The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Hobody's Plan.

No. it wasn't Tom Sheldon's plan. 1t
wasn't any sody's plan; IL Just went and
happened. Things do that way sometimes
to boys, Just as much as TO people, and don't
you 20 TO taking sides against US, Cousin
Helen, because it's bad enough to have
grandpa and Aunt Minty saying: just
what hey expected il Tom Sheldon was in
vited." Tom is tip-top, but he is a fell )w
that things happen to, and he can't help it.
Aunt Minty don't like him ever since he
plugged up some hornets in the beehive, to
see il you couldn't tame 'em. Now, I'd like
to know If that isn't the way that old scien
tific codger found out about things, by try
ing experiments; aud the man that invented
dishes thasll break-you read me yourself
how he burnt up the furni-
ture and everything. But Aunt Minty was
Just as mad because Dick and spoiled our
new suits putting on some stuff that Tom
invented. He guessed il would keep away
mosquitoes; and it would, only it smelt
pretty bad, and made yellow spots al over
some way, If he had time to think 1t up, and
Aunt Mlnty would lend HIM her cologne.
Well, said I'd tell you about that time
We got carried off on a freight train, and
will; but it was more'n year ago, aud
say year is long enough TO talk about one
thing.
You see, it was Dicks birthday, and we
wanted to do something to celebrate. A
birthday isn't much unless you have your
own folks We liked to be at graDdpa's;
b1t boys have to be some bother 10 people,
aud Aunt Minty used to say no wonder
mamma was sick, and bad to go to Europe,
till We most believed we'd killed her. So
we thought we wouldn't say anything about
birthdays: but grandpa knew it, and he said
Dick should choose Just what he would
rather do, and invite two other boys to come
out and stay over night. We chose together
and both of US wanted Tom Sheldon and
Larry Eastman, and they came. We went
with gran "a TO the depot to meet them and
after ard we all drove round by the mill to
get the grjst, and over by Deacon Bascom's
TO see about the shingles fer the barn, so 1t
Minty made Us 60 right to bed after supper,
Dick and couldn't tell whether we wanted
to go a-dshing at Long Lake, or have pic
mic and get blueberries on the noun tain, or
60 TO Hopkinstown and see the circus, and
we don't know for sure there was q circus
only boy that saw the posters told as it
was either the 18th or the 23d or else il was
an old one for last summer. Bat We let
Larry and Tom choC Sc; and they said go
fishing and have o picnic, and IL there was
time enough we could get blueberries. That
was every single thing in the plan, only
Larry said il Hannibal wasn't such q slow
trotter We could drive round by Hopkins
town and see whether it was an old circus.
We started pretty earlv. Aunt Minty and
the hired girl put up our lunch in the big
gest market basket, and Jones had the horse
hitched up before breakfast and q bag of
eats under the seat Hannibal is the slow
EST kind OF trotter. and Aunt Minty wanted
TO not let Us have any whip. bat grandpa
said be was getting to be an old man and he
wanted to see us again before he died, so he
put in the whip. First along, Hannibal
, Losed he was going to mill, and he went
pretty good till We got past the cross roads,
and then he s'posed he wac going to Uncle