"
"Are they easy to ketch?" asked the other little boy eagerly;
"lemme jest tech 'em one time, Billy."
"Git 'way, I tell you," warned the latter with a superior air.
To increase Jimmy's envy he continued: "Grown folks tries to
see how nice they can be to chillens what's got the mumps. Aunt
Minerva ain't been impedent to me to-day; she lemme do jest
'bout like I please; it sho' is one time you can make grown
folks step lively." He looked at Jimmy meditatively, "It sho'
is a plumb pity you ain't a ol' chile like what I is an' can't
have the mumps. Yo' ma 'd be skeered to spank you, skeered
she 'd injuh yo' mumps. Don't you come any closter to me," he
again warned, "you too little to have 'em."
"I'll give you five peewees if you'll lemme tech 'em so 's
I can get 'em," pleaded the younger boy.
Billy hesitated. "You mighty little--" he began.
"And my stoney," said the other child eagerly.
"If you was a ol' little boy," said Billy, "it wouldn't make no
diffunce; I don't want to make yo' ma mad an' Aunt Minerva say
for me to keep 'way f'om you anyhow, though I didn't make her no
promises.
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