Miss Belladonna Volume 25; A Child of To-Day  (English, Paperback, Ticknor Caroline)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... nursery, or get their grandmother to ask them over to her house; anything, in fact, to keep them quiet and get them out of sight, so that the grown folks can have all the fun they want to, without a single child around to interfere with them. And I guess they have pretty good times, too, although they try to make believe that it is just a quiet social chat that they are having; for when Cousin Marie Louise was staying here, mamma had a party for her, and I never heard anything like the noise they made; and they played cards, and danced, and sang a lot of college songs, until I thought they never would stop; and Mercurius and I did n't have one wink of sleep until it was all over. Then they had ever so many more things to eat than we do at our parties; and Cousin Marie's Mr. Jaffrey tried to show them how he cooked venison on the blazer, and he made an awful mess of it, besides exploding the alcohol lamp and setting the table-cloth on fire, and taking all the polish off the table underneath; and everybody screamed so loud we thought the house was burning down. Now, I don't care what any of the grownup people do at their parties, and I know they ought to have more things to eat because they've reached years of discretion and know how much is good for them; though I don't see how knowing when to stop does any good unless you do stop, which I should n't wonder if the grown-up people sometimes forget to do, as they are just as apt to get sick at their parties as we are. However, as 1 was saying, we are willing that they should do just what they want to at their parties, and it seems only fair that they should let us do the same at ours. But, oh noj tbey must stand round and advise us, and superintend us every minute, and keep saying, Now don't you want ...