Monroe City Democrat., 1912-01-25

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cause l don't want to get cussed. SO
two Teddy bears come out Of the
woods and ate up forty-two hunderd
of 'em."
why, Frances" reproved Lima,
"you always get things wrong. don't
believe they ate up that many chill
dren."
yes, they did too," championed
Jimmy, "'cause it's in the Bible and
Miss Cecilia 'spiained all bout 1t to
me, and she's our Sunday school
teacher and bout the bullyest 'splain-
er they is. Them Teddy bears ate up
bout a million chillens, which is all
the little boys and girls two Teddy
bears can hold at a time"
Il knows a man what amt got no
hair t all on his head" remarked
Billy; hes a copiure-man an me
an Wilkes Booth Lincoln been talkin'
to him ever sence we's born an he
amt never cuss us, an l amt never
got eat up by no Teddy bears neither.
Huccome him to be bald? He's out
in the fiel' one day a'pickin' cotton
when he sees turkey buzzard an he
! talk to her like this:
"T say turkey buzzard, say,
Who shall see unexpected to-
day.?
''If she flop her wings three times
you goin' to see yo' sweetheart, but
this-here buzzard amt flop no wings I
all; she jes' lean over an th'ow up
on his head an he been bald ever
sence; ev'y single hair come out"
''Did you-all hear bout that Italian
Dago that works on the section gang
eating a buzzard?" asked Frances.
Nav" said Billy. did it make
him sick?"
"That it did," she answered; "he
sent for Doctor Sanford and tells him,
Me killa de big bird, me eat-a de big
bird, de big bird make-a me SEEK"
Them Dagoes bout the funniest
talking folks they is," said Jimmy,
but they got to talk that way cause
it's in the Bible. They 'sputed on the
tower Of Babel and the Lord say Con
found you'll Miss Cecilia 'splained 1t
all to me and she's bout the dandiest
'splainer they is"
You may tell your tale now,
Jimmy" said Lima.
'Im going to tell bout William Tell
cause he's in the Bible" said jim
my. "Once they's a man name"
William Tell isn't in the Bible"
declared Lima.
"Yes, he is too," contended the lit
tie boy, Miss Cecilia 'splained it to
me. You all time setting yourself up
to know more'n me and Miss Cecilia.
One time they's man name William
Tell and he had little boy what's
the cutest kid they is and the devil
come long and temp him. Then the
Lord say, William Tell, you and Adam
and Eve can taste everything they
is in the garden 'cepting this one ap-
pie tree; you can get all the pears
and bunnanas and peaches and grapes
and oranges and plums and persim-
mons and scalybarks and fig leaves
and bout a million other kinds of
fruit if you want to, but don't you
tech a single apple And the devil
temp him and say he going to put
his cap on a pole and everybody got
to bow down to 1t for a idol and If
William Tell don't bow down to it he
got to shoot apple for good or evil
off'm his little boys head. That's all
the little boy William Tell and Adam.
and Eve got, but he amt going to fan
down and worship no gravy image on
top pole, SO he put a tomahawk in
his bosom and he tooken his bow and
arruh and shot the apple plumb th'oo
the middle and never swinge a hair
of his head. And Eve nibble of the
apple and give Adam the core, and
Lima all time 'sputing bout Adam and
Eve and William Tell amt In the
Bible. They're our first parents"
Nov, Billy, you tell a tale and then
1t will be my time." said Lima with a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. air