The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-03

of having more than six of the same
| kind of pictures" said Virgil, also IN
| the tone of one who is giving valid
reasons for an act
shall we ask Mrs. Darby if we
cam said Pygmalion.
NO, what's the use? She's busy
| putting up preserves? Well make a
| pail Of flour paste and use that white
wash brush to put it ON and then
we'll have green room like mamma
| blue ROOM.
only different" said Pygmalion,
who was not color blind.
| Mrs. Darby was a CHEEKY old soul
who never interfered with the boys
rs long as they didn't Interfere with
her and when they told her they
were going TO do some pasting she
made no objection.
The paste was soon made and the
| boys set to work TO decorate their
| room. Virgil was very neat of hand
and he did the setting in place of
each twenty dollar picture while
| Pygmalion did the FASTING
| 1t was tedious job and long before
! they were through with il the boys
were sorry they had undertaken it.
! but Virgil never gave up any project
and as pygmalon had the easiest part
10 do he didn't feel that he could
complain.
NJ last. after several hours hard
work the room was done and there
were nine pictures left over.
There said Virgil. standing off
and contemplating his work. What do
| you think of that?'
! Pygmalion looked at it critically
J for few moments and then he said:
Il don't like it. 1t makes the room
| too dark and there's too much Of n
! mnchness to it. If they were differ
ent colors or different pictures
| They'd be different" finished Viz
| Gil. We'll. I'm not struck on II my
| self Say we scrape it off. always
! did like TO scrape off wall paper
| Nhatll we do with it,"
What's the matter with a hoe?"
I'ygmalion Went out to the barn
and got two hoes and the bows set to
! work TO scrape off the wall paper
| which had cost them SO much trouble
| 10 put on and which would cost their
| blissfuliy ignorant father Just S49.S20
1T $ regular pie 10 scrape it off. -
| SAID I'ygmaliOn. who was the first 10
! get to work
And Virgil found il was pie also.
| The damp bills stuck some so the
hoes tore them considerably and then
curled up ON he floor. some of them
| backed by scraps and the former wall
paper. but il was easy work '.unpaper-
! ing" the room and when the bows had
finished they took up the scraps and
| filled three meal bags with them.
When they're dry we'll burn
| them said Virgil
Mr.. and Mrs. Enright came home
! in Il day or two and both topethpr
and with many interruptions The BOYS
! told them that they had papered
their room with some pictures that
had come to the house but not liking
| the looks Of il they had taken them
off.
"Oh. let's have bonfire now\of the
scraps said Pygmalion. 1t was at
| twilight.
May we. mammal" said Virgil.
YES. dear. said Mrs. Enright. DO
| it in the path out in front OF the
house SO that YOU won't kill the young
| grass. | like bonfires myself" -
While the flames were eating NIP
the scraps of twenty dollars, Mr.. En-
right came out OF the library
Caroline" said he. what do YOU
suppose has happened?"
I'm sure | can't guess except that
! its something good from the looks of
| your face"
Uncle Thaddeus left me $4,000
| and its TO be sent to me-fancv
twenty dollar bills, We mustn't let
! the children see them.
He held the lawyers letter in his
hand as he spoke.
why. it has been sent" he went
on. This is dated week ago. Fun
ny that Mrs. Darby didn't say any
thing about it,
Mrs. Darby. who was in the next
room. knew nothing about it. so Mr..
Enright went 10 the window and cali
ed out:
Boys. did box come 10 me from
my lawyer while ! was gomez"
Yes" said Virgil leaving the fire
which had spent its fury and was
now merely glowing in a lot of curled
and writing ashes.
lit was a box full of pictures.
money. | think, and we paDered the
room with them. You didn't want
them. did You? There's whole lot
left, nine think. We've been burn
| ing what we took down from the
! wall. Did You want them?"
Mr.. Enright controlled himself with
q great effort. He liked what money
would buy as well as any one. and
the thought that his boys had Just
! had $4,000 bonfire was not an in
| spring one. Still he saw it was his
own fault
There are nine Of them in your