Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-11
TOMMYS FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Little Tommy Nextdoor isn't an utterly
malicious boy, but he is an almighty in
genious and inventive liar for his years.
which are eight One afternoon couple
OF weeks ago he was sitting on a boulder
in the vacant lot near his uptown home,
eating a very large and misunderstanding
peach, when a couple of children, one
boy of seven and the other girl of six.
belonging to poor family in the neighbour
hood. approached and regarded the peach
wistfully for a while, they held on to
each others hands. When, after finishing
the peach. little Tommy Nextdoor produced
another one equally large and luscious
looking. the boy who had hold of his little
sisters hand mustered up the nerve to say:
Gimme a bite, Tommy
Tommy took large bite and smiled
cheerfully.
Il amt a-goin t. give you no bite he
Saiu, put I'll tell you how you kin git
nushels o. peaches t eat all by yourself.
you GIT tge!her a lot o kernels O. peach
stones an they'll pay you 80 cents a box
| IT EN- In IN drug stores. They make med
ic1ne cut o. Them
Honest lnjun. Tommy" inquired the
other little boy, his eyes growing big
That's right" said little Tommy Newt
noor. All you got t. do is t. git tn peach
siohes an crack EN- open with rock an
sn out IN kernels and put 'em in a cigar
box, an tn man in any drug store:u Eve
you % cents FIR tn box"
line me other little boy looked at his Ltt;e
T,,itI her eyes were as big as his own
Win the prospect of riches
Wy don't you do it y'se'f. Tommv9-
enough. IVY ha'uiaii!
on. my paw. he gives me all tn money
Nextdoor. grandly '
men the poor little boy and his sister
"aiheo away, hand in hand and talked II
cl,,do, II was was great scheme, they con-
Of
anu began to scour the neighborhood for
peacn stones. They went through ALLEYS
t anu tne cans standing in the alleys, for
ment d s.oiies. ihey went around at base
t ient uoors ana begged the colored servants
10 save the peach stones for them. refusnsS
III, III eacn case, however, to divuIge Their
afraid 's ,b bot wanting the things. They were
IL the ether children in the Observation-Disclosures
FOUND out how valuable peach stone LarnaI.
We're to druggists. ''~- '-e,'
, Ai9er ten days of hard work the two moor
chlidren of the neighborhood got fo,,r It, IT,
boxes, that they had begged from Tho -
heI toDacconist, filled with peach stone ker-
iS; It had been a laborious lob TO crack
s sile liard peach stones and their little hands
at the task N'ii'' siile iaoors
me, Ihey set out right after breakfast IN
h,,,'nr morning last to sell their four
,Tcn7 VI kernels, and they trudged
for the 81 SUING 10 puy
The druggist whose store they first en-
49, IT. was up near the boundary-smiled
wren the little boy stated his nronosi,io
ana presented his four boxes Of kerneIs
ior sale at the regular market rate.
uom need them, son. said the drug
S,s,. me boys face fell, and so did the
niue girl S, but they went ont and u,,1Lad
down the street, not quite so cbaerfui os
before and tried the next drug store The
lesuit was the same. The second druggist
smiled , upon them and told them that he
uiun happen to need the kernels
Inc children walked from I'M near tho
pounaary down to Pennsylvania avenue
w, Nun me -FOUR boxes of kernels, trying all of
me me urug stores on the way. Their little
legs were weary and their hearts sore nv,
the time they reached the avenue H. ny
yer, they began trying the avenue drug
stores. At each one they only got a smiIe
anu snake of the clerks head. Discour-
aged, they turned toward home again for
1t was after the noon hour. and tbev w.
.ciS urea ana hungry, besides being heart
osohth, Ihey still carried the four boxes
VI heihe's' however, imagining that they
might be able to dispose of them LATER ON
when the druggists were more in need Of
them. al heeu Vi
AT the corner of C and 18th streets they
me- niue Tommy Nextdoor's father. The
when he saw them and asked 0e
W nat In the world are you two Young
ones doing down here alone. and What
lave you got in those boxes p"
me tired youngster. still holding his 1i+,Ia
N 5 hand. explained how little Tommy
NeHIdoor mad told them of the riches thev
bo,,, MAKE our OF peachstone kernels. and
now poorly they had made ont aftcr +hair
harn work for nearly two weeks.
Littie Iommy Nextdoor's father nu,Ied
out ms roll and stripped off a 81 bill and
81 SorS 1t 10 the BOY and told him to throw
IN, me peach kernels away and when Tom,n".
T ~ .uoor paw got home that evening
tommy got an illustration of the vaIna ~
siaI uintss that will perhaps cause him to
long time to come All quite