Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 6

PAGE SIX body with a bald head ‘thout I run, | ' an’ she can't never ! BOthing else t- eat; o o suse 1 don't want to get cussed. So ' keep on a-tr; I RS W. FISKE JOHNSON o e e e, L e e ki e e | She v e wouds and ate up forty-two hunderd | OR @ burnin’ worser 'n ever, an’ there ~t the window und usk.q, ) of em.t | she is a ‘oman 'thout no skin on. So | WeeP. fair one? Ang ! e Frances” reproved Lina, | She try to turn back to a cat an’ she | Wicked parent harl p v, 3 I can't ever sec my 1oy, *1 I don't , Can’t 'cause it's pas’ twelve erclock, ran' she jest swivvle an’ swivvle tell ! | fine'ly she jest swivvle all up. An’' hawapioned | that was the las’ of the ole witch an’ | d | her husban’ live happy ever after. men."” “Once upon a time,” sald Lina, “vou always get things wrong. believe they ate up that many chil- dren.” “Yes, they did too,” ck | Jitnmy, *‘cause it's in the Bible an | Miss Cecilia 'splained all 'bout it to | me, and sie's our Sunday school So the fairy touched her wand and told iy hair out .f the window, and it reached the gro.: lover, holding a ru;»; ladis hand and playing the gy ing with the other, «limi. BUYS AXD SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- TY A SPECIALTY. | teacher and 'bout the bullyest 'splain- | er they is, Them Teddy bears ate up | ‘bout a million chillens, which is all Are you satisfied with your NET RESULTS of last year? Unkept resolutions weaken you; DOING what you determine to do will build your character. Bring the money you have in your pocket to our bank RIGHT NOW, and begin the year sensibly by starting to SAVE and GET AHEAD. If you do, one year from today you will thank us. - ' Saving only 25 cents a day—$7.50 a month—and interest will amount to over ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in 10 years. - JFIRST NATIONAL BANK LAKELAND Under Control of U. S. Government. find e R e SOV Iimber,;mncntine;'—Cut-over Lam‘ls,rtl'l’oié—e Colinization Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes ‘and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- berry and Trucking Farms. o 0 it WITH 32 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH FLORIDA SOILS, CROPS AND CITRUS GROVES. WE GUARANTEE ALL PROPERTY JUST AS REPRESENTED BY US. OO DO PO I R 00 DD, FOR RELIABLE INFORMATION SEE Ohlinger @ § Alfield Opposite New Depot, FLORIDA. e D DO ol SOV g’, % % Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocers HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Crate Materal and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. IDEAL FERTILIZERS [ oh! | behold. | eried | to be punished, William. | FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN 1 (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) (Continued from page 2.) | The noise did indeed bring T\ill,\"s‘ aunt out on a tour of investigation, | She had 1o knock a plank off the hen- house with an axe before Jimmy's re- | lease could be wccomplished, He was | | lifted down, red, angry, sticky, and perspiring, and was indeed a sight to “Billy got to all time perpose some- | thing to get little boys in trouble,” he growled, “and got to all time get ‘em stuck in w hole in a chicken house,” “My pame is William,” nephew's | corrected she, “You perposed this here yo'sell!” an indignant Biily. “Me an’ Wilkes Booth Lincoln don' know noti- in' 't all 'hout no rabbit’s cpes sence we's born.” “It doesn't ma‘ier who proposed it,” said his aunt firmly. “You are going I have just shirts. Come finished one of vour ni with me and put it on : Jimmy, you go home and show your- self to your mother.” “Pick up yo' shirttail olier groun’ what 1 tore off, Jimmy,” ad- vised Billy, “an’ take it home to yo' ma. Aunt Minerva,” he pleaded, fol- lowing mournfully behind her, “please don't put me to bed; the major he don’ go to bed no daytimes; I won't never get me no mo' eggs to make rabbit's eggs outer.” CHAPTER VIII. Tellers of Tales. The days flew rapidly by, Miss Minerva usually attempted to train Billy all the morning, and by the mid- day dinner hour she was 8o exhausted that she was glad to let him play in the front yard during the afternoon. Here he was often joined by the three children whose acquaintance he had made the day after his arrival, t«nd the quartet became staunch friends and chums. All four were sitting in the swing one warm spring day, under the sur- veilance of Billy's aunt, sewing on the veranda. “Let's tell tales,” suggested Jimmy. olnklml‘tu l?