The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-01-21
A BOYS FUNNY EXPERIENCE.
WHAT BE FOUND OUT AND HOW 1T AZ
FEcTED HIN-HIs GOOD REseLU-
TIOS.

WHAT he FOUND OUT AND HOW 1T AT
FEcTED HIM-HIs GOOD REseLU-
TON.
III have lot to write now. Nor
than | ever had before, for I've founC
out something.
Six months ago we moved on
here on our farm and then we didn'
go to town, only just once in a wnil'
ON the cars. They put it in the pa
pei when we left, and once in {
while they put ii in that pa had
been in me city-where he called OF
the editor. But hadn't never beer
IL.
In the paper, l mean. So I wa:
Just the surprisedest you ever saw
to read Yesterday, in little corner
Died, June Is, in Hickory Town
ship, of brain fever, James Willis
aged thirteen years. " That was me
only, of course, | hadn't died, mol
nothing, and | lived in Hickory and
all. But then. it wasn't me, OF
course, and still L couldn't help be.
levin it was, if they'd only lett out
the brain-fever and the dyin'.
Everybody else thought it was
me, tool mean everybody in town
and cousin Fred came right out tC
see about il.
Oh, how sorry every body was
How they pitied pa and how they
pitied ma and how sorry they were
Tor Bess and Bob for losin such a
noble brother and what great man
| had given promise OF making land
how much good they had all calcu-
lated oa INV doing in the world
Really, | couldn't help thinkin' it
would have beena downright shame
if it hadn't been me-every body was
so sorry.
1t was publicly announced in the
town school, Fred said and the
were all so sorry, and the
scholars Just felt awful-especially
the girl that had sat in front of me,
and the two girls back Of me, all
who had borrowed my knife and
things most of the time.
/ think it was wrong TO like a fel-
low as much as they did me, and
never let him now it I'd "a treat
ed then. lots better in life, if I'd "a
There were resolutions drawed
up, and the teachers cried and said
I'd been a good boy and they'd
always been so proud of me, and
so hoped I'd live to bless the
world. 1t seems that | was the
principal hope of that institution.
If I'd "a knowed they had such
hopes of me, / never would "a whis-
pered or laughed or traded in school
once.
June 21.-There was a great long
piece in the paper this morning.
And oh ,everybody'sa a feelin so bad !
The resolutions came out too. Thev
made me feel very queer But we've
found out. Somebody did die, but
it wasn't me. 1t was just another
boy. His folks moved here lately
and are renters.
June y, mornlng.-lm going to
.own to-day with Fred. He wrote
MS folks a postal, ssyin' | was all
right, but for them not to tell, but
ct my return be a surprise. |
thought it might be too much for
every body if | just went right in TO
hem, and | suggest the propriety
If sending a telegram or something,
% tell them, to prepare to be awful
y startled. But pa said he guessed it
wasn't necessary.
SO Tam goin right in, Just so. On,
| am so anxious TO see everybody :
Won't they all be glad .? feel as if
{ would be q dreadful thing for
everybody if / was to die. / hope,
larder'n ever, that everybody'll live
o rear re. i mean, hope for
'verybody's sake that Ill live to
row up. l lever want to affiict
people so again. Everybody liked
ne so well, and I'm so thankful, and
want to stay with them :" I'm going
o have a good time now, with so
many friends. guess III amount
o a considerable.
Night.-Well, most everybody
vas glad--I guess. But it wasn't a
ut like | thought it would be-
Everybody had heard about it bein'
mother boy, and some had been a
ayin' they knowed all along it
7asn' t so. | was the kind of youth
0 die early. And one boy said |
iadn't brain enough to catch fever
n 'em. And some that had took on
bout it looked sheepish:and that IN
rateful Ettie Green took it back.
nd said she never cried a bit. And | !
never have nothing to say
D her again, if | was a hundred
ears old.
The principal laughed, and said /
ne Presidents char wouldn't have
} go empty, after all and the teach
rs took on some. A good many
the boys said, "Halloom and .
idn't even shake hands. And /
hen l saw Ed. Hunter, thought: /
Now he's coming to tell me how /
luch be always loved me-" and |
,oked pleasant at him but he turn
/ off another way, and looked as If
e thought | was bigger sneak
ian ever. 1 almost felt like | didn't
ave no right anywhere.
| suppose the folks sorrow had
ind OF reconciled them to my loss,
I'D when / came back, il confused
lem.
/ amt sorry rm goin' home to-
Iorrow. I'm just another boy, after
|, ali I can't help thinkin' if it
nd been that Ed Hunter himself
Ist had died. there'd a been Just
big fuss made about it, and may
. Elite Green would have cried too.
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