Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-11-02
TWO HOME COMINGS.
BY Annie Hamilton Donneli.
Observation-Disclosures

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r L was one of Scarecrow's poores
days. They were all poor. Their,
were seldom many errands to do
and never, never enough to eat
When a boy is only ten and lives all
by himself in the dreariest attic In
the dreariest tenement in the very
very dreariest alley in a great city
and when the errands fail-well, is il
any wonder boy gets downhearted
Scarecrow was downhearted. The
Invalid in the other attic across the bit
of hallway had not heard him wills
tie for three days. She could hardly
have imagined beforehand how she
would miss the shrill. CHEEKY sound.
When Scarecrow whistled it seemed
to make it easier for her to draw the
needle through the stiff white cloth
with her thin, weak fingers.
Poor little fellow, he's a-dreadin'
havin' her come home. No wonder he
amt whistlin'w the invalid unused.
Was that what Scarecrow was
dreading? Or was 1t something else !?
There were so many things to dread
He crept downstairs again and out
through the noisome alleyway to a
corner on one of the busy streets.
There he waited ON listlessly. 1t was
almost night when his good luck came.
''Errand, mister? Gotter errand fer
q Teller? Kin L run? gimme a try!
On'y flyer to go a mile-dats de bar
gain price,"
oh,
The looming figure half halted and
looked down absently into the anxious
face. Then it went on. Scarecrow
ran along beside it.
"Gotter errand, mister-say"
"Oh. you want job, eh? That's It,"
"Yes, sir-wot'll yer bet 1 does! De
doctor has prescribed q dose er vittles
fer me stummick. oh, say, mister,
mister! Gimme jobw
The figure slackened its pace again.
But l haven't any job-well, well,
let's see. Come with me. 1 suppose
you might run on ahead with the lit
tie chaps green's"
At q florists up the street he bought
a load of trailing green vines and
In the boys hands.
flake them to Chandler street-one
hundred and seven. Here's quarter.
Now run! the sooner you get there
the better"
Scarecrow gazed through a screen
of vines at the silver lying on his
grimy little palm. 1t took on enor-
mons rropOrfinno apd fxtrfnL1a1 ,xi0r;
ously, wealthy.
Il amt got no change-I runs 'em
fer fiver," he muttered.
The man towering above him
laughed good-naturedly.
well, run this one fer a quarter.
It's worth tit isn't any common err
rand" he said And his face as he
strobe away was radiant with a sud
den joyful remembrance. No, no. this
was no common errand! This was
an errand out of hundred-a thou
sand
The man smiled joyously. In anoth-
or minute Scarecrow felt his hand on
his shoulder again, and another sill
yer quarter dropped through the vines
into the small brown hand.
IT'S worth it. Off with your The
man laughed.
1t did not occur to him to distrust
the tattered little messenger He was
not in a distrustful mood
At Chandler street, 1O7, the lights
were all lighted. 1t seemed to be
regular illumination. Scarecrow could
see through the unshaded windows a
big, bright room, that seemed full and
running over with eager-faced little
boys. Tall boys-short boys-curly
boys-straight boys-and one little
Killed boy who danced wildly about
One, two, three-Scarecrow counted
boys. There were six of them! And
what was this they were doing? The
little street boy stood watching them
outside
Welcome" he spelled slowly to
himself, as one by one the big green
paper letters were tackled up over the
uantel in the big. bright room. The
word, complete. meant nothing def
mite to Scarecrow. He puzzled over
it curiously. Then he knocked loud
ly at the door beside the window. A
troop OF boys answered the knock with
a headlong rush.
"Oh, oh! it's the s!-Daddy's
sent 'em! A boys brought emp
1.-THE flowers have Gomez
"An the smile-axelr'
"They're red an pink an yellow
an they smell-my"
"Goody, goody-hoorayr'
In an instant little Scarecrow's arms
were empty, and the rush back to the
blight-lighted room had begun. Scare
crow plucked the sleeve of the rear
boy boldly and whispered:
Say, wot's de gamer he asked
eagerly. "Wot's dem letters in dere
epcH out5'