The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-10-26
TOMMY'S EXPERIENCE.

WHY He Now Treats His Sister just as II
She We're sOmo Other Boys Sister.
Tommy! Tommy
Tommy shut one eye, and with the
other looked through a convenient
knot-hole in the side of the wood-shed.
Again his mother called his name,
this time a little louder than before.
Still Tommy did not answer To say
that he felt aggrieved would be giving
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 val iOus
other things too numerous TO think of
just then? And hadn't he been sus-
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 off the
pOrches. 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 be must be called from it,
Il know just what she wants me
for," he said to himself. Il don't see
any sense in two of us going to the
store; just as if TiIlie couldn't go by
herself I'll not let on l heard her
call me-"
Tommy knew that this was not q
very safe course to pur5us, but he was
80 vexed that he did not think of con-
sequences. By this time his mother
had gone into the house and closed
the door, but it was again opened, and
again his name echoed through the
premises.
That's Tilly," said Tommy, land
she won't stop at calling; she'll hunt
me up"
He looked around for hiding-place
He could hear Tillie running down the
stone walk. She would be there in q
minute; so, hastily jumping down from
The workbench, he ran across the
floor and climbed into an old cup
board, which shook in threatening
manner, as if resenting 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 lost she might
discover him, and wished that his
heart would not thump so loudly
against his ribs. Surely lilly would
hear it; but she turned toward the
house, as if satisfied that he was to be
found. Tommy chuckled 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
the knot hole for a few seconds, he got
up on the bench and be canon the whis-
tie, but somehow the bark seemed very
hard to loosen, and his knife was not as
sharp as usual. He was sure ne had
never heard the field crickets chirp 50
loudly. And wasn't 1T 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 wasn't
so hot and dusty" he said half aloud,
and then he whitfield at a willow
switch.
Il do wonder if Nations dog would
bite; Tilly's awful 'fraid of dogs.
And then another minute of whiting
Il guess could finish these whistles
after come back, and he shut up his
knife and with one bound was in the
middle of the floor and with another
was out on the stones.
"Whew! how hot that old wood shed
is anyway And running up the
stones, he burst into the kitchen where
he found lilly flying around in wild
delight