Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-26
CHAPTER II-continued.


Your sister stole it for mel" George
Instantly replied, checking the pony
%She stole it off our clo'esline an gave
1t to me-"
you go get your hair cut!" said
the stranger holly. "Yah haven't
got any sister,"
II know you haven't at home,'
George responded. 81 mean the one
that's in JAIL"
81 dare you to get down off that
punyp
George jumped to the ground, and
the other boy descended from the Rev
MIR. Smiths gatepost-but ne descend
ed inside the gate. ST dare you out
side that gate," said George.
"Yahl l dare you half way here
dare you"
But these were luckless challenges
for George Immediately vaulted the
fence-and four minutes later Mrs
MaIloch Smith, hearing strange noises
looked forth from a window; then
screamed, and dashed for the pastors
study. Mr.. Malloch Smith, that grim
bearded preacher, came to the front
yard and found his visiting nephew
being rapidly prepared by Master Min
afer to serve as a principal figure in
q pageant OF massacre. 1t was with
grent physical difficulty that Mr..
Smith managed to give his nephew a
chahce to escape into the house, for
George was hard and quick, and in
such matters remarkably intense; but
the minister, after grotesque tussle,
got him separated from his opponent
and shook him.
"Tou stop that, you" George cried
f1ercely, and wrenched himself away.
81 guess you don't know who am p
Eyes, do known the angered Mr..
smith retorted. 81 know who you are,
and you're disgrace to your mother
Your mother ought to be ashamed of
herself to allow"
"Shut up about my mother bein'
ashamed of herself!''
Mr.. Smith, exasperated, was unable
to close the dialogue with dignity.
ed. "a woman that let's a bad boy
like you"
But George had reached his pony
and mounted. Before setting off at his
accustomed gallop he paused to inter
rupt the Rev. Malloch Smith again.
@'You pull down your vest, you ole
billygoat, youI" he shouted, distinctly.
-'Pull down your vest, wipe off your
Gilman go to HI"
Such precocity is less unusual, even
grown people imagine. However, ii
was q new experience for the Rev.
Malloch Smith, and left him in q state
of excitement. He at once wrote a
note to Georges mother, describing
the crime according to his nephew's
Minafer before George did. When he
got home she read it to him sorrow
fully.
- Dear Madam: Your son has caused a
painful distress in my household. He
made an unprovolxed attack upon a little
household, insulted him by calling him
vicious names and falsehoods, stating that
ladies of his family were in Jail. He then
tried to make his pony kick him, and
when the child, who is only eleven years
Old, while your son is much older and
stronger, endeavored to avoid his indigni-
ties and withdraw quietly, he pursued
him into the Enclosure of my property and
brutally assaulted him. When appeared
upon this scene he deliberately called in
suIting words to me, concluding with pro-
family, such as Ego to h." which was
heard not only by myself but by my wife
and the lady who lives next door. I trust
such a state of undiscip1ined behavior
may be remedied for the sake of the rep
utation for propriety, if nothing higher, OF
the family to which this unruly child be-
longs.
George had muttered various inter
ruptions, and as she concluded the
reading he said:
Hes an ole liar!"
George, you mustn't say liar
Isn't this letter the truth?"
WELL" said George, show old am
II"
'Ten."
"Well, look how he says I'm older
than boy eleven years DID,"
That's true" said Isabel. "He
does. But isn't some of it true,
Georgfeg"
George felt himself to be in a diff
ficulty here, and he was silent.
George, did you say what he says
you did,"
(Which oneT'
ibid you tell him Toto Did you
say, Go to h-r"
George looked worried for mo-
ment longer; then he frightened. ''Lis-
ten here, mammal grandpa wouldn't
wipe his shoe on that ole story teller,
would he?"
George, you mustn't"
II mean: none of the Ambersons
wouldn't have anything to do with
him, would they? He doesn't even
know you, does he, manlma?"
''That hasn't anything to do with it,
eyes. it hast 1 mean: none of the
ANDERSON family go to see him, and
they never have him come in their
house; they wouldn't ask him to, and
prob'ly wouldn't even let him."
"That isn't what we're talking
about"
81 bet" said George emphatically,
81 bet if he wanted to see any of 'em,
he'd hat to go around to the side
door!"
"No, dear. they"