his mamma. Papa said he +was now old enough to recite with other boys. So mamma bought him a +little satchel, with a strap to put over his shoulder. Then she put in +it his slate, with a pencil and sponge tied to it, his reading book, +and a new arithmetic with pictures of marbles, and birds, and boys in +it. She washed his face and hands very clean, and curled his hair, which +was so long it hung over his shoulders; then she dressed him in his new +suit, with his nice shining collar basted into the neck, so as to have +him quite ready when his young companion called for him to go to the new +school. + +Willie felt very happy this bright morning. He liked the idea of going +with the other boys to school. He thought it would be fine fun to play +ball at recess. There was another reason for his feeling happy. Can you +guess what it was? It was not that his clothes were new, and, as he +could see in the glass, fitted him very well. No, it was because he had +two pockets in his pantaloons. Before this time he had never had but +one, and now he felt smart indeed to be able to place both hands in his +pockets. He walked backwards and forwards before the long mirror in his +mother's chamber, admiring himself exceedingly. + +Mamma laughed heartily at the airs he put on; but before he went out, +she told him no persons but rowdies walked with their hands in their +pockets; that papa never did, and she should be very sorry to see her +Willie walk so. + +For a few days Frankie's cheeks had been very red indeed, so that Sally +said he looked as handsome as a picter; but mamma was afraid it was +because he was not well. He had a large tin bath tub in the form of a +boat, and one morning, when she put him in it, she found his flesh was +very hot. She took him out into the flannel blanket, which she always +spread in her lap, and rubbed him quickly, that he should not become +chilled; then she coaxed him to let her put her finger into his mouth to +feel whether he had any teeth which troubled him and made him look so +feverish. + +He had already quite a mouth full of teeth; but she soon found that +there were two large back teeth trying to force their way through the +gums. + +"Poor little fellow," she said; "mamma is sorry his teeth ache." She +laid his aching head on her bosom, and passed her soft hand soothingly +over it, back and forth, a great many times, chanting his favorite +little song, until at length he fell asleep. + + "Once there was a little man, + Where a little river ran; + And he had a little farm, + And a little dairy, O! + And he had a little plough, + And a pretty dapple cow, + Which he often called + His pretty little Pharaoh. + + "And the little maiden, Ann, + With her pretty little can, + Went a milking when the + Morning sun was beaming, O! + But she fell,--I don't know how,-- + And she stumbled o'er the plough, + And the cow was much astonished + At her screaming, O! + + "Then the funny little man + To the little river ran, + To procure a little shiner + For his dinner, O! + Then he brought it on a hook + To the pretty little cook, + And she placed it on the table + With his ladle, O! + + "Then the little maiden ran + With her pretty little can, + And brought some nice sweet milk from + Good Mooley, Mrs. Pharaoh! + And she poured it in a bowl + For the clever little soul; + And she placed it by his dish, + While he sat at table, O!" + +Then she went and laid him in her own bed, and took her sewing to sit +down beside him till he awoke. + +Presently nurse came in with mamma's bonnet in her hand, and mamma's +shawl on her arm, as the lady had told her she was going to walk. But +now she said, "Frankie is ill, and I shall not leave him to-day." + +"I thought he was not very well this morning," said nurse, "for he was +very worrisome, and would not eat his breakfast." + +Mamma sat with her sewing for nearly an hour, while Frankie slept, only +once in a while he would moan as if he was in pain; and then she put her +hand on his head again. + +When he awoke his eyes were heavy, and instead of jumping out of her lap +to play, he laid his head down on her shoulder. + +"Does Frankie want some breakfast?" asked mamma. + +He nodded his head; but when nurse brought him some nice bread and milk +in his silver porringer, he only took one taste of it, and then said, +"Patty want water." He could not well say Frankie, but always called +himself Patty. + +For several days the poor boy was quite sick, and his mamma never left +him except to run for a few moments to her meals. When he was in great +pain, she soothed him, rocked him, and carried him about the chamber. +Then, when he felt a little better, she sang him pretty songs, or told +him stories, or showed him the pictures in his little books. + +There was one little song he always loved to hear; and once, when papa +and mamma were singing at prayers, he made them laugh by saying, "Mamma, +sing Patty tune, pitty tee." He could not talk plain; but he meant +"pretty tree." + +Perhaps