The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-11-13

going to lay them ont again next week.
! They say they want their revenge.
I Hello! Isn't supper ready YETI"
We're going to get it now" an
swered Ella We've just come in from
the melon patch. We've been working
ever since half-past four, and stopped
only long enough to get grandma some
thing to eat at six"
Been at the melons ever since half
past foar.'' cried Joe. '.Wc1, / must
say you took your time over At. / guess
you talked more than you worked"
1--WE had to cut all the melons. and
then carry them one at a time to the
wagon and the she'd" said Ella.
''My back is almost broken-I know
that said Jane
''And I'm stiff that ] can hardly
move around" added Ella
I'm awfully sorry" said Joe. 80
course I'd have come home and done
all myself if 1 could have got away
But we had 20 play nine innings. an
then we had a short practice game"
We'll, never mind IT now said
Jane only get up early in the morn
ing. SO as to get the melons to Ocean
Beach by seven o'clock The trains
get in at nine
And you'll have TO walk Prince all
the way, and there'u be two IJads,' said
Ella
..All right, I'm willing TO get up if
you'll wake me. / can't wake myself,
you know that"
But when 1T four o'clock the next
morning Jane stole softly to the door
of her brothers room and raped, Joe
declared he could not get up.
I'm so stiff l can hardly move,' he
said. Il hadn't played ball for so long
that yesterdays game has used Inc up.
/ cant go TO Ocean Beach, Jenny. It's
out of the question You know l would
if / could"
But, Joe, the melons must go some
how"
We'll, can't you or Ella take them
in? You can drive just as well a. /
can
but they have to be unloaded at the
store"
Get a boy to help you. There are
always boys hanging around ready for
job. oh. dear. how my bones achei
Tell Ella she'll have to milk Clover and
Brownie this morning, and one of you
must feed Prince. Oh, and Jane, tell
Ella please to send my breakfast up,
and if she'll make me some waffies I'll
do as much for her some time. II
seems to me that waffies would go to
the right spot this morning"
Ella harnessed Prince and hitched
him To the wagon, and by five o'clock
poor Jane was well on the road to
Ocean Beach
When Joe was walked at half-past
seven bv Elias coming in with a trav
holding ms breakfast, ne heard with
-T...@ =. l.T.
the second.load of melons
'-Jenny's regular brick he said,
enthusiastically. And you're an
wafIles. Did you milk Clover and
Brownie?-
''Yes and put them in the pasture
Its shame You had to do the milk
ing; but then, it's just as well. guess.
for you 10 learn how. j might be laid
up this way any time"
1t was seven o'clock in the evening
when Jane reached home in an empty
wagon She looked completely worn
out
Joe, who had been lying in the ham
mock on the porch all day, went to
open the gate for her. His stiffness
was gone, and he looked in the best of
spirits
Ibid YOU sell them alp he asked.
''Ycs. every ONE
''What did you get for them?r
sixteen dollars and thirty cents"
HIM Seems to me You ought 70
have sold them for more'n that But
I suppose you did the best you could.
Hand over. It'll take ten dollars at
least for that summer coat I've been
wanting so long. And | need a new
knife and some handxerchiefs- III go
to Shelbyville next week n buy out
the town"
''But aren't you going to give Ella
and me some of the money, Joe2''
How much do you want? 1t was
my scheme, you know"
''Well, we both need new hats aw-
fully; and we would like to get them
before the picnic next week"
well, hand the money over, and I'll
see what can do / don't see what YOU
girls want of new hats; the ones you
Joe" interrupted cracked voice
from a rear window of the house;
don't you that money. You're not to
have one cent of it
Joe let the hand he had extended for
the roll of bills fall to his side
why. it was my scheme, grandma
The girls would never have thought of
it at ALL he said, grumblingly.
Your scheme or not, the girls did all
the work, and you shant have one
cent It's time you found out that I'm
not blind to your selfishness-"
but we're willing to give him one
half of it, grandma" said Jenny.
Your Willingness has nothing to do
with the matter. 1 forbid you to give
him even one copper. Divide it with
Ella, and spend it as you choose I'm
not afraid of your wasting any of it;
you've earned it too hard for that
Jenny got down from the wagon and
went into the house. and Joe led the
horse around to the stable, feeling that
fate had been very unkind to him, and
his grandmother very unjust. He had
not imagined that she had taken any
interest in the melon scheme.
THE next time have a scheme of
that sort I'll keep it to myself" he
grumbled, as he put corn into the
horse box. II won't be tricked sec
ond time. They can make up their
minds to that-"-Florence Il. Hallow-
ell, in Examiner.
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