The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-05

you ran against my August pippin tree
at the same time"
"Of course we are caught" said the
other fellow. How much is there to
pay?"
"Oh, you will have enough to pay"
said l, by the time you get the cart
repaired"
They drove off; and I suppose that
they, too, did not enjoy their pippins as
they might.
There is a foolish fellow in the neigh
borhood. who has been nicknamed
"Printe." He wanders about at will,
and is perfectly harmless. Us
ually he wears loose blue
drilling frock, which comes down al
most to his bare feet, and sometimes
he has on a hat.
One day / saw Print come trudging
up the road, rolling his eyes this way
and that. The yellow pippins caught
his attention.
Hoo 90 oo-oo!" cried he, and over
the wall he went.
OF course 1 did not blame Print for
taking apples, for he knew no better.
Besides, having no pockets, he only
took two, one in each hand. So l was
on the point of calling to him. But be-
fore l could do this he, had got back
over the wall, and was in the road eat
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full out of one, then a mouthful out of
the other-and his silly face expressed
all the delight which his palate felt.
Just then the hornets darted at him.
"Yow! yow!' he yelled, exactly like a
dog when kicked. He whirled round two
o three times, dropped his pippins,
then suddenly stuck his thumbs in his
ears, and went galloping off down the
road, roaring:
"Guzz-zz, guzz-zz, guzz-zz!" at every
leap.
The same afternoon two tramps-
judging from their looks-had an inter
view with the hornets, and both got
stung. They stopped beside the road,
at little distance below, and sat there
long time. holding plaintain leaves
on their hands.
Just before sunset, the same day, a
very loquacious agent for a patent
lawn-mower got into trouble there. But
he had the inlpudence to call and tell
us all about it, and ask for camphor
to put on the places. He also made it
an excuse for staying all night, and
stopping to breakfast. Hornets are no
match for those fellows. Towards even
ing of the next day, there came along
peddler with his pack.
He may have been a stran-
ger in strange land. He was seen
standing for some time in the road
and gazing wistfully into the ptppin-
tree. Then he set his pack on the wall,
and started for the fruit He had
scarcely got over before the hornets
came out, for they had grown so saw
age that one could not go near the
clump of sprouts without getting
stung. The peddler did not get many
apples. His chief anxiety now seem
ed to ge to get his pack off the wall.
II he had kept quiet few minutes,
the hornets would have gone back to
their nests. But he kept rushing ex-
citedly up, till he got every one of
them out and after him.
I've no doubt they stung the poor
fellow dozen times. AS fast as he
would dash up, the hornets would dart
in his face; and then away he would
go, brushing himself and leaping about
among the trees.
At this juncture, Henry. who was
out at the stable, espied him, and
ran out into the road with an ex-
clamation that probably frightened the
man, for he darted through the orch
| ard as hard as he could run-leaving
his pack behind him.
The last seen of this commercial pill
grim, he was going round the turn, al
the foot of the hill, in a cloud of his
own dust, running as If for his life
Henry came to the house, bringing
the pack which was found to contain
three linen tablecloths, seven or eight
towels, and a lot of dinner napkins.
| / thought it probable that the ped
dler would come back after it, and
so had Henry leave it out on the wal
overnight. But he did not come. We
| advertised the pack in the county pa
| per. under the heading of Found
| but it never was claimed.
A few nights after, some one burned
up the hornets nest, and gathered the
remainder of my fine pippins.