Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15


(. guess Jimmy was forty years old.
! Or maybe he was hfty. or thirty-nve.
Or something. Anyway he was serious
minded and belonged to the United
Brethren Church. He was thin and
quiet and balder than hired men are
and he had no bad habits except put
ting angleworms in q pickle bottle
and settlqg the bottle IN the sun to
dissolve Tho worms into angleworm
! oil for his rheumatism. Whenever
: you saw him digging tho garden you
! would sec . pickle bottle In his hip
: would take the bottle from his pocket
and pull out the cork and put worm
In the bottle. He never had much
rheumatism In the summer. but sum-
mer was whom the worms were. so he
mer. to last through the winter.
: SO We used to help him. We would
get pickle bottles and hunt angle
worms for him. He had to have moro
than enough because Mrs. Burton
bugs and things ana tho mere sight
! because she knew Jimmy put worms
In pickle bottles. Every once in
aFhiie Mrs. Burton had ono Of her
hired girls 30 through the stable and
SR1Vu8A SuAA11Ay . kUOuls Wu0u Jimmy
smash all the pickle bottles she could
an0. SO Jimmy had to have an awful
lot OF them. Another reason he had
To- have aNlot was that the worms
didn't always turn into oil. hate to
think about those bottles myself
guess rheumatism was the worst
trouble Jimmy. had. but the way Mrs.
burton treated his angleworm bot
tle., and the way Mrs. Burton's hired
.rls trs r. tol hin: were ere bis greatest
Bony 20 lots Of times.
He told us that no did not resent
the way Mrs. Burton acted about the
enyieworms. because people couldn't
that got on their nerves; he said he
\ felt the same way about cats. And
ne DID. He couldn't stand cats at all.
When z cat came near him no would
cited and say: rake It awayl rake
i awayr Nike he was frightened to
Wei. whom Jimmy dressed up on
Asns he t Wa. our hre 10 r ir On On
7 was pretty swell. He carried q cane
ana had his hair parted in tho middle
ana wore . drab derby hat and black
ZIG KID cloves, whether It was winter or
Miss Nancy: guess no was sort Of
! like that-he was kind and never
: swore At Us boys nor twisted our
I arms to mako us holler. So Mrs. Bur-
He was almostas much afraid Of girls
- he was ofecats.
h, There were two Of Mrs. gurton's
n ia,,x siFis and and they were both big and
them all right, because they used to
give US cookies and apples and things.
when they got their work done they
used to sit on the back steps Of the
Kitchen and maybe Jimmy would be
would call things at him. He never
paid any attention.
like to act when they have got their
and they can't 60 away because pretty
soon they'll have to get supper. They
sit awhile and then they begin SLAM
ping at each other, and pretty soon
they get up and begin to chase each
they got acting that way Jimmy al
ways moved his chair back into the
stable q little and put the carriage
wnip wnere he could reach 1t because
once or twice when they were cutting
one held him while the other kissed
him. It was all in fun, because thew
knew he didn't like 1t, but IL was
worse than fun for Jimmy. He wasn't
the kind that like kissing. II he had
UoGH tnoy wouldn't have kissed him.
80 then they found out he didn't
like cats and when they sat on the
Kitchen steps they would lean hack
into the kitchen and say, "Here
kitty. kitty" and catch hold Of the
Cats when they came to them. Then
they would try to rush Jimmy and
put the cats on him. or rub the cat
FUR against his face. I saw thena toss
q cat on him once. II rrabhea h,n,
with It's claws and hung on and ha
screamed like a parrot and hit A. -
with his dsts. He was crasv r,,..s
the girls thought II was FUN: VOC,
aever can tell what girls think il fun.
sometimes tho girls would get nm
70 MS room in the stable and nut a
cat IN his bed. and Sometimes th.v
WouId smut the cats in his oatbin. 81
Slmmy always opened things care.
xuuy. IL got to be O habit with hino
guess. and he opened match hnxes
sno everything the same wav-onsn.
- tnem little and peeked in he
k0To ne opened them full, This nnaSa
a.m seem sort of peeky and aca red
=, Vne reason me and Swatty ana Ronv
Mked MIN was because he was ai~mtt
~ 3niy grown person-except Mr.
0lnel-who talked to IN as M.
Were crown folks. We didn.t ,iro
II. Bimel 80 much because he vas
Me Z. u. c. A. and we never kneu,
Wnen ne was going to talk ahnut
heaven. Jimmy talked about heavsn
700, sometimes. but not az II he was
the agent for 1t like Mr.. Biffei Ala
When Jimmy falked q ho,,x a. wv.