Show stori p WC w HUMOR OF boys hoys 1 next door neighbor ha has a AVA boy who Is I 1 going to cot got into trouble it if ho reform reforms said the retired merchant nee iles always playing idiotic tricka tricks on mo ma and im getting tired of it az morning as I 1 WM was leaving home I 1 found my front cat gute nailed chut shut and I 1 had d b over er and d CZ aly I 1 broka b ro my doing it 1 I 1 give three cent cents for a boy who play replied the hotel keeper 1 I ac pact you were as giddy ae an tho the reet rest of them when you were young whenever a it boy put up a job on me and I 1 feel my olf self getting mad I 1 recall ome of my own exploits when I 1 was a lad and that enables mo me to forget my trouble 11 was looking through an ancient album last even evening inc and saw th the 0 pictures of a lot of people who fell off tho the earth many years ago they were Teri erable men and women in my schooldays chool school days and I 1 had played tricks on every ono one of them not with malice mallee aforethought but lust just because a kid must have hie his fun there was a picture of old aunt betsy who used to come to our house once in a while hile on a visit and as off soon as ne she como come she took charce charge of everything she knew how to do athlia things p better than anybody else and she sho was always criticising criticizing critic ising my mothers method whenever Wb enever mother started to do anything aunt betsy would tako take the job out of her hands saying she would show the right way to do 40 it it M 1 had heard somewhere that if you put a drop or two of acetic acid ln in a gallon gullon of cream that cream will never make butter I 1 had bad a great memory for such facts and kept them on file where they would be useful one morning mother said ehe she would have to churn and she got thing things rendy ready I 1 knew that as soon as she sho started aunt betsy would wont want to show her how it i should be done so when 1 I hod had a chance I 1 dropped some of the acid into the churn which was one of those old upright affairs with a dasher that you worked up and lown down until the butter came mother seated herself on a stool and began begam churning and then aunt betsy came along and said that while she was a modest and unassuming woman she did claim to know a little more about churning than anybody ot of her weight in that part of the country let me do 14 it my dear sold said the she and ill 11 have butter in seven m minutes by the clock so she took hold of the dasher and began slapping away with it she worked and worked and the sweat began rolling down her face and every once in a while shed lift the lid of the churn chum to see what ailed the doggone cream and then hed pour in some cold water and then some hot water and the more the she wrestled away the less sign of hotter butter was there she shel changed away at that ding bit busted stell churn for two hours and get set result results and she eho was so go road mad and disgusted over it she wanted to pack her trunk and go back home mother saw me rolling around in the sard all doubled up with unholy mirth and she ren realized lazed at once by deductive reasoning that I 1 was responsible and the licking I 1 got that evening took the edge off my sense ilease of bf humor foe fot three weeks another time uncle jemes was vla via biting us he used to eit bit in a rustic tustle choir under an apple tree and dole after dinner he ile had a gl bald head and his hat always after he be had bad snored a few times one day I 1 sneaked up behind him with a feather and began tickling his head bend hed slop his mar dome of thought and abd cuss a little little and then doze again when I 1 would get busy with the feather that went on an tor for quite a while and I 1 was haeng the time of my eife I 1 never heard any language more highly colored than uncle james put up amy my mother heard him say saying things and came to the door and asked wed him what was the matter and be he paid 1 a ding danged lopsided fly was chewing hil scalp off offee ile had chased it away three million times but it always came back I 1 col got another licking thai that night and my mind wat occupied with serious thing things fo for r a month |