The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-23
A LAZY LOVER.

N'i'No" pttiic anu l'VVlii out INTO the
storm. jest look mt it a-comin down!
He'd "a know'd We was a-goin to hcv
it like this, you'd "a seen me a-lcavin
homc-you'd IA seen me a-lcavin
home"
The old man thoughtfully strolscd his
bushy beard. He felt that he had met
but just retribution for coming TO tho
store to loaf When, an hour before, he
had awakened from Il doze in his arm
chair, picked up his stout stick and
hobbled to the village, the sky was clear
and blue. Not II cloud was visible any
where, and the sun was blazing down
on the fields of yellow grain that he
overlooked from the porch of his littlo
house on the hill. But the storm, us
storms do in that mountainous part of
Pennsylvania, was gathering its force
unsecn behind the neighboring noun
tains, piling black cloud on black cloud.
and then, like an army charging OH IL
sleeping enemy, it swept forth from its
hiding place amid the flash of light
ming and the crash of thunder and del
ugcd the valley
my, oh, myr' muttcrcd tho old
man. cit serves mo right. L ought to
"a llnow'd better. Whenever l runs
down here for IL minutes loaf, it rains
Never team comes along to give me
lift home, an | hcz to paddle back in
me lcaly ole boots.
He hobbled to his chair by the empty
stove, about which were gathered the
men of the village. despite the fact that
no fire blazcd within and cold weather
w"s far ahead.
1 hope the company hain't displcas-
III, snapped the chronic loafcr. lie
knocked the ashes out of his pipe, refill
ed and lighted 1T and sprawlcd out upon
the counter, pillOwing his back against
pile of calicocs.
Not ut all, ut all. It's tho loatr
hate. never could loaf, - said tho OLD
man. glancing ut the prostratc form
The chronic loafcr made no reply save
faint 'Huh''
jest because fclly sets around tho
stove hain't no sign he's lazy, " said the
miller warmly
Fur he 1t from me from sayin 50,
boys, iur be 1t. SAID the patriarch.
stroking MS beard But as was sayin
aWhlle ago, don't want to git inter no
seen habltS as Aosalom Bunlicl.
ADS lom Bunkcl- Bunkel-BUnll
cl: repeated the shoemaker, punctuat-
ing ms remarks with pufis OF tobacco
smoke.
Bunkcl-Bunkci:' sad the store
keeper 1hquirlngly, tapping the end Of
ms nose with ms pcncil
VINO inc neck ADS ION BCnkel:
thc ioaicr cred
Aps"lcni buhkel WAS a man as was
NAT rally so lazy 1t WAS !. credit to him
every time he moved, the patriarch
began. You uns knows tie ole litwS
mousse thct stands where Big run crosses
thc road over the mo ntaln. Its all
tulhplcd GOWN now. They amt no
u'lpln atWCHn inc laWgs. Inc chin
pley lallcl' the renee lieH gone, IN the
io' ciioheu up WIN Wccus 1t ; lor-
10TH place' Oh. Whcn was lad II
WAS !est "oole inc sllckest thlhS along
tiic iiusc ?'tiuer' Iha' where Apsa.ohl
punhei ilNcu an MS pap IlNed pclore
Hill Aos''lohi pap WAS ii s'ihSy man
~ s'llSy iic squeeze IL ccoo tell the
inJun seiic'i, consequent wien ne uleo'
iio iei' -Nps'''oiil u fortune oi 1'oo. III
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