Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-09
IN THE LIGHT
OF EXPERIENCE

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Bobby, waiting to walk to the cor
ner OF the hall with his father as hi
did every morning, decided at last no
to wait for the end of the discussion
that seemed somehow to concern him
So he stole out of the half-open from
door of the big apartment building
The argument went on in his absence
i don't see why you have the coun
try craze again." Bobby's mother said
i don't want to give up this comfort
able fat and all my social affairs t.
bury myself in the woods"
1T isn't the woods" Bobby's father
said, impatiently. But, of course, il
you won't, that's all there is to it
We can get the house cheap now anC
Bobby needs a place to play. The
poor little chap looks like a celery
plant already
Bobby! Where was the boy?
Come on" Bobby's father said, for
getting his grievance. Wen fine
him out in the hall. He loves those
red-and-white tiles
Out in the hall door opened and 6
woman in a gorgeous kimono stopped
to pick up the morning paper.
You are looking for your child?'
she asked, coldly. He was here 9
little while ago, but he persisted il
waking my baby by singing, and
told him to run away"
HE is SO tiny!" cried the culprit's
mother.
1.-The smaller the boy the bigger the
noise! You might ask the elevator
boy"
Bobby's father rang the elevator
bell.
why, yes. sir, l seen him awhile
ago. the elevator boy said. He
wanted to know would | play tiger
and / told him to go to his ma. YOU
might ask the janitor."
why, sure, the little Teller was
here" the janitor said. TWAS sor
ry | was to tell him not to play or
the stairs, but there's so many tC
complain, sor, and noises echoes !
lot. You moight ask the young lady
in the offiss, sor.''
The young woman had noticed him
he looked so pretty in his khaki, and
she had told him to run out in the
courtyard because she could not hear
what people said over the phone
when he sang so loud. They might
ask the downstairs janitor.
The downstairs janitor looked uI
from the steps he was washing. 'Ach
yes, hat saw your boy, yet" he said
He v1s digging holes in mein court
und | send him away nit hOllering al
him He is run oudt in der street
yet"
I'm the road! Oh, Toni"
Bobby's mother was very white and
tense lines showed about his father S
mouth Bobby was so tiny to be
alone in such wide, rushing world
They walked far, looking for a police
man and finally found one on theil
return Bobhy's mother seized him
by the arm, eagerly.
"Oh, where's Bobby" she cried
"You have seen my little boy, haven't
you? In a khaki suit? l told him
never"
Sure, | seen him some time gone.
He was after playing ball with stones
in the road, and | says for him to
play on the walk l says, for fear o.
ottermobiIes. There's SO many aV
thin now"
"Where did he go them" asked
Bobby's father. You didn't let him
go far, surely?"
An why not?" the officer said,
cody. Il was thinkin' he lived near
by an he wasn't erwin It's orders to
stop the little vans what's cryin'. Be
sides, the Teddy took him along"
Bobby mother sank on a horse
block.
What lady?" she whispered. "A
kidnapper! know it was!"
Where is the station?" said Bob
by's father.
1t was mile away, so they took
the car, totally obliyious of the Curl
GUS stares of their fellow passengers,
who acted as if they thought them
selves In the company of two escaped
lunatics. Their leaving at the sta
ton corner did not put them any high
or In the public's esteem.
The desk sergeant was kind, but he
asked tnnumerable questions of the
two crazed persons who presented
themselves before him hatless and
coatless, in spite of the cold wind.
After an interminable time the desk