The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-10-18

! cAhOie hill " come a1ong. teluDg hin
how ungallant it was to run away from
young ladies. Now, don't tear your
self away See us home, do View
got something pretty to show you,-
something you'll ike!' etc
On they came past the house, and
made straight for the cider mill ther
We heard boards rattle and old screw!
squeak. Secretly tickled, and not a lit
tie curious, Tom and L got our heads
up and peeped out amongst tn,
sprouts.
Now, what's the use - Hold wa.
pleading. say, you girls. what are
you going to do to feIier -
Then came prolonged scrimmage
Round they went, all over the bach
yard. Hold was making a desperate
effort to get away. No use they held
on TO him and brought him up unde,
the high posts of the press again, al
painting.
I'll be blamed" whispered Tom,
IF they hain't got him up on the
bench where the pummy-hoop is :"
Then came another struggle and
chatter. ''Now-now-now, please
DON'T !" calculated Hold. But the
wicked sprites only laughed the louder.
There - muttered Tom, g if they
haven't got him into the hoop and got
the follower down on to him Good
gracious, Kit | believe they're going
to squeeze him They're turning the
screws -
We began to be little alarmed for
Hold. Not that we thought they would
squash him up" knowingly; but they
had an enormous power III hand and
girls sometimes lack discretion.
Creak = credk-squedk : We could
see Cad and Jess turning the levers to
bring the screw-heads down on the
| follower over him.
30 you'll make a splendid cheese :"
they were saying.
| don't think Hold fairly OWNED their
intentions until the follower began to
press him. Then he squirmed IN good
earnest; but they had him hard and
| fast.
Now, boy" says Cad. what was
yoH at our door for z"
TO hang June-box," said Hold,
candidly.
80, yoI was Who was it with
you?"
4 don't want to tell you that, " said
Hold, honorably.
Don't youi" Creok-squeak,
"Oh ~ Credk squeak ''Oh :
Tom Edwards-Oh-h, and Kit-Oh-
h-hln
Where did Tom and Kit run to21
:. don't know said Hold and he
really did not know.
"Try and think, says Jess. Credk
squeak.
Il honestly don't know" vociferat-
ed Hold. Cre0E-Squedk. "Oh up
the road. Ohl-over into the wood.
Oh oh !"
Torture has made many =. marty lie,
no doubt, when the truth wasn't salts
factory to the inquisitOrs.
You re the fellow from New York.
amt you 2" demanded Jess the one
they call Hold"
. Yes-yes 4. from New York. I'm
Hold !"
:. Hod is droll name; what does 1t
stand for! -
- Stands for Horace.
" Horace. what else -
Horace Melcher."
q ANY middle name o.
Hold hesitated. He was then very
sensitive about his middle name, New
York folks were laughing SO much at
| his great namesake.
Come, what's your middle namel"
questioned Cad.
my middle initials G., replied
Hod. trying to compromise it.
well but what does that G stand
for 2"
No answer. Creak-squeak-creak.
80. nowl". Squeak creak. OH
Greeley oh Horace Greeley-oh y
Then they eased up to laugh over
him, and says Lucreesh, How much
is vour father worth, Horace Greeley r.
Nothing!' exclaimed Hold, irrltat-
ed at the sound of his full name.
Reckon again - cried Cad.
| We heard the screws going again,
and Hold very quickly arrived at differ
ent figures: oh forty thousand
dollars-oh!; he roared out.
"Thats good :" said 'Creesh. Bat
you don't like our style, | hear !"
NJ. | don't :" muttered Rod.
Don't you-now?" Squeak-credb
-cre0E
"Oyes! do! | do ! IDOL Oh =
Wouldn't you like to kiss us, Hold
dy?" said Cad, after pause.
I'D like to bite yel" grculed the
oppressed Horace.
80, no, no, no, There's a dear boy
Kiss us, won't youl' Credk.
Yes. Yesi will Let me up =
I'm afraid you'll back ont, if we lei
you clean out of the hoops, said Jess
$ Well let you part way up"
And the iades actually made him sa-
lutte them all round, with his head just
up over the edge of the hoop and the
follower held ready to crowd min
down again. if he bit. instead. Their
they let him get out aDd go with
chime of Good night, Hoddy," ana
" How do you like our style q
| Hold made himself scarce forthwith
Tom and | waited till the ''coast wa
clear" then crept out and went home
| Hold had gone to bed.
Next morning | heard Tom asking
HIM what the girls did to him
None of your business - said /,
shortly.
But afterwards. whenever we founC
1t necessary to take him down a little
we would sing out, ''Oh i-Greeley-
Oh - That would . fetch him"
An, well, those days are all past ant
gone now. like the old cider mill. Hos
Is of late Junior partner IN the mer
camille house oil which his father /
the head and if this little stor,
should come to his eye,-well. [ CUES
pressure in the old pummyhoop.