Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 31, 1912, Page 2

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A Transaction in Mumps. “Don’t come mear me,” screamed ly, sauntering slowly and deliberate- v toward ihe dividing fence; ‘“keep way fom me; they’s ketchin”.” Jimmy was sitting on his front steps and the proverbial red flag could not have excited a bull to quicker action. He hopped down the steps and ran scross his own yard toward Billy as fast as his short, fat legs could carry him. “Git 'way f'om me; you 'll ketch 'em if you teches me,” warned Billy; “an’ you teco little to have ’em,” and he waved an authoritative hand at the other child. But Jimmy’s curiosity was aroused to the highest . pitch.’ He promptly jumped the fence and gazed at his chum with critical admiration. “What's’ the matter,” he “inquired, “you got the toothache?” “Toothache!” was the scornful echo, “well, I reckon not. Git back; don’t you tech ’em; you ain’t ol’ 'nough to; have 'em.” Billy’s head was swathed in u huge, | white cloth; his usuaily lean llttle' cheeks were puffed out till he resem- bled a young hippopotamus, and his! pretty gray eyes were almost invisible. : “You better git 'way f'om me an’| don’t tech ’em, like I tells you,” he re- iterated. ‘“Aunt Minerva say you ain’t never had ’em an’ she say fer me to| make you keep 'way fom Iué 'cause | you ain't’'a ol chile like what [ is.” “You ain’t but six,” retorted angry Jimmy, “and I'll be six next month; | vou all time trying to ’suade litle boys to think you're "bout a miilion years | old. You 'bout the funniest looking | kid they is.” Billy theatrically touched a distend- ed cheek. “These here is mumps,” he said i;npres'sivqu; “an’ when you got 'em you can make grown folks do per- zactly what you want ’em to. - Aunt Minerva 's in the kitchen right now makin’ me ‘lasges custard if Tll be good an’ stay right in the house an’ don’t come out here-in the yard ‘an’ don't-give you the mumps. Course can’t tech thdt custard now ‘cause I dcne come out ‘here an’ it ain’t honer- ble; but she's makin’ it jes’ the same. You better git 'way f'om me an’ not tech 'em; you too little to have 'em.” “Are they easy to ketch?” asked the other little boy eagerly; “lemme jest tech 'em one time, Billy.” “Git 'way, I tell you,” warned the latter with a superior air. To increase ‘j Jimmy’s envy he continued: “Grown folks tries to see how nice they can be to chillens what's got the mumps. Aunt % Minerva ain't been impedent to me to- day; she lemme do jest 'bout like I please; it sho’ is one time you can make gfown folks step lvely.” He looked at Jimmy meditatively. “It sho' is a plumb pity you ain't A ol chile like what I is an’ ean’t have the mumps, Don’t you come anp closter to me,” he again warned, “you too little to have 'em.” .= 4 “T'll glve you five ‘pewees it you'll lemme tech ‘em so's I can get 'em,” pleaded the younger boy. Billy hesitated. ‘‘You mighty lit- tle—" he began. “And my stoney,” said the other child eagerly. “If you was a ol' boy,” said Billy, “it wouldn’t make no diffunce; I don't want to make yo' ma mad an’ Aunt Minerva say for me to keep *way fom you any how, though I didn’t make her no promises.” p “You're the stinglest Peter they is, Willlam Hill,” he cried; “won’t let no- body tech your old mups. My cousin in Memphis 's got the measles; you Just wait till I git ‘em.” Billy eyed him critically. “If you was ol—" he was beginning. " Jimmy thought he saw signe of his vielding. “And I'll give you my chind egg, | ‘| t0o,” he quickly proposed. EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS, "Phones: day or night, 245. A ————— ————————————" : Fundamental Ervor, i ‘We suffer, in teaching, from the means being exalicd aund the end for Botien, “Well, jest one tech,” agreed Billy; “an’ I ain’t a-goin’ to ' be ’gponsitle neither,” and he poked out & swollen jaw for Jimmy to touch. Ikey Rosenstein at this moment was spled by the two little bays as he was walking jauntily by the gate. “You botter keep 'way f'om here, Goose-Grease,” Jimmy yelled at him; “you better get on the other side the | | street. Billy herg ‘s got the mumps . v, an’ he lemme tech ’em so’s I can get 'em, £0’s my papa and mama ’Il lemme do just perzactly like I want to; but you're a Jew and Jews aim’t got no business to have the mumps, so you better get 'way. I paid Billy ’bout a million dollars’ worth to lemme tech We Are Now Featuring The Savoy Shirt, Made-Well Underwear, Stetson Hars, - Diamond Brand Hose, Lisle and his mumps,” he said proudly. “Get | 'way; you can't have 'em.” gate. “What'll you take, Billy, to lemme | get 'em?” he asked, his commercial spirit at once aroused. Tkey had promptly stopped at the | Furnishings. “What'll you gimme?” asked he of | the salable commodity, with an eye to a bargain. 4 Ikey pulled out a piece of twine and ‘ a blue glage bead from his pocket and offered them to the child with the mumps. These received a contemptu- ous rejection. “You can do perzactly like you please when you got the mumps,” in- sinuated Jimmy, who had seemingly allied himself with Billy ag a partner in business; “grown folks bound to do what little boys want 'em to when you got the mumps.” Ikey increased his bid by the stub of a lead pencil, but it was not until he had parted’ with his most cherished pocket possessions that he was at last allowed to place a gentle finger on the protuberant cheek. Two little girls with their baby-bug- gies were seen approaching. “G’ 'way from here, Frances, you and Lina,” howled Jimmy. “Don’t you come in kere; me and Billy ’s got the mumps and. you-all 'r’ little girls and ought n’ to have 'em, Don’t you come near