\l | “All right,” agreed Frances, T | tell the first. Once there’s “Naw, yYou ain't neither,” interrupt “You all time talk i | ed the little boy. | ing 'bout you going to tell the first| tale. I'm going to tell the first tale myself. One time they ‘s—" “No, you are mnot either” said | Lina positively. “Frances is a wirl and she ought to be the first if she wants to. Don't you think so, Billy?” “Yas, I does,” championed he; “go on, Frances.” That little girl, thus encouraged, proceeded to tell the first tale: “Once there 's a man named Mr. Elisha, and he had a friend named Mr. Elijah, so his mantelpiece fell on top of his head and make him per- fectly bald; he hasnt got a single hair and he hasn’t got any money, 1 go to bed. ' the | [ the httle boys and girls two Teddy | man threescore and ten years old, bears can hold at a time.” “| knows a man what ain't got no ! [hair 't all on his heud,” remarked | the lovely princess, said, ‘No, father, Billy; “he's a coriure-man an’ me an’ Wilkes Booth Lincoln been talkin' | 10 him ever sence we's born an’ he ain't never cuss us, an' 1 ain't never w0t cat up by no Teddy bears neither. ! Huccome him to be bald? He's out in the fiel' one day a'pickin’ cotton when he sees a tu'key buzzard an’ he ralk to her like this: “I say tu'key buzzard, I sav, Who shall I see unexpected to- day?” “If she flop her wings three times 'vou goin' to sce yo' sweetheart, but tis-here buzzard ain't flop no wings 't she jes' lean over an’ th'ow up on his head an' he been bald ever sonee; ev'y single hair come out.” “Pid you-all hear 'hout that "Talian Dago that works on the section gang cating a buzzard?" asked Frances. f Billy. Naw,” said nim sick?” “That it did,” she answered; “he ent for Doctor ord avd teils him, \le killa de big bird, ine o ! w hig wa d bird, de big bird makea me seck' " “Them Dagoes ‘bout the funniest walking folks they is,” said Jimmy, “hut they got to talk that way ‘cause it’s in the Bible. They 'sputed on the tower of Babel and the Lord say ‘Con- found you!' Miss Cecilia "splained it all to me and she's 'bout the dandiest ‘splainer they is.” “You may tell Jimmy,” suid Lina, “I'm going to tell 'bout William Tell ‘cause he's in the Bible,” said Jim- my. “Once they’s a man name'—" “Willlam Tell isn’'t in the Bible," declared Lina. “Yes, he is t0o,” contended the lit- tle boy, “Miss Cecilia 'splained it to me, You all time setting yourself up to know more'n me and Miss Cecilia. One time they's a man name’ William Tell and he had a little boy what's | the cutest kid they is and the devil | come 'long and temp’ him. Then the Lord say, ‘William Tell, you and Adam and Eve can taste everything they | is in the garden 'cepting this one ap- | ple tree; you can get all the pears and bunnanas and peaches and grapes and oranges and plums and persim- mons and scalybarks and fig leaves and 'bout a million other kinds of frult if you want to, but don't you tech a single apple.’ And the devil tcmp' him and say he going to put Lis cup oi a pole wad everyoody got your tale now, to bow down to it for a idol and if William Tell don't bow down to it he for zood or evil That's all !got to shoot a app! Ivfl"m his little boy | the little boy Willia ind Eve got, but he ain’t goin down and worship no gravy head. to fall e on ;I\\p a pole, so he put a tomahawk in ! | his bosom and he tooken his bow und arruh and shot the apple plumb th'oo the middle and never swinge a hair { of his head. And Eve nibble off the apple and give Adam the core, and Lina all time ‘sputing 'bout Adam and Eve and William Tell ain't in the | Bible. They're our first parents.” “Now, Billy, vou tell a tale and then | it will be my time,” said Lina with a saving-the-best-for-the-last air. “Once they was a ol' witch,” said Pilly, “what got outer her skin ev'y night an’ lef’ it on the he'rth an' turnt herself to a great, big, black cat “Did it make Tell and Adam | Always on Hand. Lakeland. Florida We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants MAYES GROCERY COMPANY his garments, which is clo'es, 'cause | ride folks fer horses, an’ set on ev'y- | he didn't have mone at all what be-|pody's chis’ an’ suck they breath an’ long to him. 1 s'pec’ he just rented : kill 'em an’ then come back to bed. ! him a shirt and a pair o' breeches An' can't nobody ketch her tell one and wore 'em mnext 1o his hide ‘thout ! night her husban’ watch her an’ he no undershirt at all. He was drea’ful . see her jump outer her skin an’ drop | peor and had a miser'ble time and it on the herth an’ turn to a’normous mecan Mr. Per'dventure took him up'black cat an' go up the chim’ly. An’| on a high mountain and left him. so| he got outer the bed an’ put some salt when he come down some bad little | an’ pepper an’ vinegar on the skin an’ | children say, °‘Go ‘iong back, bald, she come back an’ turnt to a ‘oman head!” and they make peck-mocks on ' an’ try to git back in her skin an’ him. Seems like everybody treat him | she can’t 'cause the salt an’ pepper bad, so he cuss ‘em, so | never see |an' yinegar mos’ burn her up, an"'she ‘cause mama read me 'bout he rented ! an® go up the chim’ly an’ go roun’ an’ | | | to arother | your sermon and listen to what peo- “there was a beautiful maiden and she was in love, but her wicked old pa- rent wants her to marry a rich old hair and took her do and his big black ho Was near, all booted and spurr. § .. rode away and lived : after.” “How he goin’ to «1.: . asked Billy, “with a ro;. | . hand znd his guitar “lI don't know,” waus answer. “That is in my fairy-tale bo ! which is 'most all the old you can get unless you are going to die; and | you may cut me in the twain but I will never marry any but my true | love.’ 30 the wicked parent shut up tl lovely maide» in a high tower ! many miles from the ground, and ! made her liv: turnips and she had 1 o 3 ] — - | Visit the FLORIDA HIGHLANDS C0.'S LANDS a: Du. | | leaves Lakeland at 7:10 a. m.. 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