Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-09

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DAKOTA AND WYOMING Ysaaroniss.
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ssaaIroaY o. rev nsxlco
l J Francisco Chavez.
ARIZONA rsaairoaY.
/ John N Goodwin.
Probably. dead. scontesssd.
Whas = Llaslo aDey ThougAt.
an little boy % many years old;
don't know whether I'm good little boy,
but TIN afraid not, for sometimes do wicA
Cd things. and once cut sisters kittens
tail % wish . chepping knife. and told her
. big dog came along and bit it sG aud
swal!ewed Il Down before kitty could say
Jack Robinson and sister said she was
sorry. and it must have been very naughty
deg but mother did not believe me, aud
SAID she vas afraid had tolda lie, and
I'm afraid had. So when she asked me
If knew whore liars went to, and said
yss--shatsthsy went to New York and
wrote for the newspapers she said ne
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 would be
much skating or sliding on that lake, and
the boys couldn't SNOWFALL either on shore,
and she said il vac verse than that, just 40
though that wasn't bad enough, for don't
think they could play base bali neither.
Then she asked me il wouldn't like to b
an angel and havsa harp. and said no !;
Id rather be stage driver and have big
drum, for shouldn't like to play on t'ethsI
thing. No l shouldn't like to DO an anesl
for their wings must 30 in the way when
they play tag and leap frog, and beside /.
must be hard to 6y when one ain't aceus-
toned TO il. But il would BE- Jolly Ia be q
stage diver and have . great long whip and
say e lang there, what arc 70 dcn' on ~
] should like that much better than fyin' /;
and then mother said there was 4 dreadful
stage Of sin, and Bob believed and said
that he guessed | Was on it." and then
ahs whipped rs and sent u 10 bed With
out any supper; but l didn't care for
any supper for they hadn't nothing
but bread and butter and tea, and BOB
and the got up and no lifted me ints
the pantry window, and We got q
nince pie and whole hat full of dough
nuts. aud they thought il was the cook who
stole en-, and sent her away the next day.
and Bob said he was glad Of it, for she
didn't made good piss, aud the doughnuts
wasn't fried enough, and sometimes I dc
swear, for | said by gslly the other day,
end sister hoard me, and she told mother,
and mother said was bad boy, and |
would bring her grey hairs to tho grave,
and she whipped me, but l don't think it
did her grey hairs any good, and Il hurt
ms, and when ! get up stairs | said COLL
darn it, but said il 20 che didn't b car me.
and when she asked me If didn't think /
was very wicked, and said was afraid
was, and Vas sorry for il, and wouldn't do
90 no more, and then she said was good
little boy. and ted ne about George Wash.
ington. whs cut dswn the apple tree, and
Was caught ct IL, and said he did il with
his little hatshst just o il hadn't heard
oil about il before, and didn't always
think hs vas . big stupid for cutting wood
whom they had hired man about the house
and dublin his little hatchst and beside il
would have been great deaf jsllier . lot
the trees 10, 20 - he could have stole %.
pies ID in the fall. dent care II be wss
the father 81 hts country, hs wasn't smart.
and bet yeu the boys in our sehsols would
cheat him cut Of HE eye teeth sweppius
Jack knives, and could whip him ard sct
half try. aad don't think be was healthv.
either, for l never see . good boy thai
~ssn't always sick and had the mumps ana
'usaslss, and the SCI lst fever, aud WASH, !
soughiu' all the while, and hadn't 70 take
roster oil and tar watsr, and oeuldn't eat
cherries, and didn't have 70 have hjs head
pastsd till the hair was oil rubbed ID bv
every sdy that came - HE methsr's, and
b ssksd hsw old he vac. and Who died to
save siansrs. and what he'd been study ise
at school, and how far he'd got, and lots Of
other conundrums, and have to esv hi,
cstsehisu; no. ! shsuldn't like 10 Do GOOD
little b~v; I'd just - lief be au auesl and
asOs with il; don't think ever shsll b 4
good little 10y, and ether p opls think 40
tsc, for wasn't never called . good little
boy but once, and that Has whom nv uncle
asked me where stosd in my class, and I
told hin it vas nsxt 70 the head. and be
said ! was right and he gave me quarter,
and who's be asked ns how many boys
we're in my class, and l said there were
only two, myself and little girl. aad then
he wanted me to give him back hin quarter.
and I wouldn't, and he ran after ne and
stumbled over . chair, and hs broke his
cane, and hurt himself, and he's been lame
ever since, and I'm glad sf Il, for he lent
my father, and hasn't any right to lick ~,
for get enough Of that At hoos, and the
quarter Vas not good either. dent like
Uncle Jshn, aud guess he knows It, for
he says amt like any other Of the family.
aad he expects I'll e to the go and b Z
pirate instead OF . respectable member Of