Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-13


John Quill gets off the following neat
b. RESCUE In the Ne,o York Sunday Dispatch:
BIRCHrowN ACADEMY, Sept. 20.
DEAR PoP:-I am getting along first
e at the school, and like it very much,
3 except Whacks, the assistant Old
/ eswax," we call him. and we are down
g him like pile-driver, all us boys, ior
| 'signorant. Why, he's so ignorant he
{ Mt know a blackboard from a dark
n, hit, no, he don't; and Bill Ferguson he
1T torpedor under each leg of old
] 'sey's chair yesterday, and when he sat
q wn (you see he sets down like he had
last in him) why the tOrpedors they eX-
'ded and like to blOwed him through the
f. Golly, but wasn't he scared! He
], .ked at the almanac to make sure it
sn't the 4th of July, and then he came
d ~n, looking mad, and licked Bill like
b zes. But Bill said he didn't care cent,
8 the next time he would sprinkle gum
] veer in his hair, and bust his old frontis-
p, ce off of him. ..s
Or. Go giles, he's a nice enough old fell
J. :, only he will sit and chew gum drops
ht before us boys, and never say take
6 ue,o once.
lie wears green specs, and Bill Ferguson,
J. called him "old four eyes" one day,
W ich the doctor, he heard Bill say it, and
J. nailed him and dragged him up to the
" N. anu GBch IC gave US u ltCbuTc, anu
s there was once a boy he knew, and he
v : about Bills size, who insulted a gray
! tded old man, and called him wicked
I mes, and the next day-the very next
n ''rning-tbat boys mother died of in
nmaIory rheumatism, and his sister
y Ike out with bunions.
Bill, he cried, while the doctor held him
I the shirt collar, but he wInked at the
L rs as he came away, and wrote OIL
nf and throw If n mo
I he thought the doctor was "a blower"
3 l. he daresent hit a boy of his size.
[ want some new books very much,
nut ten of them. and they will cost eight
{ liars. Please send the money for them.
mt send the books, for the doctor likes
b to buy them here.
don't want any money for taffy or mar
! IS for l don't care about them; but be
s not to send anything but the money
I the books.
am in good health. was taken sick
] t week, and had a sore eye for few
{ vs., but it is now well.
We was playing mumbley peg out on
r. grass, and Bill Ferguson, he grabbed
Ei knife. told him he better give that
J aife up or would tell you, and get you to
] him when you came down, and he said
] could lick you and a dozen like you. and
I en- he dared me to knock chip off his
8 :oulder.
And Jake McGinnis. he pushed me
9. ainst him, and that knocked the chip of,
+ d Bill, he struck me over the nose three
Z four times. and said he'd .bust me OH
I snoot" if didn't dry up, for couldn't
J. lip crying, and 1 was taken sick, and
q uldn'J go to school all that day.
And the doctor. he locked Bill up in the
: erret, but he didn't care. for he clumb out
the roof, and was chasing around after
T IN cats, up and down, almost all the
y orning, and pulling plaster out of the
t imney to throw at people in the street.
Give my love to all at home, and don't
f rget the money for the books.
Bill is about fourteen; do you think he
tan lick you?
Please send the money, and believe me
Your affectionate son,
II. M. WILKINS.
P. S.-Don't forget to send the money
# those books.