Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-04-03
THE MISSISSIPPI SAY so.
RY J. ?. HALEY
me TrundIe Bed BrlEade.

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No soone had He's mother got him
outside the show than she shook him
and boxed his ear till he saw stars e.
nough to deck two heavens, and had q
..crick' in his neck for a week. AZ
the performance was drawing to clos
the father came ont, a very specimen o.
apologetic, hen -pecked Difference. Il
walked up. tenderly stroking \ few strs
boards that escaped former cstastro'
miles, AMI said with a tone of inqdiring
! Difference, what viii you do now, Sal
lie - ''Cfo home, she retorted with
a snarl that moved hin like an automst-
ic spring, and made Hezesiah duck his
head and throw up both elbows like n
buzxsri preparing for sudden flight,
when sitting on the ground, This, like
a sudden thunderclap, brought \ terrific
shower OF blows, from which Hez fled
with his head reaching forward TO get
beyond danger, like q rooster soundly
thrsshed and holly pursued by his next
neighbor. For half q turn Of the show
tent il was an uncertain race. With a
certain doubling TO he darted to n SIDE,
passed the doorkeeper unseen. through
the crowd and into the show, Once in
side his only thought was safety. so, at
ter ! glance around him. he darted un-
noticed into the dressing room. The
stare produced on his countenance by
the unheard-o of sights that met his as
tenished gaze, raised a roar of laughter
among the inmates. This, in turn,
stirred his disabilities. Clapping his
hands on his sides. he threw open tbs
side Of his head something akin to a hip
popotAmus, displaying a set of teeth thu
grinding capacity of which would appa
his grandmother ante bellum sausag,
mill, and laughed until he was too veal
aud dizzy to stand. There a speci
men. said Il jolly voice.
Say. young 'un, wouldn' YOU like t.
play the clown'
Play whatr
The clown.
dunno how,
1t wouldn't be any trouble for you t
learn.
Lemme see it.
See it
Yes; l never played nothing but a ju
sarp, less its like playing ball or suth
in o that sort.
1t amt like playing nothin.
+, What made you say play then?
That what we call it.
Is it anything about the shown
Its part of it.
Does you have to pay for its
No: If you do it well the boss IL pa
you for it.
All right, If l don't have 10 go in Their
Why don't you want to 60 in there?
! Cause ma IL be in thece looking fl
me dreckly.
; Well, what of thatf
don't want her to git u holt of L
till she gifts her tantrum out.
l thought maybe you were afraid
the tigers.
HUI I'd ruther one of them tigers i
/, git a holt of me than her.
What sort of a woman is she?
= She tall and got red hair and mo
and freckles all over her face. with
long keen lose and a mouth turned do,
: at the corners, only when she gifts
making fun of pas preachin, and tn
. it turns up. I hear her now. l tell y
she 8 in q tantrum right to day.
be sorry fur pa if she don't find me
She a comm in here, where can l hi(
Right in this closet. (Hez darted
like q mink
Whur ia that how
He went right out under that t.
cloth there, madam.
I'll fix him yit. Exit under t.
followed by the old man.
iHez ,eeoing QUIT Has she gone?
Yes; you TAI come out now.
You know now what sort of a ma |
got.
Yes, and rather two tigers would
me.
reckon SO, cause they'd fight e
other.
Your daddy must get burnt often.
don't know; l heard him say
made him smell the patchin one day
Listen! l think l hear hre II comm.