Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 2

face TWO By FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) Sarena CHAPTER VII, Rabbits’ and Other Egge. Billy was sitting in the swing. Jim- my crawled over the fence and joined him. “Miss Cecilia’s dyeing me some Easter eggs,” he said, “all blue and pink and green and yelluh and every kind they is; I tooken her some of our hen's eggs and she is going to fix ‘em for me an’ they’ll be just like rabbit's eggs: I reckon I'll have "bout & million. I'll give you one,” he added | generously. “I want more'n one,” declared Billy, who was used to having the lion's share of everything. “You all time talking ‘bout you want more’n .one egg.” said Jimmy. “You 'bout the stingiest Peter they is. Ain't you got no eggs? Get Miss Minerva to give you some of hers and I'll take 'em over and asik Miss Ce- cilia to dye ‘em for you ain’t 'quainted with her yet.” “Aunt Minerva ain't got none ‘cep’in’ what she put under a ol’ hen fer to sct this mornin’,” “Can’t you get old hen? Miss Minerva is such Christian woman, she ain't--" “You done fool me ‘hont liglous business beto’,” Billy, time. “Well, she won't never miss two or three eggs.” coaxed Jimmy, many did she put under the oid hen?” “She put fifteen,” was the response, “an’' I don't believe she'd want me to tech ‘em.” “They're ‘bout the ever wus,”" continued the temypter, “all blue and pink and green, and ‘bout a milifon kinds. They're just perzact. ly like rahbit's eggs.” “Me an' Wilkes Booth Lincoln ain't never hear teller no rabbit's eggs sence we's born,” said Billy; “I don’t berlieve rabbits lays eggs nchow.” “They don't lay 'em 'cept to East- er,” sald Jimmy. “Miss Cecilia 'splain- ed it all to me and she's my Sunday- School teacher and rabbits is bound to lay eggs 'cause it's in the Bible and she’s 'bout the prettiest 'splainer they §s. I'm going over there now to see 'bout my eggs,” and he made believe to leave the swing. “Le's us slip roun’ to the hen-house an' see what the ol' hen's a-doin’” suggested the sorely tempted Billy. “Aunt Minerva is a-makin’ me some night-shirts an’ she ain't takin’ no no- tice of nothin’ else.” They tiptoed stealthily around the house to the back-yard, but found the hen-house door locked. “Can't you get the key?” asked the younger child. “Naw, [ can't,” replied the other boy, “but you can git in th'oo this- a that prettiest eggs olave st here little hole what the chickens goes in at, whiles 1 watches fer Aunt Minerva. Il stand right here an’ hol' my cap while you fetches me the eggs. An’ don’t you take more'n five or six,” he warned. “I'm skeered of the old hen,” ob- jected Jimmy. “Is she much of a pecker?” “Naw, she ain’t a-goin’ to hurt you,” was the encouraging reply. “Git up an’' crawl th'oo; I'll help you.” Billy, having overcome his scruples, now entered into the undertaking with great zest. Jimmy climbed the chicken ladder, kicked his chubby legs through the aperture, hung suspended on his fat little middle for an instant, and final- Iy, with much panting and wriggled his plump, round body into the hen-house. He walked over where a lonesome looking hen was sitting patiently on nest e put out cautious ha and the hen promptly gave it a vicious peck “Billy,” he called angrily, “you got to come in here and hold this old chicken he's ‘bout the terriblest pecker they is” Billy stuck his square hole. “Go at he suggested; her easy like head in the little her from behind.” yut yo' hand under don’ let her know an’ ‘cause you | ‘em from under the ' interrupted | “an’ I got put to bed in the day- ! “How | tugging, | ¢ a what you's up to.” Jimmy tried to follow these instruc- tions, but received another peck for his pains. He promptly mutinied. “If you want any eggs,” he de- clared, scowling at the face framed in