Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
THE COMPLETE BEST SELLER
No Time for Sergeants
By MAC HYMAN
Copyright 1854 by Mac LYMAN
THE STORY UP TO NOW

Inc man from LHS OTuJL 0OuTH CuHtC 10
the backDoods Georgia farm OF VIII Stock
dale to tell viii he'd better quit ignoring
Uncle SANS letters and report for induction.
But Wills Pa oiueS the city man mean
Groument-te outShouts him.
CHAPTER II
But when the other fellow managed to get
In few more words, and he said, Look.
don't care nothing about all that and didn't
come out here to talk to you nohow. I'm
from the draft board and I'm here to see
this boy and that's our business and
BY God. on my property :" Pa said.
THAT amt got nothing to do with it. the
man said. eff this boy knows what's good for
him, he'll get in that car right now and head
back to town with me and we wont have any
more trouble about it, You folks out here
think just because you live ten thousand
miles from town. you don't have to do things
like anybody else, but I'm here to tell you
different. I've been over roads that amt
even been discovered yet and down trails that
nothing but horse and wagon has been
down. and this is the third time I've tried
to find this place, and mean it's the last
time tool"
And he kept on like that for pretty good
while and kept Pa from busting In again, but
then he said I've wrote you four letters and
haven't had an answer to none OF them and
you needn't say you cant read neither be-
cause you could have got somebody to read
them to you, so that amt no excuses" which
was about the most foolish thing he could
have said. it semed like to me, because Pa
warnt going to take that from nobody.
And he didn't neither. He drawed himself
up real quick with his eyes all Lit up and
looked down on the fellow and just beloved
out at him, by God, sir, do you mean to
stand here and say to my face that my son
can't read!"
Now look" the fellow said.
DO you mean to come busting up here
and not say Howdy or nothing and say my
son cant read and expect him to go hopping
in that car like you said? Do you think my
son who has gone to school and has read
more times than you could shake stick at
couldn't answer a puny little ole letter If he
wanted toP BY God, man. let me tell you ;"
"All right" the fellow said. Then there
amt any excuse at all for him not answering
them letters :"
Letter." Pa said by God, sir, don't
think I can stand to listen to any more OF
this :"
well, that's all right with me- Now :"
"Nosir!" Pa said What you think don't
mean nothing to me, but I'm going to make
you eat them words just the same. win. you
60 in the house and get that book and lets
see about this thing here and now and not
have no more foolishness about it."
Proof in the Printing
And he stood there with his arms folded
and his mouth clamped together, so there
warnt nothing much I could do but go get
it; and when I got back, he hadn't budged
80 set down on the steps and opened it
up. Then Pa said, Go ahead. WILL" without
even looking at me, and so I read him
couple of pages out of it. 1t was about this
little boy named Tony who wanted a pony
and how he went to work for a man so he
could buy it. but he never made enough
money. so the man finally just give it to him
because he worked so hard. But ! never got
to the end of it because Pa raised up his
hand all of a sudden, and stopped and he
lowered his hand and said, "All right, that's
enough Of that one. Now 60 in and get the
Bible and let's hear a few of them words
in there"
Nov look, don't care anything about
that" the fellow said. II -.
Go on. Will" Pa said Il want to get this
here thing Strengthened out once and fol
all. by God"
So went in and got the Bible and when
come back out. Pa still had his arms folded,
30 set back down on the steps and give him
a dose of that one too. read him few lines
about that fellow that warnt colored but was
called Abraham, and done pretty good with
it, I think, only I didn't get to finish it
neither because the fellow busted in again,
saying, 1--WE had enough of all this. I'm ask
ing you for the last time now Are you going
to get in that car and go back into Callville
with me or are we going to have to come out
here and get you?"
And that set Pa of again so that he done
some pretty fierce cussing right up in the
mans face and asked him what he meant
by that and all: and when the fellow said,
81 mean just what say. They'll come out
here and take him if he don't come with me
and they can do it too!' it looked like Pa
was going to tear into him all of a sudden.
He rared back with his chest poking out and
his face turning red and lifted his fist up
and beloved out, "Of my property" so loud
that the fellows face burned right white He
started going backward, looking at Pa with
his eyes wide, while Pa kept making these
noises in his throat; and then he turned
and headed for the car and slammed the door
and starter driving out just about as fast as
he had been coming in before
Rocks for Departure
Pa was right wild by that time, too; he run
around until he found himself rock and he
heaved it at the car Just as it was turning
off onto the road, but he missed it and hit my
dog Blue instead, as Blue was just coming out
OF tne WOODS ABOUT Inat Llme, SO LIlaC blue
looked right at him and gave this yelp and
headed back for the woods again: and by the
time Pa could find another rock, the car was
gone and there warnt nothing left but dust
floating across the ditch.
Anyhow. after things settled down bit. Pa
was right wore out from it all. He set down
on the steps to fest, looking weak and trembly
all over: he kept shaking and turning white
in the face and when I tried to talk with
him, he didn't have nothing to say He would
just rub his hands over his face and shake
his head and lean back against the post
again.
But after little bit, he begun to feel better
and talk some. even though he didn't sound
much like the same man as before. He shook
his head and looked at the ground and spoke
real soft and sad and said how it warnt right
for folks to act that way. He said it was