The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

straight home. And just let me catch
you down here again!"
Jimmy was wise enough to hurry
along just as fast as his bleeding
foot would take him. He saw the ad-
vantage OF q motion to adjourn with
out further debate, and the motion
prevailed.
An hour later. Jimmy Sears had
washed the dirt from the interior of
an irregular circumference that
touched his ears and his chin and his
hair. Until the twilight fell he stayed
in the coming tower in the Penning-
ton barn, and watched his home
through a crack between two boards.
When he saw his father leave the
house for town after supper, Jimmy
hurried down a lane in sight of his
father, yet out of his fathers reach,
AT the close of twilight Jimmy
Sears came up the hard-beaten path
that led to his home, through burdoek
weeds and sunfiowers. There was a
light in the kitchen, and through the
window he could see Mrs Jones NOV
ing about. He observed that the sup
per dishes were being put away. He
saw his eldest sister, with the tea
towel in her hands, chatting happily
with Mrs. Jones. The spectacle filed
him with rage. He felt that the other
children had deserted him and that,
in the war against the new baby, they
had left him to fight unaided. He met
a little brother who greeted him with
''Uh-huh. Mr.. Jimmy, you just wait
till pa gets your
A prolonged and scornful Avn was
| Jimmy's reply to this welcome. On
| the step of the back porch, his favor
( tie little sister sat playing with the
! house cat. She tOddled to Jimmy; he
/ let her take his finger, and they went
/ into the kitchen.
"Oh, Jimmy-where-yO de-
manded the eldest sister. Mama S
! been asking for you all day. I'd be
| ashamed if I was you"
/ The boy did not deign TO speak to
! Mrs. Jones, and he kept his back to
/ her when he could. He did not answer
! his sisters question.
! Got anything here fit to eat?" he
/ asked, as he threw open the cupboard
} doors. The insult to Mrs. Jones was
not accidental. Jimmy supposed that
/ she had cooked the supper. He put
/ two or thee plates of food on the table
/ and drew UP a chair, sneering bump
/ tiousIy: Whats this?" as he divec
( into each dish.
His sisters why. jimmy and heI
warning frOwns did not change his
! EOuTSp- MIS- jules WCIAL " the Hun
/ of the house, automatically leaving al
the doors open behind her, that Mrs
/ Sears might hear her sons voice II
a moment the boy caught the faint
sound of his mother calling from the
| distant bedroom: Jimmy, Jimmy
come here; I want you"
| The boy pretended not to hear. She
called his name again. 'YeSm," ht
/ answered. When she repeated her re-
! quest, he filled his mouth with pie and
/ replied: I'm a-eatin' now" He
slipped a piece of ice down the bach
| of his adoring little sister, who sa
near him When she wept nOisily h
laughed under his breath and SPOKE
aloud to his sister at the dishpan
''Whatd you want to take Annie's dol
away from her for? Give it back, VIII!
don't yOu?"
hy-Jimmy-SeaTs!' TetOrted tn
girl Then, lifting her voice, Mama
Jirnmy's pat ice down But tn
lad pressed the ice agaist the child.
back, pretending to be removing tn
source of the trouble, and the child
Iusty bowls drowned the girls pro
test. When he heard the bedroom
door close to shield his mother from
the turmoil Jimmy knew that he ha'
outwitted Mrs. Jones, so he quelle'
the disturbance he had caused. Whel
Mrs Jones returned to the kitchen tn
boy was sitting on the porch step