The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-01-02

the sign an tell 'em you want to
join"
He went on with the book and read
how the robbers had hung q captive
who had prosecuted them and inter.
fered with their sport. The story ex-
planned how they put the rope around
the peck OF the captive and threw
the other end OF 1t over the limb
of a tree and pulled the man into
the air.
He stopped suddenly and demanded :
us there a long rope here?"
l pointed to Uncle Peabody's hay
rope hanging On a peg.
Les hang a captive" he proposed.
At first | did not comprehend his
meaning. He got the rope and threw
It's end over the big beam. Our old
shepherd dog had been nOsing the
NOW near US for rats. Amos caught
the dog who, suspectlng no harm, came
pasSively to the ropes end. He tied
the rope around the dogs neck.
"We1l draw him up on tit won't
hurt him any" he proposed.
/ looked at a.. in silence. Nv
heart smote ne, | hadn't courage
to take issue Win the owner of T.
silver watch. When the dog began to
struggle / threw my arms about him
and cried. Aunt Deel happened to
be near. She came and saw Amos
pulling Mt the rope and me trying to
a v the dog.
"Come right down off'n that now
this minute" said she.
When we had come down and the
dog had followed. pulling the rope
after him, Aunt Deel was pale with
anger.
go right ~home-right home" said
she to Amos.
mir. Baynes said that he would
take me up with the horses" said
Amos.
"Ye can use shanks' ~horses-ayes!
they're good enough for yOu," Aunt
Deel insisted, and so the boy went
away in disgrace.
"Where are your pennies?" Aunt
Deel said to me.
l felt in my pockets but couldn't
find them.
"Where did ye have 'em lastT" my
aunt demanded.
son the haymOw."
"Come an show me-"
We went TO the NOW and searched
for the pennies, but not IN of them
could we find.
/ remembered that when | saw them
last Amos had them in ais hand.
"I'm awful 'fraid for him-ayes /
be ~ said Aunt Deel. I'm 'fraid
Rovin' Kate was right about him
ayes"
"What did she say?" / asked.
THAT he vas goin' to be hung
ayes! You can't play with him no
more. Boys that take what don't
belong to 'em-which l hope he didn't
ayes l hope 1t awful-are apt to
be hung by their necks until they
are dead-jest as he was goin' to
hang Of Shep-ayes they are!"
Uncle Peabody seemed t. feel very
bad when he learned how Amos had
turned out.
Don't say a word about It," said
he. "Mebbe you lost the pennies.
Don't mind EN-"
Soon after that, one Afternoon,
Aunt Deel came down in the field
where we were dragging. While she
was talking with Uncle Peabody an
idea occurred to me, and the dog and
I ran for the house. There was a
pot of honey on the top shelf of the
pantry and v e since / had seer 1t
put there / had cherished secret de-
sires,
I ran into the deserted house, and
with the aid Of a chair climbed to
the first shelf and then to the next,
and reached into the pan and drew
out a comb Of honey, and with nc
delay whatever 1t went to my mouth.
Suddenly 1t seemed to me that l lad
been hit by lightning. 1t was the
sting Of a bee. l felt myself 60
ing and made a wild grab and caught
the edge Of the pan and down we
came to the fioor-the pan and /
with a great crash.
l discovered that I was In desper-
ate pain and trouble and / got to
my feet and ran. l didn't know
where l was going. 1t seemed to me
that any other place would be better
than that. My feet took me toward
the barn and l crawled under it and
hid there. My lip began to feel better.
by and by, but big and queer. 1t
stuck out so that l could see 1t. !
heard my uncle coming with the
horses. l concluded that 1 would
stay where / was, but the dog came
and shifted and barked ut the hole
through which l had crawled as If