The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-09-20
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BY JENNIE DAVIS BuRroS.

Inc gentleman addressed looked |
down with some establishment upon
the sharp little freckled visage that
was uDturned as he replied: Il am
Mr.. Kane, my boy What do you want
with me?"
Sure. I'll he tellin' ye, but it's mish-
ty glad / am TO see you, sir. Shake,
then! I'm a namesake of yours, though
belize you're not KNOWN it, and I'm
glad that favor you, now that I've
set me two eyes on ye."
Favor me, indeed, you young scare
crow"
ION the inside, | name, and I'd be
glad If 1t was on the outside, for It's
a mighty fne-lookin' gentleman We
are, then. They do be tellin' me you
have the rintin' Of a-many Of the
houses hereabout, and it's to rint the
small place at the foot Of the hill Ia
be askln'. I'll pay you as much as 30
cents a week for 1t, and worruk out
the rlnt If you say it's a bargain"
Mr.. Kane was growing interested.
The small boy had brisk, business
way with him, quite out Of proportion
to his size, which was that Of an aver
age 10-year-old.
cit is little out of the usual line to
take work in return"
ooh, it will be equally satisfactory If
ye pay me in cash, then, Mr.. Kane, sir,
and it's a good bargain yen have, wild
me mother along wild me, and she that
aiger to be at rest wanst more. IT'S
the PLACED woman she'll be that alrs
settled so we'll"
'But hold on" said Mr.. Kane. Il
like to know something about my ten
ants. What security can you give me
that l shall find you responsible"
"Sure, tould you that was named
after you, didn't I? It's Peter Tidmore
Kane Mulligan l am, AMI me mother
says yell be sure to mind Biddy Moran
that was cook to We wanst. But I'm
It'd for short. Well move in the day
and I'll Just come up for me orders in
the mornin'," and It'd walked away as
,contentedly as if he carried a signed
lease in his pocket.
bluQY MOIdut IL NC sui INV
worked for us one summer a dozen or
more years ago" said Mrs. Kane, when
her husband appealed to her for con
frmation of the boys story. mot
much of cook, very green and lit
tie queer, as / remember her. I'm
afraid they'll be load on your hands,
'Tidmore"
"Well, the old shell can't be much
worse with them in it than standing
empty, and I'll warn them out if they
prove a nuisance. The boy will get
along if he favors me 'on the inside,
as he says" and Mr.. Kane laughed in
recollection of the sharp, little, un
couth figure as contrasted with his
own well-favored person.
Sure enough, the first sight thai
greeted Mr.. Kane the next morning
was It'd, keenly examining his garden
beds, shaking his head portentously
over peoples and lilies, and gettint
down on his knees to sniff at the to
mato-vines, with a curious uncertainty
not to say contempt, that sent tn
gardens owner hurrying down to pre-
vent any possible catastrophe.
''It's a fine lot of weeds we've save
up for me, sir" It'd greeted him
brightly. "but I'm feared they've ruI
over the plants intirely. Or it is
wild garden you do be having here
Me mother tells me. that you gro7
things small in this state, and ye do
uncommon well, should say. Belik
it has to be TUX out of you that way 70
the big hearts we've got" with r.
spectful Difference that disarmed hi
employers wrath.
"Why you young jackanapes, Wher
have you seen anything finer that 20
yshould be turning up your nose at m
garden, pray?"
"Faix, l think it wor in Californay
hazarded It'd, as if he were DRAWN
his recollections from some deep we
sOf memory. "The tomatuses grove
on vines as high as the house, I min
and there we're men up on step-laddel
Dickin' them, and the lilies and tt
vi'lets and the peoples all run wild
the fields, they did, and the roses we
like to smother the house, and the co
cumbers were as long as l am. and
dale longer sometimes. That's Il
country, if it's gardenin' ye're after
81 wonder you left it," remarked N
Kane, sarcastically.
"Pd wonder that mesilf, if there W
ary show for dacint Americans o
there" admitted It'd. "Tne pigta
and the greasers have it all their ov
way. It's quare how there's somethi