-School
teacher."

"She's goin' to be my Sunday-School teacher, too," said Billy serenely.

"Yours nothing; you all time want my Sunday-School teacher."

"Jimmee!" called a voice from the interior of the house in the next
yard.

"Somebody's a-callin' you," said Billy.

"That ain't nobody but mama," explained Jimmy composedly.

"Jimmee-ee!" called the voice.

"Don't make no noise," warned that little boy, "maybe she'll give up
toreckly."

"You Jimmee!" his mother called again.

Jimmy made no move to leave the swing.

"I don' never have to go 'less she says 'James Lafayette Garner,' then I
got to hustle," he remarked.

"Jimmy Garner!"

"She's mighty near got me," he said softly; "but maybe she'll get tired
and won't call no more. She ain't plumb mad yet.

"James Garner!"

"It's coming now," said Jimmy dolefully.

The two little boys sat very still and quiet.

"James Lafayette Garner!"

The younger child sprang to his feet.

"I got to get a move on now," he said; "when she calls like that she
means business. I betcher she's got a switch and a hair-brush and
a slipper in her hand right this minute. I'll be back toreckly," he
promised.

He was as good as his word, and in a very short time he was sitting
again facing Billy in the swing.

"She just wanted to know where her embroid'ry scissors was," he
explained. "It don't matter what's lost in that house I'm always the one
that's got to be 'sponsible and all time got to go look for it."

"Did you find 'em?" asked Billy.

"Yep; I went right straight where I left 'em yeste'day. I had 'em trying
to cut a piece of wire. I stole off and went down to Sam Lamb's house
this morning and tooken breakfast with him and his old woman, Sukey," he
boasted.

"I knows Sam Lamb," said Billy, "I rode up on the bus with him."

"He's my partner," remarked Jimmy.

"He's mine, too," said Billy quickly.

"No, he ain't neither; you all time talking 'bout you going to have Sam
Lamb for a partner. You want everything I got. You want Miss Cecilia and
you want Sam Lamb. Well, you just ain't a-going to have 'em. You got to
get somebody else for your partner and sweetheart."

"Well, you jest wait an' see," said Billy. "I got Major Minerva."

"Shucks, they ain't no Major name' that away," and Jimmy changed the
subject. "Sam Lamb's sow's got seven little pigs. He lemme see 'em
suck," said Sam Lamb's partner proudly. "He's got a cow, too; she's got
the worrisomest horns e