Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 22, 1912, Page 6

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WE GUARANTEE PROPERTY JUST AS REPRESENTED BY US. ————————— FOR RELIABLE ‘monn;{on SEE Ohlinger @"& Alfield Opposite New Depot, FLORIDA. rione O PN Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocers HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED ——— e We sell all kinds of Crate Materal and Ship- ping Hampers./ A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. e———— IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants ____—————_ MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida THE LVENING (ELEGRAM ‘ William Green Hill .her band at them. LAKEL . B Miss Minerva and FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) (Continued frem page 2.) buttermilk was splashing in every di- | rection, and singing in a clear, sweet voice: “He'll feed you when you's naked, The orphan’s tear he'll dry, He'll clothe you when you's hongry An’ take you when you die.” Miss Minerva jerked him oft with no gentle hand. “What I done now?” asked the boy innocently. *'Tain't no harm as I can sce jes' to straddle a churn.” “Go out in the front yard,” com- manded his aunt, “and sit in the swing | till 1 call you. I'll finish the work without your assistance. And, Wil- liam,” she called after him, “there is a very bad little boy who lives next door; 1 want you to have as little to do with him as possible.” CHAPTER IV, Sweetheart and Partner, Billy was sitting quietly in the big lawn-swing when his aunt, dressed for the street, finally came through the front door. “I*am going uptown, Willlam,” she sald. “I want to buy you some things that you may go with me to church Sunday. Have you ever been to Sun- day school?” “Naw’'m; but I been to pertracted | meetin’,” came the ready response. “I| see Sanctified Sophy shout tell she tore ev'y rag offer her back 'ceptin’ | a shimmy. She's one ‘oman who sho’ | is got ’ligion; she ain't mever back- | slid ‘'tall, an’ she ain't never fell f'om | grace but one time—" “Stay right in the yard till I come back. Sit in the swing and don't go | outside the front yard. I shan’t be Interlor of the house in the mnext gone long,” sald Miss Minerva. His aunt had hardly left the gate before Billy caught sight of a round, ; fat little face peering at him through the palings which separated Miss Mi- nerva’'s yard from that of her next- door neighbor. “Hello!" shouted Billy. “Is you the bad little boy what can't play with me?”’ “What you doing in Miss Mincrva's yard?” came the answering interro- gation across the fence “I's come to live with her.” replied Billy. “My mamma an’ papa is dead. What's yo' name?” “I'm Jimmy Garner. How old are you? I'm most six, I am.” “Shucks, I's already six. a-going ol seven. Come on, le’s swing.” “Can’t,” said the new acquaintance. “I've runned off once today, and got licked for it.” “I ain’t never got no whippin' sence | me an' Wilkes Booth Lincoln’s born,” | boasted Billy. “Ain’t you?” asked Jxmmy. “I “spec’ I been whipped more'n a million times, my mamma is so pertic’lar with me. She’s 'bout the pertic-larest woman ever was; she don’t ‘low me to leave the yard ‘thout I get a whipping. 1] believe I will come over to see you ‘bout half a minute.” Suiting the action to the word Jimmy climbed the fence, and the two little boys were soon comfortably settled facing each other in the big lawn-swing. X “Who lives over there?" asked Billy, pointing to the house across the street. “That’s Miss Cecilia’s house. That's her coming out of the front gate now.” The young lady smiled and waved ey AND, FLA.,, JANUARY 22, 1912 et M) “Ain't she a peach?” asked Jimmy. “She's my sweetheart and she is 'bout the swellest sweetheart they is.” “She's mine, too,” promptly replied Rilly, who had fallen in love at first sight. “I's a-goin’ to have her fer my sweetheart, t0o.” “Naw, she ain't yours, neither; she’s mine,” angrily declared the other lit- tle boy, kicking his rival's legs. “You all time talking 'bout you going to have Miss Cecilia for your sweetheart. She's done already promised me.” “I'll tell you what,” proposed Billy, “lemme have her an' you can have Aunt Minerva.” “I wouldn't have Miss Minerva to save your life,” replied Jimmy disre- spectfully, “her nake ain't