The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-17
THE FRANKLIN HOUSE.

About five miles from Radford is u
s beautiful farm. 1t has large house on 1t
81 with ten rooms in it. The yard is beau
} tiful one, with vines running all over
the front and back porches. The yard
has nine or ten large trees that shade
the house nicely In this house long years
* ago lived family by the name of Frank
lin. They had five children The oldest
was a girl named Hazeltine; the next
boy about two years younger than HUI gel
tine. named Willard: next, Charles; next,
N Gustava; next a boy named Richard.
= Willard was II very mischievo,ls boy.
He often did things that he thought his
mother would not like, and then he would
5Etell Hazeltjne, and she would tell MN
a she would tell mother and he would pay
i,crgnot TO tell. He was very fond Of rid
ing Tic hogs, that weighed Il hundred or
4 Two pounds, and Mis- parents did not al
low him TO ride them, and one Sunday
4 his parents went to church. and they told
i him when they left not to ride those
hogs, and he promised he would not
" They stayed in he house TIL IT was
n nearly time for their parents to return
and chen they went out on che stile TO
Il watch for them, and Willard stretched up
sand said: II believe will go out and
u to- but he would 60 anyhow. So 3lle went
n on out to the pen, where some large hogs
I were He sat upon the fence for q WHILE
q and then hoHlcd: II will now take ride
so he jumped down. and one of the large
" hogs Ii hat weighed at least four hundred
y pounds was sleeping peacefully, ana ne
Slipped up behind linn and got on ms
back He didn't go at first but he kicked
Z him in the SIDES and that started him..
nj, 4 Il
sharp fence rail was sticking out3fron
L CT the fence. The hog ran up against
it and ran it iii its side, and liked to have
Killed IT, Willard jumped up and looked
around and saw his parents coming
through the meadow. and all of them ut
The house hollowed:SS 81 told You not TO
ride Them When his father got nome
Il he pilt Hazel,ine on a horse atonce and
q sent her for an Did colored man that
u lived about a mile away. and they had TO
Kill and clean that hog on Sunday Ana
Z next came the worst for sVtllard--his
1 whipping His father did not whip him
6 Very hard, hut the fright vas enough
punishment for him. He first got In an
8Scld hay wagon and stayed there Tor a
while, and them as II got darker. he got
afraid and went oyer TO the orchard.
nearer the house, and home, and Slaid
down on the door mat and wcnt$to sleep,
8 lamp and went TO the door and found
him there asleep. and she called her
fathcr, and he came nd Ca FRIED him II
b and put him to bed. But, tell you, that
broke him from riding hogs for while.
He often killed chickens and turkeys.8and
his mother did not know Hhat became of
item. but one day his mother told him
4 and lIa zeltine TO watch turkey to see
! where she went. II e always called Hazel
line Sis SO he said Sis, watch me klii
3s5riia t t,,rkey,,',fand he drew back his hand
4 and threw the rock and hit the turkey
and killed 1t; but he did not mean to XII
u The turkey. but he did Hepaid Hazeltine
rot TO tell his mother, and she promised
4 she would not N So then the poor old tur-
i KEY was throwp .in,i*a sink hole His
mother don't know. TO this day where the
Ne turkeysis, But ,lIazcltinc, Willard, Charles
ana Gnstava are all&married;i but Rich
4 ard Is still with his mother.
& IDEI4LE SCOTT. z
r2adford. Va.