MISCELLANY. IDLE PATTY, OR THE LOST DAY. THE sun had been shining upon the earth a full hour, when Deborah Jones awoke her daughter Patty. "Get up, Patty," said she, "for it is six o'clock. You know that I shall be out all the day, and you have many things to do, and must take care of the house while I am absent.. Get up, Patty; I have swept up the kitchen, and put your porringer of milk ready for you upon the table: so get up directly, for I am about going." Deborah Jones shut the door carefully, as she left the cottage, and walked at a quick rate across the fields, the lark warbling over her head, and the bees humming among the butter-cups in the meadows. Patty heard her mother shut the door, |