The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-06-09
1T MADE A
DIFFERENCE

We'll, good graciousl | hope you
don't think for a minute that | did it.
| guess if you had supper to get and
a hat to trim and a 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. L"
mo one has accused you Of doing it.
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 IS cents for the flower seed to
! go in those gardens, and now I'll bet
there isn't seed in one of them"
| well"
III the COMPOUNDED hens wou.l 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"
81 am sorry, but can't help It,"
| well. l can help 1t, and | am 60
ing to help it, tool"
Nov. don't do anything you will be
sorry for"
Then let those COMPOUNDED chick
ems stop doing things that am sorry
for I'll bet that if l 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
o.4I IL All A.
for mel"
Fred is a 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 | grinned like an idiot and
told his mother that boys must have
pets. Didn't II"
yes"
And when he batted a 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
|
spelling the look Of"
1.-The outside blinds were not neces-
sary and
Now that | have gone to the ex-
pense of making a flower garden,
nothing satisfies Mr. Fred but to get
a lot of chickens!"
Boys must have pets"
"Of course they must; but could he
not have got some buff cochins or
PARTRIDGE coehins 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!
We'll. I'll see If something cannot
he done about it in day or two
don't like to make any trouble while
he is sick"
"Sick?"
Eyes, 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"
Il guess that's right read in to
days paper where baby died from
All attack of measles"
"Fred's mother said his fever was
up to 104.'
"Pshawl That's too bad Run over
dear, and see how he is. won't your"
why don't you goY I've got tc
finish getting supper"
Jaw, man is too clumsy to be
Ground a sick room. Have you got
any of those ounce preserves left?"
"A jar or two; why?"
Take 'em over. / remember wher
| was kid and getting over the diph
iberia, 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. don't believe l ever
shall forget them
We'll, I'll run over for minute
You go and turn down the burner un
der the potatoes"
tAnd, dear"
"Yes?"
Tell him I'll take care Of his chick
ems till he gets we'll"
"All right"
And tell him I'll make him a kite
vhile he is laid up. There used to bs
an old sailor in our neighborhoot
when | was a kid and"
"All right"
And tell him that I'll come ovel
ano tell him some stories as soon a.
he's better"
Good gracious! +"
And tell him I'm going to brinl
him some sort of a toy from the 10
cent store every night, and he has go
to try each day to guess what it II
going to be-"
| He'll be glad. Shall | say wore
or two about the garden?"