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ONE DAY IN VACATION
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sharpest scissors — the big shiny ones — for
he intended to cut some long strips of stout
cloth to tie the goat’s legs with. Johnny cut
and cut. Suddenly the big blades slipped,
caught Johnny’s little finger, and before he knew
it, had cut the tip of it clean off! It hurt awfully
— oh, well — not so terribly after all; but my,
oh, my! how it bled! Johnny Blossom bound
his not over-clean handkerchief around it, but
still the blood came. Now it was all over his
trousers. Perhaps he had better hide until it
stopped.
"Mother! Mother!" shrieked Asta. "Here’s
a piece of a finger, with your big shears, lying
on the attic stairs!"
"It is John’s," said Mother instantly and with
the utmost certainty.
The doctor was sent for, the finger-end sewed
on, and the hand bandaged.
"There aren’t many persons with a sewed-on
finger tip, are there, mother?" asked John,
with some pride.
" No, fortunately not," replied Mother.
In the evening who should come to visit
Father but the elderly, spectacled gentleman
they had rowed to shore in the morning!
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