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fHE HUSTLER OF ROME SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 1894
THE STORY OF
TWO BRAVE BOYS.
(by PAUL D. RRRSE. )
We lived in the valley and “Un
cle Harvey’’ lived about half a
mile on the western slope of the
ridges, all the land immediately
between us was under cultivation,
and, as 1 have started out to relate
an o’er true tale, truth to tell,
there was little of it that would
pay the tilling, but Rudyard Kip
ling’y—da Amelia Ri'es'y
speaking “that’s another story.”
Time and time again had the
ferocious, tiger-like courage of Jeff
been retailed to Tom and myself
until we had come to look upon
him as a being of the order super
human, and metaphorically wor
shiped him as a kind of diabolical
hero. JetT had one leg shorter than
the other, caused by white swelling;
but he could move around on that
short leg at a swift pace as the se
qual will show.
One Sunday (now will some ob
servant person tell nil why all
the devilment that country lads
get into occurs on the Sabbath?)
“Bush,” one of Jeff’s younger
brother, Tom and myself by pre
concerted arrangement had assem
bled at the plum orchard about
midway between Mr. Washington’s
and our home. I do no remember
wh it was the cau-«e of the alterca- '
tion, but T know that when we had
filled our pockets (likewise our lit
tle bellies) fu 1 of plums that one I
grew between Bush and Tom, and '
(strange Jto relate but Bush was
crippled in < n hand- o .t of six
boys three in that family are crip
ples) Tom did violen a* b B ish by j
grabbing his hands and squeezing ,
or wrenching it. This offended;
Bush, and he told the lighting j
member of the family about it.•
But of this we know nothing till ;
later.
Now about one hundred yards
from our home there is a pond I
which neither winter nor summer ,
is ever entirely dry. This pond is .
bordered by a thick fringeof bush- I
es, and in the summer was used
by men and boys for miles around
as a “wash hole” as it was very]
appropriately called. Every day (
Tom and I disposed ourselves in
its limpid depths (and many fre |
the thrashings I have received for ,
I tumbling into it when I was told I
I must not, and I remember that
often I have had Tom thrash my
hair to dry it before I want home,
but somehow they nearly always
know in spite of our precautions,
and the whipping would follow.
One day Tom and myself had
been in swimming as usual and
had just dried ourselves in the sun
and nearly finished dressing, wlieu
Jeff suddenly appeared, leading a
gray mare, called Fly “to water,
before hitchi.ig h■‘ to the plow fu;
the evening’s labor.
This was th? opp r'.’inity Jsff
had beon lookin ' ' r aid he ac
costed Tom v> ilk :
“Tom I want a word with you. ”
“Allright; what is it?”
“I want to know why as big a boy
a.s you are twisted Bush’s hand?
you know very weli he is lame in
one hand and much smaller than
; o i are! ”
What Tom said has passed out of
my memory, but. Jeff said :
“Neither of you are as old as I
am, but if you both think you can
whip me just light in. Here is my
h nd, I dare you to try to twist it
like you did Bush’s.”
I realy had no idea a fight would
spring from the word combat, and
the impulse to seize his hand, was
great, so great that I could hardly
resist it, but luckily I did.
A few more dares were given by
Jett' for both of us to jump hi n,
but Tom remembered in time that:
“He who runsaway” etc.
And wholly to my surpris”, sud
denly turned and with that swift
ness which fear alone can pin
wings to, lied towards hom< , with
Jeff clattering behind him as fast
a.s his lame leg would let him.
Above the j ond grew a thicket
of sweetgum and silver poplars for
about fifty yards, then cams the
dividing fence between our estate
and that of Mr. W’s. A cotton
patch was between the slnugh and
this wooded growth.
When Tom “picked up and dilut
'd,” I was like the six hundred
it Balaklava,! did not know what
to do,or which way to turri. No,
that's a lie I was far from being
like the six hundred as will soon
be made manifest.
When Tom turned and tied 1
stood for a moment stupified with
- amazement. But then I bo thought
i myself that I would stand less show
) than ever of “lieking”the stuffing
’ out of Jeff now that 1 was left
, alone. I argued that Jeff failing to
) catch Tom would come back and
, drown me in the pond and I knew
i the Lord never intended for me to
die that way.l had no fear of Jeff’s
catching up with Tom with that
lane leg of his, in fact if Jeff had
1 been a monstrosity with threejlegs,
I felt sure he would neverovertake
| Tom at the rate he was nearing
home. And there too, I happened
to think that Jeff was a cripple,
■ and I knew if I waited till he
come back for his horse and jump
ed on him giving him a thrashing
people would think it cowardly in
me for whipping a cripple.So when
this thought came inte my her.d
and I would have you know tha t
mine is not a sluggish mind—l
deliberately marched up to the
slough behind the trees, and I can
safely say that the pace I made
was not over ten miles per minute
nor was it very much less. When
I had gotten to the end of woods
way across tne intervening cotton
patch, I heard my step mother
screaming at the top of her voice.
“You, Paul I you better come to |
j this house this minute, I am going
’ tell your papa. ”
I heard her very distinctly
but did u >t want to alarm Jeff, or
i put him on no'ice that, I wag fry
|mg to bead h'm off io keep him
irom hunting lorn. I was so 'a,
from miking my mavoimrs kn >wti
that I wis hurrying forward half
bent!over so that he might not’ob
serve meters,cl the brjiliau! coup
de £u r-1 h i>l prepare 1.
' By this time T m had reached
' the fence, and putting one hand;
■on the top rail, made a leap and I
■ lit a top the fence flat of his little ’
belly then rolled over on the other
side, and was soon in our yard.
In the meantime Susie, our
cook, descried me making my de
tour to cut off the enemy and said
j loud enough to reveal my ad
i vantageous position.
“ Loo ky yonder 1 Yonder comes
Paul!” ’
' I could have choked her for her
stupidity. There it was, my plans
I had been formed and executed all
1 for nothing The enemy was in
■ possession of my plan of action,
I and would escape before I could
■possibly reach h'm and let lim
I feel the weight of my arms. So I
! ■ was disgusted and det-rmined to
Igo right ( n to the house. But when
II reached the gate, I grew indig
! mint at being thus foully foiled,
and as the home folks begged me
■so hard not to return to the ene-
I mi' s base of supplies that J decided
j Io respect their wishes, and I there
■' fore sat on the yard fence and is
sued this challenge:
“Durn you! 1 dare you in our
• yard I You come in our yard and
11’il beat the devil cut of you, you i
suck-egg dog, you.!”
l,.it he was afraid to come; he
knew too well which side of his
b.e J was buttered.
I had my plans all cut and dried
i i case he did accept the gauntlet
I hid thrown down to him, and
alter 1 he smoke of battle had clear
ed away and the enemy had left
the li Id utterly vanquished, I re
vealed after urgent solicitation
my designs t » the family.
Although in issuing my chal-
Luiire T not su'd so. when T
'dared him t > come into our yard I
inea.i'i. ue aick yaiu, tor I ic.nem
bered right where the hatchet
was, null i wi's going to get it and
fort by myself in the smoke-houre
by locking it on the inside, and
when he had battered a '’ole big
enough to poke his head t rough
I wa going to chop it off.
But ns 1 said he was afraid to
come in, and today I can laugh as
heartily over it as .left'himself can,
and wholly vithout malice.
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