Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-02
"Bob-o-Link's Lesson.

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Link, or Lincoln, Libby was such .
merry boy that he went by the name
of "Bob-o-Link" OF home.
He was not only merry, but care
less; he wanted everything ahandy, :"
as he expressed it, which made a great
deal of work for somebody; for his cap
and mittens were nearly always
dropped on the table or in q chair ito
have 'em handy" it was such q bother
to hang 'em up; his muddy rubber
boots were kicked off under the table.
for he would want 'em again pretty
soon;" his books and slate were flung
on the lounge to be ready when Aunt
Kitty got time to assist him In his les.
sons; his rubber ball scudded about
on the sitting-room carpet, kites and
snowshoes dangled from the hall hat
rack, his bat-stick stood in the UNI
brella-stand, SO he might catch EN- on
the fly" when he rushed out to meet q
boy.
Whenever he went out or in he left
the door open, only minute; he was
going right in or out again, and "'twas
such bother to alwaysshut door
never thinking that in the minute" of
a winters day more cold air would
rush into the house than could be
warmed in half an hour. Grandma
told him he ought to live in a saw-mill.
Ii he peeled an apple-which he
didn't very often, "'twas such bother"
the skins were left In the pretty
aapple-dish or thrown out OF the win
dow on the grass-"Tam the goat
would eat 'em"-to Aunt Kitty's dis
gust.
That same Tam would wriggle be-
tween the barnyard bars at night. and
come beneath the window in Bob-o'-
Links chamber over the kitchen for
all kinds Of eatables, which for him
included everything, from apple-cores
and banana-skins to tattered hats and
the soles of Links old shoes. /
But he got handsomely come up
with, grandma said, last summer for
this last slovenly habit, as you will see.
There was wonderful Fourth o.
July celebration in the little town.
last year, and Bob-o'-Link was very
anxious to begin the day early. But
he never could wake in the morning
without shaking. He did not want
to disturb any one in the house, so he
hired Billy Dole" real nighthawk".
for a spotted marble and a spread
partridge tail, to wake him, by pulling
a string tied around his great toe, as
he had heard of other boys doing.
The string was stout hemp cord,
and in the end, tossed out of the open
window, Bob-o'-Link made large
slip-loop. "'Twould be handy for
Billy to put his hand in to puii.s He
tied the other end to his toe in a bow
knot, he thought, but in the dark the
end slipped through and made hard
one.
Along in the night there came such
a vicious witch on the line that it
brought Bob-o'-Link out of bed in
twinkling.
"Ow-ow-ow-w-w! Stop that, Billy
Dole, or I'll Ughl ugh! Ooo-oo!
You'll saw my toe off" And Link
hoped heavily on one foot toward the
window.
He could not unite the knot, and he
had lost his jack knife the day before!
laid it down somewhere to be handy.
His toe was "'most choked to death"
and felt as though 'twould burst, while
the line kept saving it pitilessly.
III lick ye tomorrow, Billy Dole,
if It's Fourth O Julyl" he groaned.
You're just as mean as Noo-oo-ugh!
Help! Help, somebody" The tugs
came faster and fiercer, and Selling
claw-foot of the Observation-Disclosures.
Link rolled on the floor and shouted
with all his might, which soon brought
the whole house to the scene of
trouble.
Not Billy Dole, but naughty Tam
was found at the other end of the line.
Toward midnight he had felt q cray
ing to. inspect his masters rubbish
heap and wriggled through the fence,
In nosing over the pile he had run ono
OF his long horns through the slip-loop
and got caught.
Bob-o'-Link could not celebrate that
Fourth O July, for his toe was SO bad
~ sweiled and lacerated that he could
not get his shoe on, and had to hobble
about in grandma's big worsted slip
per. But he learned lesson which
he has not forgotten yet Youths
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