The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-06-09
rar tss .i,s.ss.:ss ss f,llsels, A TOUCH OF ENT.
HY&>iE PAISLEY.

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 I, has been ! cold. ralay evening, but have kcp; my sea, in the saddle. and my unwilling steed has carried me along until igst while ago. when, nfgttfli. coming upon me unusually early, stopped al | wayside house whcTe they undertook to accommodate me for the night. We all sa, down 10 supper to- se,her--a good. warm, hearty meal. and l was then shown to my room, great, large. old-fashioned apartment t was q, that. with a huge open fireplace occupy ing an ample share of one of the sides. 4 little wood f.e. just enough 10 dispel the dampness Of the summer night. had been made for me. and its bright lItle blaze upon ,ha, great heai,h-ssonc l!I up the room with wierd, peculiar light. one familiar enough to me years ago, and which now sends my El'ud way back "a lust such another old house. where lived my cd playmate, Dick Dolphin.
 When he and 1 were what people now call kids. Dick and had from carries: in- fancy been great chums. When oG. mothers visited each other we, mary q :..ne. siep; peacefully in the same cradle, If Sd, upon ihe same quilt, spread su caEefiliy upon the carpeted floor. ao 10, know how our respective mothers set :led their lilile difference as ;o wheiscr Dick ar WAS the handsomest. best. lnc sweetest baby. Dicks moiaer alway iilsei a.n best. and know tha- mine tkiad is she eyer was 10 rlcs cared more for me than she did fer hi.a. A. we grew older. ~c shared e everything with each ether some tlmcs :, was cake or candy. sometimes a great bIG slice 0. bread and butter with lo;s If sasa, spread over !: (oh, my, wasn't Il good | When Dick got the rasa and cioup, he kindly gave them both to me: and so. too, when l caught the measles and mumps and scarlet fever. on each ocea- son generously transferred the same to my dear chuu. little Dick: and >e on with all the other varied loys and ,.s of chiidhood,s days. An. me. my hear, grows tender as think of Dick with his freckled face and sunburn, legs, sur mounted by | gecz: wide-brimmed straw ha,-for Dick was no, dressed up in those days like some dandy little clerk remember how. IS we became older, we took to fishing, and swimming, and securing the wr,ads in summer time. and oRtAS to StHOot- HooL ard water, and running errands for ou, mothers (prnG pally the latter duties, VIC thought, IF the winter. Ah' but the summer days were deares; to us. re. member the brass pins we used 10 bend into shape for hsh-hooks and how we used 10 aos,rac; inc spools C thread fem oLr beloved mothers work baskets. to provide lines for those same fish-hooks and Dick and would wander up ard down tha; litle creek. re- turning always half hour or so after the dinner or sapper-;able was eieared of. and always hgngry enough ;o ca; ev. erythlns OUT repenIant mothers would eventually set before Us bu; our strings of little mianows were treated with su preme contempt, and we counseled ,o re- turn them 10 iheir natural element, Ir those days Dick and quite often wen barefoo,ed. and on our fishing excursion. often took quite easily to the water. Our little legs and feet were as brown as those of Indians, for our little brooches were often rolled up to our knees: bu, when we took to the water. as l said, the san would sometimes shine down also upon our bare shoulders with such power as te blister us like mustard plaster would do. Our sympathetic mothers would soon notice our silent and spartan-like suiierings, and investigate the cause which cause being ascertained, an eN,en- sive ard repeated course Of soaking ard bathing with cCeam. and bandaging ouI raw little backs with rags we, with cream. would take place but at the next meal. those h.ile minnows. tha; a, any other time would have been thrown away woull at this time be fixed for our graii- fcation by these same mothers. re- member. too, another summer, one when we were little cider, how we often laid around late in .he night, until I. grew dark. and then cautiously entered the orchards and melsn patches of old De2c on Cioversod. ard gorge ourselves with the fruits of his indus-ry-even after thai. tgreecy kids iha. ~e were and ashamed should we have been to do H. we would use all that space bcsween our shirts and bodies, confined a; the bottom by ,he tight wais,-band. as a substitute for a bag. ard would pack away therein tre- menGous amour; of the good deacon $ fruit Iey porly looking boys. you would have thought us- could you have seen us-brt we were no, very anxious just al those particular times 10 be seen by man-bui do ,rus, portly people do not experience SO much inconvenience as we did in climbing over ihe fence ozt of the orchard into the public highway. We found t very cumbersome. indeed, one moonligh, night too moonlight in 6ct), when the old deacon, xith his savage dog, surprised us, and sadder still. identified us. and saddest of all informed our stern ard uprigh, fathers of the little