Show o t It 1 1 I i b d c ir if 4 r J t r r i u 1 1 0 L G GOOD l rOOD T J g g C I A AI tW I J If f i I C Earnest Hayes Love of f Animals Anim ls an and the Strange Ex Experiences Experiences x f Which It Continually Brought to Him Himy oU au dont need to have warts if you dont y want w nt them declared tern tem Peters J demanded Har Harvey Id like to know why vey cy Lake Because they will always alwa S go away if you stop thinking e about them 1 replied Lent wm Leme LemA Aw A rats F was Avas the scornful retort r tort of Harvey i as he ho walked away away lore X ow when I was Avas a boy bo the only way we AVO knew i ot of of getting rid of warts was that of squeezing the juice of milkweed on them and I never really had the satisfaction of ot finding a boy who could honestly say that even con v milkweed veed had cured curc warts We all knew mighty well that handling toads to ds would give us warts although now I learn impossible but AC we all were very anxious to get a 11 sure cure One day I 1 met a n boy named Bill Currie who as assured assured assured me that the tho big supply of warts that I owned could be disposed of by selling them Bill showed me nic his hands which a few months before had been covered with warts and they were as smooth as a Yes said he all aU gone and Earnest Hayes has lias Jom sin om lies a nice boy that lives in in that big bin redhouse over there and he wanted them so I Ibold sold bold them to him for a cent Hes He got em sure out Earn Earnest Earnst Earnest This was so astonishing that I 1 sought est st Hayes Ha cs and amI lo to I his hands were vere were covered with the rho disfiguring things but he was Avas w s quite proud of them theman and an declared that ho he had bought them of Bill Well Vell said I J Im glad youre not my boy I To ro think of wanting warts 1 Wh Vh Why I wish Avish to be different from fron all aU other boys boss lie he announced Only girls have nice nice smooth soft oft hands Hinds Well what do you Jou want Avant to be when you grow brow up n blacksmith or a coal conI heaver ved I asked thinking thi to shame him Im going to be bo a lion tamer he declared d proudly I 1 am training a pair of guinea pigs now and md I think they already alread know me ma and al soon will willbe willbe willbe be doing stunts all right I How long have haAe you been training them I asked id JJ Bout five months mouths Earnest answered ered They The The 3 aint sint very smart sm rt you Jou know 1 a aI I y better try dogs said I laughing They learn much quicker you see sea Yes I know that but think how muck much prouder Id be if I could only make a guinea pig pig do tri tricks 15 1 l Anybody can teach dogs 1 Vr Y Now x ow this desire to train something ins out of the ordinary was rather rare in a small smaIl boy bo and it interested me in little Earnest Hayes so when hen I heard hard of his further adventures I 1 was not much surprised As 1510 he grew older he DC began to study biology biolo which is the science of living animals and andone andone one 01 day he announced to his mother that he lie was going goin to be a veterinary surgeon What 1 My little boy a horse doctor 1 cried his astonished mother Oh how can you rou think of such sucha a thing 1 Its awful Its hItS far fur greater to cure animals that cant talk and md tell you the matter with them than to close dose men m ll and women who arc ure able to tell teU you each little pain and ache and just whore where it is and stick st ck out oit their tongues when you ask them tot to and let the doctor put spoons down their throats and ana all that it But just think of getting out of bed bcd and hurry hurrying ing il i ig oft off to look at a sick cow P 1 cried his mother t any an worse than looking at nt a nasty little littlen n nw nr baby that hardly got its eyes open op n yet 1 declared Earnest Why Earnest how you talk cried Mrs Hayes hI I do like Jike animals P I added the boy as as he ne stood in the tb doorway do 0 I wish I lied had some kind kinG of a charm to make mal e them all aU like Jike ike me r Id just as lief bo be b followed by b a whole who e menagerie Just then au an old bent beut woman came hobbling bobbling slowly past the tIle house creeping along so 50 painfully that the boys bo s heart went out to her and he lie at once sprang forward and took her by the arm She locked gratefully at nt him while his mother stared and then she said Thank you ou my illY little litt lad Iud f I am racked with so bad that its ts all aU I Ican can do to walk Well Yell you should take fifteen drops of hydro hydrochloric hydrochloric acid in water F advised Earnest Earn t I the great cure now I read it in ill a medical paper I 1 declare debars de arc I never heard of f it cried the old cO I A 17 t t 4 Pu I Ir Iam r am 4 t tf 7 w ar 1 r f q i r 1 I ry l ll lc l c EARNEST EdRNEST TAKES TILE THE BEARS BEAR HOME EARNEST INVITES INCITES THE OLD f WOMAN IN woman Ill certainly try it Will you write that down for me doctor 1 Immensely tickled at this title although his s smother mother laughed Earnest promptly wrote down his prescription like a real physician and then the old 01 1 woman declining his offered help went on very ery much brisker than she had come as if cheered by his kindness Now every dog and most of the cats in MeCon knew and loved Earnest and it was no