The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-05-02
what "a Little Boy Thought of
Things.

i WnaL a Ahttie BOy AnOuShs O
Things.
/ am little boy about so many month
old; don't know whether m a goo
little boy, but I'm afraid nofs3or som
times do wicked little things, and once
cut sisters kittens tale off with the chop
! ping knife, and told her the big dog cam
along and bit it off, and swallowed
down before kitty could say Jack Rob
inson, and sister said she was sorry, an,
fit must have been very naughty dog
but mother did not believe me. and sale
she was afraid | had told lie, and Tn
afraid | had. Then mother said ther,
was dreadful stage of sin, and then Bol
hollered and said that he "guessed tina
was on it; and then she whipped u,
and sent US to bed without any supper
| but / didn't care for any supper; fol
they hadn't nothin' but bread and butter
and tea, and Bob and | got up and he
lifted me in at the pantry window, anc
we got a mince pie and a whole hat full
of doughnuts, and they Thought it wa:
the cook that stole EN-, and sent hel
away the next day. and Bobsaid he was
glad of II, for she didn't make good pies
Eapd the doughputs wasn't fried enough,
- s16 sN I'd b5
golly the other day, and sister heard me
and she told mother, and mother said |
was bad boy, and would bring her gray
hairs to the grave, and she whipped me ;
but Il don't think it did her gray hairs
any good, and it hurt me, and when [
got up stairs, l said gof darn it, but I
said it so she didn't hear me. and when
she asked me if | did not think | was
very wicked, | said was afraid | was,
and was sorry for it. and wouldn't do so
any more, and then she said | was good
little boy, aud told ME about George
Washington, who cut down the apple
tree, and was caught at it, and said he
did it with his little hatchet. Just as
though | hadn't heard all about it be-
fore, and didn't always think he was a
big stupid for cutting wood when they
had hired man about the house. and
dullin' his little hatchet, and besides, it
would have been great deal jollier to
let the apple trees be so as he could have
stole apples off in the fall | don't care
if he was the father of his Aountry, he
wasn't smart, and l bet yq the boys in
our school would cheat him out of his
eye-teeth swapping jack k nives, and /
could lick him and hardly try, and
don't think he was very healthy either,
for | never see good boy that wasn't
always sick and had the mumps and
and the scarlet fever, and wasn't
a coughing all the while, and hadn't to
take castor oil, and could not eat cher
ries, and didn't have to have his head
patted till his hair was rubbed off by
every body that came to his mothers
and be asked how old he was, and who
died to save sinners, and what he'd been
studying at school, and how far he d got,
and lots Of other conuAdrums, aud have
to say his catechism no, | shouldn't
ike to be good little boy just as lief
be an angel and be done with it, l don't
think | ever shall be good little boy,
and other people don't think so too, for
want never called a good little boy but
once, aud that was when my Uncle John
.~L 81 no rvhara ! stood IN my class md
told him ii was next to head, and ne
said that was right and he gave me
luarter. and when he asked me how
many bows were in the class, and l said
here were only two, myself and little
sirl, and then he wanted me to give him
back his quarter and | wouldn't, and he
ran after me and stumbled over chair,
and he broke his cane, and hurt himself,
and he's been lame ever since, and III
glad of it, for he isn't my father, and
hasn't any right to lick me. for l get
enough Of that at home and the quarter
wasn't good one either. don't like
Uncle John, and guess he knows it,
for he says I'm not likeany of the family,
and he says he expects III 90 to sea and
be a pirate instead of a respectable lnem-
Der of society, and | should not wonder,
for I'd rather be pirate than soap
boiler like him. | don't care II he. Is
rich it's nasty business and shan't
have to be pirate either for one can
make lots of money witho that and
they are always talking to " about be-
ing rich and respectable, aud going to
Congress, and being President, and all
that sort of thing; but / don't want to be
there was Lincoln, he was
President; and | guess he's sorry for 1t
now; and there's Andy johnson, guess
ne don t like it much either; and fel- |
ow doesn't have to be respectable to be
1 Congressman, for there's John Morri-
seq, and he has got nice curly hair and |
lice clothes, and he don't do any work
either; oh, know how things are done.
But there's Bob calling me, and we're
yoin' birds-nestin' for l know where
here's a yeller birds nest chuck full
IF eggs; mother says it is cruel, and the |
birds don't like it; that | wouldn't like
% have my eggs stole if | was bird,
md l don't think [ should; but amt
| bird, you know, and that makes diff |
erence, and if you want to print this
you can, for next to being stage driver
ind a pirate, I'd like be an editor, for you
ellows don't have to tell the truth, and |
you can go to eircusses without payin.
JOHN PAUL.