Show A smart noy hoy paral paralyzed paralysed the fool killers attacks are not always alwa Ts fatal but they are generally effective m in awakening thought I 1 saw him getting gattin 9 one of those smart boys thomake who make life intolerable to tho people who have to live within a block of them the smart boy was aged about 13 12 years he met another boy about his own age the kotlier ter boy was all business chopping wood 1 not having exercised his smartness lately the smart boy seized the opportunity port unity of putting his foot on the place e where the ax ou lit to fall dusy busy boy tako ko yer foot away smart boy dats all right yo ye cant hit me B B go on oil now I 1 want toworu to work S B well why dont you hit away B B I 1 will if you dont hurry S B go on then B B D get hurt now S B oh no you cant hit quick enough tho the ax came down its filling falling seemed to paralyze the energy of tho the smart boy he looked at it with his mouth open and did not move it hit him square on the instep the yell which he gave could be heard a quarter of a mile away ile he hopped round in a circle four times and then went home four fences each six feet high were in liis his way but that did not matter he flew over them apparently without touching them at all he flew over the ground on on one foot faster than lie he had bad en cier er gone on two before and at every hop ho he yelled inventing a new kind of yell with ornamental 0 trills brills and variations eloquently expressive of grief for each 1 occasion tile the busy boy did not close liis his mouth till the smart boy closed the door of his house then he shook his head and went on with his work brooklyn eagle rambler |