The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-29
APPLE PIE AND CHEESE.
The Good Use Little Jake Made Of
the Dinner.

Little Jake filled the dinner-basket,
that morning, when they were getting
ready for school, going into the pantry
and helping himself to just what he
saw fit. He wouldn't have been al
lowed to if they hadn't been late for
school and in hurry.
Thankful, who was almost twelve
usually attended to the basket, but her
hair was in such a snarl that she
couldn't get it braided. They had been
having the first snow-storm of the
season, and Luke, the hired man, had
harnessed old jolly to the great sled
to carry them to school, and Jolly was
tossing his head and making all the
bells Jingle in his impotence, and Luke
was thrashing his arms to keep warm,
and whistling to them to come. Itwas
a pity to be late on this morning, for
the roads were only partly broken out,
and they couldn't go very fast, and be-
sides, on the first sleigh-ride of the
winter one wanted time to have some
fun.
And so when little Jake, who was
ready, and looked all boots and muffier,
with only the tip of his nose and two
bright eyes sticking out-asked if he
might get the dinner-basket ready,
Thankful said: Eyes, yes. Only do
hurryl"
Clemency, who came next to Thank
full, and was ten and a-half, said:
80 dear! I don't suppose we shall
have thing but apple pie and cheese
if he gets it.
But she was tying little Peace's
apron strings, and couldn't stop to
get it,
Little Jake didn't think there was
much that was good to eat but apple
pie and cheese. If he had been left to
himself he would have eaten scarcely
anything else, and as it was he ate a
great deal too much; but he certainly
seemed to thrive upon it, for he was as
plump and rosy as possible; indeed he
was so very plump that his brother
Tobias declared that he was growing
the wrong way and would soon be
much broader than he was long.
1t was Monday morning, and every
body was busy. Nabby, the hired girl,
was hanging out the clothes, so Jake
was all alOneiin the pantry, and he de-
cided to take advantage of an oppor-
tunity that he might never have again
and fill that basket Just as he thought a
dinner-basket should be filled. When
he came out of the pantry with the
basket there was not a morsel of any
thing in it but apple pie and cheese; he
did go back, however, to get an uncOm-
monty plump doughnut boy which
Nabby had made for him, and which he
put in his pocket.
All his brothers and sisters, eight OF
them, and as merry a crowd as one
4 oil, 70, al.
big sled, and calling to him to hurry
just as if fellow could hurry when he
was very plump indeed, and his legs
were very short, and he had big din
ner-basket. Jake was a little fellow,
too; he had never been to school till
this autumn.
Hurry! hurry Jaker' they all
called, and Jake perched himself on
the back of the sled with his legs dang
ling over, Luke chirruped, and away
went old Jolly.
The drifts were deep, and Jack Frost
nipped noses and toes, but there had
been a long, warm autumn, and they
had fairly longed for winter.
It was away up in Northern Vermont
that they lived, where winter seems tC
have been born and bred, and makes
himself thoroughly at home, and it was
long time ago, and there were not sc
many ways for getting the better OF
Jack Frost as there are now, but for all
that winter brought such fun with him
that he never came too soon or stayed
too long for the children. The school
house was more than two miles away
Poor old Jolly snorted and pulled and
once or twice came to a stand-still and
looked round as if he wished to explain
that he might have to give it up.
well, 1 declare, if they haven't
cleared out the logging-road, alreadyr
exclaimed Luke, as they neared a turn
in the road. Il believe we'd better 90
down here, and turn off by Daddy
Long-legs; we shall get to the sehoo
house sooner, if it is a little farther
because the road is cleaned out" Jolly
delighted to find the logging-Toad free
from the drifts that caused him K
founder so, went like the wind. The
road was very rough, and there were
thank-you-ma' ans that jolted the breath
almost out of their bodies, but they
only laughed and shouted the more
and on went Jolly like the wind. They
whisked round the turn by Daddy
ong-legs-which was q tall, bare, ole
pine tree, or rather two trees curiously
twisted into one and looking like
giant with immensely long legs
plunged into another long road fun o
drifts and finally drew up before tn,
door of the little red school house jus
as the clock was striking nine. OF
the sled they We're all tumbling, wheI
Thankful raised a sudden cry. t'Wher,
is little JakePn "And the dinner-bas
ketP" added Clemency.
Where, indeed, were little Jake apC
the dinner-basketP" I'VE all Of u
had our Backs to him; he might havt
been shaken off at one of those thank
you-ma' ams!" said Luke. IN o,
around that way, and / guess / shall
pick him up all right. But won
take the trouble to come back her
with him; the schoolin' of such littl
fellow don't amount to much"
But the dinner-basket! We can
go without our dinnerr' cried eigh
voices, in chorus.
But Luke was already driving away
and the sleigh-bells jingled so that h
could not hear them. Luke was in
great hurry, for he was very fond O
little Jake, and did not like to think Q
him Laundering in the snow-drift