The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-03-31
For the NEWS.
The ARKANSAW TRAVELLERS,
A True Story for the Boys.
BT HIGHLAND BOY
nY HIGHLAND BOY
.CHAPTER 1

CHAIlEB j.
Let's see, wasn't it Peter Pinder you
used to read about in one of your read
ers? Yes, come to think about it, Peter
was the fellow, and he loved to please
good children and always told true
stories. So do I. Now it's not neces-
sary for me to ask you to keep Pouser
from barking and to keep John and
Mary as quiet as little mice for you viii
do that anyhow.
am going to tell you about a boy
whose home is in Greenfield, Dade
county, Missouri, and two of his COM
panions, who ran away from home in
March, IS. DO any of you ever think
of running off? If you do let me say to
you douf and these three boys that
tried it say the same.
The one of these boys that got the
others into the scrape is here at school
He is a little bit of a back-eyed fellow,
not much more than knee-high to a
duck, " for which reason the boys some
times call him "Shorty," but he is like
those little Texas ponies-tough as
whalebone, or he would have been dead
long ago. Well, one day after he had
been here at school awhile and had
found out his name and where he was
from, asked him if he came all the
way out here alone. He looked up
laughing and said, "Why of course L
did, greene, who do you suppose would
come with me" L was afraid of show
ing my verdancy still more, but not ik-
ing the pert little chap to get ahead of
me that way replied that I thought,
perhaps, his father, or mother, or both
had come along as he seemed young
enough to require the care of both for a
while yet Again a smile lighted up his
CountenanCe as though he pitied me in
my Ignorance of his ability to take care
of himself Then the smile left his
young face as he said his father was
dead, that he only had one brother, who
was a clerk in a hotel in st. Louis, and
that his mother, who had married since
the death Of his father, was living in
Greenfield, Missouri. Then he went on
to tell about his trip out, of his visit
to his brothers and cousins in st. Louis,
and of the exposition in that city.
When he paused, almost out Of breath, 1
said, "But were you never away from
home alone before At this he blush
ed a little and hung his head as he re-
piled, "Well, no, never, except when I
took a trip down to Arkansaw on my
own hook last spring" By his Gown
hook" knew what sort OF a trip that
was and so said, "Oh, you ran off, did
you? He nodded his head afirma-
lively and then as one question brought
on another we soon became fast friends
and he told the whole story and how it
all happened
But, boys, before you hear it, you will
want to know their names. Can any Of
you tell me what the Missouri boys are
called? You are called Buckeye"
boys because you live in the Buckeye"
State Now, what are they called. Some
one says "Pukes, " and that is right, but
it isn't half as nice as the name of
Buckeye" and don't believe there is
a boy among you that would call another
one a ''little Puke, no matter where he
was from, unless you were mad at him,
or wanted to make him mad at you.
That is the way with me. am not mad
at any of these boys and don't want to
make them mad at me, and if I should
call them 'Pukes" I might have all
three of them on me at once; that is, if
they should ever find out who wrote
this and then should catch me out some
day. 1 might call them by their nick
names if only what they are, but
"there is where the fox crosses" The
one that told me the story used to be
called Dutch by the boys at home,
but when he came out here the boys
) took to calling him "Dinks." That is
the way with boys. Notwo sets Of them
! see alike. I once went to school with q
boy whose nickname was "Edi," but
j when he came to college do you suppose
the boys kept on calling him "Edr1
Nary once. They couldn't see any
o. '.Edi" about him and so dubbed him
3 "Kid," and "Kid" it has been, anC
"Kid" it win be, more than likely, iii
he takes the degree of Bachelor of Arts
This all goes to show that people don
= all look through the same glasses. Boys
3 did YOU ever think what q dreadiully
? monotonous world this would be !
4 everybody did see alike. just imagine
g a neighborhood or town in which ever
Z boy in it thought that one certain gin
was the handsomest, the wittiest ant
D the most intelligent girl there; i'm fact
the girl they would all rather go wit
~ than any other. Now, honestly, woul
not that be perfectly awiuW? Why,
would be embarrassing to the girl an
boys both, Thus you see the Create
ID has wisely constituted people so tha
+ they don't all see alike
ls Well the only way that 1 can SCI
" out of the difficulty about those name
" is just 10 tell their right names; an
b. since have come to think the matt,
n over that would have been the best pla