DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-02-20
MY NEIGHBOR.
She Caught a Not Very
Prevalent Disease.

She Caught a Not Very
Prevalent Disease.
curtain descended upon Little
Fauntleroy tasting the reward Of
pretty impossible goodness, and
was the usual rush for street cars
fellow auditors. | was lucky
h to find seat in an extreme cor
n the tram" and had just
zed myself into it, when two gen.
n and two ladies entered. AS a
of course there were two polite
men sitting opposite me who
only too happy to offer these la
their plaGe-and, as matter of
!. these ladies accepted them as
eOusly as they were offered. But
arrangement built barrier of
cloth and tweed between us wom-
lkS as the four gentlemen stood
I'D in the narrow aisle of the vehi-
Now, one of these ladies' was
bbor of mine, and l was Just think
the many points of interest we
common, and how, if it wasn't
e human wall between us, or that
obliged to raise my voice to a
fa ''whoop" to be heard, l would
er a hundred things about this and
and the other, when the brakes
Pd around, the patient little mules
ed and we were off.
ions of little Lord Fauntleroy
tel me--the pretty yellow hair, the
lisp, the dignity of that small
OF nobility, and | had just made
" mind to tell the bright author Of
charming book how much ]
Eed her for making it possible to
Ito the world so sweet, so whole
so pure a play, when straight
Ngh the crooked elbow of one of
gentlemen standing nearest me
these words:
he funniest sight you ever saw"
can we'll believe It'll"
And then her sun-bonnet was tilted |
pch an indescribable angle!"
fOu don't mean me to understand |
fshe raked up the carriage drive as
q as the paths?"
DO, indeed; and not only did she
! up the whole moist, half-muddy
4 but she swept it with an old
bm."
pom my word! What's the matter
4 the old yard, anyhow-was it in
OF such personal attention."
Pie evidently seemed to think so.
Re we're some orange peels the
ghDor children had thrown down
oWn' perhaps, among the number,
Pney play at will in the big, old,
'y yard-a few broken egg shells, a
ol white paper some one had torn
small bits and thrown to the four
as OF Heaven-at least they were
serea broadcast over the earth"
ouV 1t was her back yard wasn't it?
" caring for little litter to that
n'' NJ My, if the ashes got knee-deep
'ne walks I'd not make common
myself! She lady, tool"
you wouldn't have
ght She was if you'd have seen her
morning, | counted, actually, ten
us OF stuff she carried away and
pea into the ash barrel at the corner
'r house-l fear l shall never be
J enough to see such a comical
againw
Sler VT slowly at first, then with light
IKE rapidity began to recognize
0.or " IN this comical scene of which
oignoor spoke. had raked up my
ola' too long-neglected back yard !
very morning; had picked up ,,
as many baskets of rubbish as my
'oor !, had said she counted, and car
lell 10 the ash barrel; l had worn ,,
,ponnet, which, on account of my
;, haa worn at an angle she found
u unable to describe; but / hadn't
= :, ! u Deen acting the leading COM
,le u OF the neighborhood. l
,,ney were talking about me-they
l,sughlng at me-and 1, who knew :
nat Sort of back yard my neigh !
felt how easy matter
~ Dc to revenge myself; but l +
Dack yard was place beggaring =
particularly, un- l.
IN ones sight, held it's own proud
arucular place. 1t was an in .
. no child could play in safely !
any wonder they chose the green, :.
:, eNpanse of my own big yard? !,
tn must be out of doors, and I i
oelleve a pig would have dis .
n my neighbor's yard for wallow. =
'ilng Of nicety pervaded that bit .
una. What of prettiness and =
'ss =. there was stopped short at the a :.
'hce post at one side of the house. 3
~ OF the house was a trim row CT
VI 'chiney asters," as ii
nousekeeper used to call them, s.
4iSsanthemuI@ making gay The 81