The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-30

yards, is situated 1t is delight
fully quiet spot. for no vehicle come
- into this peaceful road unless it ha
business at one of the six or seye
houses that are situated upon thi
street, which can hardly be called
thoroughfare. My back yard wall
therefore, is segment of a circle. /
is eight feet high, and is what is callet
an English park fence. which mean.
that it is made of upright split oak
slabs overlapping each other. This
KIND OF fence is said to cost as much
ana last as long as a brick wall 1t is
Impossible for anyone to climb it, and
equally impossible for anyone to see
through it. Therefore, man NAV
walk about in his back yard dressed
pretty much as he pleases. He can
wear his oldest coat and his most COM
Portable slippers There is conserva-
tory at the end of the lawn. and here
the high fence ends. There is also a
little sub-back yard filed with tall
trees Which shut ous the view from the
road Around this minor back ward
the fence is only four feet high.
! This minute description of nv estate
is necessary for understanding the ex-
citing times | had during the DAYS / |
stayed at home and attempted to do
some writing in the quietness of nv
own back yard.
found that tho fence was a great
'emptatlo to every passer-by The
small boy, If he had a stick in his
hand, liked to run it along the boards
L. 1
or beat the stick against them as he $
passed along. This was annoying. and |
sometimes shouted to him to stop his S
racket, but merely received in return '
number of personal remarks which \
u is not too much to say were dis b
sinctly insulting, considering the fact d
hat the speaker was entirely unable
% see the person to whom he was v
peaking =.
Therefore, as | am of the kind of CT
erson to whom experience teaches IL
omethlng. l ceased to expostulate
erba1ly with the small boy with his ca
tick stole quietly around into the sli
ID back yard and waited for him ov
eside the low fence. He ALWAYS st,
Tine along quite unconscious of dan ly.
r. for l was well concealed by the wa
'lck wall of the conservatory. and WI
ways succeeded in snatching his cap.
usually jumped to the middle of the sti
al In his surprise before he realized csc
at ne had to negotiate for the re-.
rn OF his cap. l made him give his the
me and address ana apologize in
most abject fashion before at
urned his headgear He was usual :"
the butchers delivery boy or the Def
from the grocery / threatened to ger
n the police upon him, or what was swe
rse, to go to his master and com. the
in; and | think that | do not wer
Ter myself when | say that 81
ing The time l stayed at home. / car,
a distinctly moral effect on the +
OF that neighborhood A boy dare coed
sass you when you have his cap and
our hands, for he is, if l NAV put The
lat way, handicapped in the con- bone
ersy. strp
soon found, however, that there whe
more Objectionable small boy He
the one who raped at the fence. nose
was the boy generally there were look
OF them), who rang the electric OF tn
at The back gate. He then ran IN
no The corner and appeared to be have
sea at Tie blank look of the sery. tions
as she gazed up and down the "W
y trying to discover who had Bo
her unnecessarily from her ously
: H
afternoon | heard the PROLONGED siren
OF the bell and then the rand liar"
oeps OF two urchins as thew the e.
along the walk outside of the inse
and SO thought the time had hind
TO teach these youngsters a him c
l. slipped silently down the "Yo
under the trees, into the shadow "Now
greenhouse, and peered caut;ons. other
+ The fence, SO that they might What
ee me. There the two Young "Hil
is stood close tc me and cranin@ ding
necks to see who opened the my Fla
door heard the click of the HE
as the garden entrance his ow
oponeu' ana then the no,
agamuffins, with many giggles. "Yo'
closer to the fence so the serv. simult
ald not see them. They were SO were a
npled IN watching danger from the gr
'ection that they did not see the most h
iamlty that lowered near them. to
they were aware of it my two once m
dropped down on them, as it the SIN;
ON the skies, and l had a firm you
oi each by the back of his col liar aga
aih ABOUT the pleasures of hook again.
iimon' IL is nothing at al to the Do you
lent of catching an energetic "You
oy and getting good firm hold boy. .
oilar OF his coat. For the next striking
intes bad all could do. They "oh.
q ana wriggled, and kicked at your fa
e. threw themselves down and hi az :,