Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 26, 1912, Page 6

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IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida ' .| aunt. | arms he stood the little boys upon "4E BVENING (ELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA,, JANUARY, 26, 1912 Miss Minerva and FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN (Copyright, by Rellly & Britton 06.) _ . (Continued frcm page 2. “Go on, Willilam,” commanded “his “Go shake hands with the preacher.” The little boy again demurred but, Miss Minerva insisting, he obediently slipped by her and by his chum. Walking gracefully and jauntily up the aisle to the spot where the lec- turer was standing by a broad table, he held out his slim, little hand, Jimmy looked at these proceedings of Billy’s in astonishment, not com- prehending at all. He was rather in- dignant that the older boy had not confided in him and invited his par ticipation. But Jimmy was not the one to sit calmly by and be ignored when there was anything doing, so he slid awk- wardly from the bench before Miss Minerva knew what,he was up to. Signaling Frances to follow, he swag- gered pompously behind Billy and he, too, held out a short, fat hand to the minister. § The speaker smiled benignly down upon them; lifting them up in his the table. He thought the touching sight of these innocent ‘and tender little orphans would empty the pock- ets of the audience. Billy turned red with embarrassment at his conspiet- ous position, while Jimmy grinned happily at the amused congregation. Horrifled Miss Minerva half rose to her feet, but decided to remain ‘where she was, She was a timid woman and did not know what ‘course: she ought to pursue. ' Besides, she had . just caught the Major’s smile." “And how long have you been an orphan?” the preacher was asking Billy. TR “Ever sence me an' Wilkes Boot! | Lincoln's born,” sweetly responded ‘the child. Jo AR { “I 'bout the orphantest boy they (18, volunteered Jimmy. % | Frances, responding to the latter's ‘Invitation, had crawled over her fhth- _er's legs before he realized what was happening, She, too, went smiling | was gliding with stately, conscious | tread to join the others. This was too much for the audience. A few boys laughed out and for the first time the preacher’s aroused. As he clasped Lina’s slender, graceful little hand he asked: . “And you have no father or mother, little girl?” s “Yes, 1 have, t0o,” she angrily re-| .. 150 pieces of pie this morming; I body. torted. “My “ather and mother are | .. ..o piece on the way and she ‘ sitting right there,” and she pointed | ;o the other plece whenm I got a slim forefinger to her crimson, em- barrassed parents. CHAPTER X1, ~ Job and Pollie Bumpus. “1 never have told a down-right’ falsehood,” said Lina. “Mother taught me how wicked it is to tell stories. Did you ever tell a fib to your mother, Frances?” “’Tain't no use to try to 'ceive my mama,” was the reply of the other little girl; “she’s got such gimlet eyes and ears she can tell with ’em®shut it youre fihbing. I gave up hope long ago, so I just go ‘long and tell: her the plain gospel truth when she asks me, ‘cause I know those gimlet eyes and ears of hers 're going to worm it out o’ me somehow.” “Grown folks pin you down so close sometimes,” sald Jimmy, “you bound to ’varicate a little; and I always tell God I'm sorry. I tell my mama the truth ’most all time ’cepting when she asks questions ’bout things ain’t none of her buginess a tall, and she all time want to know ‘Who done it? and if I let on it's me, I know she’ll wear out all the slippers and hair- brushes they is paddling my canoe, 'sides switches, so I jus’ say 1 do’ know, 'm'—which all time ain’t per- zactly the truth. You ever tell Miss Minerva stories, Billy?” “Aunt Cindy always says, 'twa'n't no harm 't all to beat ’bout the bush an’ try to th’'ow folks offer the track ‘long as you can, but if it ¢ome to the point where you got tb tell a out- anout fib, she say for me always to tell the truth, an’ I jest nachelly do like she say ever sence I's born,” re- plied Billy, The children swung awhile in si- lence. Presently Jimmy broke, thd quiet by remarking: “Don’t you all feel 80 for old Miss Pollie Bumpus? She live all by herself, and she ’'bout a million vears old, and Doctor Sanford ain’t never brung her no