The Yale expositor., 1907-08-23

had the little boys and the girls go
first, because, as he told me after
wards, there might be some snow
left after the first roll-off, and he
thought the big boys could handle
that best.
1t didn't take the kids long to catch
on. They begun with little ball
you know, the kind you throw at a
person-and rolled them along until
they got about as big as a barrel, and
then, when they reached a good place
at the edge of the ridge, they give
them a shove, and down they go.
sailing along serene and tidy, gather
ing up momentum and snow, and
clearing that street fine and elegant
by the noble law of gravitation.
There was one thing, though. that
Tommy forgot He forgot to give
the citizens of Pikeville due warning
as to just what kind Of obsequies
were going to take place, and the re-
suit was that when those snowballs,
some O them as big as a small barn,
cone tearin down along Main street,
side-stepping by people who happened
to be doing chores around about that
time. 1t just seemed like that street
was alive with snowballs. They come
pilin' and swishin' and roarin' down
so fast you couldn't count 'em, and
speedier than a Vanderbilt cup racer,
and getting bigger and bigger every
second, while the good citizens and
citizenesses that happened to be hang
ing around begun to get a move on
like the very old Nick was after them.
hustling into doorways and behind
telegraph poles, and wherever there
was chance to escape that SNOWFALL
cyclone. And, sir, those balls kept
on doing the street cleaning business
better than a hundred Dagoes could
"a done it until they strike the level
just across the railroad tracks, and
come to a halt right on the edge O.
the river. Say, it was a sight to
see them snowballs piled up along
that bank. You would "a thought
they were a pile of white elephants
huddled together.
The only trouble was to decide who
had won the prize, because each snow
ball looked bigger than the other and,
besides, nobody could tell which was
which. But Tommy finally settled it
all right. He picked out the littlest
girl in all that crowd-you could "a
packed hundred like her away in
the SNOWFALL that Tommy swore she'd
| rolled-and give her the money, but
everybody seemed satisfied. for they
most sure had more than five dollars
worth of sport.
Clean the streets up? Why, there
amt street cleaning department in
the country that could "a done the
| job any slicker. And, sir, you wouldn't
believe it, maybe, but in some places
those thunderin' big snowballs had
| even ripped up the cobble stones. 1t
was wonderful demonstration-that' s
| the way Tommy put it-of the work
! ing of the laws of gravitation and
capillary attraction. to say nothing
| of a mysterious Providence.
We needed that eight hundred bad
| there being evidences at the United
States hotel that we had about ex.
hausted our supply of welcome. There
was about 5000 left over, and Tommy,
like the good boy he always is, div.
WED up among the crowd Some of
the fellows-you know you have to ex-
cuse them, they hadn't seen money
for so long-were itching to get their
hands on some mere coin, seem this
come so easy; but Tommy said he
had neglected to take out patent on
his method, and that the city IA
theirs were just mean enough to offer
their own prize for big snowballs in
the future; and, besides, all the
streets didn't run down hill.
Anyhow, as l said, we cleaned up
$500, which was plenty to get us back
to Broadway, where the electric lights
are.