Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-08-20
OLD D1aGLYBoNEs.
BY CLARA @. Dob11vER.

e-s Il-- BY CLARA g. DOLLIVER.
You would think from his name that
he was old and wrinkled, bent and
brown, with a dreadfully cunning,
wicked face; but he isn't at all. His
cheeks are round and soft and downy,
and pink like peaches; and he has such
q bright, mno J1nt look that lie walks
into your heart at once without knock
inr
We call him Digglybones because he
is 30 fond of the play IN which dread
ful wicked old man steals all the lady's
children and turns them into pies the
poor lady, heartbroken for her loss, goes
to the bakers to console herself with q
pie. She calls for gooseberry but no
sooner has she received it than she OK
claims:
"Mercy me This is my daughter
Amelia!" Then old Digglybones cries
out Pie, pie, pie," aud chases her
home. II he catches her he gets Amelia
back, and the poor mother has to 20 pie
buying again. ss{Is
You would never think that our little
round checked boy would be able to
run fast enough TO make successful
Digglybones, his legs are so fat and SO
short, but he can catch the mother and
get Amelia back four times out of five.
s-r He has q big sister named Rose; he
calls her Wosie with his little unman-
ageable tongue, and thinks sho is the
most wonderfully wise, perfectly beau
tlful, dearest and best sister in the wide
world.
Wosie is eighteen and still goes to
school, where har anxious teachers
haven't half such high opinion of her
asiDigglyboncs has; though they can't
help liking her after knowing her a
little.
There is tall young fellow with
black eyes and a great mustache who
comes to SEQ her sometimes, and real.
~ believe that he quite agrees with
Digglybones in his high opinion OF Wo-
sic; Mt least the little boy put his Eaugh-
ty eye up to the lkeyhole of the parIor
door one day and saw the black mus
tache as near wosie's mouth as his own
sweet lips ever got.
Onefine summer morning while Dig
glybones was building an Indian fort
with his blocks on the dinning-room
table. there came terrific peal ut the
door bell.
Land !" cried grandmother, nearly
leaping out of her scat. "What do peo.
pie want to ring that bell in that style
for? It's set me all in flutter. Run
to the door, pet.''
Grandmother doesn't call him Diggly-
bones she thinks it is dreadful name.
Whom, after no small amount of tug
ging, he succeeded in opening the door,
he found the postman there, not looking
so very pleasant as he might, because he
had been kept waiting SO long. "Here,
bub, he said, here's letter for you !;
and don't let the grass grow under your
feet etanother time.'' s
Dlgglybones was 50 astonishcd about
the grass that he let the letter fall out
OF his hand, and did not shut his mouth
or pick tho letter up until the postmun
had disappeared, and might have stood
there longer if his mother had not
called ont to him to shut tho door
quick, before the house was full OF flies
When he took the letter into grand
mother the good old lady read tho di-
rections out lond
Miss Rose stillingneet. City,"
"Land! she said, 81 guess that's
from Mr.. Afford. wouldn't wonder if
Rosie would give the best two bits she
ever saw to get this letter. Well, pnt it
on the table in her own room, dear"
Digglybones trudged of up stairs
with 1T, thinking all tho time, MS hard
MS he could think with his busy lit
tie brain; he had never breathed Il
word OF his putting his eye up to the
keyhole, for he had u strong suspicion
that everybody, from grandmother
down, would strongly disapprove of
such aperformance on his part; but he
ladn't forgotten it all, and he "guessed''
that Mr. Afford, the owner of the black
mustache, was the most dangerous rival
he had; and he thought to himself that
Wosie tOoul0 give two bits to get the
letter..
After while Digglybones knocked
down his Indian fort and went out OF
doors to play; he knocked at Jimmy
Lees bnck door and asked Mrs Lee, in
his sweet voice, could pease Jimmy
come out doors and play soldier ?"
But Mrs. Lee said Jimmy had gone in
town with his auntie, aud wouldn't be
back until lunch time; 30 Digglybones
played soldier by himself for little
But he found it exceedingly dull to be
captain, lieutenant, company and every.
thing, and began to wish he had some
candy, or somebody to play with, he
didn't care which.
Grandma" he said, strayine into
the house, 81 wish you would dive me
five cents"
"What for. pet ?" said grandmother.
who had been reduced to the verge OF
bankruptcy by Digglybones already.
81 want some tnndy."
cit isn'tgood for you," replied grand
mother. "Some of these days some
do will say, why hasn't that NEE