The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-07-03
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Turning on the Hose.

Look! Amt that a snake"
shrieked Billy, pointing to what
looked to him like a big snake coilec
In the yard.
Snake, nothing!" sneered his com
panion, that's a hose. You all time
got to call a hose a snake. Come on
let's sprinkle" and Jimmy sprang Out
Of the swing, jerked up the hose and
dragged it to the hydrant. my nam
ma don't never low me to sprinkle
with her hose, but Miss Minerva she's
80 good I don reckon she'll care" he
cried mendaciously.
Billy followed, watched his compan'
ion screw the hose to the faucet and
turn the water on. There vas a hiss
ing, gurgling sound and a stream OF
water shot out, much to the rapture OF
the astonished Billy.
Wont Aunt Minerva carer" he
asked, anx1ously. "Is she a real 'ligious
oman"
She Is the Christianest woman
they IT," announced the other child.
Come on, we'll sprinkle the street
and I don't want nobody to get in our
way neither"
II wish Wilkes Booth Lincoln could
see u.s." said Miss Minerva's nephew.
A big, fat negress, with a bundle
Of clothes tied in a red table cloth
on her head. came waddling down the
sidewalk.
! Billy looked at Jimmy and giggled;
Jimmy looked at Billy and giggled;
then, the latter took careful aim and
a stream of water hit the old woman
squarely in the face.
who dat? What's yo' doin'?' she
yelled, as she backed of. IFS a-gwine
to tell yo' pappy. Jimmy Garner" as
she recognized one Of the culprits.
"Prnt dat ar hose way f'om me, TO
I make yo' ma spank yuh slabsided. l
got to git home an wash. Drap it, I
tell yuh!"
! Two little girls rolling two doll
buggtes in which reposed two enor.
nous rag-babies were seen approach
ing.
That's Lima Hamilton and Frances
Black" said Jimmy, they're my
chums."
Billy took a good look at them.
"They's goin' to be my chums, too"
he said, calmly.
Your chums, nothing" angrily
cried Jimmy, swelling up pompously.
You all time trying to claim my
chums. l can't have nothing a tall
'thout you got to stick your mouth in.
You bout the selishest boy they Is.
You want everything I got, all time"
The little girls were now quite near
and Jimmy hailed them g~leefully, for
getful of his anger:
Come on, Lima, you and Frances"
he shrieked, "and we can have the
mostest fun. Billy here's done come
to live with Miss Minerva and she's
done gone uptown and don't care II
We sprinkle. cause she's got 30 much
'ligion."
But you know none Of us are al
lowed to use a hose" objected Lima.
But it's so much fun" said Jimmy;
and Miss Minerva she's SO Christian
she amt going to raise much of a
rough house, and If she do we can
run when we see her coning."
Il can't run" said Billy; Il amt
got nowhere 10 run to an"
If that amt just like you, Billy"
interrupted Jimmy, "all time talking
bout you amt got nowhere to run to-;
you don't want nobody to have no fun.
You bout the picayunest boy they is"
Little Ikey Rosenstein, better known
as "Goose-Grease," dressed in a cast
of suit Of his big brothers, with his
fathers hat set rakishly back on his
head and over his ears, was coming
proudly down the street some distance
OF.
"Yonder comes Goose-Grease Rosen-
| STEM" said Jimmy gleefully. When
he gets right close les make him
hop"
"All right" agreed Billy, his good
humor restored, les baptize him
good"
"Oh, we can't baptize him." ex-
claimed the other little boy, "'cause
he's a Jew and the Bible says not to
baptize Jews. You got to mesmerize
'em. How come me to know so
much?" he continued condescendingly.
Miss Cecilia teached me in the Sun
day school. Sometimes I know SO
much | feel like I'm going to bust.
She teached me bout 'Scuffe little
chillens and forbid them not and bout
.Ananias telled Sapphire he done 1t
with his little Ratchet. and bout
'Lijah jumped owe the moon in a
automobile l know everything what's
in the Bible. Miss Cecilia sure Is q
cracker-jack; she's bout the stylish
est Sunday school teacher they is"
"Twas the cow jumped over the
MOON" said Frances, land it isn't in
the Bible; it's in Mother Goose"
And Elijah went to heaven in q
chariot of fire." corrected Lima.
And l know all bout GABRIEL" con
tinued Jimmy, unabashed. when
folks called him to blow his trumpet