News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-08-18

Mrs. SchoEe.t; might have been NOR,
dismayed than she was if she had re
allied that it was the beginning of al
epoch After dinner Penrod was
slightly scalded in the back as a re-
sult of telling Della, the cook, that
there was q wart on the middle finger
of her right hand. Della thus proving
poor material for his new manner to
work upon, he approached Duke in the
back yard, aSsd, bending double, seized
the lowly animal by the forepaWs.
Il let you know my names Penrod
SchOfed," Kissed the boy. He pro-
:ruded his underlip feroctously, scowl-
ed and thrust forward his head until
ais nose touched the dogs. "And yoG
better look out when Penr0d Scho-
fields around. or you'll get in big
trouble! You understan' that, boz
The next day, and the next. the in
creasing change in Penrod puzzled and
distressed his family. who had no idea
Of its source. How might they guess
that hero worship takes such forms
They We're vaguely conscious that a
rather shabby boy, not Of the neigh
horhood. came to play" with Penrod
several times. but they failed to con-
meet this circumstance with the Pc
culiar behavior of the son of the house.
whose ideals fhis father remarked
seemed to have suddenly become
identical with those of Gyp the Blood
CHAPTER XIV.
The imitator.
FIT EANWTILE, for Penrod him
fM6 sci, "ii4e had taken on new
Az a meaning, rev richness" He
AID become fighting NAH
Al t-uyclsdtiou at least DO you want
to know how | do when they try to
slip up on me from behind!" he asked
Della And he enacted for her I'M
appreciatiye eye scene of fistic ma
neqvers wherein he he'd an imaginary
antagonist helpless in Il net of strata
gems.
Frequently, when he was alone, he
would outwit and pummel this same
enemy, and, after u cunning feint,
land dOlorous stroke full upon a face
better next time. That's the way we
do up at the Third
Sometimes in solitary pantomime he
encountered more than one opponent
at q time, for numbers were apt to
come upon him treacherously, especial
~ at n little after his rising hour
when he might be caught at disad-
II "a IN ctu Ion
to incase the other in his knicker-
bockers Like lightning he would
hug the trapping garment from him,
and ducking and pivoting, deal great
sweeping blows among the circle of
snealing devils. THAT was how he
broke the clock in his bedroom.) And
while these battles were occupying his
attention. it was waste of voice to
call him to breakfast, though if his
mother, losing patience, came to his
room, she would find him seated on
the bed pulling at stocking. well. /
amt coming as fast as ] CAM"
At the table and about the house =
generally he was bumptious, loud with |
fatuOus miSinformation and assumed |
satire nor reprOof seemed able TO re- |
duc9, but it was among his own in !
timates that his new superiority was .
most outrageous. He twisted the |
fingers and squeezed the neckS of all |
the boys of the neighbOrhOod, meeting |
their Indignation with a hOarse and
rasbing laugh he had acquired after
oh in h., fnI 1,o
5eered and tainted the lawnmower,
the garden scythe and the wheelbarrow
quite out of countenance.
Likewise he Dragged to the other
boys by the hour, Rupe Collins being
the chief subject of encomium-next
TO Penrod himself. That's the way
we 90 up at the Third" became staple
explanation Of violence. for Penrod,
like ,Tartarin. was plastic IN the hands
of his own Imagination, and at times
convinced himself that he really was
one of those dark and murderous
spirits exclusively of whom "the
Third" was composed to
Nupe Collins.
Then, when Penrod had exhausted
himself repeating TO nausea accounts
of 1.-THE prowess of himself and his
great friend, he would turn to two
other subjects for vainglory. These
were his father and Duke.
Mothers must accept the fas that be-
tween babyhood and manhood their
sons do not boast of them. The boy. !
With boys. is a ChOctaw, and either
thesinhuence or the protection of wom-
en- is shameful. "Your mother won't
let YOU is an insult But. My father
won't let me-" is a dignified explana-
ton and cannot be hooted. A boy is
ruined among his fellows if he talks
MUCH of his mother or sisters, and he
must recognize it as his duty to offer
at ieast the appearance Of persecution
to an things ranked as female, such as
cats and every species Of fowl But
he must champion his father and his
dog, and, ever ready to pit either