Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
julius Happy
Day
((TT'S perfectly awful and don't I'M
derstand iti'' said julius mother.
applying a very dainty handker-


derstand iti'' said Julius mother,
applying very dainty handker-
chief to her eyes
"Disgraceful!" said Julius father,
emphatically.
Julius stood with a hangdog look, his
eyes on the dusty stubbed footgear that
had started out earlier in the day as
carefully BACKED shoes. There was a
tear In his blouse and several rents
were in his trousers and a general at
mosphere of disrepute chung TO him.
He seems perfectly possessed" went
on his mother, ito escape to the alley
and hobnob with those young ragamuf-
fins who make It their headduartsrsi
Goodness knows, wish we could move
away from here! I had Arthur over
you do with Arthur"
"Aw!" said Julius. with a growl 7
ditched him early! He's no good. hon
est. ma--hs's SISSY"
Meaning that he is a gentlemanly
well-bred boyi" flashed Julius mother.
you see?' to julius father, in despair
His Games.
What manner Of amusements inter-
ested you in the alley?" inquired his
father judicially OF julius
Jaw" said Julius, Il met Fatty an
he said the gang was up in the barn
where Lilkins keeps his horses. an we
went there and played train robbers till
Slicker, he fell down the hole where the
hay comes down. an | fell down, too,
an Lilkins he comes in an says we've
broken the back of his best horse by
falling on it. through the hole. and he'll
be darned if"
"Julius!"
We'll. you asst me. didn't your de-
manded Julius Indignantly Anyhow.
he said he'd be-that-if he'd stand for
it, an Fatty he yells like everything
because he hasn't any parents an lives
with his aunt, and she's away workin'
all day. So Lilkins can't do anything
to him, l guess
An 1 told LillSins he didn't dast
cause we wouldn't buy any more gro
ceries from him II he did. an | wuzn't
doing anything anyhow An II was an
awful old horse. An then Ginger-his
father has a plumbing shop three blocks
barn, and we went and hitched il to a
cart and then we drove
''Drove!" shrieked Julius mother
with all the automobiles on the streets
and everything! Where did you driver
Il dunno" said Julius. we had a
nice drive. We went clear over on the
west side across the river. only a po-
liceman he said he'd arrest us if we
kept stopping in the middle of the street
to fix the harness. We had to tie II to-
gether. An lot OF automobiles got
| backed up behind us and they were
| fierce, the way they talked! Ginger. he
sassed them back.
"'who d'you think owns this horse?
he said to 'em when they told us I,
get out Of the way. Guess it's got
right on the road II IT does eat oats in
stead Of gasoline. smRrty" An I saw
the Mrs Kingman you know In her cleo
! trio"
! oh" moaned julius mother. "TC
have the Kingsmans see my child in the
grasp of a policeman and with those lit
tie ragged"
"A man he got mad" Julius proceed
| ed, because the pony ate some banan-
as from the back of his push cart an
! Fatty threw a stone at him and he
caught me and shook me something
fierce an another policeman he said,
Now, go on out OF here, you kids, quick,
before I run you in An a boy on a
bicycle got in our way coming home an
it was his fault, because we yelled at
him and Ginger thought the pony'd
broke his leg, but It was only skinned.
II was a secondhand bicycle anyhow
and we got away because the pony went
faster than the boy could walk. l guess
he'd skinned his leg. too.
No Bell.
THE street car that hit us only
pushed us sideways and tipped US over
an il was the motorman's fault. be-
cause he didn't ring no bell. Anyhow,
/ didn't hear any. An Ginger's father
was awful mad. He was waiting for us.
He said the pony's people only rented
room in the barn an it would be a won
der if they didn't sue him for damages.
What's damages? l don't know what he
did to Ginger. but Ginger yelled awful
an | came away then any how.
AN it wasn't my fault that Mrs. But
| TONS clothesline broke when l ran
through her yard an hit it. They didn't
tie IT up tight enough. An the girl
was mad when she saw the clothes all
down. Honest, l didn't do nothin'
| fatherW
! Julius" said his father. with awful
sternness, you march straight upstairs
] to bed this minutei'
| ''Wh- what do you think quavered
| julius mother IN despair as her son
disappeared
! Il think" said Julius father, with a
| broad grin. that Julius had a good
/ time for once in his life. However, il
| might be well to unload his superabund
! ant activity on a summer resort farm
/ this summer. Let's look up one some
/