Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-14

again and again. At last there were
! enough SO that Peter did not have to
empty his into the big basket, and
Sammy gave him a nice fat head Of
, lettuce
Peter hid them in hole in the wall
and then ran into the flower garden,
| where Sammy was watering roses.
Then he scurried all about looking for
Fifteen Minutes. Sammy thought he
might be asleep under lilac bush,
, but he wasn't, not he-catch him do
ing thing like that!
Without him there wasn't time to
weed the lettuce bed before school,,
and, as 1t was, he was fifteen minutes
late because he had to go in and "be
cleaned up" before he went.
"You hunt all the morning, Peter"
called Sammy. land If you find him,
I'll give you a head of lettuce every
day for week.
Then Sammy ran off to school, and
all the weeds in the lettuce bed made
faces at him as he went blythe mean
| things!
Peter ran down the path. and got
his basket of peas and tucked the
head of lettuce under his ARM. then
he trotted off home. On the way he
came upon Simon Wildcat asleep in
| the sun.
Hello, Simon Wildcat" he called,
'have you seen anything Of Little Fiji
teen Minutes this morning."
ITO be sure" yawned Simon, "he
| went by here on dead run fifteen
minutes ago"
ooh, do help me catch him, Simon
Wildcat" cried Peter, "he ran away
from Sammy this morning"
"All right" said Simon, "Ill climb
tree and see if he's anywhere about
So Simon ran up tree, but 1t
wasn't high enough, so he jumped on
another, and then another, and pretty
soon he was out of sight.
Sammy had to stay after school for
being late, but Peter and Simon were
sitting on the fence waiting for him
when he came out. He hurried through
his dinner. and then began to pull up
all the weeds in the lettuce bed that
had made faces at him as he went by,
and served them right, too! Simon
and Peter tried to help, but they got
to fooling, and finally played tag
among the lettuces instead, which
didn't do them any particular good.
When the wedding was done it was
time for school again, so the eggs for
old Mrs. White must be carried after
ward Just when the boys were playing
ball. If he only could catch Little Fiji
teen Minutes, though. he might get
back for the end Of the game.
"Never mind, Sammy, We'll catch
him vet" squeaked Peter.
"Of course we WILL" screamed ST.
mon. as he sprang from branch to
branch.
Peter ran in all the holes along the
path and under all the bushes, but
found no trace Of Little Fifteen Min
utes.
Sammy trotted along as fast as he
could, but of course he had to go care
fully on account Of the eggs.
Pretty soon they came to Mrs. Fox's
hole. Young Elisha Fox sat before
the door, all dressed up in his store
clothes.
"Hello." cried Elisha Fox, whats
the hurry?"
"We're trying to catch Little Fiji
teen Minutes" said Sammy. Have
you seen ANYTHING Of him."
Gust nassed here q little while
ago. said Elisha Fox. 81 don't believe
you'll catch him."
ooh. do rlease. Mr.. Fox. come and
helm us. nobody runs as fast AS you
"Well, will. irst TO oblige you.
Sammy, though hardly like to- said
Elisha. because it's my mothers
birthday, and I've got on my second
best trousers, and my best jacket
with the velvet buttons; but, If you'll
| give me an egg for my mothers cake,
will"
Gail right" said Sammy. So off they
all went as fast as they could to the
old lady Whites, where Sammy left
the eggs.
But for all their hurry, the ball
game was quite over, and the boys
gone home to supper when they got
back to the meadow.
They were so tired and discouraged
that they sat down by the side Of the
road and when the Sun came along on
his way to bed, they were all sitting
there crying
"Bless my SOUL" said he, with a
broad smile, whats the matter"
We've been trying to catch Little
Fifteen Minutes all day." sobbed Sam
my, land we can't"
Nobody ever did. saw him half
an hour ago scurrying along the road
to Yesterday as fast as he could
travel. I'm on the way there myself
now. I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll send
round his little brother in the morn
ing at six fifteen sharp. Mind you don't
let him get away from you, for the
whole minute family run like any
thing. Good night"
Well, they all ran home to bed as
fast as they could, except Elisha Fox,
and he went back to his mothers
party.-The Myrtle.
TEDDY WRITES AGAIN.