Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-08-20


will have to answer, Because his naugh-
~ grandma gave him SO much CANDY"
Then I can buy teeth like yours, ..
answered Digglybones "I want some
tandy anyway. '' .
But grandmother shook her head, and
that day she was proof against teasing,
although Digglybones teased his best.
o He found his mother equally untract-
able, and then his busy little brain be-
gan to think; and he tn rught, among
other things, that Wosie had some "five
centses, and If he gave her that letter
she would give him some of them.
Grandma had said that she would give
two bits to get that letter, and he was
sure there was good many siye
ssiiiiss:s;ss3" in two bits; and visions OF an
unlimited amount of candy passed be-
fore him.
He knew the school where Wosie went,
and was sure he could find it; he had
watched her go down street SO many
times.
So, without saying word to anybody,
he put the letter in his little jacket
pocket and started off. The letter stuck
up 80 high that it scraped his soft skin,
SO he doubled it up and crowded it
down. He walked along very compla-
Gently, with his ragged straw hat on one
side, totally unconscious that his face
was dirty and his hair in his eyes; in
fact, he felt perfectly satisfied with him
self.
By and by it occurred to him that he
was pretty hungry, and it was queer
that he did not find the high school.
" My dacious !" he thought to himself,
Iwonder if Wosie doesn't get awful
tired going to school," He thought a
little rest would do him no harm, SO he
found nice, shady doorstep, and sat
down.
When he put Mr.. Affords letter into
his pocket he had felt something hard in
it, and now, being reduced to great me-
cessity, he much wondered if that some
"Perhaps," thought Digglybones to
himself, .it is five Cents. I dess it is
and I dess Wosie would just MS lieve
dive it to me as not"
He could not imagine tenderer mark
of affection on Mr.. Affords part than
his inclosing five cents to Wosie.
He opened the letter as carefully as
his clumsy little fingers could do it, and
out siipped-not something to eat, and
not five cents, but round, firm curl
clipped from Mr.. Affords black, curly
head. 4 3 ~
go dear!" said Digglybones, dis
gusted.
he tried to slip it back again, but his
small fingers were sail thumbs,p and it
slipped down to the sidewalk beside him;
he thought, however, that he had got it
in again NIL safe, and he stuffed the let
ter back into his pocket, feeling rather
dubious about what Wosie would say
when she found that he had opened it.
Not being in the habit of borrowing
trouble, however, Digglybones dis:
missed the subject from his mind and
started off again on his journey,
The rther he walked the more forci-
bly, it occurred to him that it was queer
tn he did not find the High School;
and the more certain he was that lie felt
decidedly hungry.
These two circumstances together
caused Digglybones' spirits to descend
to zero, and putting his fingers in his
mouth and rubbing his eyes with his
dirty fist he began to cry.
For some time he walked along, cry
ing harder and harder every minute,
and Nobody noticed him; but Mt last a
brown eyed gentleman, who, perhaps,
had half-dozen little brown eyed chill
dcen at home, stopped Digglybones and
said:
"What's the matter, little man?"
Digglybones took his fist away from
his eye to SEQ who it was that had spok-
Gu to him; and being won at once by the
kindly light of the brown eyos he took
his fnger out of his mouth and an
swered:
Please, sir, want to find the high
gchool and Ihain't had no lunch, and
I'm hungry !"
The last words came out with below
that would have made grandmothor's
heart ache for her pct. if sho could have
heard it.
Hungry !" said the gentleman, who
could not suppress q grin at the nature
Digglybones' complaint. "Wcll, we'll,
my boy, we'll SO n cure that. Now tell
mo which high school you wish to fnd,
the boys or the girls'?"
This was a poser for Digglybcncs,
who instantly clapped his finger into
his mouth again to consider tho sub.
ject; and he came out bravely.
s'I want to find Wosie," he said.
Ah. ha !" said tho gentleman. "Is
Rosie your sister?'
Digglybones nodded.
lake my hand, said his new friend, /,
card we will find some, hing to eat first,
and Rosie afterward."
They walked along together very con-
tidentially indeed for the indiscreet
Digglybones told the gentl aman all
about Wosie's letter, and what grand
mother had said, and what his naughty
eye saw at the parler keyhole, and the
curl of black hair that had dropped out
of the letter all of which made the
gentleman laugh 80 upronriously that
Diggly bones was profoundly astonished.
He filled his little companions pockets