The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13


smacking of lips: Gimme bitep' This
was our entrance.
THE EXCURSION STARTS AT LAST.
We found Sister Mary and Angela and
Laughin' Liz ahead of US. One in the
quite dress of the Sisters of Mercy and
the other in the uniform of the Salvation
Army They were talking earnestly and
specially about the boys. That we ever
got started was marvellous, for boys hung
on to the wharf and dangled on the edge
of it and two or three went into the river
with their clothes on and then stretched
out to dry in the sun, and at last when we
were off, as we thought, for certain, two
small MISUNDERSTANDING boys appeared on
their pier and we had to stop and send
back a boat for them, and when they
were pulled on board, each was given a
mild thrashing by larger boy, not be-
cause of ill-will but as an evidencesuOf
good faith
AT half-past ten O'Clock they had sand
wiches the inclination of the first boy
was to take six, but after he heard there
was plenty for every boy toahave six, he
concluded he didn't want but one, which,
to my mind. is the best evidence of a boys
being a boy. With the sandwiches there
was lemonade, and after seeing one boy
drink eleven glasses of it, l came to the
conclusion it must be good and had one
myself. The "bloke wot knew how to
SWIM assisted in helping them to lunch
con, and he was made, within fifteen min
utes' time a member of the High Flyers,
because he knocked out one or two big
boys who were fighting the little ones,
and because he gave a sound thrashing to
boy who was sticking pins in all the
other boys.
THEY CHRIsTENED HIM 'MUDP'
The High-FIyers respect but two things
strength and weakness. They want
woman to be very feminine and man to
be very manly, then they like them. My
dog was yearning for play, so | got the
"blOke wot knew how to swim" to quiet
the assemblage, and to make them prom
Use on their honor if would let him loose
they would keep their eyes on him; and
they did. never saw him until it was
time to come home but / heard of him as
being taught how to waltz, as swimming,
as playing and sleeping, not to
mention eating at various times during
the day. Edith Sessions Tupper's dog, a
little Scoth terrier, was in lame Charles
lap, and Butcher Bill yelled out, Char
lie, wot's de name of de pup2' and Char
lie called in loud and thrilling accents,
Mud" Then all the boys shrieked,
can de rain fell on the dust, and said,
Ise to you, your names Mud" | think
Charlie would have wept all day if they
hadn't asked him the name of that dog.
What did they dol They did every
thing. They sang, they danced; they
warbled After the Ball" with a whist
ling accompaniment in every key, in
Guiding the right one. They did fancy
dances, held up hats to be kicked, and all
of the time somebody was singing. One
of the favorites ran in this way:
''Dady won't buy me the Waldorf
m the waldorf.
I've got little fiat,
And I'm very fond of that,
But 1 want the big Waldorf"
The smaller boys played marbles, and
only once during the day, before dinner,
was there slight unpleasantness, and
that was when the "bloke wot knew how
to swim" interrupted game of craps for
high money. There was no use trying to
get these boys off the boat in good order.
They fell OFF; they jumped off; they
danced off, but walk across the plank in
regulation order they would not. Three
of them went by escorting the dog who
adores me, but who never cast q look at
me then, and the three boys and the dog
promptly fell into the water. Sister
Mary Angela smiled softly; Laughing
Liz lived up to her name by giving burst
to a clear, sweet laugh that told of her
home being in Manchester, while /, well,
I was American enough to have simply
shrieked in sheer fun.
FUN UNDER THE SHADE TREES.
It had been arranged that whene yer
red flag was waved, the High-Flyers
would come together, so it was put up
when the last Of us got on land. and the
boys were warned against holding little
boys down in the water, or going out be-
vond a certain distance, and were told
that if they did, the High-Flyers
wouldn't invite them next year. 1t was
also told them that they would have the
whole afternoon, and that dinner would
be served the next time the flag was put
up. Some of the boys went to play base
ball; a few of them sat under the trees
and read or stretched themselves out on
the grass and went to sleep, but the ma
jority were in the water, absolutely in
the bluff, or, as they say down south, sin
the nankeen"
1t was such good dinner; there were
clans, and chowder and fish, ard potatoes
and green corn, and chickens, and tea and
coffee and lemonade; and everybody ate
and drank, and ate and drank and ate
and drank again, and then we all drank
the health of the 'High-Flyers, and long
may they wave" and then they drank
Sister Mary Angela's health and then
they drank the health of Laughing Liz;
and the "bloke wOt knew how to swim"
answered for me by showing that he
knew now 10 SluB, Dy giving bHSlAl IISDi
"There's a bower or roses by the Ben
deemer's stream" and. after that as he
was ''angcored, :" he sang, "Oh believe
me if all those endearing young charms, !"
and then the tunes the boys knew and
where they came in on the chorus.
THE POOR HAVE WARM HEARTS.
Then off they went to have good time
again, and the ladies of the party, as we
were called, and the two kindly High
Flyers, who got up the picnic, aud the
''bloke wet knows how to SWIM sat to-
gether and talked about the boys. Said
Sister Mary Angela: "They have so
little opportunity for happiness, and they
are so good No, my child, don't mean
they are saints; they wouldn't be so
lovable if they were but I've seen boy
who is among thom to-day, and who isn't
but fourteen years old now, stand by his
mothers bedside and hold her hand
while the doctors performed an awful
operation on her and since she has died
he has taken care of himself and looked
after his younger brother, too, and he
seemed to think nothing of this; for when
| urged that he should go out of the room,
he said No, Sister, I promised mother
I'd stay, and | am going to stay"
Eyes, added Laughing Liz, "the little
chaps are up the first thing in the morn
ing to get the papers; they jump on and
off the cars at the risk of breaking their
necks to sell them they can get more fun
in five minutes out of anything than any
other boys would get in five hours, and as
thaxr road their own DaperS thew are