The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-18
THE SMALL BOY FlEND.
4 Young Mans Experience With His Best
Girls Younger Brother.

i Young Mans Experience With His les
Girls Younger Brother.
/ was once very sweet on a pretty CIR
who was unfortunate enough to be big
sister to a fiend of the small boy kind
An instance or two of things that little
heather did. is my justification fol
,waglng war against his kind.
The pretty girls name was Mabel
and our little love affair was progress
ing most beautifully when l went ''all
in my Sunday BEST n evening, to
escort her to a concert
Before l could ring the bell the small
boy banged the front door open and
popped out.
You Mays beau?' he asked, with
%abruptness that took away my breath.
'Is Miss Mabel IMP" | asked with
freezing dignity.
He leered at me out of his left eye,
stuck his tongue in his check, and
whirled three times around on his right
heel before saying:
That's what she is. She's upstairs
riggin' herself out too fine fer any
thing. She's got on mas rings and
Aunt Sarah's gold chain, and
''Bob' camel in sharp. agonized tones
from the head of the stairs.
"And she's had her bangs bakin' on
hair pins in the oven for an hour, and
you Just ought to see her hustle! It's
big as"
"'You, Robert" cried the voice Of
Bob's mother. But Bob went on pitt
lessly.
Sand she's got the stunnin'est new
dress, and it amt paid for. neither; and
won't pa 60 it when the bill comes for
her new hat! I guess he will! Ma says
he'll raise Cain, hut May says she don't
care a tinker's darn if he does. Mays
gritty, she is; you'll find it out if she
puts through her little scheme of mar
ryin' you, and"
"Robert James lie, come up
here this instant" comes down from
the stair-landiny. But Robert James
goes on p~lacidly:
you've come to take May to the
concert, amt youP l know it, cause
Mays been jawin' round cause you
didn't get dress-circle tickets instead Of
the first row in the gallery. l said I'd
give her away cause she give me a
crack over the head for losin' the pen
Gil she fixes her eyebrows with.
81 hid her plate that's got her three
front teeth on at first, but pa whaled
into givin' 'em up fore he went
down town. May says"
Bob's mother ome hastily down the
stairs, very red in the face. and very
wild of eye. Bob bounds down the
steps and disappears around the house,
but thrusts his head out to say.
"How sweet you are, mister. O, my!
you dear little ladedah thing! Ain'twe
cunning? Better get that mustache
under cover fore the frost nips itP
Whose darling is oop Shoot the legs.
Isn't laced, is hep"
walk right in. Mr.. h" says
dear Mabel's mamma, making q frantic
effort to appear calm. ''Our Robert IS
in n Of his playful moods. He is 50
full of spirits. Mabel is so sorry. but a
sudden indisposition has"
pickles an cheese, an cucumbers,
for supper. Nolery morbus!" cried
Bob. appearing al an open window.
"The dear child has 3 most wretched
headache. So very sorry, but wW you
excuse her for this cvcning?"
Take me instead, won't you,
sweety3" asks Bob.
drag my wounded vanity away. l
am as broken aud bruised in spirit IS I
wish Bob was in his head. Mabel and
! meet no more. We have not the
moral courage TO do so while Bob is
above ground Who has not been
afflicted by his counterpartp-Zena
Dane. in It'd HlS.