Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-10-06
JIMMY K. JOHN
Gets Thrown From an Au-
mobile and His School
mates Throw Rocks at
Him, But He Gets
Revenge.

Well. here comes Jimmy X. John
with some more of his troubles. AS q
good many people know, l am a school
boy yet, and my teacher wanted me to
go to the Educational Rally. So / de-
cided to go to Jasper to see the sights,
but all the vehicles that went from
this place were loaded so heavy that l
had to walk. They got the start of
me, but when got two miles from
home my friend caught up with me in
his auto to be mine or ought TO be a
mule or some such a name, don t
know now what it was Oh, yes, it
was mule-o' mobeel. ANY way, he
asked me if l would like to ride.
Sure. was my quick reply, so he
stopped and got in. 1t was a queer
buggy to me for it didn't have any
horses. He just moved some little
thing ma jig, don't know what it
was, but guess he did, and that
thing began popping and cracking and
whizzing, and the fact u.s. just don't
know what sort of a racket it did
make, and / asked him what it was
doing that for He said it was only
getting its breath. / started to say
if it breathed that way all the time
l would just walk, but it was gone
before could speak. / don't know
whether we burned the wind or not,
but / could smell terrible scent like
OF iY,sY h,1r ni,,n. nd I
looked back l could see an awful
smoke. Once / hollered to my friend
to stop, that he had set the road on
| fire. ''Just let the road burn he
said, 1--WE are going to take in the
sights, and we are not coming back
this way, nohow."
We hadn't gone more than than
three or four hundred yards more when
we passed my teacher and the rest of
the scholars on some old jolly wagons,
and you never heard the like of boiler
ing, "Hey, Jim. / will swap places
with you" "You wouldn swop this
morning so just hold your seat, it is
good enough for you" When we got
nearly there we came to ditch in
the road, and that thing, whatever it
was, throwed me about twenty feet
high and when l came down my
friend was done gone on and / landed
right on top of barb wire fence.
There stayed until my schoolmates
came on. said, "Please get me loose
from here, but they replied, "You
wouldn't swap places with us and that
is good enough for you, SO just hold
your seat. Then three or four of
them stopped and began throwing
rocks at me, and they were just hav-
ing lots of fun when Sal came along,
and says "Sal, please get me loose
from here. SIS that Jim?" was the
quick reply. Eyes, darling, this is
me" Then she sailed in and got me
loose and then the fun went our way.
We had them going all directions.
The next we saw of them one had his
nose tied up, another had both arms
in swing. and another was going on
crutches with a bandage around his
head
Then me and Sal got on another one
of them things like the first one was,
but it was covered over the top, and
run on road like train, but IL did
MT have anything to pull it like a
train has. Sal told me the name of it,
but have forgot it now. Any way,
we rode around there for sometime,
and then the hateful thing ran away
and jumped off the track and throwed
me and Sal both out at the window.
We were both holding the other to
keep from getting hurt, and there was
policeman standing on the sidewalk.
and reckon he thought we were fight
ing and the conductor had throwed us
out. Anyway, he took us both to a
place / don't know the name of it,
but it is the place where they lock peo
pie up, and kept us there the rest of
the day, and our teacher found out we
low how it was and he turned us out.
Well, that ends the trouble for that
day, but two or three days after that
had some more trouble. My sister told
me of bumblebees nest and thought
it would be great fun to poke around
one with stick. So got me stick
and poked around while, but it was
mt long till the iabing went the other
way and was laughing ont of the
other side of my mouth, for they we're
singing me all over. Well, by jacks,
l didn't know what to do, nor which
way to go, SO / just started the way
my face was turned. / didn't get far
till / hit the river, and you never
heard such splash as made. but the
deeper got under the water, the
worse they stung me. ] came up puff
fing and snorting like locomotive en-
CINE starting out with heavy load.
1 managed to get out, and then / had
some fun picking them off of me, and
then here came the mean boys that
throwed rocks at me when was on
the fence and they got to laugh at me
to their own satisfaction. but when
they asked me where the nest was I
told them right across the bill. I told