The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10

it, and | asked ma what ! should
do if he wouldn't stop bothering
the girl, because he didn't have
any heart, and ma she was mad in
a minute, and she said 'IIennery,
do as you would if this little girl
was your sister, Well, that set
tied his hash, and | told the little
girl not to cry any more about it,
and he wouldn't bother no more.
So 'tother day | was coming a ong
the street, and | saw that boy pick
ng on her, and she tried to get by
him and he got right in front of he
and Just as / came up behind him,
he called her a name that no boy
ought to ever call anybody'S sister.
She looked by him, at me, and her
face Looked almost as pale and sor-
rowful as her dead mothers face
did the day of the funeral, when all
us Sunday-School children saw her,
before the coffin was closed, and
the girl said, Co., Hsnnery, my
friend, l do not deserve this, and
it will kill me- The boy looked
around at me with a leer that re-
minded me of the william in the
play, and said. you mind your own
business ! was so mad that my
knuckles cracked like when you
twist your fingers out Of joint, and
l thought it was my business,
cause ma set ME up in the bust
ness herself, and before the girl
could say anything, l began TO mop
the sideW ak with him, and break
the pickets of the fence with him,
and l bumped his head on the
curb, and kicked him in the watch
pocket, and then he begged, but
before let him up he promised
never to insult her or any other
girl again. and he begged her par.
don, and then l borrowed her
handkerchief to wipe the blood of
nv nose, and | walked home with
her. That is all, only l went right
home and told ma and pa, and
they was glad, and the boys ps
came overt to our house to complain
OF me, and pa was going to lick
him, and the minister heard about
it, and he came up to Our house
and put his hand on my head anc
said he didn't believe in fighting
I but there were times when nothing
but fight seemed appropriate foI
the occasion, and he put his arm
around me and Rugged me till HI
t burst one of my ribs. And ever sine,
that fight that poor little girl har
! gone about her work singing, ant
: she walks to the store in safety
looking as happy as a little queen
t smiling and joyous, and she say
| she knows her mother in HEAVIER
t was locking down and saw the igh
< for she sees her in her dream
t every night, and her mothers fac
. looks happier than it has any tim
3 since she moved to heaven. Say
r do you believe people up in heavsl
have spy-glass strong enough t.
r look down here, through the cloud
and SEE a couple of boys scrappinI
on the sidewalks Darned if l do.
, 80, Idon't know" said the gre
Gerry man, as he wiped a tear fror
his whiskers on his shirt sleeve
but | know n thing. l am tn
neanest old fool in this town, t
Q keep finding fault with you. 70
I come out right every time, and
a Swow, if you hadn't licked tina
: boy, l would have licked you" an
I the bad boy SAID something abou
7 those post norton fighters, wha
Q are always talking about fghtin.
v the next week, but who never e
n there at the right time, and h
went out whiStling as usual, happ
As a bad boy could be.