The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-11-15

Il dou't like - wear those Oh
s~toeies, when other boys Of my ag'
have better one
What would be The u-e Of boyinI
fine boots for such . boy Thel
wouldn't last yea sny time
"Iid be careful 5f them
ooh, yes, l know has You'd b
careful, Just as you sre wieh every
thing else you have There il d
use in arguing tie point, tell yoa
won't get them, so there's al end 0
it. IfMr. Jones wants 10 throw
away money in that kind OF style, h'
eau do so | won't Go sui 10 Tn
field aud 20 10 work Such boots q
YOU have are good enough for any
body to wear 10 hat picnic. (ESt
boy.)
Il say Il is ccnfoanded mean, any
way ! do Just as much work as
Bin Jones does, and more TOO, and
fathers Just as able to ges boots OF
ANYTHING else, as Mr.. Jones is.
wish | conld get EN- myself. What
hive I got TO trade 1 wonder? Tvs
old turkeys, seven little ones, and
three old hers anG some little chick.
ems. The whole lot would't buy one
boot. or much more. II ] had 10 sci
'em now, sad I'd bate 10 spare thai
cid hen turkey; she's 20 nice aud
tame. III have 10 manage some
other wsv bat | don't see how. My
boots are good enough for anybody
70 wear 10 The picnie,n are they
They're good enough FOR father toe
then, and he's agoin.' wish could
put his on aud git away before be
finds it out tomorrow. | couldn't
ride in the same wagon. though. III
90 with Bill Jones, and keep cus oil
fathers sight all day. lguess they'll
Git me, since his feet are uncommon
small aud mine are uncommon large
hes always tormeDtin' ME about my
big feet. Maybe there's some adj
vantage in it after sill.
Father, I've got everything d5ae,
even to harnessin' the team, and
drivin, round 20 the gate; | guess
they'll stand till you are ready, aud
want togo with Bill Jones"
"WeIi, 60 Oh, we'll have a more
qaiet .ime wiibou: you"
Now for the boots. I've got 10
git up stairs to that little closet where
he keeps them and back again with
out bis hearin' me. I'll take mine
off 10 the hall aud carry EN- up stairs
and leave EN- in place Of bis. Won'i
be be mad, though? I'm sorry TO
discommode him, but | dent see how
| can help it.
Here ! am all right, boots aud ali
they amt a biz too large, aud I'll be
over to Mr. Jones. ia less than ten
minutes.
"Hello, Tom, you're JUS. in time
You've got a par Of ine boots. 100.
amt you?'
at kind o'looks that way don'5iJ:'
where did you &c them?
Bill, you've gOt seine Of the tall
est corn that I've seen Ibis year
what time did you plant it,"
FIRST o May, sometime, your
boots must have COS: as much as
mine. They're real aics. When did
you get 'em 2"
Have yoa got a shot gln. ald one
dog viii do for both of rs Come on,
we're all ready 20 start"
Wife, III take the hide all Of o
that boy, if be ever gets home again?
What 90 you suppose he has been
up ,o?7
Il can't imagine, something dread.
fol I'm afraid, by the way you look
''He took my best boots and Jeff
his own ia place ofthem. You needn't
laugh about III lie won't think its
any laughing matter Mhea he gets
home"
You told him yesterday that such
boots we're good enough for anyone
TO wear to q picaic. | suppose the
boy thought you meant it."
Wei, I'll have to black up nv
coarse ones or stay at home. He
womb Try that game the second time,
| can tell you.
"The picnic is over, az last, and
I've got 10 be at homo first, aad
change boots before father gets there.
| haYn't enjoyed myself as | would if
they had been my OWL, bu. it was
the best hat ! could %. / can cut
across the fields from Mr.. Jones' and
git home iFstI guess. III have to
black these over and ges out 10 the
dust with mine, or he won't believe
he's been mistaken. No one at home
yet, ana Eve got to do some Of the
quickest work that / ever did
There nobody would think that these
boots mad been 20 the picnic, sIroiiin'
round that lake and lodging about TO
keep away from father all day.
Mercy on US | hear the wagon
eomin'; Ill,take my boots in MY hand
and cut dirt for the corn field"
Its time that r~ascally bog was
at home; / bavea't seen him today.
except at a distance. There be comes
now, up the road from MIR. Jones,
stamping along in the dust as though
that was what my boots were made
for"
well, yon did beat me homel'
I'LL beat You if / didn't. Whose
boots have you got on?'
MY own, Of course; you didn't
sposc I'd lost every last bit o pride
ever had, and went and borrowed
a pair, did youy7
Il thought you had borrowed
mine.p
Borrowed your'B. | didn't have
the least idea you'd lend 'em 4 me.
Besides. how do You 'spose i'd look
with my fathers boots on2 What in
the name o'commoH sense was the
reason you didn't yea 'em yourself?
Do YOU 'spose Id a. wora course
boots like them, when | nad such a
pair as you had 10 the house!"
"t nharness the horses and take
then. 10 the barn, aud maybe I'll get
you 8 pair next winter, if YOU work
pretty Well"
Wife, here are nv boots just as |
lefC them. | don't see how in The
world | happened to be 50 mistaken.
] end a nan don't feel just right,
well.Gressed otherwise, and wearin'