The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-23

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them

Cannon In mont OF them
ratified Charlie. humping in time with
his fist on the table; CHOW Cannon's
a common noun; third person.
"Oh, let me! 1 knOw!" cried Liz,
running around from her side of the
table, dish-towel in hand" third person,
singular number, neuter gender, nOnin-
ative case, t. agree with"
eco ahead 4! jeered Charlie, "you
do know, with a vengeance! Look here,
Anna, she wants to know what cannon
agrees with. Pom my work, if she isn't
the stupidestl
Z wish you'd be quiet" said Anna,
i" we actually can't hear ourselves speak
for your noise"
"Maybe it agrees with girls, under
stsOd," persisted Charlie; the kind
that won't go up stairs after dark"
Liz felt the sceff, and her brown
cheeks flushed; but, not being very
ready with sharp answers, she merely
looked her anger and went back to her
dishes She was wiping the tea-things
while Anna washed. Anna was their
cousin, though not much of a fsvorite
with either of them; for Charlie COM
planned that she wouldn't help him with
his lessons, while Liz envied her because
she was grown up and saw company. To
keep these elements in order was Aunt
Janet in her rocking chair on the other
side of the room.
Aunt Janet and Anna talked, and Liz
wiped away in silence till there came an
other outburst frem the young student.
" Look at this he cried, his eyes fash
ing " lust see what she's done, will you,
with her smartness! land he held up
his Latin exercise, and showed a row of
blisters where unhappy Liz had spat-
tered it with her dripping cups and
saucers.
"Take all your books on your own
side of the table," said Aunt Janet, qui-
eUly. "You shouldn't leave them in the
way" Aunt Janet was chsry of her
words, and had, besides, q tone in giving
her orders which commanded attention.
So Charlie stopped his fault-fnding,
though he hustled his goods about in a
very sulky way.
Then came another interval of peace,
and conversation throve, and dish-wash-
ing and wiping were nearly at an end,
when Charlie took his pen and began, in
large, round hand, to make his I" Trans
position :" and then Liz, who by that
time had about forgotten the snubbing he
| had given her as usual must interfere.
"That isn't the way l make an f, !" she
said; don't curl it around like that
| Look here" and seizing another pen, she
dipp d it IN the ink and was about tC
! show what she could dc, when down
came a great blot on the clean, white
paper. Charlie sPrang from his chair IL
a rage.
Il wish you'd mind your own busi
ness!" he cried. "Just look at that
now! What do you suppose 1 care how
you write? ! wish you'd mind you
/ dishes, and let me alone. You're tn,
most
"Stop," said Aunt Janet. Get an
other sheet of paper. A blot isn't worth
half that noise. And do you, Elizabeth
attend to your work"
Liz returned to her towel. She haC
been wiping a glass saucer or preserve
dish, and, In her haste to display her &C
quirements, had left it wrapped in tn
towel on the sidebOard. She seized tn
towel, but alas forgot the saucer. which
slipped from its hiding-place, fell with
crash to the floor. Liz shrieked, ant
E then stopped for the pieces.
Aunt Janet now approached the scene
The shining bits were scattered over tn
Garnet. Don't take them in you
hands" she said "you will be cut, an
the splinters might get into your fingers
Get the dustpan and brush" Poo
aunty bore the loss of her saucer yer
patiently such things were to be ez
pected whenever Liz undertook to b
! useful.
T The little girl, with many expression
: of sorrow, swept up the glass and threr
it in the fire.
: Nov" said Aunt Janet, give Ann
/, the towel. You have wiped enough fC
this evening. Go to your lessons"
: She brought her books and seated he
self as if to study, but the saucer was
her head, and there was room for nOtl
ing else. And then Charlie would druI
: and hum and rattle his papers. and stud
a out loud; and Anna kept talking, tall
!, ing. No wonder that little of poor Liz
: lessons touched her brain, and that le
still lodged in It.
. .sDo you know" she presently hear
: Anna say, " the Dyers have heard VIII
? Mr.. Mount said about them here Il
other evening ?''