Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19
AROUNDTHE CITY

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4 colored boy was selling persimmons at
the census office curb. They were big terra
Gotta persimmons, so misty with silver and
so PUPPY with frost kissed sweetness that
the boy could just as well have sold a
busheI as the small basketful he had gath
cred in the Rock Greek woods. A man who
was buying the last little heap said:
Say, bub, you don't happen to have an
opossum about you, do you? Persimmons
and Opossums go together in old Maryland,
whore I come from"
Bub grinned appreciatively.
'Pap's got one home in barrel, fattenin
up for Thanksgivin."
ASK him TO sell Il to me- won't yOu?"
And the man laughed and wnked at his
companion, as the boys face took on an
expression that showed that pap would
keep his possum If his son had any say
As the men hurried toward the office the
one who had bought said to the other:
Have a perSimmon?'
The other man apparently did not come
from Maryland:
Not much. Your old perslmmons are
THAT so? Then I insist upon your hay
ing a perSimmOn'
The two laughed like jolly boys on their
way to school and the person who over
heard wondered where on earth that otner
man could have come from. to scorn a big
terra Gotta persimmOn, misty with silver
and PUPPY with frost-kissed sweetness
fresh from the Rock creek woods!
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The other night two women hurrying
around the avenue corner at nth street
almost stumbled over a man who lay on
his back across the tagging; his face sill
ver-white in the moonlight Near him
stood boy. The women were terrified and
the boy explained:
don't know u "a man iS 7 tI,iDl L
he must have been drinking and stunned
himself in falling. My friend and | found
him here, and he has gone for n doctor -
Poor fellow!' said one OF the women,
how pitiful he looks with his head on
the bare stone.
The boy must have thought so, too. for
he took out his handkerchief and doubled
II into tiny pllsw Then the doctor came
and the crowd gathered
And the Samaritans passed on.
&&
man in buggy drove down the ave-
nue. the other afternoon. AS his horse clip
ped over the ground people on the side
walks grinned and some of them turned
TO stare. Strange men called out laughing
explanations to each other in passing and
"A half dozen more bicycle riders fol-
lowed the buggy in line.
And this gust of excitement was raised
just because one wheel of the buggy had
come off and the driver, having placed
in the vehicle was making for the near
est stable on the other wheel and an axle
end!
There Is one woman in this town who
knows a sporting page when she sees 1t.
She was apparently on her way 10 market
the other morning when a flock of young
sters from the Y NJ. c. A. flashed by on
their race around the square. The woman
put her basket down and started at the
dozens Of bare arms and legs.
They'll soon get warm" explained a
passing man, who smiled at the woman's
open CONSERVATION.
I'D warm EN-, all right, II they belonged
20 me-" returned the running
around half naked this time year"
Why, madam, that helps to harden
them. Half those fellows will develop into
good, hearty sprinters-"
An them that's good without 'bein'
hearty viii develop into consumption an
have to be nussed. know all about it.
got a son had his picture in the paper for
a swimmin' match an cost me a big doc
tors BILL know all about it''-and the
woman took up her basket and started 70
market-if that was where she was GO
ing.
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Popcorn Charlie no longer does business
at the old stand. Traffic increases at 18th
street and the avenue, and the old brown
morse mas nAd 10 move TO q street, across
the way. Charlie has a good, warm spot In
the affections of the newsboys in the vicin.
tty, and they never pass him without a
friendly word And he always responds
Last evening. when the gasoline light was
fiaring in the little windowed vehicle tc
which Charlie was hitched. and the smell
OF hot, buttered corn was In the air, one
of two small customers stopped to rub tn,
old horse on his neck. And the old hors,
ficked up his ears and gave a friendly
swish to his tail
Say jim" said the boy who did the rub
bling, Il believe old Charlie understand.
what we say to him-don't you, Charlie ?"
The horse gave his head sociable jerk
up and down.
What did tell you-see him noddln' fo
yes?"
And the way those boys laughed anC
fondled the old horse was worth walkin,
squares to see.