Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-09-13
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Jimmie broke another window to-
day playing ball." said Jimmie's moth
er as soon as his father came home.
II suppose there will be another dol
lar to pay out for that. I didn't say
anything to him-I just told him to
wait and you would talk to him about
it."
Jimmie raised an inquiring glance
over the edge of the geography to his
fathers face and dropped it into the
middle Atlantic states again immedi-
atc1y.
Il did not he said, defantly ANY
how, didn't know the ball was going
over that way. Harry Miller ought
to have stopped it,
His father looked at Jimmie severe
1y.
Come here, young man." he said,
"and let's see. about this. Do you
think have nothing to do except pay
for things you smash right and left?"
cav, we weren't only playin'," OBJ
sected Jimmie, sliding down a little
farther into his chair. ga kid can't
IL
did I tell you to come over here or
didn't II" asked his father, sternly.
Jimmie slowly sided over to his ia
theirs chair with his hands clasped be-
hind him.
sNow, then, how did it happen?" his
father demanded. Come on; out
with it,"
Jimmieshesitated and his mother
volunteered to supply the information.
ooh, it happened the way it always
happens" she said. HE was playing
ball in the street again when I've told
him dozens OF times not to. It's won
der to me the little savages don't
break twenty windows a day. Mr..
Handtmann came over here and said
Jimmie knocked the ball or struck it
or whatever they DC, and it went right
through his side window and nearly
hit Mrs. Hardtmann's mother, where
she was knitting inside the window.
told him you'd see him about it to
night"
His father struggled to suppress a
smile and Jimmie thought he deserted
favorable symptoms.
81 don't suppose old Handtmann was
fretting about his mother-in-law get
ting hit, was he?" he asked. How
about it, Jimmie? I am now waiting
for your version Of this catastrophe.
''Weil. we was playin' only a little
while" began Jimmie, "and we
choosed up sides and was captain on
our side"
Where do you play?" asked his IA
ther
81 was on second so could tell my
side what to do" explained Jimmie.
{ His mother interrupted with a frowr
1 of Impotence. What has all that tt
:. do with his breaking the window? ?
she demanded. You're overlooking
5 the main point, as usual, William"
!. well, wait a minute now" eau
toned Jimmie's father, "and Wen ge
this thing Strengthened out. So yo1
played second, did you? And thel
; what, Jim?"
well, Harry Miller's side mad
three runs in the second inning" jim
|
r field. He's bigger than any of US kid:
d anyhow. He amt got no right to b
$ on a team that's mostly only abou
/ nine or ten, has he, PAP"
We'll take that up some otne
time" said his father. 81 want
know about this Handtmann windo'
- business. How did that happen?"
ST don't know how it happened
Jimmie insisted, 'but Willie McGrat
got base on balls"
"Say, have you youngsters got a
umpire in these games?" his father
handed.
"Sure!" replied Jimmie. 1--WE g
two-one on bases and one on tt
home plate, just like the big leagues
what do you know about that
grinned his father looking across
the maternal frown, which was u
yielding even in the face of this su
2 prising testimony.
"And after Willie McGrath got {
first Chick Schmidt damned out a b.
one that was good for two bases, b
that ice wagon, McGrath, only got
third on it."
q "He should have scored easil
IL shouldn't hep said his father, symp
thetically.
"William!" cautioned Jimmie
mother
Jimmie's father hastily returned