us; they 're Ketching.” The two little girls immediately opened the gate, crossed the yard, and stood in front of Billy. They inspected him with admiration; he bore their critical survey with affected unconcern and indifference, as befitted one who had attained such prominence. “Don’t tech 'em,” he commanded, waving them off'as he leaned grace- fully against the fence. * “I téched ‘em,’ boasted the younger boy. “What'll you all give us if we 'll let you put your finger on ‘em?” “I ain’t a-goin' to charge little girls nothin’ " said the gallant Billy, as he profiered his swollen jowl to edch in turn. A little darkey riding a big black horse was galloping by; Jiminy hailed and halted him. “You better go fast,” he shrieked. “Me and Billy and Frances and Lina’s got the mumps and you ain’t got no, business to, have ’em ’cause you ’re a niggzer, and you better take your horse | asked. | Minerva. P 3 to the lib'ry stable ‘cause he might |, ketch ‘em, too.” The negro boy dismounted and hitched the horse to the fence. “1 gotter lttle tarrapim—" he began in- sinuatingly. And thus it came to pass that there |l wae an’ epidemic of mumps in the lit: tle town of Covington, and Willlam Green Hill grew rich in marbles, in tops, in strings, in toads, in chewing} gum, and in many other things which comprise the pocket treasures of little. boys. ! CHAPTER XXl The Infant Mind Shoots. Miss Minerva had bought a book for Billy entitied “Stories of Great and Good Men,” which she frequently read | ment. These stories related the prin-{ cipal events in the lives of the heroes but never mentioned any names, al- ways asking at the end, “Can you tell me who this man was? Her nephew heard the stories so often that he had some expression or incident by which he could identify’ y each, without paying much attention while she was reading, He and his aunt had just settled themselves on the porch for a reading. Jimmy was on his own porch. cutting up funny capers, and making faces for the other child’s amusement. “Lemme go, over to Jimmy’s, Aunt Minerva,” pleaded her nephew, “an’ you can read to me tonight, I'd a heap ruther not hear you read right now. It 'll make my belly ache.” Miss Minerva looked at him severe- “William,” ghe enjoined, “don’t you ant to be a smart man when you Iy. ‘| nephew, Don’t forget we are making Spring Suits Silk Hats, and Caps 50c¢ up, Onyx Silk, Walk-Over and" Hanan Shocs, Schmidt Knit Sweaters and a complete line of Men's {0 550 T. 1. WOODS & Co. - Drane Building (©) grow up?” “Yes. 'm,” he replied, without much} enthusiasm. “Well, jes’ lenime ask' Jimmy to come over uere an’ set on the other sider you whils’ you read. He ain't never hear ’bout them tales, an’ | I s’pec’ he 'd like to come.” 4 “Very well,* replied his flattered and gratified relative, “call him over.” Billy went to the fence, where he signaied Jimmy to meet him. “Aunt Minerva say you come over an’ listen to her read some er the pret- ties’ tales you ever hear,” he said, as if conferring a great favor. “Naw, sirree-bob!” was the impolite response across the fence, “them ’bout the measliest tales they is. Tl come if she 'll read my Uncle Remus book.”: “Please come on,” begged Billy, drop- ping the patronizing manner that he had assumed, in hope of inducing his chum to share his martyrdom. “You know Aunt Minerva 'd die in her tracks ‘fore she 'd read Uncle Remus. You ‘Il lke these-here tales ’‘nmother sight better anyway. I 'll give yow] my stoney if you'll come.” “Naw; you ain't going to get me in|, no such btox as that. If she ’'d just| read seven or eight hours I would n't| ‘mind; but she ‘Il get you where 'she! wants you and read ’bout a 'million | hours. I know Miss Minerva.” Billy’s aunt was growing impatient. “Come, Williath,” she called. *“I am waiting for you.” i Jimmy went back to hfl own porch .and the other poy joined his kinsvo- “Why wouldn't Jimmy come?” she “Heé—he ain't feeling very well,” ! | Was the considerate rejoinder. " “Once there was a little boy ‘who “was born in Virginia—" began Mlssi / “Born in a manger,” repeated the | Anattentive little boy to. himgelf, “k ‘knows who that‘was.” So, this impor- tant question settled in his mind, he gave himself up to'the tull enjoyment of his chum and to the giving and re- celving secret signals, the pleasure of which was decidedly enhanced by the fear of imminent detection. ' “Father, I-cannot tell a Ye, I did it ‘with my little hatchet—"' read ‘the! | thin, menotonous voice at higelbow. | Billy laughed aloud—at that minute I Jimimny was standing on his head way- | ing two chubby feet in the air, I “Willlam,” said his aunt reprovlngly,f "Peering at him over her spectacles, “T | ~don’t see anything to laugh at,"—~and shé did not, but then she was in ignor- ~ance of the little conspiracy. “He was a and dutiful son and he studied his lessons so well that ‘whel he was only seventeen years old he was employed to survey vast tracts of land in Virginia—" /¢ Miss Minerva emphasized every 'word, haping thus to impress her he was 50 busy keeping | one eye on her and one on the little boy on the other poreh, that he did not ‘have time to his ears at all and 'so 15 camp fires burning to deceive the enemy, he stole around by 8 efretitous route, fell upon the Brit- 51y hek up e 5 - beld up his hands to cateh & ball which Jimmy made believe to ‘Miss Minerva still read on, uncon- sclous of her nephew’s Inattention: _{The suffering at Valley Forge haa been intense during the wintéer—" ‘Billy made a pretense behind his «,.mfgupmt back of throwing a ball ‘while the other child held up two fat litlle hands to receive it. 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