Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-24

would say, for he had no reverence for
even the most sacred act of family correct
i've discipline.
When William Harrington refused to go
into his Cousins pool Bob applied a dis
courteous epithet to him and made swipe
at him with his hay rake, which William,
who was not so meek as he looked, deity
parried with his OK gad, which he then
brought down across Bob's back twice in
different places with such effect that that
too fresh young ruff1er had to sleep on his
face for three nights. The rake is not al
ways to the favorite nor the battle to the
slugger.
That night, after straining his neck into
alump by vainly trying to look over his
shoulders at the long diagonal patterns in
raised work which his cousin William had
wrought upon his back with cunning handl-
work. Bob Cutler hunted up an old
almanac and cut out the page he wanted,
and substituted it for the July record in
that popular work of fiction for the current
year. Before the household retired that
night, this bold, bad boy cunningly turned
the conversation upon the subject of the
day of the week, and Grandfather Hazlerod.
going to the almanac to settle the dispute,
was overjoyed to learn that he had yet
another day to finish hayin' in. William
Harrington called it "haying," but every
body else said 'hayin'." However, to
make up for this difference of rronucia-
ton, Grandfather Hazlerod said ''garding''
and William said garden" so they aver
aged all right.
Next morning when grandfather routed
the boys out at four o'clock in the dark,
William came down in his Sunday clothes,
and in response to his grandfather's aston
ished demand for an explanation, told Of
Bob's mean deception, in spite OF that rude
boys vigorous and threatening pantomime,
indicative of human being undergoing the
progress of pulverization by digltal concus-
sion, for Bob did not want him to "give
away the fake" as he called it, too soon.
But grandfather turned fiercely upon WILL
lam.
''Out of this" he roared; ''take of them
dude duds an git into yer overalls before l
raise lump on We. Purity pass things is
come to- said the old man, looking around
for his tear starter, ''when boys IS to tell
men of my years that he don't know the
day Of the week" Daniel Webster once
said that if he had one-half the gram
mar which Grandfather Hazlerod idly and
indiffersntly cast away as thing OF no mo
ment he would start a society journal or
write commencement orations for living.
Bob began TO laugh at Williams discom-
fture, but grandfather cut his merriment
short 'If you're through eatin'," he said,
you en- just as wells not finish laughin'
while you yoke up the red steers. Look
lively now, all hands, an We'll finish gittln'
that hay in before nine o'clock this after
noon, just IS easy's not"
There was no night in Grandfather Halle
rods calendar. It was always morning till
afternoon, and then it was afternoon until
the next afternoon.
He made things fly in the bayfield, for the
next few bo1rs and kept every body and
every thing, men, boys and oxen, on the
Jump. About 1U:3U O'Clock BOB GuIher
thought it was about time TO ring up the
curtain for Act ", and so he went to grand
father and confessed the trick he had played
on him and begged his pardon.
"Jeems' rIveri'' yelled the old man. "An'
so you're at it now, are ye! Whut's got
into you boys, sh'd like to knowi Git back
onto thet hay cart, ye lazy, trIfin' giutton,
er Pn-good airth and ~ CALCULATED the
old man, as he fetched Bob farewell boost
with the CAD, II d'know what this world
isn't comm tor
Oh, how hard every body worked all that
long Sunday, until the last load was slowed
away In the big barn when the afternoon
was so far gone that people were coming
home from evening meeting How tired
the boys were, and Bob especially, who had