The Springdale news., 1889-12-13
TORaMY'S EXPERIENCE.
Why He Now Treats His Sister Just as If She Were some Other Boys Sister. '.Tpmmvt Tommv.n


 Tommy Tommyw
 Tommy shut one eye, and with the other looked through convenient knot-hole in the side of the wood-shed.
 Again his mother called his name. this time q little louder than before. Still Tommy did not answer. To say that he felt aggrieved would be giving q very mild description of his feelings at that minute. Hadn't he worked all morning carrying coal and water, pick ing up sticks and stones from the front grass plot, and doing various other things too numerous to think of just then? And hadn't he been sns- tained and upheld through it all by the thought of having the whole afternoon to himself? Why. he had even for gotten to count how many buckets of water he had carried to wash of the porehes. so interested was he in trying to calculate how many willow whistles he would have time to make before supper-time And now, just as he was comfortably fixed at work, to think that he must be called from it!
 T know just what she wants me for, he said to himself. 'I don't see any sense in two of Us going to the store; just as if Tillie couldn't go by herself. I'll not let on 1 heard her call me-.
 Tommy knew that this was not a very safe course to pursue but he was 30 yexed that he did not think Of con- sequences. By this time his mother had gone into tho house and closed the door but it vas again opened, and again his name echoed through the premises.
 That's lilly" said Tommy, ''and she won't stop at callingi she'll hunt me up.
 He looked around for a hiding place He could hear Tillie running down the stone walk. She would be there in a minute; 30, hastily jumping down from the workbench, he ran across the floor and climbed into an old cup board, which shook in a threatening manner. as if resentiug the intrusion. He pulled the doors to, just as lilly appeared at the doorway.
 ',Tommy! Tommy Dawsonm she called. so that there might be no mis- take as to what Tommy was wanted. Tommy held his breath lest she might discover him. and wished that his heart would not thump so loudly against his ribs. Surely lilly would l hear it; but she turned toward the house, as fl satisfied that he was to be found. Tommy chuekled in high glee and after hearing the door shut clam bered down out of the crazy old cup board, his face very red, his clothes covered with dust and cobwebs
 After taking observations through l the knot hole for a few seconds, he got up on the bench and be ganon the whis- tie, but somehow the bark seemed very hard to loosen, and his knife was not as sharp as usual. He was sure he had never heard the field crickets ehirp so loudly. And wasn't it strange they were saying: Sneak, sneak, sneak. just as fast as they could. Tommy had often listened to them before, but he always thought they said, summers here. here, here He must have been mistaken them. for nothing could be palmer than what they were now saying.
 "If only that road to the store wasnt 90 hot and dusty.n he said half aloud, and then he whittled at a willow switch.
 Il do wonder if Nations dog would bite; Tilg's awful fraid of dogs And then another minute of whiting.
 "I guess could finish these whistles after 1 come back. and he shut up Iii. knife and with one bound was in tho middle of tbe floor and with another was out on the stones.
 'Whew! how hot that old wood she( is anyway And running up th, stones, lie burst into the kitchen where he found lilly flying around in wile delight