Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 20, 1912, Page 6

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FOR RELIABLE INFORMATION SEE Ohlinger @ & Affield Opposite New Depot, Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocefs HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Crate M.ateral and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants —_———__=—_—'__'_—-———-——-= MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida THE B o ) LEVENING (ELEGRAM LAKEL ‘ hymn,” said Billy impolitely. AND, FLA,, JANUARY 20, 1912, “I wi'l tell you a again suggested his aunt. you ahont “I don’ want to hear no B:ble story, | neither,” he objected. “I wants to hear ! I'nele Jimmy-Jawed Jup'ter play his | ‘corjun an’ sing: Bible story,” “T will tell | | **Rabbit up the gum tree, Coon is in the holler Wake, snake; Juney-Bug stole a half a dollar."” “I'll sing you a hymn,” sald Miss Minerva patiently. “l don't want to hear you sing no “l wants | | to see Sanciified Sophy shout.” | | As his aunt could think of no sub- | stitute with which to tempt him in | lien of Sanectified Sophy's shouting, (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) —— | (Continued from page 2. | a good boy like Sanctified Sophy, fer | Jesus' sake. Amen.” | “What is that you have tied around ! your neck, William?" she asked, as ! the little boy rose to his feet. } “That’s my rabbit foot; you won't | | never have no 'sease 't all an’ nobody | | can’t never conjure you if you wears i a rabbit foot. This here one is the 1 lef’ hin® foot; it was ketched by a red headed nigger with cross-eyes in ¢ | graveyard at twelve o'clock on a Fri- day night, when they's a full moon He give it to Aunt Cindy to tie 'roun’! | my nake when I's a baby. Aln't you! got no rabbit foot?” he anxiously in quired, | “No the answercd. “I have never had one and I have never been con- inred either. Give it to me, William; ! can't allow you to be superstitious,” and she held out her hand. “Mease, Aunt Minerva, jest lemme Wwear it tonight,” he pleaded. “Me an’ Wilkes Booth Lincoln's been wearin’ us rabbit foots ever sence we's born.” “No,” she sald firmly; “I'll put a stop to such nonsense at once. Give it to me, William.” Billy looked up at his aunt’s aus- tere countenance and lovingly fin- gered his charm; he opened h|n mouth to say something, but hesi-| tated; slowly he untied the smnm around his neck and laid his treasure | on her lap; then without lookin= up, | he ran into his own little room, clos- ing the door behind him. Soon afterward Miss Minerva, hear- ing a sound like a stified sob coming from the adjoining room, opened the door softly and looked into a sad, lit- tle face with big, wide, open eyes shining with tears. “What is the matter, Willlam?" she coldly asked. “I ain't never slep’ by myself,” he sobbed. “Wilkes Booth Lincoln al- ways slept on a pallet by my bed ever sence we's born an'—an’ I wants Aunt Cindy to tell me 'bout Uncle Pll- jerk Peter.” [ His aunt sat down on the bed h\I | his side. She was not versed in the| ways of childhood, and could not know that the little boy wanted to pillow | his bead on Aunt Cindy's soft and am- | ple bosom, that he was homesick for | his black friends, the only compantons | he had ever known { “I'll tell you a Bible story,” she temporized. “You must not be a daby. ! You are not afraid, are \uu William? | God is always with you.” *‘ “I don't want no God,” he sullenly | made reply; “I wants somebody with sho’ 'nough skin an’ bones, an'—an’ 1 wants to hear 'bout Uncle Piljerk Pe-| ter.” | to [ e was fas | babyish, ! obedience or misdemeanor, ;and innocently in | dreaming of the care-free existence on | (Continued.) she remained silent. “An’ I wants Wilkes Booth Lincoln dance a clog,” persisted her nephew, Miss Minerva remained .\l!b! t. She felt unable to cope with the sltuation { ti II she had adjusted qu thoughts and ' wade her plans, I'w«\ atly Billy, shrewdly, said: ! “Gimme my rabbit foot, Aunt Mi- nerva, an' I'll go right off to sleep.” When she again looked in on him cop, a rosy flush on his ) ned cheek, his red lips half ||'n'tw!. his eurly head pil-! i lowed on hfs arm, and close against | his soft, young throat there ncstled the left hind foot of a rabbit. 7 Miss Minerva's bed time was half | after nine o'c'ock, summer or winter, ' She had hardly varied a second n the | = vears that had clapsed since the run- - away marrlage of her only relative, i the young sister whose child Lad now * come to live with her. But on the night of Billy's arrival the stern, nar- * row woman sat for hours in her rock- ing chair, her mind busy with thoughts of that preity young sister, dead since & the boy's birth. | And now the wild, reckless, dissi- pated brother-in-law was dead, too, and the child had been sent to her; to the aunt who did not want him, who did not care for children, who' .‘. had never forgiven her sister her un- ‘i‘ | fortunate marriage. “If he had only & been & girl,” she sighed. looking at her ! as. tear & 4‘! | (i‘ What sho'” belleved to be a happy thought en- tered her brain. “I ghall rear him,” she promised herself, “just as If he were a little girl; then he will be both a pleasure and a comfort to me, and a compan- fon for my loneliness.” Miss Minerva was strictly method- ical; she worked ever by the clock, so many hours for this, so many for that. Willlam, she now resolved, for the first time becoming really fater- ested In him, should grow up to be & model young man, & splendid and wonderful plece of mechanism, a fine, practical, machinelike individual, moral, upright, religious. She was glad that he was young: she would booc»c»o«‘»" > :r.-owx;oomm-' begin is training on the morrow. She | would teach him to sew, to sweep, to churn, to cook, and when he was old- | er he should be educated for tae min- istry. “Yes,” sald Miss Minerva: “i small be very strict with him fust at first, | and punish him for the slightest dis- | and he ! authority is will soon learn that my not to be questioned.” And the little boy who had never | had a restraining hand laid upon him in his short life? He slept sweetly the next room, 1 § the plantation and of his idle, happx | negro comvaninns PAWAY ITEMS. ia, b I Little Dorthey Clifton, of Georg who is visiting her brother, is sml‘ on the sick list, but is gradually im- proving, Mrs, Cordary was in iting Tuesday. ' Mr. G. Cardwell, lived here, has moved back to Burgner farm, much to the delight of | t his many friends. Mrs. McAyers had as guests Sun | 't formerly | Lakeland vis- who the v day Mr. who formerly lived here, writes back . his compliments, - paper. and Mrs. Godwin, and Mattie Burgner Liddie of Carters. ! Miss Mary had as guests Sunday Miss 1ill, of Haskell. Mrs. G. Wadkins, of Walkill, Fla, o friends that she would like to be| vack in Lakeland again { Mr. E. C. 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