The Donaldsonville chief., 1912-04-27

lence. Presently Jimmy broke the
quiet by remarking:
Don't you all feel sorry for old
Miss Pollie Bumpus? She live all
by herself, and she bout million
| years old, and Doctor Sanford amt
never brung her no chillens cause she
/ / d sfia u get ,er ne hushan, TO be their
papa, and she got octopus In her
head, and she poor as post and deaf
as Jobs old turkey-hen.'
"Job's 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
ali 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 Job; you bout
| the womanishest little girl they is.
Now / 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; ''he saw
Esau kissing Kate and Esau had to
| oil I, irff RI n
mouth shut"
Mother read me all about job,
continued Lima; che was afflicted with
boils and his wife knit him a Job S
| 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 of O his boils
| and"
THAT was JONAH" said Lima, "and
it wasn't a potato vine; it was
mo, t wasn't Jonah neither; Jonah
I is inside OF whales bel
.Frances!'
"Stommick," Frances corrected her
SELF and a whale swallow him, and
hows he going to sit under a pump
kin vine when he's inside OF q
whale?"
1T was not pumpkin vine, it"
"And I'd JUS like to see man In.
side Of a whale a-setting under a
morning-glory vine
The whale vomicked him up said
Jimmy
What sorter thing is octopus like
what y'all say is in Miss Pollie Bum
pus's head?" asked Billy
"'Tain't octopus, it's polypus,
explained Frances, cause she's
| named Miss Polite. It's a someping
/ that grows in your nose and has to
be named what you's named She's
aamed Miss Pollie and she's got q
polypus. =
| I'm mighty glad my mama amt
got no Eya-pus in her head, was
;immy's comment. "Ain't you glad
Silly, your Aunt Minerva amt got
70 Miss Minerva-pus?
T sho' is," feryently replied Miss
Minerals nephew; she's hard 'nough
10 manage now like she is.'
I'm awful good to Miss Polite,
said Frances Il take her somepins
s;ood to eat most every day. I took
her two pieces of pie this morning;
ute one piece on the way and she
gimme the other piece when | go1
there ] jus don't believe she coulc
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
49, said Jimmy, call time got to ca
up a poor old woman'a pies. You'll
have a Frances-pus in your stomach
first thing you know"
She's got horn that you tall
th'oo,'' continued the little girl, serene
ly contemptuous Of Jimmy's adverse
criticism, "and fore l knew how yol
talk into it, she says to me one day
'How's your MAJ and stuck that OLE
horn at me; SO put it to my ear, too
and there we set; she got one end O
the horn to her ear and | got the
other end to my ear; SO when / saw
this wasn't going to work I took i
and blew into it; you-all'd died a
laughing to see the way did. Blu
now l can talk th'oo it's goods any
body"
"That is an ear trumpet, Frances,
said Lima: 1T is not horn
Let's play Hide TIE Switch" sug
gested Billy.
I'm going to hide 1t first" criet
Frances
Nav, you ain't," objected Jimmy
you all time got to hide the switcl
first. I'm going to hide it first my
SELF
No, I'm going to say William Con
Trimbleton,' said Frances, "and Sc
who's going to hide it first. Now you
all spraddle out your fingers y
; CHAPTER XIV.