The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-08

he lives! Tho awful, awful, mean
wretch, TO treat YOU that way!
And Ike! Let's SEQ what Mr.. Ike
thinks!
"All right! Thought I'd ask you,
anyways! No harm in that! Here,
Miss Em Here's your ball! Lcmmy
show You how to make that stroke"
That's badly done, too, Isaac! Not
the stroke, That was well enough! But
that attempt at lofty Indifference. Why
tcoUld you raise your eyebrows high
enough to look over Kits broad white
hat and at the same time keep your fat
eyelids down so you couldn't look
higher than about yard this side OF
Kits little shoes? And why riN you
GO on whistling that way? Don't you
know little lonesome. almlcss whistle
of that sort betrays \ fellow, fatty?
You'll know II some of these times
But En-! Really En- is so quiet and
so ladylikc! Who'd u thought it9
Won't you play in my place little
while. Kity?" she says, offering the
mallet after IN hour or so. 81 want to
GO and get a pitcher OF water I'm so
thirsty" Now when she does n thing
like that shc'S-wcll. she's angelic!
But Kitty is the mos, bcwitching, pretty
little creature! I'm! hum! Fifty! Moth
ing like trying, anyhow
NO! no, En-. I'm determined TO so
and bring the water myself. I'll be the
little watcr-boy. like tho mon have
when they work tho roads, or thrash"
Kit, YOU missed ii again! Too gay
with that laugh! Too nmblc with that
skipping round after the pitcher! All
the Same to Ike, though! You fooled
him! Couldn't fool me that way Kit!
Eth, hchl heb! heh-ch! Old mans
mighty smart! See lke'S undcr-lip!
And hear him whistle! What WiR a
young fellow be such fool for? En-
sees it. too, and laughs so slyly! And
upon nv word | believe she winkcd at
me. She knows l know! Eth! heh!
heb! heh! heh.eh!
Kit over the fence already! believe
I'll trot along and catch up with her!
While she's mad is-wcll, rs good time
as any. Hello! Ike after her, too!
Well. I'll take my perch on the fence
and white!
"Nliss Martini"
o. no. key! Sho won't hear that!
Try it again!
"Aliss Kitty! on, Kit! Oh. Nit"
: Now see her look round up into the
sky! She's sly ono!
"Kit! May go with you!"
OF course. Isaac! Go right along! l
would! / wouldn't stop TO bawl that
way!
Il shouldn't think you'd want TO go!
You're so interested in that game Of
croIuet! / don't see how You can leave
it,
Now see what look OF scornIul de-
spair and helpless DISCUS, on likes face.
"Shoot the croquet!"
Such q laugh from Kitty a little
high-keyed and not mellow enough!
Some Mysteries in it! know by my
first wife. She always -!
what made YOU start Off with Mason
instead of waiting for mc?'
He's attacking! Aha! She shrinSs
o little!
because YOU hadn't-thot is |
didn't"
Kitty! Kitty! What q mess you're
making of it! Now donH
You saw me coming. didn't you''
/ see you coming now! So close
you'll be right against her with another
step.
mot till we started Then what
made you 20 on after EN-? / half think
you wanted En- at first And kept
back so I'd start! So you did"
So YOU did, Ike! Prove it by ne,
here on the fence! So you did, Ike!
Own up!
didn't expect me to go by myself,
did YOU? Wish | had though. What
made YOU get in there with Tom and
-w
eel was so mad at you for not CON-
ing. I'd been dressed and waiting two
hours. now, I was so mad. And l
hate that En- Carter, so l do"
"No,hing wrong with En-" said
Ike, with a grin. Aha, he's going to
tease her little!
"Why didn't you stay there with
her? I didn't want your" o, Kit,
what 4 drcadfully biz story!
"Arc you real mad at me. Kip
"Yes -es-I am! So l am now!
Boo-hoo-oo-oo!" What lugubrious
little wall, Kit Where's your hand
kerchief? That'll spoil your pretty
brown eyes and ilatten out your ftizzcs!
Don't!
81 was mad too. Kit. Gimme the
pitcher! Less go here by the fence and
sit down in the shade little bit! Won't
you?"
Il wish was dead, so / do! wish
was drowned in the well when you'd
como after the water, and find me!
Boo 100000"
20. don't, Kit! l like you. I'll never
do that again. Please don't" And
Ike dives down under the wide rim Of
Kitty's white straw hat and-stays there
so long that get nervous up here on
the fence. I'm! hum! Fifty! Iwish-!
l think I'd!
~ believe you like her tho best, so l
do-oo-oo-oo! And I'll go away so