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Updated: June 13, 2025
"What is the matter with your Aunt Almira this morning?" asked Uncle Ike of the red-headed boy, as he came out into the garden with a sling-shot, and began to shoot birdshot at the little cucumbers that were beginning to grow away from the pickle vine, as the boy called the cucumber tree. "She's turned nigger," said the boy, turning his sling-shot at an Italian yelling strawberries.
The insects and the weeds together make the crop poorer, and the owner feels that farming is growing less profitable, when in fact he has failed to take ordinary precautions to obtain a good crop by protecting the birds. With the huntsman and his bag of birds we may class the small boy with his rifle or sling-shot.
Just then Tommy's attention was attracted by a flock of little brown birds passing over their heads. One of the birds flew low and fluttered as if wounded, and fell in the dust near, where it lay beating its little wings, panting and dying. The boy tenderly picked it up. "Somebody's hit him with a sling-shot," said Tommy, carelessly.
Hiram took the sling-shot with him, and went up to the Dickerson house. He had got along so well with the Dickersons for these past months that he honestly shrank from "starting anything" now. Yet he could not overlook this flagrant piece of malicious mischief. Indeed, it was more than that. Two stacks had already been burned, and it might be some of the outbuildings or even Mrs.
Why! is that your stack burning?" "Yes, sir," said Hiram, quietly. "Another one!" "That is the second," admitted Hiram. "But I don't propose that another shall be set afire in just the same way." Sam Dickerson stepped suddenly down to the young farmer's level, and asked: "What do you mean by that? Do you know how it got afire?" Hiram held out the sling-shot in the light of his lantern.
I met the chaplain on the boat while on our return, and remarked to him that, "Those mighty men who could kill a jaybird with a sling-shot a quarter of a mile off didn't stay to see the show."
It seems the robber left behind him one end of a bar of iron. The other end of the same bar and a sling-shot the very one that probably felled the clerk have been found." The speaker rose and walked half across the room and back, looking down thoughtfully. "I tell ye what, old fellow," said he, sitting down again, "it is mighty strange. If I didn't know you well, I'd think you guilty.
Carl invented a game in which he was to run in circles, but not step on the grass; he made the tenth inspection that day of the drying hazelnuts whose husks were turning to seal-brown on the woodshed roof; he hunted for a good new bottle to throw at Irving Lamb's barn; he mended his sling-shot; he perched on a sawbuck and watched the street.
"Oh, Laurence," said Mary Virginia. "I'll be so glad to see Laurence again, if only to quarrel with him. Is he just as logical as ever? Has he given the sun a black eye with his sling-shot? My father's always praising Laurence in his letters." Now my mother adores Laurence.
She led the way to her "sitting-room," which had a pleasant smell, unlike any other smell, and, opening the drawer of a shining old what-not, took therefrom a boy's "sling-shot," made of a forked stick, two strips of rubber and a bit of leather. "This isn't for you," she said, placing it in Penrod's eager hand. "No.
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