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Show Didn't Agree With Him. A small boy who had used his "dearest cllbrts" in tho accumulation ut a nickel, and alter having become Eole proprietor of this amount of capital squandered if for a water melon, thus related his experience: "I got a whalen big one for a nickel, an' went down cellar to eat it; when I cut it, seemed to mo 'twasn't y.actly ripe, hut it was miw- an' I was poin' to eat it,- an I did, every bit. Well, I felt pretty good for an" hour or so, and ihen I began to fuel mixed up, I thought some une had started a circus inside o'me.-or that I had el twelve cannon ball.aii' they was al! jumpin' around;-anyhow it seemed as though seven million cro-scved, IHt handed cats were bavin' a picnic iu there; V tell you it was just awful, and 1 recon I'd have died,' hut my governor came down and whaled mc with a barrel stave, then ho rollid me over a tub until I felt better. Nnwyo.imay ju.-t calculate that I don't want any more watermelon, it' don't 'gree with mc. Next time I get a nickel I'll put it in tho bank." Nix-Xax. |