The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-06-11

and the lovely Mttle farm produced the
largest, best shaped Hmd the most siIccu-
lent melons than amy other in the State.
And previous to Davy'H advent into our
company we had couvactCd a scheme by
which we would Swipe ut least ore IA
piece of this lovely produce And this
fetches us back to the POINT at issue.
"Will you go, Dave" asked Ben,
Dawes chummy.
"GO whcre?' asked Uncle Dave
cover to F.'s Watermelon patch"
"Whut for, to steal the mans goodS?'
asked Dave; mo, no, | won't but | Il go
ask for some, ard pay for them if he will
sell them to us
"Pshaw," said Jake. where would the
fun come in with that baby act?
Fun or no fun, | shall not purchase
it at the price of stealing, even water
melons"
Said Joe, "You may go to the house,
as much as you like, and beg amid buy
the whole patch, but III get mine while
you are begging alrd buying, because F.'s
eewcious bull dog will spit out several
mouthfuls Of some body's trousers, and
perhaps hide too, if he lets 80 at ALL
when he gathers q mouthful." But
Davy had prevailed. and they struck out
for the secluded little farm. On the way
Ben. Jake and two or three more of the
boys dropped back in the rear, but Tn
Gle Davy was telling the other boys how
nicely Sallie and Fashion. his splendid
horses, had lifted Il big load Of lime up
the rugged hills of PENNSYLVANIA the day
before, and SO warmed up, he WINS with
his story that he knew not ROT cared not
as to what Ben and lake were chinning
about But the writer knew that the
two trickStcrS were tricking against h.'
big brother for all that they We're worth.
The patch was in the centre of a corn
field west of the house, and the tillagc
run right up to the dwelling. Bow.
WOW. wow uttered the monster canine
when we disturbed the rails in climbing
the worm fence.
by gum" said Uncle Dave, that dog
must be whaler."
YES" qucthcd Joe. Il guess Simon
Green thought 80 the day he took the
whole seat out of his trousers ut one
SNATCH"
Hold on" said Uncle Dave. 1--WE had
better stop and call to f. for | don't
want my trousers chawed UP 10y that
dog"
by this time we were emerging into
the mg,on IJt,h from the corn.
YES" said Jake, 'when you call +.
y@u'll call that bull dog right down here
amung the whole crowd" at the sumo
tinc he unlocked big melon from it's
mGaIingS and all the others save Uncle
Davy, did the same.
'WhUor. whoop whoop," yelled Jake
''lIclIu. hello. hello, man in your water
melon pHt"h.' screamed Ben.
And h,itcr Nhetcr through the corn We
Scamprrrd for dear life. leaving Davy
u!nar in the patch. We ran out to the
lane. then down the vista to the bars.
Jimmy Mitchell had trilped in the lame
hy getting his lo:rg logs tangled together
and he measured ncar about irS much as
amy fence vail woUld hove done right
there in that lame. In his ret up again
Jim did manage to pick up his melon.
but the fall had thrown him far to the
rear. and big hliullc bull was drawing
near in the background. Get out. get
out. We heard jim YELL just ~ he was
pulling his hind parts over the bars, for
bull was feeling for his pintalo0ulS, the
hind part Of which were still on bulls
side of the bars "Phew. let 90. ret out"
Yelled jim. And we heard Il thud. ana
thea we knew tiult poor Jim had left his
melon with bull. And thus. being i@-
,icr"d of his burden Jimmy forged Wei
up to the fI0nt.
Hello. JIM" called Jake. "whtr" is
Your mclon:' And stammplimg the very
hest he conld between snort puff'> he ~ail
"Oh. | didn't get any
We ran OF t'llVugh the chinluH&n
bushes and up the incline Of the OH
svige field to the point before mrntiGaed
mcam the high bank, leaking down. far
down TO the glIvClly r~rd bed below. \
little below, and close UP to the fcncc in
the Setlge feed WAS II Pretty little cluster
OF cedar BUSHES THAT fliug,d between
the bamk ami field. ami hith,r in tho.
midst of this little grove of evergreen
trees we collapsed, and painting like -
many hot dogs. we waited for the CON
vcnicnt SeneaDa to have our laugh out
All, it soon came. "Hark!" exclaimed
Ben, "hc is coming and he has bellows
to mend
"My God,' said ice Yocum ''ain't he.
got the heaves bad
eyes, Said Jake. 'und he has got a
melon under each ann
LAY low and let him pass. boys
whispered Benny and he will tell Ills a
cock and bull story when we meet again.
but we know that he Swiped the melons. y
Davy was approaching close up by this
time. We We're crouched in the grove
Of cedaIe, but we could pluinly see Tn
Gle Dave, and great day in the morning,
lint NyoNn,'t b, off