Show ALMOST TOO QUICK NEW BOY astonishes PESSI OLD MAID for once susan myers had to acknowledge that modern youngster might really bo be worth his salt it was very d dini ifil cult for susan myers to ice keep ep a i bo boy she was an ketive little woman aljo who lived on a email new england farm in managed li IL tier bersell self and hired a bo boy y from the village to come in and do tile the small chores immediately round the house many boys had she hired but one and all they reported that miss inniss myers wore em out by the multiplicity of her demands As for miss myers her own frequently ex expressed presed opinion was that boys were too lazy to live anyway and that a boy who was worth his salt had no not t yet been invented but the time came when miss myers met her match in johnny briggs who appeared one morning and offered his services well said miss myers 1 I suppose theres no help for it I 1 aint much confidence in ye b but ut lets see how fast yo can get up to the store and buy me a spool 0 black cotton desm replied johnny brielly briefly he went round the corner of the house whistling ling exactly like any other boy but johnny was not exactly like any other boy ue ho had bad napoleonic qualities and an old bicycle which lie he had left behind the woodshed I 1 halt an hour before miss myers had expected him h be e was waa back with the spool of cotton fi heres yer cotton miss myers said johnny cheerfully 1 I like ilke to do a thing right up quick and have it over I 1 do next he had got back so soon that miss myers was hardly ready with the next commission sweep off the porch she said tersely john johnny ny briggs leaped at the broom never was a porch swept more quickly he was back in tho the kitchen done th porch miss myers said johnny What ll I 1 do next what I 1 like Is to do a thing quick and take this pall interrupted Ss SP mers and run down to the ahe berry pasture and git me a pall of blueberries for dinner johnny seized the pall pail picked up his bicycle behind the woodshed and was off to the berry pasture miss myers continued her work in the kitchen she had given him a jo job that would last a while th this Is time she told herself for tife th e berry pasture was nearly a mile away but she had hardly begun cool cooking cing jeliner dinner for herself and men whom she had bad working on the farril farm when tho door opened and a freckle faced boy appeared with a brimming pall pail bt berries heres yer blueberries maam announced johnny calmly what I 1 like is to do a thing quick and have it susan myers turned from the oven where she wao wan examining the bis cults johnny briggs she said severely y you set that pall pail down in the sink and set herself in ili that chair and you sot set there till ive got the dinner yere a good boy but id like to see ye doin something that ye cant do so quick and havo have it over jest to make certain that I 1 aint goin crazy youths companion |