Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-11-05
Pennsy7yaI,in.
AN UNFORTUNATE KITE.

1t is an unusual thing TO see kite
hyin e during the month of Novem Der;
nevertheless, we yesterday saw an ur-
chin trying to pull kite from an apple
tree, where it had lodged, and just as
a stranger was passing by the string
broke, leaving tine kite up there. With
the natural prompting of humane
heart, the gentleman gave his coat in
charge of the boy, and crawling over
the fence, he was soon up the tree. The
10y felt pretty bad about the accident
ito his kite, but on taking second look
at the coat-which WAS almost new
be dried his tears and scampered of
with ii, unperceived by the stranger,
who was trying to take an obstinate
itwig FROM the back of his neck. After
considerable difficulty ne reached the
kite, and was stretching forth his hand
to take IL, when the limb he was on
suddenly snapped in two, and he fell
some six feet, splitting one of his l,aa-
taloon legs half way up, and running a
twig into his nose with such violence
as to make that organ bleed. Fortu-
nately he was saved from further mis-
haps by catching On a strong limb. He
stopped then TO feel of his nose, and
mediate on the accident, when "a rough
voice from below, demanded what he
was doing there? And looking down,
he saw shirt-sleeved, bald-headed
man, with a pitch-fork in his hand and
fire in his eye. The stranger explained
about the kite.
That won't do,'; said the enraged
farmer; 81 have had too many apples
hooked from that ere tree; and now
that I've got the thief, [ intend to make
him dance
The stranger referred him to the boy
for an endorsement ofhis kite story.
What boy? 1 don't see no boy; there
aint no boy here
The stranger shouted sBubr two or
three times, out there was no response.
This is very extraordinary, he said.
'Veryp coineided the farmer, with
great dryness.
THAT boy has stolen my coat, and
must pursue him and recover it, said
the stranger.
sOh! come down and catch him. said
the farmer, at the same time placing
the hay-fork in such way as to take
in the most valuable portion of the
strangers body.
why, you wouldn't run that fork
into me, you old idiot'
who are you calling an old idiot
you miserable thief? Come here tC
rob me me, you villain, will you? and
then stand in my own tree an bias.
pheme me! Run the fork in you, will
L? Yes, I'd run it into two dozen Of
vel 1 want you to pay me five dollars,
and get out of this orchard as fast as
your rascally legs will carry you
The stranger hesitated. 1t was bad
enough to lose coat, ruin his pants,
and split his nose, to help an evil boy
out of trouble, without bei2g bonn
barded with epithets, and charged five
dollars for the performance. He
thought ne would jump down on the
old man and crush him. But he look
ed at the fork and repented of the de.
sign. Then he drew out five dollar
bill and dropped it to his enemy, who
fastened away, after which the stran-
ger was not long in sliding down the
tree, Immediately starting for the ia
nous ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HALL, OF
Ell. FRANK, 40 Twelfth Street, Wheel.
ing, to replenish his wardrobe. Frank
was not long in enrolling him in one OF
those five-dollar Suits, not forgetting
to advise him to invest $3.50 in one OF
those durable, heavy Winter Overcoats,
which he did.
As we go to press we learn active
search has been made for the boy, but
neither he nor the coat has been dis
covered. But the people at large are
beginning to learn that FRANKS in
Wheeling, is the cheapest place in this
section of the country, to buy Clothing,
Judging from the amount of clothes
that he turns out daily. 81