Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-23

I'm sfraid not, Tor | sometimes do wick.
ep things, and once | cut sisters kittens
tail of with a chopin knife, and told her
hat a big Cog came along and bit it off and
swallowed il down before kitty could say
Jack Robinson. and sister said she was sor,
~, and il must have been . very naughty
log, but nv mother didn't believe me. and
she Vas afraid | had told q lie, aud I'm
afraid ] had; 50 then she asked me il | knew
wherc liars went 10, aud | said res; that
hey went 10 New York and wrote for The
newspapers; she said no-they vent 10 tho
bad place where was robin but a lake u
lire and brimstun', and she asked rne if |
would like to 20 there, and said no for |
didn't think there'd be much skatin' aud
siidin' on that lake, and the boys couldn't
snow ball each other on the shore, aud she
said It was more than that, Just as though
wasn't bad enough, for | don't think
they can play base ball nu,her then she
asked me il ! would't like to be a nsngel
and have q harp. aud | said moi III rather
be a stage driver and have a big drum. foT
| couldn't play on to.hrr thing SO !
shouldn't like to be u nangel. for their wings
must be in the way when they go swimmin'
and play tag and leap frog and besides it
must be hard to fly when one amt used to
it. But it would be jolly to be a stage driver
and have q long whip and touch up the
leaders and say g'lang there. what are ye
doin' on! should like that much better'n
hyin'; and then mother said this was a
dreadful stage Of sin, and brother Dob hel>
and then she whipped us and sent us to
bed without any supper, but didn't are
about supper. for they hadn't nothing but
bread and butter for tea. aud Bob and |
got mp and be lifted me in at the pantry
window, and We got q mince pie aud q whole
hs, full Of ~doughnuts, and they thought it
was the cook that stole 'em, and cent her
away the next day. and Bob said he was
glad Of it, for she didn't make good pies and
the ~doughnuts wasn't fried enough. and
| do swear, for ! said by golly the
other day, and sister heard me, and she
told mother, and mother said | was q bad
boy and would bring her gray hairs to the
grave, and she whipped me but | don't
think it did hes gray hairs any good,
and il hurt the, and when | got up stairs |
said gol darn It, tu: | said it 90 she didn't
hear me; aud when she asked me il ! didn't
think ! was very wicked, l said ! was afraid
! vas and ! was very sorry for it, and
wouldn' do so no more, and then she said
was n good little boy, and told me about
George Washington, who cut down the
apple tree, and was caught al it, and said
he did il with his little hstchcs. Just as
though ! hadn't heard oil about it before.
and didn't always think he was a big stus
pid for cuttin wood when they had . hired
man about the house, and dublin his little
hatchct, and besides il would have been a
great deal jolicr to let tho tree be, 80 he
could have stolen apples of il in the fall.
| don't care if he WAS the father Of his
country, he wasn't smart, and Ill bet you
the boys in our schools would cheat him
out Of his eye>tceth swoppin' jack knives,
and | could lick him aud not hardly try,
and | don't think he was very healthy
either, for | never saw . good little boy
that wasn't always sick and had the mumps
and measles, and tho scarlet fever, and
wasn't a ooughin' all the while, and hadn't
to take castor oil, and ar-water, and
couldn't eat cherries, and didn't have to
have his head patted ill all the hair was
rubbed off 10y everybody that came to his
mothers, ani bo asked how old he was,
and who died e. save sinners, and what he
had been studyin' at school, and how far
he had got, and lots of other conundrums,
and nave 20 say his catechism. no | should
not like to bc a good little boy, Id just as
lief be an angel and be done with 1t. but |
don't think | ever shall be a good little
boy, and other people don't think so too,
for | wasn't never called = good little boy
but once, and that was hen Uncle John
asked me where | stood in my class, and |
told him | was next, TO the head, and te
said that was right, and ne gave me a
quarter, and then be asked me how many
boys there was in the class, and | said there
only two, myself and n little girl, and
then he wanted me TO give him back the
quarter, anu wouldn't, and he ran aft r
me and stumbled over a chair, and he's
been lame ever since, and I'm glad of il, Tor
he isn't my father, and hssn't any right te
lick me, Tor | get enough of that at home, |
aud the quarter wasn't a good one either.
! don't like Uncle j ,hn, aud | guess Ne |
it, for he says | Amt like any Of the |
and hc expects I'll go 20 sea aud be |
n pirate, instead Of n respectable member
of society, and | shoulhn', won>
der, for I'd rather be a pirate than a soap
boiler like hun, and | don't care if he is
rich, its n nasty business, and | shsn't haye
to b. n pirate either, for one can make lots
Of money without that, and they're always
to me about beng rich and resjec-
and goin' to Congress and being
President, and Gil that sort o thing, tn, |
ion't want 30 be President there's Lin
,oln, be was President, and | guess he's
sorry for IL now, aud there's Andy johnson, |
guess he don't like il much either, and a
.elier doesn't have to be respectable to be a
there's John Morrissey, he's
made money, aud he's gone to Congress.
md he has nice curly hsir and fine clothes, |
aud he don't do any work either. | shouldn't
ike to be . fighter like he is, for | shouldn't |
like TO have my nose smashed as his H., for |
It looks just like my mothers big squash
did after the COW bit q chunk out of il. but
should like to have nice curly hair, nice
and lots Of money and . cane. and
people look Al me when | walk down
street. aud say that's HIM, and ! don't
are who knows it, for | don't want to he a
like Uncle John, nor a tanner
ike Uncle Hiram, aud all the good people |
inow Of are so~ap-boilers or tanners, except
lr. Stebbins, and he's . school teacher, and
Vss ANnu eltuei, iOI ne - 10 DOhIu
ound amongst the neighbors, and they new
put apple sass on the table when he's at
he house; | heard MISS Spriggins tell Aunt
Folly so; they wait till he's gone out to
ipe!lin school or TO see the ministers wife
md talk about rheumatic and red flannel
md hot poultices for sore chests, and after
gone they bring out the nice things
nd eat EN- by themselves, with lots of pick.
es. He don't get anything bot bread and
'unkin' butter, and stale ~doughnuts tha,
re left over from Saturdays bnkin'; oh,
now how them things are done but there's
Sob calm me and we're goin' . bird nest,
ne, for know where there's . yaller b,sd's
lest chuck full Of eggs; mother says it's
ruel and the birds don't like it, aad that /
vouldn't like to have my eggs stole if l Was
bird, and | don't think l should, but
int . bird you know, and that makes .
Inference, and If you want to print this
'ou can, for next to bein' a stage driver and
pirate I'D like to be an editor, for you fell
crs done have to tell the truth, and you
an 60 TO the circus withou, payin'.
JonN Paul.
Remarkable Discovery.