The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-03-05
Timothy, the Tinld.
Observation-Disclosures
BY CROMWELL GALPiK.

no less unpleasant to the boy. Tim
sthy's father and his family had re-
Gently arrived from the east" which
in southern California means from
some portion of the United States
east of Denver: in Timothy's case
it referred to southern Kansas,
where the waters of the shallow
streams grow warm early in the
summer and stay warm till late in
She fall.
Timothy found the western boys
IT his own age no more than his
equals in school work, and hoped
60 gain standing and to make friends
among them G-s he had done among
schoolmates in the east"
In the middle of the morning ses-
sion of the first day Timothy saw
On his desk an envelope addressed to
Him. He opened it and drew forth
the enclosure. Something flew out
as the folded cardboard unclosed,
and Timothy struck at it. uttering
shrek worthy of tho most nervous
girl in the room.
sng bug that is to say, n hairpin
and piece of rubber so twisted to-
gethcr as to unwind with n buzz
when taken from the envelope. Tim
othy had been startled even more
than the maker of the kissing-bug
had hoped, and there was smothered
laughter among the boys and gig
Cling among the girls.
As the teacher in charge turned
toward Timothy. William Peters
rose.
81 put kissing-bug on Mr.. Farm
hams seat" he said Il thought
he would open the envelope before
the class was called to order. and
really. / didn't know that Timothy
was so timid" And the force of the
teachers reproof was lessenrd by the
smile he could not hide.
If the matter had ended there it
would have been forgotten very
soon. But at noon Will. who was a
leader of the boys inclined to ath-
letic sports, declined " allow Tim
sthy a place in the lineup for a
practice football game, and Timothy
made such remarks as wit and i'll
nature suggested, the result being
that two boys who might have been
good friends were in fair way to
become bitter enemies. To Timothy
even this seemed less to be regretted
than the fact that the other boys
Of the class were inclined to follow
Willis led
Three of his friends, AT JOnnson
and Joe and George Brown, were
especially ingenious and persistent
in inventing alliterative variations
of "rimothy. the Timid" and Til
crous Timmy." which the other boys
took up and repeated till it seemed
that Timothy's name was never men
toned without an adjective implying
tine little fellows in tn" classes he.
low joined in the sport, greatly to
Timothy's discomfort. Thinking
ever the matter, he srnsibly con
c'udcd to do nothing until some
thing seemed certainly the right
to CALLING remarks.
Schoolboys as rule soon tire OF
any game steadily pursued, and Tim
othy's plan of non-resistancc would
in time have secured immunity from
persecution at worst only half ill
nat,Ted. But his patience was not
put to test.
On Saturday Will and his thre,
friends rode down to the beach OF
their bicycles, reaching the seashor,
at eight o'clock in the morning. Tim
othy also decided to go swimming
So. taking the electric car for SAINT;
Monica, he entered the bath hous,
from the shore side as the clocl
struck ten. He undrcSScd, dOnnc,
bathing suit and went ont on tn,
beach.
Many people set on the benches
and more on the sand, but there were
no hathcrs in the water. The Sc;
was like vast mirror. Five or 81;
hundred feet from the land the shin
ing water rose slowly, green an,
graceful. as a heavy ground Swel
swept shorcward Half way in tlcck
of white foam appeared on the cres
of the little mountain of water: al
the top grew white as the wave be
came perpendicular; then the mas
topped upon the sand with tire
mendous slap that woke the cchoc
I'm the bluffs till all other sound wa
drowned in the roar of surf as tn
wave broke on the beach.
With both the sights and tn
sounds Timothy was familiar, hay
ing spent a month along the sea bc
fore school began. Tumbling wall
81 water six feet high more tina
-Smpt the bather to stay ashor,
A quarter of mile from the beacl
Gell outside the breakers and littl
affected by the swell was II sma
3oat with big sail, carrying fou
Nople in bathing dress, cvidentl
nen, as they were bareheade'
Timothy watched them, wonderin
sdly why they had hauled the shc'