The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-01-10
A REGULAR WBIZZER,
And lie Wonderful Results of the
Whizzer's CCming.
lRy hrs. May sEsr.,aeq ce.herpood.l

as dry rs toaT. and lad been beat down till
the road looked slick as ribbon far up and
far down. aud sqneaked every step. pulled
hrar 0n our sled. All the boys went home by
the crick 20 skate, bat WAS 'fraid Mrar would
let cold she's snch a iitiie thing. / like TO
play with the girls ii the boys DO laugh, for
some o! the big ones might push Mrar down
and hurt her. She misses her mother, SO 1
babies her more than J used to.
hc's almost out OF sight &C the sobool-honSe,
and just where the Toad elbows by the Widow
EriEgss place. when something passed us like
i whiz I'd been puling a:ong with the sled
ronc over my arm and my hands 10 my pockets,
u,d didn't hear a team, or anything: hut it
made me shy OF the side o. the road. and
pretty near upset Nrar. School lets 0ut at four
O'clock, and dusk comes soon after that bat it
was wholly gray Not So You could see pain,
except Ia fence corners. and the thing that
passed as was man riaIns OF nothing but one
big "a heel
20. see therel'' says Mrar, scared as could be.
I fe.t glad Ga her account ives close 10 Widow
Briggss place. i. wDali he easy 10 hustle her
-er Dr. fence: bat tao thing run 50 still
AID INST ii might take fences as well rs q
etraighi read.
The man turned round after lie passed us.
8ul ca5s.a rearing 3scsS. gSFaE ca on that wheel,
and ] stood as Gloss a.f3re tie sled as | could.
lie sat D a mp IN iae az, and @gglcd his feet
on each side OF the mileel, and / never saw 8
camel or elephant or amy kind OF wild thing
a a Show thai made i4il so fanuy. But Just
whga ! iapgsshs he's go.ng 10 epg through Us,
he lur5ea short aud stopped. lie had On an
oveTc0at 20 ia Cars, and a far cap down To his
moss, anl hairy giotts en- ami little satchol
strapped over his shoulder, aud / saw there WAS
q real small wheel beAiad the big one thai bal
anced HIN. Ip. lie wasn't sitting Gu the tire,
neither. but ua si,adlc-place, and the big
l-l 4-f ls-sa
ard forward.
Whose children are you?' says the man.
3" Aoagdy' S, ssys J.
" Bat who owns and switches you," says he.
The scho8lEnaster switches me-" says i,
bat we amt owned STAGE mother died"
Arar hreuA 10 cry.
e Neiive al Uncle Nozy's. says she. "They
don't want 10 give Us away
The man laughed. and says: "Are ven right
sure" Bnt 1 hated 10 have her scared, so /
told her the wheel couldn't hurt her, nor him
neither.
4" I've seen the cars many time" says,
and I've seen balloons. and read in the paper
abent things thai went On three wheels, bnt
this 49,
+" lisa bicycle, says be: "I'm wheel .naa' -
That's what ] thought" says l.
hrar quit crying when she saw me talk up.
Then he wanted 10 know cur names.
Mines Steele Pedic5rd, 2 j says, and this
is my littie sister. IraT.7
EiseEes looked sharp at US, and be says:
. Your mother died about six weeks agof"
NeS. SIR Says /.
Tomorrow won't be a very nice Christmas
for you, says be.
No, SIR says ], digging my heel in the
show. for he had no business TO talk that way
AID make Mar feel bad. when I had little
wagon al whitfield out in my pocket to give
her. aud she cried most every night any how,
until Aunt Ibhy threatened to switch her il
she walked the family ans more. slept with
The boys, bat when / heard Mrar shifting In
the big bed, good many nights | slipped out
and sal bT her and whispered stories 10 take
her attention ~ hong as my jaws worked linn
Der; but when they chartered too much with
the cold, I'd lay down on the cover, with my
arm arrpss her till she went TO sleep. / like
Arar.
They said we might so up to cousin Andy
sande-s's To Say over" says !. We don't
have tD be at uncle Noes Christmas
= That's seEne consolation. is il !? p SAYS he.
was not g0ag 10 let him knoW what the
relations did. but never liked relations out
side Of chr place. AT aunt Ibby and uncle
Maze's the children sgft ike cats And tles
zlwars are poor 1t Christmas aud make fun Of
hanging yolr stocking or setting your plate
for you'd only get ashes or corn-cobs. Aunt
Ihby keeps her sleeves rolled up so she can sian
real handy. and Uncie M0ze has yellow streaki
in his eEes and he shiTcrs over the stoye. and
keeps everybody else back. At cousin Ands
S1nderss they have no children, and dCn'
want them. You dErc hardly come in out o
the snow. ana an the best things on tie tabl,
Will make you sick. If there Is piece IN tht
paFer that il hard &c read, and ugly as ii ear
he, they viii make yoa sit stiIi aud read it
and u you eet doHe too quick they viii say yoE
skipped, ard you have 70 read II out loud whili
they find fault. I know cousin ANDY Sander
never tad any candy or tafy for Christmas
but Arar and me could be peaceful there foa
they cont plsh her aroane 50 bad
Well. hand me your rope," says the man
"and iii give you a ride
i Liked thar notion SO i handed him tn
rope. and be waited Until / got OF the sled j,
font uf Arar.
That's Widow Briggs's homestead; ism
it, he said. Just before he started.
told him il was and asked ii he ever Iivet
doFEn oar way. lie laughed, and said he knew
s9IAeiAimg about every place; and then he Sc
the wheel a-gGing MTar held tight 20 me. ant
4 hrsactai my heels against the front rouud O
TIE sled. The fence corners went faster ant
fasteF. and the wind Whistlod through our ears
while yon could not see one dry blade in tn,
fodder shocks move
'Ain1 be- &hizzerg" says I 70 Mrar
We turned anotneT jog, and the spolles in Tn
wheel locked al smeared together 1t did bea
horseE racing. 1 got excited and h0ilered fo
hifu 70 90 X. old Whizzerl" and be went j
I'll ~e's past cousin Andy Sanders's before
knew The place was nigh.
Aasl loose, now, Mister. we're much obliged,
gays T.
But he kept right on ike lie never heard ne
30 ! yelled up louder and told him YVES there
and DE- turaed around his head q minute anC
laughed.
Please let ne 70, Mister SAYS "That'
consin ANDY sanders a@ay back there. We'u
obilEe1, bat we Il have 10 20 back
The Ahlzzer never LIT on. lie Whizzed ahead
ms fast "a ever. ! thought 10 wag & mean tricl
tor him 20 play on Nrar, and wished 7 oonls
trip up has wheel. IL would be dark long be
fore ] POI her back TO cousin Andy Sanders-s
aud tie Ahlzzer shizzed ahead like he wa
running oil with Us
Lad notion 70 Gu: the rope, but there wa.
no telling when I'd get another, and il wa,
aeH. made up my mind to do II. though
when VIC come along by our old place: bur
there the Nhizzer turned round and iumue5
of I'M the road
picked up the end Of my rope, and SHOOK
my head. because was mad
Why didn't you let gog" says Z
Haven I j brought you homer" he says.
] looked az the sbut-up house, and felt :
good deal worse than when / thought he wa.
Running Of with u.s.
o. Stecley, says Mrar, les 60 in and stay
] want to come home SO bad"
Now you see what you done." says 10 th,
Wnizzer. He was man grown, and rs onl,
Ten years Old but he ought 70 kDowed bette
Than % made Arar cry till the tears run down
her chin.
I'D been TO look at the house myself bu
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