St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-02-03
| was so ca-efulof It that / wanted 10

/ was so ca-efulsof It that Iswantea to
keep hold OF it when twas in my pocket;
| and | kept sitting down and taking it
| out to see it. My uncle who had been
gone FIVE years brought it to me- When
! I'd kept that knife not quite two days,
there was a little hole in my pocket; a
little bit Of a hole. It wasn't as big
round as the end of my little finger I
mean the very tip end of my little finger
b-not where it begins to be big any. 1t
wasn't as big as a little white. bean. I
don think it was as big asa pea. /
Ethink itwasabout as big as a quarter OF
| "a pea. No fellow would think a knife
could get through that hole But ], kept
lit away from that hole. Iput things in
between and kept putting my hand
| in to- touch my kniie. Well, played
round a. good while, and then we played
II spyn and we had to run every
where; and next thing knew put my
hand in my pocket and m y knife was
gone! and my finger went right through
that hole! not Just exactly the same
one, for that little one had grown big
one. My mother said that my knife
rubbed and wore the hole out bigger.
Nobody could find that knife. A long
time after lost it studded my toe and
| fell down in the field, and 'my hand hit
something in some grass. and looked
there, and there was my knife. 81. S.
on the handle. I was not glad | found
/ it. III was sorry. 1t most made me cry.
1t was all, rusty. and black, and you
could not start the blade one mite, to
make it come open My father tried
to. Is1isver wanted to- see it again, and
III dug.adeep hole and iburied1it up. j
know the spot, and every time I lgo BY
Isthere | think of that knife.
ii Once there was boy lost his knife
and all, the boys knew it, land they
helped him hunt for it !. and when it had
.teen lost about three days. boy went
hucflebe1TSi ing with another boy and he
let his l,basket fall down amongst the
huckleberry bushes and spilled about a
double handful-and that was about all
he had-and when he was looking
amongst the hnckleberry bushes trying
to pick up his huekleberries, he found
the other boys knife. mean that boy
that lost his knife and he knew twas
thatboy S knife just as well as lie wanted
to know, but he kept it private fGyoans),
and he kept the knife out of sight, and
nobody knew he'd got it for about six
weeks and one day when there's been
a circus and the boys were all standing
on their heads. that knife dropped out
of that boy spocket when hewas stand
ing on his head, and then little fellow
picked it up, and another fellow, one.
that had gone over sideways when hn
was standing on his head, saw it, and
knew whose knife it was in d minute
3(App'ause,. And the boy was so
ashamed that he cried. Heltola the one
that lost his knife where he found it,and
/ all the fellows looked at him so, Imean
looked at the one that found ,it,-that
he kept away from playing, with, the
boys for a long time And when any
fellow lost his knife the other ones would
tell him he'd better look in that fellows
p ocket. u Lmean the ones pocket that
found the knife. Ladies and gentle
men, many thanks for your Kind atten-
tion. 7 (Applause). 1.t5as,s 4l5s5 - Hsf