uncommon sight to see him followed by half a dozen as ns lIe he went along the street and und not a few torsos horses cows and und even the unresponsive goats cast castor castri ri alloying losing or n eye at him for he lIe never spared caress a abit abit bit hIt of apple or sugar but the whole town was amazed that morning to see him followed f by a u small army arm of cats c and und dogs 1 As he passed they appeared from doorways hur hurried hurried hurried ried from lanes and side streets and back yards while the horses hitched at the curbs pulled at their halters and pa pawed ed tho the ground as if eager to join the wonderful procession Earnest was more ns as astonished than anybody else but secretly delighted When he ho got to school the teacher looking locking lot out shouted Hi 1 Dont let that rabble in here Earn Earnest st closed the door quickly and then a howl went up that startled the school What do you mean by b r bringing to school all the tho cats and dogs in McConnellsburg demanded the Ie angry teacher I am astonished at you ou When Earnest explained that he was unable ble to understand why the animals had followed him him the tIle teacher became still afore angry a rj for he could not but think the boy bo had enticed en the cats en ts and dogs lobs who were were l ro clamoring ito to to enter and roamed around fh the file y l house harking howling whining and yowling with all aU their might and main The schol scholars era ars became be became ame wild with delight deli lit for of course it was impossible to study stud or recite with all that commo commotion commotion commo commotion tion outside c Cats were trying to t get in through the windows dogs d gs were scratching at the doors and the noise Doise was awful I Finally hr Seese said Here this is unendurable unendurable Unendurable able You Y on go home and take that menagerie of yours away I t You Y 01 may come back when youve gotten rid of them and not So Earnest went off with his following and it was not until ho be went into his own house that the animals left him After waiting a while he saw saw Deacon Saylors buggy coming coining along and running out he asked the Deacon to drive him to school thereby eluding g all the dogs who happened to see him passing As they were all nice quiet dogs they made no disturbance and were scarcely noticed But at recess while the scholars were all playing play in the grassy brassy field next to the school yard there thore rose a sudden yell y of fright and the girls girIs gather gathor gathering gathering ing up their skirts run like crazy things for the tho fences The boys picked up stones and sticks but fled lied at sight of a dozen snakes blacksnakes garter g snakes id d l adders that were all rill moving m toward towa them th ugh the tho grass Earnest who knew all about snakes was not afraid of any of these which are not dangerous i all but so many of them at once would startle any anybody anybody body and he walked off slowly Then the teacher who had run out in great alarm saw that every snake made for Earnest and he be waved his hands and yelled Run boy or get you I Oil Oli Im Tm not afraid of any garter snakes or or adders either I retorted Earnest calm alm calmly almly ly Is and all aU the fleeing children stopped because Lc le was so so brave Dont you know they are not poison poisonous ous this kind he lIe asked and then he picked up a abig abig abig big garter snake that hung as quietly in leis his is hand band as ast t if it were tamed See he only tongue out and all Cant hurt anything but a mouse or ora a toad I But as there were now hundreds of sn kes all sn crowding about Earnests feet none of the scholars or the teacher wanted to stay there and examine the garter barter snakes mouth at all The boy was v vary ry ly brave and it was a fine chance for a lesson on ou snakes but they all thought there were too many man examples to study at once When some of the big i blacksnakes about nine feet long coiled abut nb ut Earnests legs and began to crawl up even he lie shuddered but they seemed to understand when he lie pushed them down and they slid back aek gently to the ground when he be breathed freer Suddenly they all scuttled off through the glass crass into a n mass of rocks on the tho hill just as as six ix or seven big hawks appeared circling aloft rh Clio birds ird cai came calC o sweeping swooping down and hovered over oer Earnest for a n afew afew few minutes Then they the made for the rocks where it was soon seen een they the gathered a up some ome of the im nn lucky snakes for dinner All tho the scholars were eagerly discussing this newest wonder for it was plain that in acme pome ay ray Earnest attracted alumnus and birds to himself but while the they were marveling upon what had oc occurred occurred occurred it was seen that numerous tortoises fold mice several woodchucks woodchuck k and aud a n skunk were approaching ap approaching the boy bo who stood alone in the field eld That 3 hat settled it When they saw a skunk the whole w ole school seI mI took to the woods so to speak At any apy rate all aU fled into the schoolhouse and shut the door but they the watched carefully from the windows to see how bow long it would bo lie before Earnest retreated from this dangerous enemy Few boys have ever eyer seen geen