Daily Colonist (1900-10-14) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1900-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

LEWIS LAKE, FROM W. 1'. & Y. RAILWAY.

sun was shining; the morning air was cool and fresh; the birds were chirping in the trees nearby, aud everything seemed to be conspiring to make Jimmy feel very comfortable. Then he suddenly remembered that it was his fourteenth birthday, which made him feel more comfortable anil lazy than before, and in honor of the occasion he turned over in bed to take an extra snooze. He was soon indulging in a very gratifying dream, in which he was surrounded by a pile of red, ripe watermelons, and wus just about to begin the task of eating the whole collection when he was startled by a voice calling up the sairs:

"Come, Jimmy, get up. Breakfast is all on, and I need some wood split."

When Jimmy recovered from the shock he found himself sitting on the edge of the bed with his eyes mechanically wandering iu the direction of the chair on which his clothes were piled. Then he scratched his head, gazed out of the window, back at his clothes, around the room and toward the window again. And

all the time his mind was grappling with j roused himself and the soul-stirring thought: "How sweet "Want some pie

;il some pie aud saw some wood. If he gels interested he's tho man we're looking for."

Jimmy hesitated. He looked up and down ttie road, back at the barn and then at the man in the buggy. The words, "a new fangled machine for cutting wood" kept ringing in his ears. "No, mister, I ain't seen 'im," said he. "Well, if you do see him," said the man, "come over to the poor house and Jet us know. He got away from there yesterday."

Tliu buggy moved oft" up the road and left Jimmy alone with his thoughts. Just about what his thoughts were can be accounted for by his actions. He went and tuok another look at the stranger in the barn.

"Guess that must be him," he soliloquized us he shut the door again aud started for the house..

His destination was the pantry, where he found three freshly baked apple pies. When Jimmy returned to the barn he had a quarter of a pie on a plate. He summoned courage to give the man on the straw a gentle shake. The stranger it up.

said Jimmy, hold-good deal of ap-

broad, sickly

might be this fleeting life"—if it wasn't j ing out his plate with so full of wood piles. Jimmy had been prehension, wondering for several years why it was j The fellow's reply was that his Sunday school teacher kept say- grin, ing that the Lord loved all good boys— Without a word lie stretched out one for if the Lord loved all good boys, why I long, bony hand and grasped his prize.

1 at it lovingly for a. moment.

did he allow wood to grow in great, big chunks that had to be split on the same morning a "feller wanted to go tishin'V" "Jim-e-e-e-e," came the voice up the stairway.

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