The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-08-21
CHAPTER H-continued,

"Your sister stole it for me !" George
instantly replied, checking the pony.
"She stole it off our clo'esline an gave
it to me-"
"You go get your hair cut!" said
the stranger holly. "Yahi I haven't
got any sister,"
II know you haven't at home"
George responded. II mean the one
that's in JAIL"
Il dare you to get down off that
pony"
George jumped to the ground, and
the other boy descended from the Rev.
Mr.. Smiths gatepost-but he descend
ed inside the gate. II dare you out
side that gate," said George.
yah! l dare you half way here.
I dare YOU"
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. It 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 ttussle,
got him separated from his opponent
and shook him.
you stop that, you'll" George cried
fiercely, and wrenched himself away
II guess you don't know who I am !"
Eyes. I do know!" the angered Mr..
Smith retorted. II 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 bein'
ashamed of herself"
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
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, you !" he shouted, distinctly.
"Pull down your vest, wipe off your
Gilman go to HI"
Such precocity is less unusual, ever
in children of the Rich, than most
grown people imagine. However, it
was a new experience for the Rev.
Malloch Smith, and left him in q state
of excitement. He at once wrote q
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 an unproyoked attack upon a little
nephew Of mine who is visiting in my
household. insulted him by calling him
vicious names and ~falsehoods, stating thai
ladies of his family were in jail. He Their
tried to make his pony kick him, and
when the child. who is only eleven years
old, while your son is much older an6
stronger. endeavored to avoid his indigni
ties n withdraw quietly. he pursued
him into the Enclosure Of my property ant
brutally assaulted him. When 1 appeared
A,voo~ <lf~ ~ l>rsLoro<oO,. T.
sulting words to me, concluding with pro
family, such as Ego to h." which wal
heard not only by myself but by my wifi.
and the lady who lives next door. / trus
such a state Of undisciplined behavio,
may be remedied for the sake of the rep
utation for propriety. II nothing higher, o
the family to which this unruly child be
longs.
George had muttered various inter
ruptions, and as she concluded tn,
reading ne said:
"He's an ole Hart"
George, you mustn't say liar
Isn't this letter the truth?"
"Well," said George, show old ar
II"
"Ten."
swell. look how he says I'm olde
than a boy eleven years old"
Sfhat's true" said Isabel. IA
does. But isn't some of it tru,
!Georgie?"
George felt himself to be in a d.
ficulty here, and he was silent.
"George, did you say what he say
you did,"
(which one2"
"Did you tell him TOTO Did 20
say, Go to h-Y"
George looked worried for a M
ment longer; then he frightened. Iii
ten here. mamma; grandpa wOuldn
wipe his shoe on that ole story telle
would he2"
"Georgie. you mustn't"
II mean : none Of the Anderson
wouldn't have anything to do wi,