The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-04-15
what a Little Bay thought about
Things.
BY JOHN PAUL.

81 CbhN fAtA.
| am liitie hoy about 81 many years old;
[ don't know @shether I'm a goud little
boy, but I'n afraid not for sometimes do
wicked things. I'd once | cut sisters 5 kit
tens tail off with the chspping knife, and
told her big dog came along and bit it off,
and swallowed it down before kitty could
say Jack Robinson, and sister said she was
sorry, and it must have been very naugh
ty deg: but mother did not believe me, and
said she was afraid had told lie, aud I'm
afraid had So then she asked me ii |
gnew where liars went to, and | said yes
that they went to New York and wrote for
the newspapers; she said no--but lake of
fire and birthstone; and she asked me if
would like to go there, and I said no, for
didn't think there wouli be much skating
or idlng on the lake, and the boys couldn't
SNOWFALL either on shore, and she said it
was more than that, just as though that
wasn't bad enough, for don't think they
can play base ball nuther. Then she asked
me if | wouldn't like to be nangel and
have harp, and | said no. I'd rather be
stage>driver, and have big drums for |
couldn'' play on t'other thing. So l
shouldn't like to he nangel. for their
wings must be in the way when they 80
swimming, and play tag and leap frog, and
besides il must be hard tn fly when one
amt accustomed TO it. Bnt it would be
Jolly to be stage-dryer and have a great
| long whip and touch up the leaders, ard
say ''g lang there, what are ye d7in on7'
! | should like that much bett r'n tiyin'; and
| tn mother said there was dreadful
stage of sin, and 3 b hoilered and said thar
| ne s'guossed | was pn it and then She
| whipped us and sent IL to he'd without any
snpncr, but didn care for any supper
| Tor they haln'5 nothin hn. bread and hut
ter and tea and Bob AMI ! sot up and he
| liftod me in at the pantry window, aud We
got a minco pie and whole hand
| ful of doughnutS, and they thought
it was the cook that sto)a EN-. and sent
her away the next day, aud Bob said he
was rlad of it, didn't make good PIES and
the lougnnuts wasn't fried enough, and
sometimes do swear for | said by golly.
the other day and sister beard me- and she
told mother, and mother said | was bad
boy an1 would bring her gray hairs to the
grave and she whipped me, but I don't
think it did her gray hairs and good, and
it burt me-, and when [ got up stairs | said
goff darn it; but said it SO she didn't hear
!
think was very wicked, | said | was af~
raid was, and was sorry for it, ard
wouldn't do so any more. and then she
said was good little boy, and told me
about George Washington, who cut down
the ample trce, snd was caught at Il,
and said he did it with his little hatche-t just
as though hadn't heard all about it before
and didn't always think he was big su>
-; n Ia, ,,,ttir,r ,y,,I ,pLon .h5f, ; "a a Lir
ed man about the house ard dulhn his lit
tie hatchet, and beside it would have been
Il great deal i1lliar to let the apple tree he,
so as he could have stole apples IF in the
fall. don't care il he was the father OF
his country he wasn't smart, and bet yoa
the boys in oar school would cheat him out
of hia eye~teeth s"arpng jack koryGs, and
| could lick him aud hardi9 ,ry; and don {
think h was very h@aIihy: eijhcr, tar lne.y-
er see a good boy thar WASH always sIhk
scarle. fever and wasn't coughing all the
while, and hadn't to take, castor oil, and
could not eat cherries, and didn have to
have his head patted till his hair was rub
bed off by every boGv that came to his
mother s. and be asked how Old ne vas
and who died to save sinners and That
he'd been studying at school and how tar
he'd got, and lots OF other conumdrum :,
and have to say his cate2chlSm;, no woldd1
Ike TO be good little boy, just as leaf he
nangel and be done with it, 1 don't think
ever shall BE- good little boy and other
people don think so too, tor want never
called good little boy but once, and that
was when my Uncle John ked me where
| stood in my class, and | told him it was
| . Ip nd h0 III hot urnc