The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-04-30
JUVENILE AMBITIONS.
Jealousies and Warnings That
Beset the Small Boy.
HIS MISERY AND TRlUMPHS.

The Things That Other Boys Had and
He Wanted and Couldn't Get-A Fat
Mans Memory Deeply Stirred by q
Pair of Sleeve Protectors.
THE other day at poultry market
saw a chicken butcher wearing a
pair of those basket sleeve protectors,
and stood and laughed like a fool"
said the fat man. First time I'd seen
a pair of basket sleeve protectors for
years, and so just had to laugh. Tell
you why. When | was a tike ! used
to look with wonder and awe upon a
fellow who wore pair of basket
sleeve protectors. | considered that
fellow with a pair of those things was
all right, all right, plus some more.
They had kind of jaunty air
about 'em that couldn't and can't de-
fine, but it was there, and l reyered
and reverenced em. made up my
mind that if | ever grew up and got
the price, me, too, for pair of those
basket sleeve protectors, no matter
what sort of work I'd happen to tackle.
"Queer dickenses. boys, Ell? Men,
Der those patent pencil attachments
that marketmen used to haye-may
have 'em yet-hitched to their aprons?
Well, l thought those were pretty nifty
things, too. and | used to secretly
banker to own one of 'em. Made up
my mind that would own one Of 'em,
Boz yhnFa Il frnff FOL In lint
how | never seemed to want one
when l reached the shaving age.
Guess some of my ambitions as a
boy were pretty crazy anyhow. l was
so jealous of the first boy ! ever met
that could spit through his teeth at
mark and hit it that l hated him. That
same boy pretty early in life got a job
driving a delivery wagon for grocery
Well, pretty soon after he got that job
he was wearing a pair of those patent
elastic sleeve supporters, or holders, or
whatever you'd call 'em-things with
a clutch at either end that pulled the
cuff back from the wrist. This boys
pair Of those things were pink elastic,
and how he used to faunt 'em before
my eyes!
HE knew blamed well that those
pink elastic sleeve supporters looked
finer to me than any Star of India or
Victoria Cross could possibly look, and
he knew besides that because l had
to go to school and wasn't earning any
thing there wasn't a possible chance
on earth for me to get pair like EN-
and so he just held 'em over me and
made my life miserable. Yet when
got to the wage earning age | never
elastic sleeve supporters.
Another boy that | hated had a
maroon colored cardigan jacket That
was before the day of sweaters. This
hated boy wore the cardigan jacket
beneath his regular outer coat and so
he didn't have to wear any overcoat.
That, l considered. was gorgeous
blessing-not to have to wear an over
coat to school. / despised this boy for
having It ON me that way. Anyhow,
his maroon colored cardigan jacket had
a couple OF pockets in front that he
kept full of all kinds of junk-some-
times he even carried mice to school in
'em. And that made my indignation
all the greater-the fact that he had
those two fine covered up pockets to his
cardigan jacket.
zone great triumph did come to my
tike life, though, and that was the fact
that was the first boy of my school to
own a pair of copper toed boots. Well