The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-05
JACK BRADLEY WOUNDED.

JACK bradley, one OF tne DeSC
boys, residing on Greenville street,
has been wounded. Good, boys al
ways get shot, when they run with
bad boys, and Jack proved no ex-
ception to the rule. +: .s.- F.. 3
Jacks mother knew that "Hoodie," 4"
that's Jacks younger brother, was
inclined to get, into mischief, so
she hid the family shootin' iron on
top Of the uppermost ledge Of the
side-board, where "Hoodie" could
not frd it, With out skinning the cat,
playing ante-over, and looping-the-
loop, all at the same time. Well,
s'Hoodie"' didn't find. it, but Jack
being boy who is about his fathers
business when his father is not at
home, by a certain amount OF inves-
tigation finally located the "weep'n
of self Defense" t5
Of course, he would not have
used it except that occasion de-
manded it. It happened Friday at
ternoon, when school was out for
the week, that Will Barnwell's pig
cons came into the garden Of Jacks
mother, and were about to eat up
all the winter vegetables, so Jacks
mother not being at home, what
should Jack do, in order to protect
the enclosure, but mount upon "a
chair, from. which he secured a
footing on the first landing Of the
side-board, from which elevation,
by little hard climbing, he finally
reached the "weep'n."".t b; .i.-f;
? Now here is where bad company
comes in. Jack having scared 1.-The
pigeons off the big cabbage head,
was intending to place the pistol,
(Which we should have said is a!
left-hand wheeler), back at its last
resting place, when along come
Raiford Mcmillan and Anthony Ten
nant, said to be two of the worst
boys in town. Jack never would
have thought of carrying the pistol
down into Haskell's pasture to shoot
rabbits Everybody, including his
mother admits that) had it not been
for the corrupting ingredients of
bad company, because, as we stated
in the beginning, Jack is one of the
goods boys of Greenville street, who
rises early in the morning, builds all
the fires in the house without being
told, studies his lessons every day,
has never "cussed a uss-word",
never smoked a cigarette, nor even
looked at the "duck" of a cigar
which his father has thrown away,
but goes to Sabbath school every
Sabbath, stays to church on the Sab
bath day, and washes his feet every
night, and has never been whipped
at school. Everybody knows that a'
boy like that would not have car !
ried an instrument of death, as the,
solicitor would say, to so great a,
distance except that he was lured on
to do so through the enticing quail
ties of evil communications, which
corrupt good manners-and boys.
In fact, he had not done so except
on Friday afternoons since ne and
Hoodie went hunting with the pistol
last summer. j e. ....
But. having carried the said
shootin' iron down into the pasture,
it was inevitable that the only good
boy in the crowd would get shot
and his name is Jack. Raiford and
Anthony being unable to behave in
the presence of pistol with due
decorum had to jump-up rabbit,
which with his cotton tail having
dared Jack to shoot, the "weep'n"
was quickly drawn and cooked, but
just as Jack was stepping into
shooting position the edge of the
hank on which he was standing
dropped off, and with it went Jack