The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-04-10
what "a little boy Thought
About Things.

J am little boy about so many years old;
] don't know whether I'm good little boy;
but I'm afraid I'm not, for sometimes do
wicked things, aud once cut sisters kit.
tens tail oil with tho ohopping kure, and
told her big dog came along aud bit il
on and swallowed it down before kitty
could say Jack Robinson, and sister said
sho was sorry and II must have been very
naughty dog, but mother did not believe
me, and said she was afraid | had told a
lie, aud I'm afraid ! had Then mother said
there was a dreadful stage OF sin, aud then
Bob hoAerod and said no guessed was
omit aud then she whipped us and sont
III to bed without any supper but | didn't
care for any supper for thoy hadn't nothin'
| bat bread aud butter and tea, and Bob
aud | got up and he lifted me in at the
pantry window, and we got mince pie
aud whole ha.tul OF doughnuts and they
thought il was the cook that stole em
aud sent 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, aud sometimes ! do swear, for
said by golly the other day, aud sister heard
mo, and she told mother aud mother said
] was a bad boy, aud would bring her gray
hairs TO the grave, and she whipped me !;
but don't think it did her gray hairs any
tgood, and it hurt mo, and when got up
stairs ! said goG darn it, but said il so
she didn't hear mo. aud when she asked
mo ii did not think was very wicked, |
said was afraid was, and was very sorry
for it, and wouldn't do 80 any more, and
then she said was good little boy, and
told mo about George Washington, who
cut down the apple tree, aud was caught at
it, aud said he did il with his little hatchet,
| just as though hadn't heard all about il be.
fore, and didn't always think ho was big
stupid for cutting wool when thoy had a
| hired man about tho house, and dulln' his
| little hatchet, and besides it would have
been great deal iollier to let the apple
trees be so he could have stole apples of
in the fall. don't care if he was the
father of his country, he wasn't smart, aud
| | bet you tho boys IN our school would
| cheat him ont OF his cyeteeth swapping
! jack knives, and could lick him and hardly
try, and don't think he was very healthy
either, for | never see a good boy that
wasn't always sick aud had the mumps
and measels, aud the scarlet fever. aud
wasn't a coughing all tho While, and hadn't
to take castor oil, aud could not cat cher
| rios, aud didn't have To have his head pat.
! ted till his hair was rubbed of by every
body that came to his mothers and be
asked how old he ssGst GoT beSSa eSq fdiGd to
al school and how tar he'd got and lois Of
other connndrums, aud have to say his
! cateohlsm no, shouldn't like to be good
little boy, ! Just as liet he an angel and bo
| done with It, don't thiukl ever shall be n
good little boy, aud other people don't think
so too, for wagn't never called n good
l,ule boy but once, and that was when NV
| Uncle John asked me where | stood in INV
! class, and told him was next to the head
and ie said that was right, and gave me a
quarter aud when ho asked inc how many
I boys there were in the class, aud | said
there wcro only two, myself and hulo
! grrl, aud thcn he wanted me to rive him
back his quaraer aud wouldn't and he
ran after mo and stumbled over a chair.
I he broke his cane, and hurt himself and
hos been lame ever since, aud I'm glad of
u, Tor he isn't my father, and hasn't any
| rlght to lick me, tar get enough of that
NJ nome ami the quarter wasn't Il good one
either dou't like Unelo John, and |
guess he knows il, for no says he eNpects
| y 30 to sea and be pirate Instead of a
respectable memherof society, aud should
uotwouder, for Id rather be a pirate than
soap boiler like him. | don't care if he
IL rich it's nasty business; and shan't
nave TO DO pirate either, for ono eau make
lots ot money without that; and they
arc always talking to mo about being rich
and respectable, aud going To Congress- and
AL That sort of thing but dont want To
be President; there is Lincoln, he was
President aud | guess he's sorry for il
now ard there's Andy johnson, guess
he dont Ike il much either aud fellow
doeSltf have 10 be respectable 20 he Con
gresham, for there's John Morrjssy, and
he has got nice curly hair aud nice clothes.
aud he don't dc any work either oh.
know how things are done; but there's
Bob oaliih' me, and we're goin birds neslin'
tor know who,e there's ayaller birds nest
chuck full Of eggs; mother says il is cruel,
and The birds dopt like il; that wouldn't
IKE To have my eggs stolo il was bird
and | don't thiUk shoala butI ainf n
bird, aud that makes difference. and il you
want 10 print this you can, for next TO be.
lng stage driver and pirate, "a like 20
be an editor, Tor yon fellows don't have 10
tell the truth, ANA you can go to eirousses
"''host paying JonS PAuL.
JoNEs writes TO iriend aud closes hy
saying, Il am glad to be able to saw thai
my kuff - - -, H. "a