The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-04-11

lence, Presently Jimmy broke the
quiet by remarking:
Don't you all feel sorry for old
Miss Polite Bumpus? She live al
| by herself. and she bout million
years old. and Doctor Sanford ain,
never brung her no chillens cause she
'ain't got 'er no husban' to be their
papa. and she got octopus in her
head. and she poor as post and deaf
as Jobs old turkey-hen."
Jobs old turkey-hen wasn't deaf,
retorted Lima primly; "she was very
very poor and thin"
"She was deaf. too" insisted Jim
my, cause it's in the Bible. l know
all bout job" Dragged he.
Il know all bout Job. too" chirped
Frances.
Job. nothing!" said Jimmy. with
a sneer: you all time talking 'bou,
you know all bout job; you bout
the womanfshest little girl they Is
| Now l know Job cause Miss Cecilia
'splained all bout him to me- He's
In the Bible and he sold his birth
mark for mess OF potatoes and
you never can get anything right
Jimmy" interrupted Lima that was
Esau and it was not his birthmark
it was his birthstone; and he sold his
birthstone for mess of potash"
Yes" agreed Frances; The saw
Esau kissing Kate and Esau had te
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mouth shut"
Mother read me all about Job.
continued Lima; 'he was afflicted with
boils and his wife knit him Jobs
comforter to wrap around him. ant
he"
"And he sat under 'tato vine.
put in Frances eagerly, what Goo
grew to keep the sun off O. his boils
and"
That was JONAH" said Lima. "ant
it wasn't potato vine: 1t was"
No. t wasn't Jonah neither; JONAH
is inside Of whales bel"
"Frances!"
| "Stommick," Frances corrected her
self, land whale swallow him, ant
how's he going to sit under g. pump
kin vine when he's inside Of I
whale?"
1T was not a pumpkin vine. it"
"And I'd jus like to see a man in
side of a whale asserting under &
morning-glory vine"
The whale vomicked him up" sale
Jimmy.
What sorter thing is a octopus like
what y'all say is in Miss Polite Bum
pus's head?" asked Billy.
"'Taint a octopus. it's a polypus.
explained Frances. cause She.
named Miss Polite. It's a somepins
that grows in your nose and has to
be named what you's named She's
named Miss Polite and she's got q
polypus."
I'm mighty glad my mama AIM
got no Eva-pus in her head" wal
Jimmy's comment. Amt you glad
Billy. your Aunt Minerva amt go
no Miss Minerva-pus?"
81 sho' is" fervently replied Mis-.
Minerals nephew; she's hard 'nougt
to manage now like she is
Pm awful good to Miss Polite.
said Frances Il take her somepine
good to eat most every day | tool
her two pieces OF pie this morning;
ate one piece on the way and sh<
gimme the other piece when l. go
there. | JUS don't believe she coult
get long at all 'thout me to carry hel
the good things to eat that my mama
send her; | takes her pies all the
time; she says they're the best smell
ing pies she smelt."
you bout the piggiest girl they
is" said Jimmy. all time got to eat
UP poor old woman's pies. You'll
have Frances-pus in your stomach
first thing you know"
She's got a horn that you tall
tn co." continued the little girl, serene
| ly contemptuous of Jimmy's adverse
criticism, and fore | knew how you
talk into it, she says to me one day
'How's your mar and stuck that ole
horn at me; SO | put it to my ear. too
and there We set; she got one end OF
the horn to her ear and | got the
other end to my ear; so when ! saw
this wasn't going to work took II
and blew into it; you-alld died a
laughing to see the way | did. But
now | can talk th'oo it's goods any
body"
THAT is an ear trumpet, Frances.
said Lima: lit is not horn"
Let's play Hide the Switch" sug
gested Billy.
I'm going to hide it first" CRIED
Frances
Nav, you amt" objected Jimmy
you all time got to hide the switch
first. I'm going to hide it first my
self"
No, I'm going to say William Con
Trimbleton, said Frances. land see
who's going to hide it first. Now you
all spraddle out your fingers"
CHAPTER XIV.
Mr.. Algernon Jones.