The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-09-05

ri-tis % The streets re- mix wagon.
and tier can't touch JON S'rQse t1e
riore- 1al -. scared ani nm sway
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m sooa PIT q stop to that b
@PIease. siE hut ffsts Oriy 4 i.llEp.
Il exp med Hunipy.
.sThea vhafs Il making int noise
fOr::
Il dnnt know, sir.
.But yC1 Oaght to know. and his
honor Wei zee that !ou DO know wben
you are broasht before him. Iou are
On your way to blow NJ the city hall
ani don't you dare denyltT
-Piease, str, but I think l know why
the mower makes that whining noise
volunteered the Watkins boy,
Then cut with IT.
Il think It has the colo, sir"
ayes. 1 shouldn't wonder If 1t was.
This weather's enough to give a crow.
bar st Wins dance. You'd better
stop at the drug store aud give the
thing some peppermint"
Two blocks after Ieaying the officer.
who kent following them, with eyes Of
suspicion, the band met four big hood
Iun boys. WHO at once decided 10 take
charge Of things. There was a fight,
IN which theJ were victorious. but they
were not mean spirited. After getting
possession Of the machine they invited
The weeping and Indignant Humpy and
his following to enter an Old wood yard
with them and witness the fun. They
had Goat shut up therein. and the fun
speedily began. The biggest hoodlum
took Oh his coat and cap and seized
the handles OF the mower and began
to chase the goat around. , When he
got tired one OF his crowd took up the
chase. and It was continued until at
length the frightened creature made a
long spring and Ieaped the fence. Then
Humny. as owner Of the mower. was
trotted out and made to perform, and
It was over two hours before the own
er Of the yard happened to pass that
way and drove the whole crowd out
with club. Then the hoodlums went
their way. and the mower was headed
for home. It was within four blocks
of the Skinner house and was being
pushed along by two small boys who
insisted on sharing the hoaors when a
fat woman with a basket on her arm
turned in from a side street She no
sooner caught sight Of the mower than
she cried out:
Her Long Lost WhseIbarroW.
@Ah, but It Is my long lost wheel
barrow In the hands OF these young
rufhans! Give it up to me Mt once!!
aBut this Is no wheelbarrow," pro
tested Humpy.
Don't talk to me. you young gallows
bird, Do you think I've arrived at the
age OF dfty years and have sgt to
weigh over 200 pounds and can't tell
a lawn mower from a wheIbarrow; l
say that it's wheelbarrow that was
stolen from me whole year ago.
There's the green paint on 1t to iden-
tffy It Hand 1t over or you shall go to
jail"
.ssIadam, can't you see that this IS
not a wheeIbarrow?' insisted Humny.
"a wheelbarrow has two handles and
wheel in froIt, while this
and you'd rob a poor old woman Of
her only wheelbarrow, would you:T
shouted the other as she grabbed for
the handle to get possession.
In the struggle she was upset and
her basket knocked into the middle Of
the street but as the boys ran away
with the machine an Ice wagon came
trottiug along Just In time to run one
wheel over and reduce the thing to a
wreck. The icemau stopped and began
to Jaw, but IN a minute he was gone
The crowd OF BOYS. with Humpy at
their head. had melted away. When
Humpy stopped at last only the Wat.
kins boy was with him.
Hump" he asked when he could get
his breath. Hwfll your father give VOC
licking for this?'
THE nwfulest kind Of a licking"
"wfI you hoIler for mercy
an boiler TIL you can hear me
mile away"
Then the boys and me viii be IN the
alley to hear you aud be glad 1t hain't
as GOodby, Hump" ". QUAD