The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-11-10

IN the 'DdDy Will DIG uduU Iuu uiu the
housework with the other At the
/, If the village an old man past work sat at
~gh deal table under the creaking signboard Of
II Csuliaower, gratefully drinking from mug
q ale supplied by chance traveller who sat OPP
TS te shade of the ems was pleasant and the ale
nd The traveller filed his pipe and, gancing
4 the dusty hedges and the white road baking In
/ sun, called for the mugs to be refiiled, and
shed his pouch towards his companion. After
Ricb he paid compliment to the appearance Of
N village.
M amt what It was when was boy" q,lav-
Id the old man, filling his pipe with trembling
Mgers Il mind when the grindstone was stuck
ID outside the winder o. the forge instead O. be-
q one side as It now is; and as for the shop
hder-its twice the size It was when was
Nhng 'un."
|Ic lit his pipe with the scientific accuracy Of a
Joker of sixty years standing. and shook his
lid solemnly as he regarded his altered birth
n ce Then his color heightened and his dim
) fashed..aYS AZ ,sff4sti4,. AZ Aa, ..t,...
TITS the people about ere 'as changed more
bn the place as" he said, with sudden fierce
bs there's set O. men about here nowadays
are no good to anybody; regular raskels. And
you've the mind to, listen / can tell you of one
X Two as couldn't be beat In London itself.
BTheres Tom Adams for one. He went and
bee week each we paid agin sickness or acct
N t, and Tom was secretary Three weeks arter
club was started he caught a chill and was
~ up for month. He got, back to work q
fk, and then 70 sprained something In 'is leg;
arter that was well is inside went wrong.
didn't think much Of It at first, not under
e hiding figures, but at the end O six months
club hadn't got farthing, and they was In
hs debt one pound seventeen-and-six.
n N
per, There was Herbert Richardson. He went
cwn and came back with the idea of Goose
for Christmas. We paid twopence a week
that for pretty near ten months, and then
bert went back to town agin, and all we. ear
I'm through his sister, is that he's still there
doing well and don't know when he'll be
But the artfullest and worst man in this place
hd that's saying good deal, mind you-is
~ Pretty. Deep Is no word for i'm. There's
way of being, up to i'm. It's through i'm that
lost our Flower Show; and, II you'd like to
the rights O. that, I don't suppose there's
body in this place as knows as mucn about 1t :
do-barring Bob hisself that Is, but e
y ldnt tell 1t to you as plain as can
We'd only 'ad the Flower Show one year, and
anybody thought that the next one was to be
last The first year you might smell the place
lie on In the summer, and on the day or the
people came from long way round, and
sht money to spend at the Caulifower and
fr places
was started just after we got our new par
and Mrs Pawlett, the parsons wife, Is name
Pawlett, thought az she'd encourage men
We their 'omes and be better husbands by CIV
prize every year for the best cottage gar.
Three pounds was the prize, and metal
'ot with writing on Il.
said, we only 'ad It two years. The fust
inc garden as got It was picter and Bill
noers i'm as won the prize, used to say as e
out o pocket by 1t, taking is time and the
ey spent on flowers Not as we believed
you understand, specially as Bill did Is
pest to get 1t the next year. too. 70 didn't
~ and though. p'raps most OF us was glad 1t
ca out in the end. +,
ne Flower Show was 10 be 'eld on the 9Th o
Just as Almost everything about here was at
Jest On the 18th OF June Bill Chambers
ol seemed to be leading, but Peter Smith and
ouooins and Sam Jones and Henery Walker
Almost as good, and It was understood that
man one Of 'em had got surprise which
~, produce at the last moment, too late Tor
j,,ners to copy. We used to sit up here OF an
lug at this Caulih0wer public.h0use and put
on It, / put mine on Henery Walker, and
.ae spent in Is garden 'elping i'm is sin
shame to think Of .,..
course some Of 'em used to make fun OF It,
oOD Pretty tho vorut of am all. He