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SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN. 241
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the mother , perceiving tlie success of the ruse , created tigers and Indians and elephants innumerable . But soon the listeners began
to sigh and look out of the window , evincing other signs of weariness ; and by-and-by Annie left Johnny alone to attend to the recital , and
seating herself again on the floor , recommenced her lamentations . " Oh don't , Annie , " said Johnny , " just let mother finish this . "
Annie replied by raising her wailing voice to a perfect scream . ' Now that's very naughty , Annie , " said the mother .
" For shame ! " said Johnny , bat Annie regarded not , and answered to all and everything that was said , that she " wanted her
breakfast ; " and we are sorry to say that when she had exhausted herself in this way , she went so far as to protrude the end of her tongue at
her brother , making at the same time all sorts of grimaces . " Johnny" said the mother , _" reach me that little handkerchief ,
, I'll tie it over Annie's head , and you shall go to Mr . Willis's and see if he'll let you have half a pound of bread . Tell him you haven't
had anything to eat to-day . Come here , Annie ! you shouldn't be so naughty . You grieve your mother , and God won't love you if
you're a passionate little girl . " "I ' m sure Mr . "Willis won't give us some , " said Annie , "he
always says "we ' re to be off . " " Well , you can go and ask him ; speak prettily , _, and say I'll
send and pay to-nigiit if I can . " " I know it isn't any use , " said Johnny , as he and Ms sister
departed on the doubtful errand . When the sound of their little footsteps had died away , the
suffering mother lifted lier eyes to Him who liad compassion on the multitude because they had nothing to eat , and in the words He
himself taught . she earnestly supplicated— " Give us this day our > daily bread . "
But the children were long * ere they returned , and she began to feel considerable anxiety lestimpelled hy hunger , they might be
, going farther ; but just as these fears were assuming the form of certainty , her ears were saluted by the sound of Annie ' s merry laugh .
" Thank God ! " she exclaimed mentally , " they have got some food , " and every maternal chord vibrated in the thrill of joy .
Willis " I told wouldn you 't , " ive said us Johnny . , I as knew he he came _woiildnft _xtinning . _' in , " that Mr . any
" Bat you ' ve got g something to eat though ?" " Yes . Dorothy was bringing a can of soup ; she _boug-ht it for
us . And then when we took the soup she went back ; but , mother , Annie got a deal the most ; and when I wanted some she nipped
her teeth to the can , and squealed , and she drank it nearly all . " " That wasn't pretty . "
" And then when we was coming in , Mrs . Morris gave us a cake . I ' ve saved some for youand Annie ' s saved you a bit ; but , mother ,
, when she'd broke a piece off for you , she bited it ever so many
times . "
Seamstresses Again. 241
_SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN . 241
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/25/
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