the aperture, “you can come get ‘em yourself. I done monkeyed with this chicken all I'm going to.” So Billy climbed up and easily got his lean little body through the open- fng. He dexterously caught the hen by the nape of the neck, as he had seen Aunt Cindy do, while Jimmy reached for the eggs. “If we ain't done lef’ my cap out- side on the groun',” sald Billy. “What | we goin' to put the eggs in?” | “Well, that's just like you, Billy, | you all time got to leave your cap on | the ground. I'll put 'em in my blouse | till you get outside and then I'll hand ‘em to you. How many ycu going to take?” “\We might just as well git ‘em all now,” said Billy. “Aunt Cindy say {they's some kinder hens won't lay no chickens 't all if folks put they hands in they nests an’ this here hen look i like to me she's one of them Kind, so the rester the eggs ‘Il jest be waste, any how, ‘cau: vou done put yo' han's in her nes’, an' a dominicker ain't a-goin’® to stan’ no projeckin’ with her eggs. Hurry up” Jimmy carefully distributed the eggs inside his blouse, and Rilly once more crawled through the hole and | stood on the outside waiting, cap in i band, to reccive them. But the patlent hen had at last | raised her voice in angry protest and sct up a furious cackling, which o frightencd the little boy on the inside | that he was panic-stricken. He caught ! bold of a low roost pole, swung him- gelf up and, wholly unmindful of his blouse full of eggs, pushed his lower limbs through the hole and stuck fast. A pair of chubby, sturdy legs, down which were slowly trickling little yel- low rivulets, and half a plump, round body were all that would go through. “Pull!” yelled the owner of the short fat legs. “I'm stuck and can't go no furder. Pull me th'oo, Billy.” About this time the defrauded fowl flew from her nest and attempted to get out by her rightful exit. Find- ing it stopped up by a wriggling, squirming body she perched hersell on the little boy’s neck and flapped her enraged wings in his face. “Pull!” yelled the child again, “help me th'oo, Billy, 'fore this fool chicken pecks all the meat off 'm my bones.” Billy grabbed the sticky limbs and gave a valient tug, but the body did not move an inch. Alas, Jimmy with his cargo of broken eggs was fast imprisoned. “Pull again!” yelled the a¢~nrm| and angry child, “you ‘'bout the idjctest idjet they is if you can't do no better 'n that.” Billy jerked with all his strength, but with no visible result. “Pull harder! You no-count gump!” screamed the prisoner, beating off the hen with his hands. The boy on the outside, who was strong for his years, braced himself and gave a mighty wrench of the other child’s stout extremities. Jim- my howled in pain and gave his friend an energetic kick. “Lemme go!” he shrieked, “you old impe'dunt backbiter. I'm going to i tell Miss Minerva you pulled my legs out by the roots.” ’ A small portion of the prisoner’s blouse was visible. Billy caught hold | of it and gave a strong jerk. There | was « sound of ripping and H‘lrillfli d the older boy fell sprawling on | his back with a goodly portion of the er child’s raiment in his hands. “Now what you done,” yelled | the victim of his energy, “you ain't got the sense of a buffalo gnat. Oh, | oli! This hole is bout to cut my stom- ach open.” “Hush, Jimmy!” child. “Don’t make Aunt Minerva Il hear you.” “f want her to hear me,” scrmmed Jimmy. “You ‘d like me to stay stuck in a chicken hole all night. Oh! (Con tinued on pazu 6. ) | your see warned the other | 29 meets the first Thursday night in_ $0 muc h noise. "~ Lakeland Lodge No. 91 F. & A. M. | meets in Masonic Hall every Second and Fourth Monday nights. A cor-! dial invitation to visiting brethren. | C. G. Arendell, secretary; J. L. Love, W. M. Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M. No. | each month in Masonic Hall. Vlslt-' ing companions welcomed. C. G. Arendell, Sec'y.; J. F. Wilson, H. P.| - Palm Chapter, O. E. S. meets every second and fourth Thursday nights of each month at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Flora Keen, W, M., Lucie B Eaton, Secy. F. 2 x » Lakeland Camp No. 78, W. 0. W, meets every second and fourth Thurs- day night. Weodmen Cirele first and third Tharsdays. . F. Ken- nedy, Conncil Commandor. Mrs lie S¢ . Guardian of Circle, Sil- ipper 1 F Meets eveiy | y night at 7:20 at 1, 0. 0. I Ha!l ,corner Main and Tennessee, Visiting brothers cor-. dially invited, I. Q. FRENCH, Noble Grand. K. OF P. cular meeting every Tuesday 30 at Odd Fellows Hall, Visit- welcome, DBRYAN, Commander, n oo members always I D, Chancellor ing A, M. JACKSON, Secretary., G.1. A to B. of L. E. Orange Blossom Div. No 109, G. 1. A, to B, of L. E. meets every Wednesdays m. Visiting second and fourth ecach month at 2:30 p, Sisters always welcome, MRS, ', BROWN Sec'y, Mrs. J. B, HOGAN, Pres. Ed * » G. A R Meets first Saturday in every month at C. E, Dayton's, South Ten- nessee. J. R. TALLEY, Adjt. As a Great Statesman Boasted. “Aspasia! cares, with these reflections. Little of life is remaining, but my happl- pess will be coetancous with it, and my renown will survive it; for there is no example of any who has gov- erned a state so long, without a sin- | gle act of revenge or malice, of cruelty or severity. In the thirty- seven years of my administration I have caused no citizen to put on mourning. On this rock, Oh, Aspasia! stand my Propyiaea and my Par- of | (Gentry Undertaking Co. 1 have done with these | JANUARY 24, 1912, Diamond Brand Hose, Lisle and Furnishings. 35 Drane Building o. Don’t forget we are makmg Spring Suits We Are Now Featurmg The Savoy Shirt, Made-Well Underwear, Stetson Hats, Silk Hats, and Caps 50c up, Onyx Silk, Walk-Over and Hanan Shoes, Schmidt Knit Sweaters and a complete line of Men's 550 T. l. WOODS & CO. RINEN et aln) Phone Then Mr. Knagg Felt Better. Mrs. Knagg-—DPerhaps you recall, 1t was on a train we first met. Mr. Knagz—Yes, but it's too !1te now to #ue the company for damages J. 1. Gentry. M. #utch. D o i SR S S S Successors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 'Phones: day or night, 245. thenon.—— Walter Savage Landor: Pericles and Aspasia —_—— Cultivate Art of Cookery. To cook is un art of arts, within, | however, the reach of any who will | take the trouble to master its alphabet | and graduate into its higher branches. | That one may become an artist by this | study is not promised. Artists are the born, not made product. DBut a knowledze of cookery in the finer branches will e an aid to enlture just 2s i knowledsze of the languages helps | to the comprehensfon of literature, and a knowledee of musie to the com hension ef musie AhnyJ a Unr e. Thoere i 0 f n of tl { ' ol i the su he ean roek the !l.v? [the fall go gunning, in the winter |on thin ice, and in the spripg Hin love How Long a Cigar Will Last. < ibers of a Parisian elub took six ci out of the same box, let (h(m simultanecusly and tried to | make them iast as long as possible | The winner smoked nis for 2 hours and 17 minutes i | S. L A. CI.ONIS‘ DEALER IN | Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— | SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts’ Bmldmg JUST A MlNUTE' ’A New Meat Marl(ct on Florida Avenue Next Door to G. L. Gardner we have opened up a grocery d meat market and ar h our custcm in goud F? ¢a and western mea ki of all Guick and prompt delivery. CALL PHONE 67. SIRAIN & RIJIII[RFORI) fand prices rig t ‘;\ncl up. New line Beds in twoineh Post Verni Marin, Oxodized, and| Noar Brass Finishos fron $2.751 and up. ! 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