Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-05-25
BILLToPs's GRAssHoPPER.
The Hopper Jumped-Freddie's
"Oh" Startled the Audience.

New York Sun.
"Pop," said little Frankly Bill
tops, "tell me a story"
"Well, Frankly" said Mr.. Bill
tops, "once there was a little boy
whose name was Freddy. His real
full name was Frederick Timby
but everybody always called hin
just Freddy.
Freddy lived in the city, but
every summer he ussd to go to see
his aunt, who lived in the country
in a little old village. There was
an old church, in this village, and
every Sunday morning Freddy
used to go there. Generally his
father and mother and some OF
the other folks from the house
used togo too; but one Sunday
just Freddy and his aunt went
alone.
"It wasa warm day, and the
windows of the church were pull.
ed down all around at the top to
let in the air. Freddy looked out
through the open windows, and
saw the sunshine and saw the
branches Of the trees swaying, and
heard the leaves rustling, and
somehow it all made him feel very
sleepy, and the first thing, you
know, he was fast asleep. But
Freddy's aunt knew that children
go to sleep in church sometimes,
and she was looking out for him
all the time, and when she saw
him nod and nod and nod, she fix
ed it SO that when he finally nod
ded clean over, his head fell
against her, where he was all safe.
'After a while Freddy woke up
suddenly, as folks do sometimes
without knowing just what wakes
them, and he looked along the va
cant part of the pew in which he
was sitting. You know there were
only Freddy and his aunt in the
pew, and they sat at one end of
it, so there was a long vacant
space between them and the other
end. Right.square in the centre
of this space Freddy saw a big
grasshopper; he was sitting there
pointed. toward tie pafppIEh: puff nj fTedas ee6aS
didn't know whether the grasshop-
per was asleep, or what, but he
kept on looking at him, and pretty
soon he knew that the grasshopper
wasn't asleep, for he saw him rub
his right leg up and down against
his side, and then he saw him rub
his left leg up and down against
that side; then the grasshopper
stood perfectly still again. Then
he turned half around right where
he stood and faced toward Freddy,
and just stood there, very still.
But all of a sudden the grasshop-
por made a tremendous jump and
landed right on Freddy's shoulder.
Freddy said, 'Oh!'
"It was only very small word
with only two letters in it, but it
startled the whole congregation
and made the minister stop preach
ing. Everybody looked around
toward Freddy and his aunt. But
Freddy's aunt is one of those peo-
pie who always seem to know just
what to do when anything happens.
The first thing she did was to put
her arm around Freddy and draw
him up nearer to her and sort OF
turn his face in toward her, for she
knew that if Freddy should see all
the people looking at him in that
way it would make him feel bad
and when she mad done this she
just looked straight ahead as
though nothing had happened, as
though she had never heard OF
anything happening, and as though
she didn't expect anything was
going to happen for the next 7oC
years.
"The minister had seen right
away that nothing very wonderful
had happened, and he had gone
right on preaching again. When
the people saw Freddy's aunt look.
ing ahead in that way they turned
around again and faced toward the
pulpit once more, and then every,
thing went on just as it was be.
FORE"
"What became of the grasshop.
per, pop?" asked FraLky.
But that was something that
Mr.. Billtops could not answer.