Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-16

do, then, the most terrible things
Have you never heard of o body of wa
ter, called the mighty oceans THAI
was it. The mighty ocean rushed ur
that pebbly shore and swallowed mp
hats, shoes, stockings, dinner pals,
dinner and all To speak in plain
words, the tide had risen and covered
them.
The Jimmies never thought of that,
until man came aiong-a man with a
horse cart, and told them. Why, y
said he, "no use looking; the tide
has carried them off II"
When the man had gone, tho boys
went up from the water to look for
Ellis Payne. Johnpy's heel was in
such bad state he could only step
with the toes Of that foot, and, In going
over the sharp stones, he cut the ball
Of the same foot, SO that he could not
step with it at all aud when they came
to the stubbed grass that cut like little
knives, he held up one foot and hoped
on the other, and, getting tired of that,
no walked on his knees. Jimmy
laughed at him, but in the midst of his
laughing cried out, sou! ont" and
was glad to come down upon his own
knees. Aud 50 they went on . while,
but, finding knee walking hard to do,
and apt to make walkers roll
over, they tried hand walking and
knee walking both, which is all the
same as crawling.
And now comes that part of the story
where Jimmy was turned out of q
house.
While those boys had been picking
up shells, and playing in the sand, and
wading, and Watching the fries, and
running away from gulls, and drying
their clothes in the sun, aud counting
their outs, aud hobbling up and down
the shore, the sun had been sinking
lower and lower and lower; and Ellis
Payne had finished making the hay and
gone home with it. 1t is sad to think
how hungry Ellis Payne must have
been The boys were hungry, too,
and that may have been the reason
why they went toward the little red
house. 1t stood two fields away from
the shore, as has already been stated.
When they reached the last field, John
ny lay down in the grass, close BY q
row OF wild plum bushes, and cried.
He said he could not walk any more.
Jimmy said he would go into that
house, and if any woman gave him any
thing he would bring Johnny some.
But when he reached the house, he was
too bashful to open the door, aud
stayed in the wood shed quite long
time, till he saw a woman 20 out.
After Jimmy had been gone few
moments, Johnny heard 3 noise of
some one walking near, and soon an
old woman came out from behind the
bushes with some leaves IN her hand.
She went close to Johnny and asked
him what he was lying there for, bare
headed: Johnny told her he had q
lame knee and q sore heel and he
couldn't walk.
'Don't tell me that" said she.
49, sh91 just see You running across
"No-ma'm, 'twasn't l." sobbed
Johnny.
Don't tell me! Don't tell me
cried the old woman; and she walked
Of, picking now and then leaf as she
went. The leaves were plantain leaves,
for the bruises of her little grandson,
who had fallen out of the chamber
window: The boy she saw running
across tho field was Jimmy.
When that old woman had finished
picking leaves, she went back into the
house; and hardly had she finished
spreading the leaves out on the table,
when Jimmy put his head in at the
door, slowly, then his shoulders, then
the rest of himself.
"What do You want here9" cried
the old woman. didn't you tell me
You could MT walk.
"No-ma'am," Jimmy answered al.
most frightened out of his breath.
"Oh oh =! oh! what big story-tell.
eryou are!" cried the old woman. "Off
with you ! Quick, tot I don't want
such boy as you are, in my Louise
with my little Sammy :" =,
BY the time she had got as far as
my little Sammy" Jimmy was out
OF the house and at the first pair of
bars, and, being in q terrible fright,
ran back to Johnny rs fast as he could.
Johnny was sitting there, hugging
somebody: What body2 Not a body
OF water is meant this time, but q
lively, loving frisking body, named
Caper. And close behind came Mr..
Plummer. When Ellis Payne came
home without the Jimmyjohns, Mr..
Plummer put the horse into the light
wagon and took Caper, md went to
look after them.