Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-04-01

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right for little Reginald. he made
all the roar he was able, but 1t did
not avail him anything. In fact
the more he yelled the more the
doctor insisted on q strict diet.
he claimed that Reginald was
born with q weak stomach and
that he must be fed with great
care or he would pass over to the
other bright shore early In the
game. All this made 1t tough on
little Reginald. His rations we're
cut down without his consent and
he was loaded up with a lot OF
medicine that he in no wise han
kered after. When Reginald was
a two-year-old his parents took
him to see his grandfather and
grandmother and uncles and
aunts. It looked as if little Reg.
was mp against it at that time.
He looked as if he had put in a
hard winter on a short range with
ont any extra feed, but his moth
er vas still staying by the direc-
tiOns OF the doctor and the moth
ers' club and feeding and dosing
little Reginald according to the
time card that had been furnished
her. Now the grandfather Of lit
tie Reginald was a husky Hiber-
nian who had worked on the dump
in his time and who still carried
an appetite around with him that
would have paralyzed a church
social. When he locked over his
grandson and saw what had been
done TO the boy he made some
remarks that cracked the third
commandment in several places
and then. took charge Of things
himself. The first thing he did
was to chuck the time card out Of
the window and then he threw out
after it all the bottles Of medicine
that Reginald's mother had
brought with her. Then he told
the hired man to 60 chuck those
health foods into the back alley
and he would put up some stun
that would put some meat on the
iniantile bones Of little Reginald.
} Then he proceeded to fill little
Reginald up with good rich cream
and chicken and beef steak, all OF
which the kid took to with great
! alacrity for he had surely been up
I, against it ever since the date Of
his birth. And from that time on
; the boy took on flesh at a rate
! that was astonishing to see, and
his grandfather certainly looked
! good to him, for little Reginald
: had inherited his grandfather
appetite.
When the boy had grown strong
and hearty his grandfather made
this talk to Reginald's mother;
, "My daughter, If you expect to
7 bring up children you had better
! cut out medicines and health
= crapks."
: There was once a herd Of wild
horses roaming on the plains o.
> western Kansas. A long-legged
resident concluded that he wanted
a horse and started out to walk
after the herd. BE picked out
2 the leader as his meat and day
! after day he walked after that
! herd. At first the wild horses
= shifted at the man on foot and gal.
Hoped away, saying: "We won
! der what that jay thinks he ID
: going to do, coming after us or
: iOOti" Then they would gallon
! away out of sight, and after awhile
Z be foOtman would come in sigh
again, and the herd would have tC
gallOp away again. For a week
this thing kept up. The man or
foot walked just the same, and
: each time the herd galloped away
:, it was a shorter time until he
would come in sight again. HC
didn't give them time to rest and
they began to grow weary. 81
| wonder" said the tired leader o.
the herd, elf that man hasn'I
nearly got to where he started Out
to got He sticks worse than
sandbur. I suppose that we vii
have to move on again" In
; couple Of days more the weaker
: horses in the bunch gave up The
race and allowed the man on foo
to catch up with them, but h
passed on and paid no attention
to them. After awhile everything
dropped out but the leader OF thu
n herd. BE was getting so tire(
! that he could hardly lift his feet
: but he kept on for another day
4 At last even the leader could g
no further, and the man on foo
? swung his rope over the head o
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