The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02

nIN OTutTGu I0AL he
should go to Aunt James. AZ
He had been received with kindness
which was not Intentionally cold.
Miss Preston desired to do her duty by
her orphan nephew. He was well
provided with all that boy belonging
in well-to-do family should have.
But before he had been for week in
the big house ON the big farm, Jim, if
he had been that kind of boy, would
nave cried his heart out with lonely
inconsistencies.
Not being that kind of boy, he
took refuge in things about him. MAX
ing friends with servants and animals.
soon liking and being liked by all ex-
cept Aunt Jane. She, cherishing a
| belief that boys were prone to lido
ing and must be held down, did her
best to keep him repressed by her chill
manner.
He grew fairly to hate the measured
tone, sometimes indulging in willful
DIT OF mischief by way of finding re-
lief in rousing Aunt Jane to a little
show of anger.
As he now lay in the hay, his whole
soul arose in a rebellion quite foreign
to his naturally genial disposition.
With little management Jim could
have developed frank and generous
good will which would have made him
most lovable inmate of any home.
II won't stand it," he cried to him
self II hate Aunt Jane, and-she
hates me. Yes, know it. She always
stops me in everything l want to do.
won't mind her. Ill-go to the fair
In spite of herr
1t was daring thought, but the
relish of it increased as he dwelt on it.
Eyes, l will I'll go, and I'll stay
all day And I'll do everything | want
to do. If she'd been good about it and
let me go, I'd have been good boy.
'What'll she say when come
homer
The wild thought grew with the
cherishing.
u won't come back! / hate it here.
I'd rather go and work for my living
somewhere. Tll-ride race-horse."
The idea was delightful in it's utter
recklessness. Doubly SO because it
would be shocking to Aunt Jane
! Early the next morning Jim stood in
his room, firmly set in his new pur-
pose.
The suit of clothes he had worn at
the county fair lay on chair, mended
with the painstaSing care which Aunt
Jane brought to all that she did. If
Jim could have remem bered a single
really tender word or look from his
aunt, 1t may be supposed that his
heart would have been touched by this
evidence of her care for him. If even
she had once in while roundly
scolded him, it would have been, Jim
thought, refreshing; but that cold
look and measured voice-ah.
"Tll wear my best suit--yes, will
What's the difference? As I'm never
coming back, she can't roll up her eyes
and look shocked at me. And don't
care If do spoil 'em, eitherl'
An hour later at breakfast time Jim
could not be found, nor did any reply
come to the numerous calls of his name.
I'm ready to guess l know where
he's gone, though, ma'am," said the
housekeeper. II saw him go out the
side gate an roun' the back of the barn
just after got up. So l reckoned in
my own mind he'd gone to the fair.
Possessed about that balloon he was,
all yesterday. Just like boys, you
| know, ma am" with look which con-
veyed an appeal for mercy for the
criminal.
But Aunt Jane set her lips together,
thinking within herself that for lady
who had never done such a foolish
thing as get married it was really
rather hard to be bothered by the boys
of other people.
But as the hours wore on Miss James
hardness relaxed little. She was
uneasy at the thought of the scatter
Drained boy being at the fair, with no
one to look after him.
The quiet of the place seemed OPP
pressive. She had learned, scarcely
realizing to herself, to like the sound
of the careless shout and rafting talk.
not to speak of the bright eyes which
were so like those of her brother who
left home SO long ago as the result of
trifling quarrel, never to come back.
Il believe III drive over to the fair
grounds myself" she observed early
in the afternoon. Il really wanted to
get hold of few of those premium
| Hubbard squash seeds. And this being
the last day, could likely get them"
Jim was having glorious time at
the fair. He whipped boy who was
abusing smaller boy, dashed in
among lot of horses to catch hold of
one which was getting beyond the con-
troll of the woman who drove it, found
lost little girl and walked around
| with her for an hour in search of her
friends, drank too much lemonade and
ate too many peanuts, quarreled with
some boys at merry-go-round and got
knocked off one of the wooden horses,
rode a donkey in race, and, after
having been lavishly dined by the
mamma of the found little girl, was
fully ready to enjoy the balloon as
cension.
The crowd was collecting around it.
with the usual inside fringe of boys:
the very inside fringe being composed
of those happy boys who CHANGED to
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