Sharp County record., 1881-04-14
HOW JJTBE walked THE ELEPHANT.
A story of Dreadfully Naughty Little
Ilach BOY.

BLACK B0y.
,Juhe's life. ever since he could re-
member, had been spent in Ole
Isrul's" cabin, underneath a spur OF
the Alleghanies-an very happy-go-
lucky life it was.
After "freedom come," Israel and
Hannah, Jube's nearest of kin, had
drifted from the cotton-felds of the
Mississippi back to sole Virginny,"
and to their old life of tobacco-raising
on the Allegheny Slopes. They had
brought Jube with them, the mother
less boy having from babyhood, as
Hannah expressed it, "been totch up
BY her hand in the way he Or ter 60"
Ii ever "fotch up' in the way he should
90, the boy, at twelve years Of age, had
widely departed therefrom, for nomore
mischievous spirit than naughty little
Jube infested the turnpike leading from
the cabin to the village beyond.
The day came, however, when Jube
was made to pay off at least part of
the score being continually added up
against him. Yet the boy himself did
not imagine that such day of reckon
inc had arrived on that sunshiny morn
inc, when he arose early to deck him
self for q holiday, which was to be given
entirely to the enjoyment of the Great
Circus and Menagerie. Twice before,
during that week, he lad made a pill
/, sgrimage to the village, and had spent
hours, each time, inspecting the Won
derful display of show-papers glarng
Everywhere. Such riders, such vaulters,
such gymnasts, surely had never been
known before, even to Jube's vivid i'm
agination Such animals, too! the sa-
cred bull, the ibex, the llama, the rhi-
noceros, fercer than the lion, and the
Royal Bengal tiger, fiercer than the
fercest of all besides.
Xxi. vi, Juban' saluted Aunt Han
nah, as the boy rushed into her cabin
that morning, his white eyeballs rolling
and his red lips parted in grins of de-
light. "lsrul, what you S'pose is up
wild this nigger, nowP"
"Humph!' grunted the cabins pa
triarch, putting, in the breaks of his
sentenceS, volumes of smoke from his
short corn-cob pipe. 81 specs dat
boy, Hannah pull" "have ies' done"
puff, puff, puff-"gone crazy ober"
puff" the surcuss."
"What dat you sayp The surcussp
Juba, whar dat money you fetch me
fur de garden-sass an dem eggsp Eli
you jes' done bruk one OBJ dem dozen
eggs wild yer capers, I'll surcuss you,
see eff l don't"
Jube lodged a blow from the hand
that had "fotch him up" and pro-
ceeded without delay to give up every
farthing of his evenings sales.
Aunt Hannah deigned to give a
grunt Of satisfaction as the last penny
was counted into her hand. Then Jube
sidled into the corner of the hearth
where "Ole Isrul' sat enjoying his
pipe. He stood for a moment digging
his toes into the cracks of the hearth.
Daddy" he drawled, by and by.
"Daddy"
No answer. "Ole Isrul'' never SO
much as winked an eyelash, but sat
smoking his pipe as unresponsive as a
Camanche Indian.
Daddy, say! Mayn't l 90 to the
'nagerie? My! it's a show what is a
show There beasts an beasts-but
IT'S the elerphunt what beats all holler
Whew! Daddy, dat elerphunts a
whale, tell yern'
"Juba," said Aunt Hannah, severe
ly, "what you sayin'-ehp De eler-
phunt am not whale. How kin if he .
IT. agin natur'."
Jube subsidized.
DADDY" he whispered, after few
more desperate digs into the seams OF
the hearth, and under cover of the clat-
yer Of Hannah's supper dishes" Dad
dy, mayn't go?"
"Whar to-whar to, JubePn
:" 10 de 'nagerie. You is gwine fur
Ter le' me go? Aint yer, DaddyP"
" Sartain, boy; sartain-ef yer kin
1nd q silver mine 'twixt now an show
day. ''' 'l''"
Ju0e looked disheartened for mo.
ment Then his faee 81 i; Il trr1UG. He
was not lacking in expedients and il
was great matter to have " Daddv's'
consent. lie began to do q double shuttle.
put brought up in short order as he
caught Aunt Hannah's eyes turned upon
" You, Jube! You jis' shuttle out 'er
us an hang dat last load oh tobaccy-
cuLtn S on de scatfold, down by de tree
1uoe obeyed with alacrity, as he felt
y would not do to provoke g Mammy's''
i5e m at that critical stage of his plottings.
~ oIain' active as it was, had enough