Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-25
Chldren's Evening Story


pink and red balloons, and tied around
with string, just as you tie paper
bag around the neck, after you've
blown 1t up, to burst it, and when
those rose-torpedoes were cracked
down on a fiat stone-my! you should
have heard the noise!
Well, lots of them were fired off, and
then Buddy Pigg got some empty bags
and his soldiers blew them up and they
cracked 'em down, and they went on
Boom! BOOM" like great, big can
mons. They blew dust up in the air, to
pretend 1t was smoke. and there was
the most terrible make believe battle
you ever heard of. But nobody was
hurt, and they had lots of fun, and the
best of it was that neither side won,
which made everybody happy.
"Now We'll take a rest" said Buddy
Pigg II wonder what Brighteyes and
the others are doing?"
Lets go see,' proposed Billie Bushy
tail.
So they all marched off through the
woods, just like real soldiers and pref
ty soon they came to the place where
Brighteyes and Sister Sallie and all
the girls were having a picnic. =.
You're just in time" called Bright
eyes Come and have some lunch,
and osme lemonade. You must be
tired after all that fighting" Now was
not she kind, even after Buddy had
laughed at the idea of picnic being
better than, battle? Well, I just
guess! Those soldiers were glad
enough to eat the lunch, andr drink
the lemonade, can tell you.
So the soldiers and the girls sat
there in the woods unde rthe trees and
had a fine time-almost as good as at
the make believe battle, I think and az
ter while, just as Buddy and his
chums were getting ready to 30 back
and shoot some more stickfrecrackers
and roseleaf torpedoes, what SHOULD
happen but that bad fox and that mean
old, yellow, shaggy dog ran right out
of the woods. ga.
Let's eat everything up" cried the
fox, waving his big tall
Eyes, and then We'll cath the SPUR
rels and rabbits and guinea pigs all up!
cried the dog, gnashing his teeth and
blinking his eyes as bold as bold could
be.
At first even the soldiers were so
frightened that they hardly knew what
to do and they were about to run away
when Buddy called out:
Come on! Let's get our guns and
our cannon and shoot them!"
Then he grabbed up some stickfre-
crackers and began to break and snap
them, and Sammie shot off some rose
leaf torpedoes and Billie and Johnnie
clapped stones together and Jimmie
and Bully and Bawly threw dust in the
air until it looked like smoke, and
there was a terrible racket. until -
we'll, sir if that dog and that fox were
not SO frightened that they ran away
and didn'e even get so much as crumb
of cracker or a drop of lemonade; and
It Served them right, think.
Then how thankful the girls were to
the brave soldiers. Oh, everything
turned out just right, I'm glad to say.
That afternoon Buddy and his chums
had more Fourth of July fun, and
Brighteyes and her friends played with
their dolls.
Then at night Buddy and the boys
sent up skyrockets and Roman candles
(Which were stick covered with light
ming bugs) and prettier ones you never
saw And they even had lightning
bug pinwheel. Oh, it was the incest
Fourth Of July that ever was! I hope
you children have as nice one and
that you celebrate Independence day.
And, if none of you do. why, in the
next story I'll tell you about Buddy
Pigg trying to buy tail for himself,
because he didn't have any. That is,
I will if the lollypop doesn't fall down
stairs and break his stick.