no bigger'n thar.” making a circle of his thumb and forefinger. *“Miss Cecilia, Miss Cecilia,” he shrieked tantalizingly, “lfll my sweetheart.” “1' betcher 1 have her fer a sweet- heart soon as ever 1 see her,” silly. “\What's your name?” asked Jimmy presently. “Aunt Minerva says it's William Green Hill, but 'tain’t, it's jest prain Billy,” responded the little boy. “Ain't God a nice, good old man,” remarked Billy, after they had swung in silence for a while, with an evident desire to make talk. . “That he is,” replied Jimmy, en- thusiastically. “He’s 'bout the forgiv- ingest person ever was. I just couldn’t zet 'long at all 'thout him. It don’t make no differ'nce what you do or how many times you run off, all you got to do is just ask God to forgive you and tell him you're sorry and ain’t going to do so no more, that night when you say your prayers, and 1U's 21l right with God. S'posing he was one of these wants-his-own-way kind o' mans, he could make hi'sclf the troublesomest person ever was, and little boys couldn’t do nothing a tall. | He ain’t | I sure think a heap of God. never give me the worst of it yet.” “lI wonder what he looks mused Billy. “I s'pec’ he just looks like the three- headed glant in ‘Jack the Giant Kiil-} ! D PP DD B DDP I | SRR HBEBGODOPOPODPEODEDED CODDed The Lakeland Steam Laun . e e S one of the best equipped plants in the State having all modern machinery and what is more, we have operators who know how to er,’" explained Jimmy, *’cause I8 got three heads and one body. is heads are name’ Papa, Son and Hoiy Ghost, and his body is just name’ plain God. Miss Cecilia 'splained 1t all to me and she is 'bout the splendid- est 'splainer they is. She's my Sun- day school teacher.” “She's goin’ to be my Sunday school teacher, too,” sald Billy, serenely. “Yours nothing; you all time want my Sunday school teacher.” “Jimmee!” called a voice from the yard. “Somebody’'s a-allin’ you,” said Billy. “That ain’t nobody but mamma,” ex- plained Jimmy composedly. “Jimmee-ee!” called the voice. “Don’t make no noise,” warned that little boy; “maybe she'll give up r‘_{: Jimmeel” his mother salieq <‘-;m YRS A9 = again. Jimmy made no - move to leave the swing. “I don’t never have to go ‘less she | says ‘James Laiavetie Garner,” then 1 got to hustle,” he remarked, “Jimmy Garner!™ “She's mighty near got me,” he said softly: “but maybe sho'll get tired and won't call no more. She ain't plumb mad yet.” “James Garner!"” “It's coming now.” saild Jimmy dole fully. The two little boys sat very still and quiet. “James Lafayette Garner!” The younger child sprang to his feet. “l got to get a move on now.,” he said; “when she calls like that she means business. [ betcher she's got a switch and a hair brush and a slip- per in her hand right this minute. I'Il be back toreckly,” he promised. He was as good as his word, and in a very short time he was sitting again facing Billy in the swing. “She just wanted to know where | her embroid'ry scissors was,” he ex- plained. "It don’t matter what's lost in that house, I'm always the one that’s got 10 he "sponsible and all time got to go look for it.” “Did you find 'em?" asked Billy. “Yep: | went right straight where said like,” | 1 1 ‘T left "em yeste'day. I had 'em trying |to cut a piece of wire. I stole off and went down to Sam Lamb’s house this morning and tooken breakfast with him and his old woman, Sukey,” ! he boasted. “] knows Sam Lamb,” said Billy. { “I rode up on the bus with him.” “He's my partner,” remarked Jimmy. “He's mine, too,” said Billy, quick- ly. “No, he ain't neither; you all time talking 'bout you going to have Sam ! Lamb for a partner. You want every- thing 1 got. You want Miss Cecllia and you want Sam Lamb. Well, you just ain't a-going to have 'em. You- e —— got to get somebody «lse 1/ ner and sweetheart.” “Well, you jest w; | Billy. “I got Major Miy, “Shucks, they ain't . Ilhat away,” and Jiny | fubject.“Sam Lami | little pigs. He le: sald Sam Lamb's i“lle's got a cow, 1 | worrisimest horns .. | lieve she's a steer anoy “Shucks,” said the temptuously. *You ¢ when you see one; steer.” (Continn Visit the FLORIDA HIGHLANDS C0.'S LANDS at D | leaves Lakeland at 7:10 a. m., Monday, Wednesday and I 10,000 acres of choice fruit lai ! 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