you have never heard this song; and I will repeat it for you:-- + + "Out in a beautiful field + There stands a pretty pear tree, + Pretty pear tree with leaves. + What is there on the tree? + A very pretty branch. + Branch on the tree, + Tree in the ground. + + "Out in the beautiful field + There stands a pretty pear tree, + Pretty pear tree with leaves. + What is there on the branch? + A very pretty bough. + Bough on the branch, + Branch on the tree, + Tree in the ground. + + "Out in the beautiful field + There stands a pretty pear tree, + Pretty pear tree with leaves. + What is there on the bough? + A very pretty nest. + Nest on the bough, + Bough on the branch, + Branch on the tree, + Tree in the ground. + + "Out in a beautiful field + There stands a pretty pear tree, + Pretty pear tree with leaves. + What is there in the nest? + A very pretty egg. + Egg in the nest, + Nest on the bough, + Bough on the branch, + Branch on the tree, + Tree in the ground. + + "Out in a beautiful field + There stands a pretty pear tree, + Pretty pear tree with leaves. + What is there in the egg? + A very pretty bird. + Bird in the egg, + Egg in the nest, + Nest on the bough, + Bough on the branch, + Branch on the tree, + Tree in the ground." + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +FRANKIE'S BREAKFAST. + + +FRANKIE was now old enough to like to hear stories, and almost every day +he asked, "Pease tell me tory, mamma." Sometimes, when he did not feel +like playing, he would ask her a great many times in a day. + +One morning she went into the nursery, after she had eaten her own +breakfast, and found Sally feeding him with his bread and milk. + +"He spits it out, ma'am," she said, "and won't let it down his throat." + +"Patty want pig, mamma," said the little boy. He meant that he wanted a +fig. + +"Has he had a fig this morning?" asked mamma. + +"Yes, ma'am," said nurse. "Willie came in eating one, and Frankie cried +for it. So Willie gave it right up to him, though he had only taken one +mouthful. I think he is the generousest boy, ma'am, that I ever see." + +Mamma smiled, and seemed very happy when she heard this. You know +nothing makes mammas so happy as to know that their little boys and +girls are good. She said to herself, "Dear child, I will give him +another when he comes in." Then she took Frankie in her arms, and told +nurse to go and eat her own breakfast. She tucked the bib nicely around +his neck, and then she began to feed him. But, as Sally said, he would +not let it down, but spit it all over his clothes and mamma's hand. +"Patty want pig," he said again. + +"No, darling, you must eat your breakfast now," said mamma. "Though it +is not so sweet as a fig, it is very good, and will make my little boy +grow and be strong, so that he can run out to play like Willie." + +"Patty want pig, mamma," said the baby, putting up his hand to pat +mamma's face. "Patty want pig vely much." + +"Frankie shall have a fig by and by," said mamma; "now I will tell him a +little story. + +"Once there was a little boy; his name was Harry. He had no kind mamma +to give him good breakfasts. His mamma had gone to heaven to live with +God. + +"Little Harry was poor, and often when he woke up he was very hungry. +But he could not lay his head on his mamma's breast, because she was +dead, you know. Poor little Harry used to cry for somebody to come and +take care of him. All babies need some person to hold them and rock +them." + +"Patty got mamma," cried the little boy. + +"Yes, darling, Frankie has a mamma who loves him dearly, and tries to +take good care of him, and makes him nice warm clothes. But Harry had +none. The woman who let him live in her house was too busy to attend to +him; so, when he was cold, or hungry, or tired, and wanted to lay his +poor, weary head in her lap, she had no time to let him do so. Dear +little fellow, it would have done him so much good to have some kind +mamma take him in her lap and squeeze him close to her breast, as mamma +does Frankie, and call him her darling, dear little Harry. I think he +would have stopped crying at once, and he would have looked up in her +face and smiled his thanks." + +Frankie was so much pleased with the story, that he put up his little +mouth to kiss mamma; and when he had done so, he patted her face softly, +and said, "Patty love oo." He could not say "you." + +"One day," said mamma, "a kind lady called at the poorhouse where Harry +lived. He was sitting on a little bed in the corner, crying; but he +stopped when the lady went in. His hair had not been combed for many +days; his face was very dirty where the tears had run down over his +thin, pale cheeks; his clothes were soiled and torn; but the lady pitied +him very much. When she found he had no mamma, and that his papa was at +work a great way off, she wrapped her shawl about the poor baby, and +took him home in her carriage. + +"First of all she gave him a cup of milk to drink, and then she told +nurse to