The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
TWO TOUGH TWINS.
They Live in New Jersey Town
and They Keep Things Lively
for Everybody.

and They Keep Things Lively
for Everybody.
In Hilton, y. j., there are two boys
who look SO much alike that their own
parents cannot tell them apart. They
are twins. and their names are Hiram
and Joel Stewart, and they do many
things other little boys do not dare
do, for their parents do not know which
one to spank.
The lads are always dressed alike,
and nobody knows which is which eN-
cept as each in some way let's 1T be
known. One day not long ago their
mother took them into a grocery store
to have them weighed. One was found
to tip the beam al one ounce more than
the other. After he had left the scales
the heavier one took top from his
pocket and began to spin it. The moth
er, who was worried at the difference
in weight, picked up the top and found
that it weighed exactly one ounce.
When the twins first went to school
last summer the teacher, to tell them
apart. marked Hiram" on one desk
and Joel on the other. One day
grain of corn from peashooter struck
her on the ear as her back was turned
to the seats used by the twins. She
turned quickly and saw the lad in the
seat marked Hiram" hastily hiding
something behind the desk.
Hiram she said, you may stay
fter school"
Hiram stayed. The teacher scolded
him for his conduct, and when she was
through the little fellow said, with
funny look on his face: ut wasn't me,
teacher; it was Joel. He had my seat"
One night the Stewards had ice cream
after supper. One of the twins was on
hand for the meal and ate his cream,
but the other, without the knowledge
Of his parents, had accepted an invita-
ton to dinner elsewhere. When the
meal was finished, Hiram, who was
home, was sent out to find Joel. BY
and by the supposed Joel came back
alone, wit h an explanation that was sat
isfactory TO his parents. When they
asked him if he had had his supper he
said:
Eyes, but | wouldn't mind eating
that dish of ice cream you've saved for
me-"
The cream was set before him and
he ate it. AS the last spoonful disap-
peared in walked the real Joel.
At recent entertainment in the Hill
ton chapel the twins recited piece to.
gether in a manner that won the APP
plause of the audience, and then Hi
ram was called upon to recite alone.
When his name was called the twins sat
like statues.
Come, Hiram" said the Sunday
sclool teacher, ''be a good boy and
speak your little piece"
Still they remained motionless. The
telcher took one of them by the arm
and led him to the platform.
why don't you 60 on?" she said.
II can't; I'm JOEL
"What do you want to say that for,
IIiram?" said the other twin, and the
teacher gave it up"
Despite the fact that their looking so
much alike sometimes spares them
from punishment, each twin often puts
up a job on the other by playing prank
and arranging things so that the other
shall get caught and punished for it.
The twins delight in keeping their
separate Identities mystery.
One day the twins upset a tub of
water. Their mother arrived in time
to see them disappearing around the
corner of the house. She saw that one
of them was wet, and told him to go
upstairs and change his clothes and
she would attend to his case afterward.
1t was Hiram who tipped over the tub
and got wet
Joel" he said, mournfully, I'm 60
ing to catch it. Let's both change
our clothes, and then she won't know
which did it,"
Joel agreed 70 the plan, but it did not
work as they expected, for, being un-
certain which one was guilty, the moth
er walloped both.-Cincinnati En-
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