The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-02-22
Exaggerating.

A@AesS 81 AtiuSs
Sim almost deadi It il "a ~.
| fire, and I've been more than a Soze =
miles after that colt. 'O1en
Andrew threw himself at full lsns,h
on the lounge and wiped the persp'Ta.
ton from his forehead. P'As-
father. N nis
81 went over to Briggs corner and
back by the br dge.' % 'Hu
THAT is less than M lie and a half
1t is SO very warm, AndyP 1t seems
| quite cool here" 0uAS
+ No, not SO dreadful. don't snn.
pose, Il Id taken 1t moderate. bnt- 7 ~,
Ike lightning and got heated IN. T''A
s" You started about five o,cIocl, No.,
son, and now it lacks Quarter g ~ al = Z
said his father, consulting his watch.
Yes, sir, Just quarters Of an
hour, F" answered Andrew, sirinocsnflg.
docs it take lightning forty-fiye
minutes to go a mile and halfpf
| i dldn mean exactly that, father.
but ran all the way, because expect.
| ed the whole town would be here to-
night to see my new veloc pede'' ex.
planned Andrew, reluctantly.
"W hon did you expect. Andy? l
WASH 4 aware CHI a crowd was to he
hereg What will yoa do with them
ALL" Saare ID
g Jim, Eddy and Tim told me they'd
be round after school, and / woulg MT
wonder if Ike anne, too; that's ALL
The population Of the town IA Ave
thousand. and you expect three of them;
well, as you are very sick, I'm glad no
more are coming. You couldn't plav
with them at ALL"
/ '''Siek!~ cried Andrew, snrinoino ia.
his feet; t'who says IN sickp'
why, Andrew, you said you were
almost dead; doesn't that mean very
sickp''
''You are so particular, father. about
my talking! / don't exactly mean what
say, OF course. wasn't nearly dead,
to be sure. but | did some tall running,
I you bet! There was more than fiftv
dogs after me, and / don t 90 much 81,
dogs"
Z fQuite band of them. Where did
they all come fromp'
''There was Mr.. Wheeler sheen doc.
and Rush's store dog, and two or three
more. and they made for me, and SO I
ran as fast as could"
Five at the most are not fifty, Andy.''
'.1here looked to be fifty, any way
replied Andrew, somewhat impatiently.
Garter S ten-acre lot was full of dogs
| just making for me, and guess you'd
thought there were fifty if it had been
| you . & rs
ll9arTen acres of dogs would be great
many thousand; have you any idea how
manyp s3t
Andrew did not like to calculate, for
it occurred to him what a small space
ten or fifteen thousand sheep would oc-
cupy when camping and ten acres Of
dogs would be past calculation. agt
| But his father continued, 81
know no better way to break you Of the
foolish habit of exaggeration than to
tell the children the trouble you had in
going after the colt. You ran like
| lightning, encountered ten acres of dogs,
| which would be hundreds of thousands,
travelled more than a dozen miles to get
one and half miles in a straight line.
expected to find five thousand people
here to examine your new Velocipede,
and when you reached home was near.
ly dead" .at
please don't, father. The boys and
girls will all laugh themselves to death.
and won't exaggerate again if 1 live
to be as old as Methusalahr'
u" Laugh themselves to death at q
simple st oryl like this? ! hope not. But
al - a. IL
their own manner of telling stories, so
to be sure they do n It greatly overstate
things. Habit, my son, grows with
years, and becomes. in time, SO deeply
rooted that II will be impossible for you,
when you become a man. torelate plain,
unyarnished facts, unless you check the
foolish habit you indulge in every day
of stretching simple incidents into the
most marvellous tales - Christian
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