Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-18

business, I'm wantin' to see."'
The gentleman addressed looked
down with some a.. orishment upon
the sharp little freol1led visage that
was upturned as he replied: II am
Mr.. Kane, my boy. What do you want
with me?"
"Sure, I'll be tellin' ye, but it's Nigh
ty glad l am to see you, sir. Shake,
then! I'm q 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
| crowi"
"On the inside, name, and Ia be
glad if-ft 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 Id
be askin'. I'll pay you as much as 30
cents week for it, and worruk out
the rint If you say it's 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.
'It Is a little out of the usual line 10
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 yell 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. II
like to know something about my ten
ants. What security can you give me
that shall find you responsible?"
"Sure, tould you that was named
after you, didn't L? It's Peter Tidmore
Kane Mulligan am, and me mother
says yell be sure to mind Biddy Moran
that was cook to ye 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',7 and It'd walked away as
'oontentedly as If he carried"a signed
lease in his pocket.
"Biddy Moran? To be sure. She
worked for us one summer dozen or
more years ago." said Mrs. Kane, when
her husband appealed to her for con-
flrmation of the boys story. mot
much of a cook, very green and a lit
tie queer, as l remember her. I'm
afraid they'll be load on your hands,
Tidmore."
"WeH, the old she'll 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 faYors me 'on the inside
asa hosanxs,a ,a,aant Alra-K Kapaleug in
recollection Of the sharp, little, un-
couth figure as contrasted with his
own well-favored person.
Sure enough, the first sight that
greeted Mr.. Kane the next morning
was It'd, keenly examining his garden
beds, shaking his head portentously
over poppies and lilies, and getting
down on his knees to sniff at the to-
mato-vines, with curious uncertainty,
not to say contempt, that sent the
gardens owner hurrying down to pre-
vent any possible catastrophe.
"It's a fine lot of weeds ye've saved
up for me, sir" It'd greeted him,
brightly, "but I'm feared they've run
ever the plants intirely. Or 1t is a
wild garden you do be having here?
Me mother tells me that you grow
things small in this state, ani We do 1t
uncommon well, l should say. Belize
it has to be TUX out of you that way for
the big hearts ye've got" with a re-
spectful Difference that disarmed his
employers 8 wrath.
"Why, you young jackanapes, where
have you seen anything finer, that You
should be turning up your nose at my
garden, pray?"
"Faix, think 1t wor in Californay,"
hazarded It'd, as If he were drawing
his recollections from some deep well
of memory. "The tomatuses growed
on vines as high as the house, mind,
and there were men up on step-ladders
pickin' them, and the lilies and the
vi'lets and the poppies all run wild IN
the fields, they did, and the roses were
like to smother the house, and the COO
cunbers were as long as am. and
dale longer sometimes. That's the
country, If it's gardenin' ye're after"
"I wonder you left it," remarked Mr..
Kane, sarcastically.
"rd wonder that mesilf, IL there wor
ary show for dacint Americans out
there" admitted It'd. 1.-THE pigtails
and the greasers have it all their own
way. It's Quare how there's something
forninst wan most iverywheres in the
West. In Nebrasky IT. wor the hop
pers, and in Kansas tue drought. Up
in Washington 1t aither rained all the
time or the chinook blasted things,
and down in Texas there wor the cat
tie every which way. 1t do be good TO
get home to the states," and It'd drew
long breath of satisfaction. But
this isn't worruk at all, and il yell
put me to it, I'll be diggin' in"
Mr.. Kane found the boy eager to
learn and tireless in his efforts to
please, and although he made some
blunders, by the end Of the week he
had won the favor of the household,
and was allowed to make himself use
full about the place in very much his
own way. This sometimes resulted in
queer turns of fancy, according to the
Eastern view Of things, as when he
was found in the early morning sweep
ing up grasshoppers from the lawn to
feed the fowls, and carefully treasur-
ing pocketfuls of gravel while he was
still new to the situation.
"Sure, 1t wor the lashlngs of hop
pers we had out on the perraries, but
niver q stone to the size of pea
there. Ye have them betther disthri-
buted here, and it's fine country,
though the things do grow small" he
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