chillens 'cause she ‘ain't got 'er mo husban’ to be their papa, and she got a octopus in her head, and she poor as 2 post and deaf as Job'’s old turkey-hen.” . “Job's old turkey-hen wasn't deaf,” retorted Lina primly; “shecwas very, very poor and thin.” & “She was deaf, t0o,” insisted Jim- my, “’cause it’s in the Bible. I know all ’bout Job,” bragged he. “I know all 'bout Job, too,” chirped Frances. “Job, nothing!” said Jimmy, with a sneer; “you all time talking, 'bout you know all 'bout Job; you ‘bout 'the womanishest little girl they is. Now I know Job ‘cause Miss Cecilia ‘splained all 'bout him to me. He's ‘in the Bible and he sold his birth- mark for a mess of potatoes and—" “You never can get anything right, Jimmy,” interrupted Lina; “that was ‘Bsau and it was not his birthmark, . (1t was his birthstone; and he sold his down the aisle, her stiff white dress standing straight up in the back like a strutting gobbler’s tail. She grabbed hold of the man's hand, and was promptly lifted to the table beside the other “orphans.” Tears stood in the good preacher’s eyes as he turned to the tittering audience and said in a pnthel\; voice, “Think of it, my triends, this beautiful little girl has no mother.” Poor Mrs. Black! A hundred pairs of /eyes sought her pew and focused themselves upon the pretty young| woman_sitting there, red, angry, and shamefaced.” Mr. Black was visibly amused and could hamdly keep from. laughing aloud. As Frances passed by the Hamil | tons’ pew in her promenade down the aisle, Mrs. Hamilton leaned across her ' busband and made an attempt to clutch Lina; but she was too late; already that dignified ‘little “orphan”. birthstone for a mess of potash.” “Yes,” agreed Frances; “he saw Esau kissing Kate and Esau had to gell him his birthStone to keep his mouth shut.” “Mother read me all about Job,” continued Lina; “he was affiicted with boils and his wife knit him a Jot"l comforter to wrap around him, and he—" “And he sat under a ’tato vine,” put in Frances eagerly, “what God grew to keep the sun off o’ his boils and—"" “That was Jonah,” said Lina, “and it wasn't a potato vine; it was—" “No, 't wasn’t Jonah neither; Jonah is inside of a whale's bel—" S“Frances!” “Stommick,” Frances corrected her gelf, “and ‘a whale swallow him, and how’s he going to sitiunder a pump- kin vine when he's ingide of a whdle?” 3 “It was not a_pumpkin vine, it—" “And I'd jus’ like to see 2 man in- side of a whale a-setting under a morning-glory vine.” “The whale vomicked him up,” said Jimmy. Ls “What sorter thing is a octopus like || what y'all say is in Miss Pollie Bum- pus’s head?” asked Billy, “"Tain’t & octopus, explained Frances, named Miss Pollie. that grows i a polypus,” “‘cause she's It’s a someping in your nose and has. to be named what you's named. She’s named '.lfl Pollie and she's got a " “I'm ‘mighty glid my mania ain't Byg-pus In her head,” was Aty suspicions ~ Were | Minerva’s nephew; Yshe’s hard Nmmy's ‘comment. “Ain’t you glad, | @Ik Tht5 1€, she says ¢, e Billy, your Aunt Minerva ain’t got! ‘How's your ma? apng g One gg no Miss Minerva-pus?” Bt me; 80 I put it ¢, € “I gho’ is,” fervently repited Miss | 20d there we set; v rd ‘nough | the horn to her to manage now like she Is.” . | “Im awful good to Miss Pollie,” said Frances. “I take her someping good to eat 'most every day. -1 took way I dig, g it's 80od's “That s an ear trumpet, Fryy, there. I jus’ don't believe she could | 53id Lina; “it is not a hory » °§ get “long at all ‘thout me to darry her | Let's play ‘Hide the Switcy .~ the good things to eat that my mama | gested Billy. send her; I takes her ples all the, “T'm going to hide it firg - time; she says they're the best smell- ¢ ’ ing pies she smelt.” | Pt “Naw, you ain't” “You ‘bout the piggiest girl they | “You all time got to is,” said Jimmy, “all time got to eat | first. Tm going to up a poor ‘old woman'’s pies. , Youll | self.” have a Francespus in your stomach “No, I'm going to say w; first thing you know.” Trimbleton,’ ” said Frances, “She’s got a horn that. you talk| who's going to hide it firs; th'0o,” continued the little girl, sereme- | all epraddle out your fingers, iy coniemptuous of Jimmy’'s adverse e criticism, “and 'fore I knew how you C Objected Jimy l}ide the gwj hide it firgy o liam (g ‘and Now yg (Continued.) 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