The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-04-11
Presently Jimmy broke tie

lence. Presently Jimmy broke the
quiet by remarking:
Don't you all feel sorry for old
Miss Polite Bumpus? She live all
by herself. and she bout million
years old, and Doctor Sanford amt
never brung her no chillens cause she
'ain't got 'er no husban' to be their
papa, and she got a octopus in fher
head, and she poor as post and deaf
as Job s old turkey-hen." &sa
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. | 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 bout
you know all bout JcD; you bout
the womanishest little girl they is
Now / know Job cause Miss Cecilia
'splained. all bout him ITO me- He's
in the Bible and he sold his birth
mark for a 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
birthstofies for a mess Of potash"
yes" agreed Frances; The saw
Esau kissing Kate and Esau had to
sell him his birthstone to keep his
mouth shut"
Mother read me all about Job"
continued Lima; "he was afflicted with
boils and his wife knit him a Jobs
comforter to wrap around him, and
he"
"And he sat under a 'tato vine,"
put in Frances eagerly, what God
grew to keep the sun off o. his boils
and" .e.
"That was jonah said Lima. "and
it wasn't potato vine; it was"
mo. t wasn't Jonah neither; Jonah
is inside of a whales bel"
"Frances!" +.
"Stommick," Frances corrected her
self, land whale swallow him, and
how's he going to sit under pump
kin vine when he's inside of a
whale?"
"It was not pumpkin vine, it."
And I'd JUS like to see man in
side of whale asserting under a
morning-glory vine"
THE whale yomicked him up" said
Jimmy. t \
What sorter thing is a octopus like
what y'all say is in Miss Pollie Bum
puss head ?" asked Billy.
",Taint octopus, It's a polypus, .
explained Frances, cause she's
named Miss Polite. It's someping
that grows in your, nose and has to
be named what yous4 named. She's
named Miss Polite and she's got a
polypus." ts
. I'm mighty glad my mama amt
got no Eya-pus in her head" was
Jimmy's comment. "Ain't you glad,
Billy, your Aunt Minerva amt got
no Miss Minerva-pus?"
Il sho is,7 fervently replied Miss
Minerals nephew; she's hard 'nough
to manage now like she is"
I'm awful good to Miss Polite, :"
said Frances. Il take her someping
good to eat most every day. i took
her two pieces Of pie this morning;
ate one piece on the way and she
gimme the other piece when got
there. JUS don't believe she could
get long at all 'thout me to carry her
the good things to. eat that my mama
send her; l 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 horn that you talk
th'oo." continued the little girl, serene
ly contemptuous of Jimmy's adverse
criticism, and 1fore~I knew how you
talk into 1t, she says to me one day,
'How's your mar and stuck that old
horn at me; so l 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 l took it
and blew into it; you-all'd 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; 'it is not horn"
Lets play Hide the Switch" sug
gested Billy. y;.
"Im 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" &
mo, I'm going to say William Com
Trimbleton,' said Frances, "and see
who's going to hide it first. Now you
all spraddle out your fingers"
CHAPTER XIV.
Mr.. Aldermen Jones.