Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-01

and you and Frances as the squashes
and got to have papooses suop' to-
your back" n.t
"Bonnie Dick can be a pdpoose,"
suggested Billy,
I'm not going to be Injun squash
if got to have niger papoose
strapped to my back" cried an In
dignant Frances. "You can strap him
to your own back, Billy" 49,,
But 1 amt no squash" objected
that little Indian
I'VE can have our dolls for papoos1
es," said Lima. going. to the swing
where the dolls had been left. Billy
pulled piece Of string from his pociC.
ct and the babies were safely strappe4
to their mothers backs. With stately
tread, headed by Sitting Steer, the
children marched back and forth
across the lawn in Indian file.
So absorbed we're they in playing
Indian that they forgot the fight of
time until their chief suddenly
stopped, all his brave valor gone as
he pointed with trembling finger upl
the street.
That part of the Ladies' Aid Society
which lived in West Covington was
bearing down upon them.
Wonders our msmas and Miss
Minerva" he whispered. Nov look
what a mess Billy's done got us in;
he all time got to perpose someping
to get chillens in trouble and he all
time got to let grown folks ketch,
'em."
Aren't you ashamed to tell such a
story, Jimmy Garner" cried Frances.
BILLY didn't propose any such thing.
"'Tain't no use to rum" advised
Jimmy. They're too close and done
already see us. We boun' to get what's
coming to US anyway, SO you might
JUS as we'll make EN- think you amt
'fraid of 'em. Grown folks got to all
time think little boys and girls r
skeered of 'em, anyhow"
Aunt MinerYaIl sho' put me to bed
this time" said Billy. Looks like
evy day I gotter go to bed"
Mother will make me study the
catechism all day tomorrow" said
Lima dismally.
"MamaN lock me up in the little
closet under the stairway" said Fran
ces.
my mamaTl gimme bout million
ticks and try to take all the hide of
O. me-" said Jimmy; "but we done had
heap Of fun"
, 1t was some hours later. BnlyA
, aunt had ruthlessly clipped the turkey
Z feathers from his head, taking the
l hair off in great patches. She had
!, then boiled his scalp, 30 the little boy
!, thought, in her efforts to remove the
:, mucilage. Now, shorn Of his locks
/ and of some of his courage. the child
r was sitting quietly by her side, listen
ing to a superior moral lecture and
indulging in a compulsory heart-to-
!, heart talk with his relative.
7 81 don't see that 1t does you any
!, good, William, to put you to bed"
3 81 don see as II do neither" agreed
/ Billy.
/ Il can not whip you; am constitu-
r tionally opposed to corporal punish
r ment for children"
S 'Is posed to it too," he assented.
! 81 believe 1 will hire a servant, so
8 that l may devote my entire time to
d your training.
Q This prospect for the future did
Q not appeal to her nephew. On the
contrary 1t filled him with alarm.
/ "a husband d be another sight
d handler" he declared with energy;
L he'd be a heap mo- count to you'n q
r cook, Aunt Minerva. There's that
I Major"
you will never make q preacher
Of yourself, William, unless you i'm
prove"
The child looked up at her with as
constituent; this was the first he
knew of his being destined for the
u ministry.
I. "A preacher what 'zorts an calls
RI up mourners?" he said,-'not on 70
=; tin-type. Me an Wilkes Booth Lin
IS coin"
70 How many times have expressed
l. the wish not to have you bring thai
negro's name into the conversation
A. she impatiently interrupted.
Ell 'I dom perzactly know, m" he an
swered good humoredly, bout tiftI
t. hunderd, / reckon. Anyways, Aun
is Minerva, I amt goin' to be no preach
er. When I puts on long pants II
;" goIn' to be a Confedrit Vetrun an
IS kill bout fifty hunderd Yankees an
ot Injuns, like my Major man."
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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