a woodchuck or ground round groundhog groundhog hog nearer than many yards a ds and ald Earnest although ha ho had often roamed the melds fields 1 had never set eyes on one before so he le was immensely interested as they came scampering to him with wi th every evidence of affection He was soon SOO surrounded by this won wonderful wonderful wonderful gathering while overhead birds of all sorts fluttered more and more arriving every minute JJ When horses and cows were seen hastening to too join the crowd leaping stone fences and brooks rooks in wild haste and from the woods rabbits and und foxes and squirrels els came scurrying in whole squads the scholars began again to be frightened Muskrats and raccoons appeared minks II inks and chipmunks and then two deer came dashing from the timber belt belton on the hills Whit leaded eagles engles buzzards owls and cranes flapped wings wi gs so close together as asto asto asto to be scarcely able to fly Pigs and sheep and mules mu es appeared over the rounded hills hurrying to add to the immense throng while Earnest surrounded by animals much larger than himself could now no longer to Ire seen seem The frightened teacher telephoned to the chief of police po ice who immediately jumped on his horse and rode rod out to the school but he was so startled at sight of this tremendous gathering of creatures creatures usually so unfriendly to man and each other that lie he almost fell feIl from his horse in affright His Ris horse crowded close to the fence as as he be tried to get near to Earnest and the tho chief cried Hi Earnest I Are yo still alive He Ile heard tho the boy say Oh yes ryes es I am all fill right but me terribly I Certainly it looked as though Earnest was in a dangerous spot snot but it was also very plain that every animal was as friendly as could be strange as it seemed and nd if ever a boy bo had a R chance to study the creatures of the wood and field he had it now Nevertheless N e as they pressed to him he had little room for himself and the squealing grunting and gene it complaining of the smaller animals showed how uncomfortable the thc place was becoming ning for them Earnest pushed toward the fence hoping to secure a safer and easier position n but it was al almos almos almost mos most impossible ible to move so thick was the crowd The deer was now quite near him for with their sharp harp horns they the easily pushed other animals away and in fact all the larger creatures now closely surrounded him breathing on him quite affection affectionately indeed and had there been more room doubtless ss they thc would have hale pawed him as fondly Just T when he lIe was himself beginning to worry a little bit hit the scholars and the teacher who were in inthe inthe inthe the school house saw a great commotion among tho the animals they surged s rge forward and back ard Oh Hes lies been crushed under their feet 1 cried Bertha Josslin J I 1 think I saw him m fall faU I Suddenly y as if with one accord or obeying some unheard order every animal from the deer to the fled across the field in great haste I There Thore was vas Earnest standing alone unless a ft few turtles and tortoises might be called company Looking toward the hills as Earnest did they saw two black forms appear coming rapidly down the green slope and in in a moment all they th were bears P F cried a girl in terror Yep an mighty might big bears too echoed Bill Cur Currie Currie Currie rie 1 I never saw bigger ones 1 The Tho bears scuttled along at ut a tremendous pace as if they knew they were late Earnest saw them but he felt that if they meant danger to him he lie certainly certainly certainly could not escape them now nosy But that they thc y were friendly fri was shown at once for to the amazement of all ill the scholars they began to nose Dose him bim and lick his hands for all the world like big dons dogs do s Ill sIll tell you what I Hes got a charm P cried Perry Williams the oldest boy in the school the tIle only way to explain c pla n it I Even the teacher agreed with him bun but all the same when Earnest came came bane walking along to the school with the two bears beside him they the barred the door in a hurry and from the window the teacher told him to go away at once and take the bears with him What Cant I come c me to school any more JJ asked Earnest Xo lo sir 1 Not ot while you associate with such company com company pany replied Mr Ir Seese This i is 6 no menagerie or natural history school Go away I ISo So Earnest had a good goo excuse for going home that time at least but when he got to town and d appeared on the main street with his bears the uproar and excitement was more than enough to satisfy anybody all bod Horses ran away dogs tore toro up TIP the street women fainted men ran for their guns stores were hastily hasti closed dosed and many a man climbed a tree who would have bave declared the feat fe t impossible a minute before These bears beurs did certainly look very cry ferocious Bears Bear are not fierce animals however and really they were much more frightened than the people and for tha thai reason reabon they huddled close to Earnest until he lie got home He Ile was afraid some man might shoot his new friends ir erds and hastily got them indoors and told his mother She jumped almost out of her |