Page 29 - Adventures of Peterkin Paul

No. V I I I .— M IL T IA D E S BOASTS O F H IS COURAGE.

L IT T L E Milrindes Peterkin Paul Straight before him, a dark, ghostly Shape, crouching
low. —-
Had beert lizard to declare he feared nothing al
all.
“ There’s Abtathar Ami,” — he wouldsay— “ now at
her age,
One would think she might show a little more cour­
age.
Why, I really believe she would fall (tend with fright,
If she came down the lane by herself in the night,
I can tell you, though, that’s not the stuff / am made
o f!
I never saw anything /was afraid of 3 "

But one warm summer evening it chanced to befall,
That little Miltiades Peterkin Paul.
Having been to the village for John Henry Jack,
Found it growing quite dark when lie came to start
back.
But he thought, “ Pooh! ! don't care for that in the
least r "
And he winked at the full moon, just up in the etiSt:
Then with hands in his pockets he swaggered along,
While he kept up his courage with whistle and song.
Which frightened poor little Miltiades so
All at once young Miltiades Peterkin Paul, That he turned cold all over—-our valiant young
\s he turned down the lane perceived close by the wall. hero —