Holbrook argus., 1909-02-02
A PL..2A r ED r El AG E DY
By Max Adeler.

ard on board, while Bill, the you
 ;t boy, walked by his side. WI
 hey brought Aleck in, sl1 Mrs. Jon .ot good look at him, she began
 ry. He was drenched from head
 pot as if he had been in the wato
 is che eks and his chin and his upps lip were red and swollen to an enc nous size; huge patch of h-ir wa one from the top of his h ad, and had a general appearance of havi been banged and battered in me- frightful manner
 As soon as Aleck was placed co forti bly, in bed, Mrs Joncs entrcat' tim to tell her what was tfe mc! r bat Aleck only rol ed his hc al moI@, .ully, to in:icate that he couldn't co mard utteraace. Turning to B.l " locked as if he had been run Q ( c'n' of times through thra h 'ng ], 2 -, Mrs. Joncs said:
 " iliam, tell me this instant w is the matter with Alexander.
 Well you see. mother-you k'c" the Dixon boys, and the Fer. ' bows, and the Cadbury boys, 6 ] W. ole ot of fellows, they sa'd " ' n't it be a good thing 10 turn '".. ( G1d lave high old time sail '~ around and not going to school? Sc they agreed to turn pirate, and they q ';e1 me and Aleck to join the b nd and we did. Jim Dixon. he said all pirates have boards, and so he gave us some ointment he got from a man who said it would produce whiekers on the smoothest face in two days. So we all rubbed it on, and that's what swcled ny face and Aleck's so. All the boys faces are swelled, and Joe Cadbury says his father'll lick him ike thunder.
 So. when we were initiated, and me and Aleck fal learned the grip. we cut across Potts orchard toward the canal, and Potts dog he got after us, and Jim Dixon appointed me and Aleck a rear guard to keep off thc dog wh.le the pirates retreated. And
 he dog he came so savage at me and Aleck that we climbed up tree, but he limb broke and we fell right on the dog.
 So we up and ran; but just as we got to the fence the dog nipped Ale, k by his trousers, and tore the whole thing away from the suspender but tons down 10 the knee. But the other pirates hollered for us to come on. and we went. and they were just going to charge on an old canal boat in the canal. There wasn't anybody on the boat; but Sam Snyder he fired a brassbarrel pistol so as to pretend to kill the cartain, and the ball clipped the skin off of the end of Aleck S nose.
 50 when the pirates got aboard, Jim Dixon appointed Aleck first mate and ordered him to go down inside of the boat to see how much gold was in the locker. There were no stairs, so they let Aleck down with rope, and when he got down he said there was nothing there but mud and water.
 Put the next minute he began to scream, and we looked in and saw Mrs. McGrady's goat, that has been lost for two days, putting Aleck through tho mud He would rear up and butt Aleck, then he would draw back and rear up again, and butt Aleck, until Aleck didn't know wheth- CT he was pirate or Sunday school scholar. And Sam Snyder aimed at the goat with his pistol, but the goat suddenly switched around, and the ball cut Aleck little on the knuckles So we passed rope down to Aleck, and hauled in on him and got him on deck good deal discouraged and out of wind. Aleck wanted to play some- thing else but pirate; but Jim Dixon
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