Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-08-28

up, and would you3be kind enougI
to give me one hun9ed aad forty
sine dollars and i've centaf If 70,
can't spare the rest I'll take the fv
cents and call it square. And oh
may we burn down your house ant
barn? we haven't had q bonfire fo
ever so long?"
Yes, yes" said uncle jeff. H
always said Eyes, yes" or "no, no,
and once in awhile he hit, but often
er he didn't.
Ned Morningstar he was our cap.
tain. We'd always sing "I feel, !
feel, | feel like amorning star, when
We saw him coming and when he got
there he'd join in-he could sing
louder than any boy in school-and
then we'd all take hands and dance
round like mad. He was splendid
fellow, there couldn't be a bullier
boy-captain in all the world aud the
Nimble Squirrels wouldn't have had
any other not if he'd treated them
to soda water every day of their
lives.
The Kangaroos' captain-his folks
keep the drug store-treated his
crowd-there wasn't many Of EN-
to soda water once week. His faith
er let him cause h;s mother said
he must. His mother is great big
woman and his fatherisn Mt much big
ger than I am.
"They shan't go ahead of us.
said Ned Morningstar when he heal
Oft. well have lemonade tayice
week"
And we did. Ned brought the
lemons, and every boy sugared him
self, except little, AL. Smith, who
hadn't any mother, and his aunt lock-
ed up the sugar-bowl, So l took
double allowance and went halves.
Our captain was the smartest boy
in Greenville. was always in
venting something, Ike Sir Benjamin
Franklin and Isaac Newton, and
them mean those other fellows,
who invented steam and lightning
and made apples fall when they want
0 'em. q
I never had any science into m,y
head. I'm good at ball-playing, run
ming, swimming and skating, but 1
don't know much about cranks,"
and valves" and "feed-boxes, and
"a levers buffers" and "boil-
ersr and all IT, sort Of thing, but
I'd just like to have you mention
in the way OF machinery
Ned don't know all about.
He invented a telegram to run all
around the school.room. The four
corner desks were the stations, and
it took messages frst-rate, till one
lay Young Jack his real names
Jack Young-was asking Short Jim
Ills real names Jim Short-to give
him Madeira nut for 1uarter Of
an orange, when little AL. Smith, who
sat between the two last stations, fell
off his seat, and Mr.. Merit, the
teacher, coming in a great hurry 10
Zee what was the matter, stumbled
over the wire and came precious near
falling fat on his face. Jimmy
wasn't he mad ? And as we couldn't
tell who got up the telegraph he sus-
pected Ned, but Ned was home that
lAy-had the toothache, and that
bad enough, I hope-and we wasn't
agoing to give him away. We all
had our jackets busted. But guess
it hurt the teacher more than it did
US, for there were eighteen boys in
our class, and he was little man
anyhow-almost as small as DR..
Mudge-and not very strong, and it
took him nearly the whole afternoon, !
'cept 'rithmetic. and the dust didn't
fly much from the last FIVE or six
Jackets, either.
Then Captain Morningstar invent
ed something to talk out of the win
dow in whisper with boy whose
m other kept pie and cake and can
dy and apple store round the corner.
1t was made out Of two patty pans,
little tin things, you know, about six
inches around and an inch and a-half
deep, with the bottoms knocked out,
and oiled silk putin. and fine strong
India rubber string fastening them
and-I forget what else,
and I suppose that's the whole secret
But, anyhow, Ned-he sat next the
window in summer time-used to
drop one Of these patty pans ont of
the window, when it was near ]2
o clock, and the boy he'd come along
and ketch ahold Of it and walk off
a few steps, 50 as to make the string
tAut, and then Ned d whisper in his
pan, and the boy Il hold his to his
ear and hear what Ned said, and then
the boy d whisper back again, and
Ned d hold his pan to his ear and
hear what the boy said.
But one day Lemon Drops, -
that's what we called the boy cause
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