The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-10
A Queer Little Man.

DorOthyS father said that he was
going to tell story to anybody who
wanted to listen. So Dorothy stop
ped crying and Bob stopped crying so
dreadfully lour, because their father
began right away: "Once there was a
little MANA very little man,-and
he had on green coat and a red hat,
and there was something under his
coat that made it poke out at one
side. He was going along the middle
of a country road A small boy and
girl in a pony carriage met him.
Dorothy's and Bob's father stopped.
Both of his children were quiet, and
they both said now: go on, papa!
Why don't you go on?"
Weren't you foolish to cry?" said
their father
YES said Dorothy.
ITO cry because it rained," said
their father.
But we wanted to go out" said
Bob.
We'll, no matter" said Dorothy,
we don't want to go. Just please
tell the story, papa"
Are you ashamed of crying?" ask
ed his father And Bob laughed, be-
cause he saw that his father was real
ly laughing, and he said: Eyes, daddy,
Now will you go on?"
So then the father went on, "That
queer little man with the green hat
Twasn't a green hat" shouted
Dorothy and Bob, red"
"Oh yes,-much obliged hat.
He was walking along in very proud
manner,-youd be surprised stamp
ing each foot down hard as he went
along. He was square in the middle
OF the road, looked as if he thought
he was whole procession; but he
stared right down toward the ground
His haiti was really a soldier cap
had large black visor, shiny,-you
know what visor is,-to keep the
sun out of his eyes? Yes; well, he
didn't see those two children in the
pony carriage till they were so near
him that they had to stop. Why, they
felt quite anxious, you know, for they
might have run over him! such a
queer little mani
"How old were they?" Bob and
Dorothy wanted to know.
six years and four years, just like
Dorothy and you"
In a pony carriage! You wouldn't
let us go, alone, daddy!"
mo. Well, these children were
good ones; they didn't bawl because
it rained."
mo matter, daddy; maybe they
were half year Older than we are.
Go on, won't you, please?
"That very little man strutted along
till he fairly touched the kind old
pony's nose. Then he seemed much
surprised, gave quite a jump, and
looked up. And then the two in the
pony carriage squealed right out, and
what they said was, why, Jimmie,
why Jimmie. where did you get that
lovely uniform?'
"Oh, wasn't it an old MANI" asked
Dorothy and Bob. WAS it a friend of
theirs, about six years old?"
yes"
did he have fine soldier suit?"
Grand, yellow trimmings-on his
shoulders, you know, and down his
trousers"
Didn't he have any gum"
Gun! No; he was busy doing an
errand."
"Oh! Wasn't he a procession?"
eyes, he was-had to march quite
a distance; but twas useful process
sion. That was what made his coat
stick out on one side-don't you know
| told you? Underneath them he had
a basket of sweet peas to take to
lady who didn't have any flowers. And
his mother had said, You can keep
the sun off of them with the corner Of
your long coat, can't you?' And he
said he could That was why he was
looking down so hard that he didn't
see the pony cart coming. And so
then the two in the cart turned the
nonv around and took Jimmie and the
sweet peas together down to the lady
that didn't have any flower garden
Susan Perry Peckham in the Chris