The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-18

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my passing at school,"
1T did look somewhat doubtful his
father said solemnly. Il hoped at first
that you would make it, but I'm will
ing to make allowances. SO If you
didn't get through"
ooh, but did"
Good Let me congratulate you!"
They shook hands formally and then
Bobby settled hack in the big chair
1T was an awful lot OF work" he
said Specially hist'ry. Gee, there
ain't nobody but Mamie Kelly car re-
member half that stuff Susie Her ic-
got - for her mark, but she aim 60
ing Up anyhow and she says she { mt
care. Oh, bet she does, all right
"Cf course she does"
Anyhow, I'm glad she ain't e. iny
to b. in my room neXt year. She's ho
limit. Billy says she's the stir IS.
girl he ever seen. She rever gives
even a girl bite when she's GO an
apple and then she think we're fierce
II we don't let her have some of ours
I'm glad she didn't pass
Here, young man, don't talk that
way"
We'll, don't care. I am glad. All
the fellers are sore at her. Now Mel
lie Foster passed all right l thought
at first she didn't, cause I seen her
sitting in corner crying. I asst her
what's the matter and she said she
was sorry for Susie Herrick Say,
wouldn't that make you laugh?"
Nellie Foster seems to be the right
sort, Bobby
"Oh, sure she is. I gave her my
Taft button and she stopped crying
It's busted some, but she can glue it.
told her l was glad she'd be in my
room next year"
That was handsome of you"
We'll, anyhow, I'm glad it's sum-
mer. s'pose you'll go on your fishing
trip now?"
Not for awhile yet, but have made
ali my arrangements"
Say, papa, when you cast do you
throw this way or twist your hand
crooked like this?"
Bobby stood with his feet planted
sQuarely and his arms waving in i'm
minent danger of smashing the lamp,
and his face was very earnest.
Get my rod from the corner, and
I'll show you," said his father.
Bobby brought the rod almost rever-
emily and placed it in his fathers
hands.
It's harder than 1t looks" he
sighed when the lesson was over. 81
don't believe could hardly ever catch
q thing"
You'd like camping" his father
said slowly. "The sky and the trees
and the tapping of the water. I don't
believe you'd mind the hard parts,
either-the flies and mosquitoes and
getting wet and tired"
You bet I wouldn't" Bobby cried,
eagerly. When I'm a man I'll go
every year"
Your mothers going to a hotel
where you can play tennis and I'll
come up later on"
Il don't know how to play tennis"
You don't know how to fish, either"
his father said. I've engaged a real
Indian to cook for me and be guide
and he has a canoe"
"Oh, papa!"
Bobby was silent long minute and
then he spoke hesitatingly.
you said" he began.
~Yes?"
you said IL I passed you'd see thai
had lot of fun this summer and
don't call 1t circus to go up to that
crazy hotel"
Why do you talk that way"
'Wc-, don't call that fun. Gee,
you got to stay so awful clean and
the lake never gets even rough
enough to be fun swimming in it.
It's regular girls place"
Would you rather stay at homer"
Il should say not. All the fellers
are going somewhere"
Where do you want to go?"
camping"
TN the cold and the rain? And
walk miles and miles when it's steam
ing hot? And be Weakened at night by
owls and raccoons and hedgehogs and
snakes? You aren't very big yet, you
know"
I'm bigger'n Billy" Bobby cried, in
dignantly. II could use your fishpole
easy If I want afraid of busting it,
His father regarded him thought
fully.
I'VE won't put it to the test" he
said. "I'd rather not have it broken.
Suppose, instead, you bring me that
small new one from behind the daven-
port and see how it works. Chicago
Daily News.
A "Life-Saver."
One Of the prominent statesmen at
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