Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-08-20
OLD DIaGLyBoNEs.
BY CLARA @. DoI1.1vER.

81 .Eyr BY CLARA @. Do1IIvER.
You would think from his name that
he was old and wrinkled, bent and
brown, with dreadfully cunning,
wicked face; but ho isn't at all. His
cheeks are round and soft and downy,
and pink like peaches; and he has such
bright, innocent look that lie walks
into your heart ut once without knock
inr
We call him Digglybones because he
1s 80 fond of the play IN which dread
ful wicked old man steals NIL the lady's
children and turns them into pies; the
poor lady, heartbroken for her loss, goes
to the bakers to console herself with O.
pie. She calls for gooseberry but no
sooner has she received it than sho ex-
claims
Mercy me This is my daughter
Amella!" Then old Digglybones cries
out 'Pie, pie, pie," aud chases her
home. If he catches her iie gets Amelia
back, and the poor mother has to 20 pie
buying again. egt
You would never think that our littlo
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.
SIS He has big sister nainad Rose; he
calls her Wosie with his little unman-
ageable tongue. and thinks sho is the
most wonderfully wise, perfectly beau
tltui, dearest and best sister in the wide
world.
Wosie is eighteen and still goes to
school, where her anxious teachers
haven't half such high opinion of her
asDigglyboncs has; though they can't
help liking her after knowing her n
little.
There is tall young fellow with
black eyes and 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 raugh.
ty eye up to the keyhole of the parIor
door one day and saw the black mus
tache as near wosies mouth as his own
sweet lips ever got.
Onestine 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
leaplng out of her seat "What do peo.
pie want to ring that bell in that style
for? It's set Inc all in futter. Run
to the door, pet.p'
Grandmother doesn't call him Dggly-
bones she thinks it is dreadful name.
When, after no small amount of tug
gng, he succeeded in opening the door,
he found tho postman there, not looking
so very pleasant rs he might, because he
had been kept waiting SO long. "Here,
bub," no said, "here's letter for YOU !:
aud don't let the grass grow under your
fee6auother time.''G g. IS
Dlgglybones was so astonishcd about
the grass that he let tho letter fall out
of his hand, and did not shut his mouth
Or pick the letter up until the postman
had disappeared, and might have stood
there longer if his mother had not
called out to him to shut the door
quick, before the house was full OF flies.
When he took the letter into grand
mother tho 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
Digglybones trndged of up stairs
with 1T, thinking all tho time, as hard
ms he could think with his busy lit.
tie brain; he had never breathed n
word of his putting his eye up to the
keyhole, for he had strong suspicion
that everybody, from grandmother
down, would strongly disapprove of
such a performance on his part; but ho
hadn.t forgotten it all, and he "gucssed''
that Mr.. Afford, the owner of the black
mustache, was the most dangerous rival
he had; and he thought to himself that
Wosie a0ould give two bits TO get the
letter.
After a 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
baok until lunch-time; 80 Digglybones
while.
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, strayinp into
the house, 81 wish you would dive me
five cents"
"What for, pets" said grandmother,
who had been reduced to the verge OF
bankruptcy by Digglybones already.
+" I want some tandy."
"lt isn't good for yon," replied grand
mother. "Some of these days some
dS will say, why hasn't that NEE