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

derstand it, said julius mother
applying a very dainty handker-
chief to her eyes.
"Disgraceful!" said Julius father,
emphatically.
julius stood with hangdog look, his
eyes on the dusty studded footgear that
had started out earlier in the day as
carefully BACKED shoes. There was a
were in his trousers and a general at
mosphere Of disrepute chung to him.
He seems perfectly possessed" went
on his mother, TO escape TO the alley
and hobnob with those young ragamuf-
FMS who make it their headquartsrsl
Goodness knows, I wish We could move
away from here! l had Arthur over
especially to play with him! What did
you do with Arthur"
"Aw!' said julius, with a growl II
ditched him early! He's no good, hon
est ma-he's a sissy"
Meaning that he is a gentlemanly,
well-bred boy!" 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.
"Aw," 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 l 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
recause 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, I guess.
An I told Lnkins he didn't dast,
cause we wouldn't buy any more gro
ceries from him If he did, an l wuzn't
doing anything anyhow. An 1t was an
awful old horse. An then Ginger-his
father has a plumbing SHOP three blocks
down-he said they was pony in his
barn, and We went and hitched it TO a
cart and then we drove"
"Drover shrieked Julius mother
with all the automobiles on the streets
and everything Where did you driver
Il dunno" said julius. I'VE had a
nice drive. We went clear over on the
west side across the river. only a po-
iceman he said he'd arrest us il we
kept stopping in the middle of the street
to fix the harness. We had to tie it to-
gether An a 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 tc
get out OF the way. Guess it's got q
right on the road if it does eat oats in.
stead of gasoline. smarty,' An 1 saw
! the Mrs. Kingman you know in her cleo
! trio"
! "Oh" moaned Julius mother. IT,
| have the Kingsmans see my child in this
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 I'M 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 ponyd
broke his leg, but it was only skinned.
1t 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.
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