Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-04-11

| sung ana Ola sing while ne Workecr<a
songs that ratified from his lips n !
way that amused me greatly. Then.
too, he could rip out words that had
a new and wonderful sound in them.
/ made up my mind that he was like
~ to become valuable asset when I
heard Aunt Deel saw to my Uncle Pea-
body: iat0 yi.ilstlf'i'A isel bie1il
i"You1l have to send 4 that ioafer
away, right now, ayes, guess yop
WILL ....l.., .,..,.... s..
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'Because this boy has learnt to
swear like a pirate -ayes-Ahe has I"
plUncle Peabody didn't know It but
myself had begun to suspect It,, and
that hour the man was sent away,
and l remember that he left In anger
with q number Of those new words
flying from hfs lips. A forced march
to the upperroom followedthat event.
Uncle Peabody explained that 1t was
| wicked to swear--that boys who did
IT. had very bad luck, and mine came
in a moment. l never had more OF
1t come along in the same length Of
time.ueH rs ~ esG0d fae d1l4aa i0 +
3l,After deceased to play with the
Wills boy Uncle Peabody used TO
say, often, 1t was a pity that ! hadn't
somebody Of my own age for COM
pany. Every day felt sorry that the
Wills boy had turned out so badly,
and II doubt not the cat and the shep-
herd dog and the, chickens and Uncle
Peabody also regretted his failures,
especially the dog and Uncle Peabody.
who bore all sorts of indignities for
my sake. Doy 3sf1ig % e9DiIC bug
Zone day when Uncle Peabody went
for the mail he brought Amos Grim-
shaw to visit me. He was four years
older than Ia freckied, red-hairedi
boy with a large mouth and thin lips.
He wore silver watch and chain,
which strongly recommended him in.
my view and enabled me to endure
his air Of condescehsioh. !" ~
q He let me feel It and look 1t all
over and slyly touched the chain
with my tongue just to see if, 1t lad
any taste to it, and Amos told me
that his father had given it to him and
that it always kept him 'kind O.
scairt."'lsll ti1 isspl dpHf B0 3 ld1
.d sWhyTNl0f9i9 8 io hne tiafl 9nt (
'For fear I'll break er lose, 1t an
git licked" he answered.
He took little yellow paper-cov.
cred book from his pocket and began
to read To himself =
whats that?" I ventured to ask
by and Bly,.
"A story. he answered. II met q
ragged ofewoman} in the road t'cther
day an, she give me. lot of 'em and
showed me the pictures an Il got to
readin' 'em. Don't You. tell Anybody
cause my OF dad hates stories an
he'd lick me til couldn't staps lie he
knew I was readin' 'em.p, T g., III
4 begged him, to. read out LOUD and
he read from d tale of two robbers
named Thunderbolt and Lightfoot who
lived In q cave in the mountains. 1They
were bold! free, swearing men Who
rode beautiful horses at a VIA gal
lop and carried guns and use3' them
freely and with unerring san and
helped themselves to what they want
ed. e
= He stopped, by and by, and confde;l
to me the factE that he thought. he
would run away and join a BAND Of
robbers. Ii
How do you run away?" Z asked.
"Just take the turnpike and keep
goin' toward the mountains. When
we meet band O. robbers give Penn
the sign an tell :em you want to-
join"
: He went on with the book and read
how the robbers had hung p captive
who had prosecuted them end inter
sfered with their sport. ? The story ex.
'plained, how they put the rope around
the neck Of the captive. and threw
the other end of it over .he limb
sof a tree and pulled the Inan into
the air. -s
He stopped suddenly and demanded:d
SIS there a long rope here?" Ia
/ pointed to Uncle Peabody's. hay
rope hanging on a peg.
lies hang a captive" he proposed.
At first ! did not comprehend his
meaning. He got the rope and threw
its end over the big beam. Our old
shepherd dog had been nosing the
NOW near us for rats. Amos cHught
the dog who, suspecting no harm game
phsstT6N to the Jrbpe's andO HeI tied
the rope around the dogs neck.
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