Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Julius Happy
Day
(lTT'S perfectly awful and don't I'M
derstand it," said Julius neither,

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derstand it!' said julius neither.
applying a 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
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 headquartersi
Goodness knows, I wish we could move
away from here! / had Arthur over
especially to play with himl What did
you do with Arthur"
"Aw!" said Julius, with a growl. IT
ditched him early! He's no good. hon
est ma-he's a SISSY"
Meaning that he is a gentlemanly,
we'll bred boy!" flashed Julius mother.
you seer" to Julius father, in despair.
His Games.
What manner of amusements inter
ested You in the alley?' inquired his
father iudiclally of Julius.
"Aw,'' said Julius, II 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,
n n TfILing he in, ~ as,F.,
broken the back of his best horse by
falling on it, through the hole. and he'll
be darned if"
"Julius!"
Well, 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 Bilkins can't do anything
to him, I guess.
AN l teld LAIkiRs he didn't dast.
cause we wouldn't buy any more gro
eeries from him If he did. an wuzn't
doing anything anyhow. An 1t was an
awful old horse. An then Ginger-his
father has a plumbing shop three blocks
dewn-he said they was a pony In his
barn, and we went and hitched it to a
cart and then we drove"
'Drovel" shrieked julius mother.
with all the automobiles on the streets
and everything! Where did you driver
II dunno" said Julius. We had a
nice drive. We went clear over on the
west side across the river Only a po-
l. IA - 3
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 talkedl Ginger. he
sassed them back.
"'WhO d'yOu think owns this horse7
he said to 'em when they told us to
get out OF the way. Guess It's got a
right on the road II II does eat oats in
stead of gasoline. smartyr An l saw
the Mrs Kingman you know in her cleo
trio"
"Oh" moaned julius mother. "To
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 / run you int An a boy on a
bicycle got in our way coming home an
1t was his fault. because we yelled at
In, nd he
broke his leg, but II was only skinned.
1t was a second hand bicycle anyhow
and we got away because the pony went
faster than the boy could walk guess
he'd skinned his leg, too.
No Bell.
1.-THE street car that hit us only
pushed us sideways and tipped us over
an it was the motormans 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 ponys 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 l came away then any how.
AN it wasn't my fault that Mrs. But
toms 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
fatherP'
JULIUS" said his father, with awful
sternness. you march straight upstairs
to bed. this minute!"
"Wh-what do you think?" quavered
Julius mother in despair as her son
disappeared.
q think" said Julius father. with a
broad grin, that Julius had a good
time for once in his life. However, it
might be well to unload his supernatural
ant activity on a summer resort farm
this summer. Let's look up one some
where"
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