Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . at the pineboard table and pretend to take orders with all theprecision and solemnity of Southern negroes. Of course, it is to be confessed that they oftendropped things, especially if the least bit hot; butremember we had only tin plates and tin or iron dishesof all sorts, so that little damage was done if a dishdid happen to fall and rattle down on the earthenfloor. Men came from far and near and often lingered allday to see these cunning and intelligent creaturesperform. About this time Mountain Joe fought a duel withanother mounta
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . at the pineboard table and pretend to take orders with all theprecision and solemnity of Southern negroes. Of course, it is to be confessed that they oftendropped things, especially if the least bit hot; butremember we had only tin plates and tin or iron dishesof all sorts, so that little damage was done if a dishdid happen to fall and rattle down on the earthenfloor. Men came from far and near and often lingered allday to see these cunning and intelligent creaturesperform. About this time Mountain Joe fought a duel withanother mountaineer down at the trading-post, andthis duel, a bloodless and foolish affair, was all thetalk. Why not have the little black fellows fight a duelalso? They were surely civilized enough to fight now! And so, with a very few days training, they fought TWIN BABIES 189 a duel exactly like the one in which poor drunken oldMountain Joe was engaged; even to the detail of oneof them suddenly dropping his stick gun and runningaway and falling headlong into a When Joe came home and saw this duel and sawwhat a fool he had made of himself, he was at firstfuriously angry. But it made him sober, and he keptsober for half a year. Meantime Reese was mad asever—more mad, in fact, than ever before. For hecould not endure to see the boy have any friends of anykind. Above all, he did not want Mountain Joe to stayat home or keep sober. He wanted to handle all themoney and answer no questions. A drunken man anda boy he could bully suited him best. Ah, but this manEeese was a mean fellow, as has been said before. 190 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE As winter came on the two blacks were as fat aspigs and fully half grown. Their appetites increaseddaily, and so did the anger and envy of Mr. Sil Reese. Theyll eat ns out o house and hum, said thebig, towering nose one day, as the snow began to de-scend and close up the pack-trails. And then thestingy man proposed that the blacks should be made tohi
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