The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-12
GOING A%.GUDDLING.

NAANAh - %~~NJ
from it. Friday has always been my
unlucky day, anyhow. If fate, as
frequently happens, has any unpleas-
antness in store for me, it is sure to
reserve it till Friday.
But Dominic Forbes was, as we
boys phrased it, Gin a tear" on
that particular Friday forenoon;
something had gone radically wrong
with him. Everybody knew that the
dominic was deeply in love with a
farmers fair daughter, and that the
courtship ofDuncan Gray vas smoothing
to his in vicissitudes, for at N
time bonnie Jeanne tombstone smiled
on him, and at another she laughed
at him. And whatever Jeanie's mood
was, we poor pupils became the result
ant; 1t was fog-hog-Aog all day
when Jeanne was saucy, but when
Jeanne was kind everything we did
pleased our dominic.
AS a rule, at all ordinary times Dom
inie Forbes was q tartar. Squeers was
a saint to him. And the tawse-a
piece of leather bride cut at the end
into two fingers and hardened in the
tire-got little rest. When it al put
away for a time the "snengie" cane,
or rattan, took it's place, and do not
know which makes the palms and fin
gers tingle the most.
A bit OF q masher was Dominic
Forbes. especially on a Sunday, when
he wore a swallow-tail coat, with a
morsel OF crimson silk handkerchief
sticking out OF the pocket-he kept an
ordinary white one in a breast-pock-
ct for nasal duty-and his club-foot
boot, with it's extraordinary thickness
of sole, shining like half-a-yard of pol
ished Whitby jet. The dominie's hair
was as black as his boot, and his side
whiskers gIittered like boatmen bee
ties.
Now Saturday was a kind of mixed
day with us boys at Bellfield school;
a day of grief in the morning, because
the work of the week had to be reca-
pitulated, and we were all sure to be
thrashed; and OF Joy in the afternoon,
because it was q half-holiday and the
morrow was Sunday.
But no! to our great astonishment,
on this particular Saturday the DOM
inie was as sweet in temper as q tab
by cat with five young kittens.
Jeanie had been kind. That was
the solution of the riddle.
But there he was, dressed In his Sab
bath clothes, silk handkerchief and
polished club-foot-boot, and positive
ly q white neck tie!
And he frequently smiled softly to
himself-wandered a little in his talk
but looked generally angelic.
| blundered a good deal over my ir-
regular verbs. Igave single verbs to
plural nominatives and murdered my
past participates. But dominic merely
smiled and corrected inc.
went back to my seat, walking on
feathers, seemingly.
had afavorite fiat mahogany ruler,
and / got round TO my table in time
to find mischievous Davie Law burn
ing one end Of it between the bars OF
the CRATE.
My Joy was turned to wrath. !
drew forth the ruler and smote Davie
with the fiery end oft, iavelin fashion.
1t went half way down his throat,
suppose, and loosened some of his
teeth. Davie yelled, and the dominic
appeared and found Davie splitting
blood and cinders. But even this did
not disturb has equanimity. Hemere.
ly said, "You shouldn't have done
that, Gordon"
Such is iove-when Chloe is kki1di
We were not ssbit surprised to get
awaythat day two hours sooner thar
usual.
We rushed pell-mell, almost break
ing each others ribs in the doorway
We yelled and shouted for Joy, and
flung our Highland bonnets high in air
When the exuberance OF our ecstasy
had somewhat subsidized, Willie Jamie
son-poor ladi he was killed soon aft
er this by his fathers horse falling or
him-stood upon the top of a ston,
HHu SuOuL6u.
"Who will go a-guddling?"
What be really did say was: "Fa'l
gag guddlin'?" But you see / am DO
lite enough to translate his words in
to English.
Now, Willie was the biggest boy II
our set, and we respected him accord
ingly and looked up to him almosI
re~verentially. Even a box on tn,
ears from Willie was considered al
honor and acondescension on his part
"Who will go a-guddling?"
Fifty arms wavedin the air at once
fifty treble voices rang out s1l gang
I'll gang! Illgangl"
But Willie had no intention of in
viting the smallfry-the nippers from
8 ito q.
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