Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-07-24
THOSE GOO.GOO EYES.
Farewell. World, I'm Going to
GIory''-Seed Those Awful Eyes.
CA. w. Brabham.

plantation store one night, and very
dark night, too, listening to pho
nograph playing and talking. The
piece that struck them most was the
100000 Eyes" piece of rag time
music, bordering on the vulgar.
The owner Of the store had three
sons, and each Of these boys was as
full OF mischief as any boys in exist
| ence. They were not mean-just
! wanting something to
! laugh about and talk about-some
new fun for each day In the week
While Bill and his boy Bud were
watching and listening to the phono-
graph so intently these three boys
disappeared, but Of course no one
took any notice of their leaving.
| The owner OF the store kept on
putting new records in the machine,
and the time passed off rapidly, but
the store was closed, and each one
present went different ways for their
homes. Bill and Bud were both
scary, and 1t was not often that ell
ther ventured out at night, so they
started for their home in brisk
walk, and they had not proceeded
very far before just to their right
appeared three objects, the like Of
which they had never seen before.
| They stopped and took careful
look at the fearful objects. These
| things had blood red eyes as big as
ones fist, bigger mouths than any
human ever had; tremendous and
serrated, or saw-like, teeth, all as red
as crimson, and to make matters
worse there was three Of these fear
ful things glarng at them like de-
mons from the land Of the furies.
Bud was the first to speak. Said he:
Paw, dare's ole Satan and two Of
his sons"
"No, Bud" said Bill, "dem's de
'Goo-Goo Eyes what dat vehicle in
de store played ternight."
Paw, dare's no use standin' here;
let's light rag"
Oats up ter you, Bud, but mines
done it,"
Paw, you'd better burn your rag,
fer Pm goin' 10 burn mine now"
go your route, Bud, your ole
daddy's here wild YOU
Just about this time Bill and Bud
ran against something like a rope
tied across the road, and down went
both of them, sprawling into the
sand. Looking back they saw those
feariUl things eight on chem. anC
both BIN and Sud losl no time IN
gamma tbrir fcel, md me boy being
more aetlyo tran ,he tul,.or was the
first to get up, and down the road
he dashed like an arrow. Bill was
also making good speed, but seeing
the boy gaining on him at such an
alarming rate, he thought it would
be best for he himself to dodge be-
hind nearby pine, and let the Goo
Goo Eyes pursue Bud, who, it SEEM
ed, was in no danger Of being over-
taken. So Bill yelled out: "Run.
Bud, run!" and he dashed behind a
pine and lay down, but in a minute
there was one of the fearful things
right over him.
ooh, dear Saviour" shouted Bill,
ode Goo-Goo Eyes is got me shore.
o Lord"
Bill, however, didn't stay "got"
by the "Goo-Goo Eyes" for up he
got and off he dashed, running over
small trees, over tangled vines,
brush piles, knocked down rail
fence, and made. every possible near
cut for his home
In the meantime Bud had reached
home, and in all haste and earnest
ness told the family, large one,
that old Satan and two Of his sons
had got after him and his father, that
he had out-run them; that they had
caught his father, for he heard him
holler when they caught him, and
that he knew they had burnal him
up ere this, for re saw the fire inside
OF all three Of them, and the best
thing to do was to shut up the house,
put cut the lights, and keep quiet,
for the three Satans were coming
down the road toward their house
In less time than 1t takes to tell
it the house was shut up as securely
as 1t could be, the fire put out, and
the inmates waited in breathless 81
lence for developments. They did
not have to wait long, for up sprang
Bill into the piazza, and with all tie
force he had butted down the door
and fell sprawling into the floor
The family peeped out into the dark