bring some warm water in a tub, and some soap and towels, for +she was going to wash the poor baby. She did not wonder then that the +poor little fellow cried, for he was all sore, because he had had no +kind mamma to wash him and put on nice powder. She kept him in the water +a long time, and washed him very clean; and then she told the nurse to +go up garret and bring a small trunk with some baby clothes in it. She +had a little baby once, and these were his clothes. Then she tried to +get the snarls out of his hair, and by this time Harry was so tired, he +was glad to go to sleep. + +"When he woke up he began to cry again, for he thought he was back in +his old home; but as soon as he saw the kind lady, he smiled very +sweetly. He held out his arms for her to take him. She had some warm +bread and milk all ready, and she took him in her lap and put a towel +round his neck and fed him. + +"He did not spit it out on his clean clothes, but he ate it all, and +liked it very much; and then he looked up in the kind face that was +bending over him so fondly, and smiled, and tried to stroke her cheek. +This was all the way he knew how to thank her for his good breakfast." + +When mamma had told the story, she took Frankie's cup and began to feed +him, and he did not spit out one mouthful, but ate the whole, even the +last drop. + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +FRANKIE'S DOLLY. + + +WHEN Willie was a little boy about two years old, a good lady came to +see his mother. Her name was Bryant, but Willie could not speak such a +very hard word; so, after trying a long time, he called her Bear. Papa +and mamma laughed heartily, and said that was a funny name; but in a few +days they began to call her Bear too; and after a while they thought it +was a very pretty name. Do you know why they liked it so much? Because +good Bear was fond of Willie, and very kind to him, and because Willie +said it in such a cunning way. One day mamma folded up a little blanket +for Willie to carry to bed for a baby, and Bear said, "I will make him a +pretty dolly, and dress it all up, so that he can have it to play +with." + +That very day she began to work upon it. Mamma gave her nice pieces of +cloth, and she made a black face, and curly hair, and red lips, and a +very flat nose, and white eyes. Papa laughed when they showed it to him, +and said, "he hoped Willie wouldn't be afraid of it." + +Then Bear made arms, and hands, and legs, with red shoes, on the feet. +Then she made a skirt, and a dress, and a sack for Dinah to put on when +she was cold, and a bonnet for her to wear when she went to walk. She +did not let Willie see it until it was all ready for him to play with, +and then she, and mamma, and nurse stood looking to see what he would do +with it. + +"Pretty Dinah," said mamma, kissing the dolly, and then putting it into +Willie's arms. + +At first the little fellow looked and looked, but did not touch his new +baby or smile at all; but presently, when mamma said, "Willie got two +babies," and putting the one made of a blanket by the side of it, he +began to understand what it was for. When Willie was four years old, +Bear made some new clothes for Dinah, a jacket and pantaloons, and +changed her name to John. This, Willie did not like; and one day hung +dolly by a string to the nob of the shutter, because he was not good, +he said. + +When Frankie was old enough to play with a baby, dear kind Bear had gone +away where they could never see her pleasant smile again; but mamma made +a new dress, and put it on over the pantaloons, and called dolly Dinah +again. While she was sewing on it, the tears ran out of her eyes and +dropped on her work. Willie ran to ask her what was the matter, and she +said, softly, "I am thinking of Bear, my dear, and how she would have +loved our little Frankie if she had lived." + +"I am going to heaven some day," said Willie; "and I'll ask her to come +back. I know she will, when I tell her you cry so." + +"If we are good, my dear boy," said mamma, wiping her eyes, "and try to +please the Saviour, and to obey all his holy commands, we shall go to +live with her in heaven; but she can never come back to us." + +"I'm trying to grow good every day, mamma," said Willie. + +This was a long time before. Now Frankie loved Dinah dearly; and when he +went to ride, she had to go too. He used to hug her and kiss her just as +mamma did him; and in all his plays with Margie, Dinah was set up in a +chair, and had to play too. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Note: All punctuation errors have been corrected. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Little Frankie and his Mother, by Madeline Leslie + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER *** + +***** This file should be named 34830.txt or 34830.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/8/3/34830/ + +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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