The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-09-04

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But these were luckless challenges,
for George Immediately vaulted the
fence-and four minutes later Mrs.
Malloch 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
a pageant Of massacre. 1t was with
great physical difficulty that Mr..
Smith managed to give his nephew a
chance to escape into the house, for
George was hard and quick, and in
such matters remarkably intense; but
the minister, after a grotesque tussle,
got him separated from his opponent
and shook him.
you stop that. you'll" George cried
fiercely, and wrenched himself away.
81 guess you don't know who / am ="
"Yes, / do knOw!" the angered Mr..
Smith retorted. ~ know who you are,
and you're a disgrace to your mother |
Your mother ought to be ashamed of
herself to allow"
"Shut up about my mother beln'
ashamed of herselfl"
Mr.. Smith, exasperated, was unable
TO close the dialogue with dignity.
"She ought to be ashamed" he repeat
ed. "a woman that lets a bad boy
Ike ycu-"
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, you'll" he shouted, distinctly.
"Pull down your vest, wipe OF your
Gilman go to h--!"'
Such precocity is less unusual, ever
In children of the Rich, than most
grown people imagine. However, 1t
was a new experience for the Rev.
Malloch Smith, and left him in a state
of excitement. He at n g wrote g
note to Georges mother, describing
the crime according to his nephew's
testimony, and the note reached Mrs.
Minafer before George did. When he
got home she read it to him SORROW
fully.
" Dear Madam: Your son has caused q
painful distress In my household. He
made ar unprovoked attack upon a little
nephew Of mine who Is visiting in my
household, insulted him by calling him
vtciotlg ms maS and falaahnnda atattp0 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
b~rutally assaulted him. When I appeared
upon this scene he deliberately called in
sulting words to me. concluding with pro-
family, such as 'go to h." which was
heard not only by myself but by my wife
and the lady who lives next door. I rust
such q state OF Nndlsciplined behavior
may be remedled for the sake of the rep
utation for propriety, II nothing higher. of
the family to which this unruly child be-
longs.
George had muttered various inter-
ruptions, and as she concluded tho
reading he said:
Hes an ole liar!"
George, you mustn't say liar
Isn't this letter the TRUTH"
SWELL" said George, show old am
II"
"Ten."
swell, look how he says Tn older
than a boy eleven years Old"
"That's true" said Isabel. HE
does. But isn't some Of it true.
G~eorgie?"
George felt himself to be in a diff
fculty here, and he was silent.
George, did you say what he says
you didT
(which oneY
did you tell him Toto Did you
say, Go to h-Y"
George looked worried for a mo-
ment longer; then he frightened. "Lis-
ten here, mamma; 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, mamma?'
"That hasn't anything to do with It,"
"Yes. it hast / 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
probly wouldn't even let him."
'That isn't what we're talking
about"
81 bet" said George emphatically,
~ bet IL he wanted to see any Of 'em,
he'd hat to go around to the side
door,"
"No, dear. they"
eyes, they would, mamma So what
does 1t matter II I say somep'm' to
him he didn't Hike? That kind q
| people. / don't see why you can't say
anything you want to to 'em!"
mo. George. And you haven't an
swered me whether you said thai
dreadful thing he says you did,"
well" said George. Anyway,
he said somep'm' to me that made me