The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18
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W1htW tn&&9 tmt0KNk e&E@0 tue had I boy of the groceryman, a he polneed con.
 ssmpsaously at box of oranges h troa,
 Florida oranges," said the grocery.
 man, !" sAould think yoa would know Mes;da oFanges, atteE being h Florida
 aM winter. WAets the matter with them,
 70, noshing, only thought they were
 wilted base-hAlls with the juice all
 knocked out. Pa telephoned yoa to
 send up some Florida oranges last night,
 and we had them tor breakfast this
 morning. had just as soon eat a piece
 of sponge. Say, do you knew .-ou could
 be arrested for obtaining money under false pseaenses, when you sell such things
 tor Florida orauges You can't fool us
 on oranges any more The real Florida
 oranges are"
 o, give us rest" said the grocery
 man, "You are getting loo particular.
 II these oranges don't suit you all you
 have got to do Is to pay your bill and go
 somewhere else, People who have al-
 ways lived here buy these oranges and
 think they are the best, and dent want
 any customers that kick on my oranges,
 Here, eat that one aud say 1t is good, or
 l will kick nine kinds of Florida sand out
 ef your pants;' and the groceryman
 handed the boy an orange of the vintage
 of 1884, The boy took out little silver
 knife and began to remove the peeling
 carefully, laying q handkerchief across his lap, and was working as delicately as
 a surgeon would cut out a cancer. when
 the grcceryman, after watching a few
 minutes, said:
 The time has been when you would grab an orange, rip open the side and
 run your face la clear up to your eyes.
 and dig out all the juice and pulp, like a
 hog shciling an ear of corn, aud then eat
 the skin, but since you have been to
 Florida you are too nice. Look out, or you will get a drop oi juice on your deli cate fingers. Here, let me pass the finger
 bowl, and the gruceryman brough, an old tin wash-basin full of soap suds and sat It down In front of the boy, who went on with his orange peellng, until the groceryman saw he could no, embarrass the youth, so he said, "Well, how did your pa get along with the rebels down south Did he have any chance to pull his revolver on any of them1 He was loaded fer bear when he went away"
 "Never saw a rebel" said the boy, as he placed piece of the old dry orange in his mouth. There aint any rebels | down south, unless It is Jef. Davis, and VIC didnt sec Jef. Pa wanted to get in a | quarrel with some cid rebel, 1 guess, and | get dumped, 90 he could have a chance | to be a martyr, and tell when he 20. | home what a narrow escape he had. | When he would see Q man on the cars i with slouch hat on, after we got into Tennessee, he would scrape aa aequain- tance with him, and talk about the war | The first man he struck looked hard and pa thought the man was a regular Ire eater, and he throwed out some remarks to lead him on, but pretty soon pa lef | the man and came back to where 1 sat. was tickled to sec pc back, cause ex pected the floor oi the car would be GOV. cred with gore. Pa looked disgusted, and said, He aint no rebel. He Is from Mass ach usetts, and runs q soap-iactory at Chattanooga" Pa couldn't realize that the war was over when he went south, and expected that when the peo. pie found he vas from the north. they would elbow him, or look sassy, like the pictures he had seen during the war. He expected 10 see young southernets come through the cars. drunk ar d swagRerinR, with revolvers, like he reads of ia the pa. peSs sometimes, but nothing of the kind ever occurred, and pa was disappointed. At Atlanta pa got acquainted with aice voYs, and he was so kind to pa that pa was mashed on him, and invited him to cone and see us up north, and before pa k4 4s-aA A~ sk~a A~ | manded confederate battery during the war. Pa was surprised to find that those who were called rebels twenty years ago did not have horns on. Well, after that pa never looked for any more rebels, but he had courtesies extended to him by many of the best people of Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and FleHda, and when he found that most of them were once csnfederate sol- dIers, who believed they were doing right in defending their homes, pa weak. ened. The last ] heard pa say on the rebel question was when he vas guest of minister near Charleston. The min ister vas regular nobleman, and when he told pa he was . rebel dsriug tho war, and recited to pa . history of the times preceding the war, and how 1t was ss natural for southern people 70 take the side of the coniederacy ss t was for northern people to take the other side, pa slapped the minister on the leg and "a, Well, h l had lived in the south I'd been q rebel, too, and demms h wouldn't have been proud of t, too, the same ss you ielloSs arc." ] thougkt pa vas falling from grace, ssd told him we bettes be starting home, but he said he didn't care fl he stayed all summer. No, sir" said shs sST, ss Ae finished the orange snd looked up at the grocery man, as mean a man as you are, you could travel through the south and never bs in any danger st all, unless they should hang you on suspicion, and they would be just as liable to do that in the north."
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