Titee

Someone called Titee to go to bed -- and Titee was nowhere to be found.

Violets and Other Tales Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

Someone called Titee to go to bed, and Titee was nowhere to be found.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

It was late when Titee came home, to such a home as it was, and he had but illy performed his errand; so his mother beat him and sent him to bed supperless.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

And thither Titee had trudged twice a day, carrying his luncheon in the morning and his dinner in the afternoon.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

But as for Titee, when the leg was well, he went his way as before.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

Titee scarcely remained for his dinner, but was off down the railroad track with his pockets partly stuffed with the remnants of the scanty meal.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

It was of no use to call up the neighbors, he had never been near their houses, they affirmed, so there was nothing to do but to go to the railroad track where Titee had been seen so often trudging in the shrill north-wind.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

But there was nothing in natural history that Titee did not know.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

Together they had found this cave, and Titee had gathered the straw and paper that made the bed.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

And the next day Titee was tardy again, and lunchless too, and the next, until the teacher, in despair, sent a nicely printed note to his mother about him, which might have done some good, had not Titee taken great pains to tear it up on the way home.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905