The Brandon news., 1911-05-25
IT MADE A
DIFFERENCE

Have you been out in the front
yard this afternoon"
NO, why?"
''Oh, just because the contents OF
the flower beds have been scratched
out, all over the walks. That's why!"
well, good gracious! hope you
don't think for minute that did it.
guess IL you had supper to get and
hat to trim and dress to turn you
would realize that you had something
else to do than scratch out flower
beds, or to watch them, either, for
that matter. T."
mo one has accused you Of doing 1t.
has there?"
We'll, from the way you began the
very moment you got In the house,
one would think"
II don't suppose you realize that
spent as cents for the flower seed to
go in those gardens, and now I'll bet
there isn't seed In one of them"
We'll"
If the confounded hens would only
put the gardens back after they have
taken them out and scratched them 1t
would not be SO bad, but they scatter
them all over the yard and then fly
over the fence and leave them scat
tered"
II am sorry, but can't help It."
We'll, / can help 1t, and am go-
ing to help 1t, tool"
Nov, don't do anything you will be
sorry for"
Then let those confounded chick
ems stop doing things that I am sorry
for! I'll bet that If / ever buy an
other home / will be mighty careful
to find out who owns the houses each
side of 1t, and If there are any boys
on either side It'll be nix on the buy
for mel"
Fred is good little fellow"
|. Eyes, he's an angel! When we tried
to keep chickens he got pet coon
that got into our chicken house and
reduced So worth Of chickens to feath-
ers, and I grinned like an idiot and
told his mother that boys must have
pets. Didn't II"
Eyes"
"And when he batted ball through
our front window / wouldn't even per-
NIT his folks to pay for the damage.
would II"
moo"
"And since have given up chickens
and have gone to the expense of put
ting outside blinds on the house and
spelling the look Of"
"The outside blinds were not neces-
sary and"
Nov that l have gone to the ex-
pense of making a flower garden,
nothing satisfies Mr. Fred but to get
a lot of chickensi"
"Boys must have pets"
"Of course they must; but could he
mot have got some buff cochins or
partridge cochins or some breed Of
chicken with too much weight and
dignity to fly over fences But no!
Nothing would suit him but to get a
flock of measly bantams that are all
wings and machinery and can fly like
aeroplanes!"
well, I'll see If something cannot
be done about 1t in a day or two. ]
don't like to make any trouble while
he is sick"
"Sick?"
"Yes, sick"
"Who said he was sick?"
"His mother told me. And the doc.
tor has been there twice today"
What ails him?"
Measles"
"Humph! A kid doesn't get very
sick with the measles, does he?"
Sometimes"
"I guess that's right read in to-
days paper where baby died from
an attack of measles"
"Fred's mother said his fever was
up to 104"
"Pshaw! That's too bad. Run over,
dear, and see how he is, won't your"
why don't you go? I've got to
finish getting supper"
Jaw, a man Is too clumsy to be
around a sick room. Have you got
any of those ounce preserves left?"
"a jar or two; why?"
Take 'em over. I remember when
I was a kid and getting over the diph-
liberia, the first thing mother let me
have to eat when began to get well
was some ounce preserves. You'll
never know how good those preserves
tasted to me. I don't believe / ever
Shan forget them"
"Well, I'll run over for minute.
You go and turn down the burner un-
der the potatoes"
"And, dear"
"Yes?"
STell him I'll take care of his chick
ems till he gets well"
"All right"
"And tell him I'll make him kite
while he is laid up. There used to be
an old sailor in our neighborhood
when I was a kid and"
.All right"
aAnd fell him that I'll come over