136 A Great Fright.

 

Johnny was all alive; and he was
very seldom still, and never idle.
From the time he got up till he
went to bed again, he was always
busy about something in his way.

Now, I do not say that it was
altogether pleasant, either to May or
any one else, to have so much noise
and bustle about the house, and to
have so many things put out of
order to suit some game of Johnny’s.
His mother sometimes used to say,

‘Ah, Johnny, now, if you had
only been a girl, I shouldn’t have
had half the trouble to keep you
clean and quiet !

And often she was glad to turn
him out in front of the house to.