Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-12-11
Johnny Shrinp's Coinpo.
50 e..a sition. .Lsw4
On noats and r,oat Making.

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\ Like boats. When i am big,
mean TO have as many boats as
want. L once read a book written 10y
MIR. Sparrowgrass. He said thata
boat was good thing 10 have in the
house, especially IL there be any wa
ter near. l think so too,
Pa says he'll buy me boat when
he gets rioh. He says he's 30 poor,
now, he can hardly get clothes To his
BACK. Tie bought nice new coat,
afford boat, though; he has to buy
cigars. aud a pew in church, nnd
John Barleycorn, and other necessa-
ries of life. | think beat is more N
necessary OF life than pew in the
church, any day. / wonder who
John Barleycorn IL, and why pa
wants to buy him.
Aunt Jeruslla says that if that boy
has u boat he'll be sure TO tumble
overheard, and be b-ought home
wringing wet, and dead as door
nail, by the police, on a shutter. It
would be fun. The COPS bring me
home by the coat collar or by the ear.
1t hurts-l think shutter would be
much better. rn
ioNtu Iu ONtT w IlOpDkcN once.
Pa says it's good for boys to row, aud
good for men To sit in the stern of the
boat, and be rowed. Sometimes boyl
have too much of good thing. 1
had il then. ...'N
caught crabs when rowing to
Hobosen. caught 'em with my
oar, aud they knocked me off the
seat. Pa said not to care--it would
make me grow To be knocked over
into the bottom of leaky boat; 1t
vets their trowsers, and makes 'em
feel sticky. l don't call that grow
ing.
Idon'tlike To bail out boats. When
the boat is leaky, TAX Dicky Mopps
withme. He's hitler than am and
| csn make him do all the bailinp.
Once, Pa said he could not pay tile
rent, aud would be arrested, and " no
should he get 10 bail him out? said,
"Dicky Mopps." Pa said, "Dun't he
fool" Ma says that Pa sometimes
asks very Unreasonable things of me
and expects too much. .- -
/ like to buila little steamboats,.
Aunt Jerusha says l use UP all her
spools OF cotton for cylinders and rlg-
gin. L borrowed some of the wheels
from the kitchen clock once, toimake
machinery, aud the clock has never
went since. Ma found it out, and
told Aunt Jerusha that had wonder
ful talent, and would make u great
mechanic. But when took a wheel.
aud a needle and some other things,
out pf her sewing machine, Ma said
ought to be whipped soundiy.
don't see why one thing didn't show
as much talent as the other.
Aunt Jerusha says | ann dragging
her To an early grave, because ( took
her glasses out of her spectacles, aud
her old thimt;le, aud her pill boxes,
and the top of the tea K ettle, To make
UP into things for my boat. She
says she'll tell Pa.
Pa says my boat Is very nice. SO
didn't tell him that cut out the hull
with his razor, and made the sails out
OF piece of his shirt. Pa says the
washerwomen are very careless. One
| or them washed the back all out of
Ills shirts. j think shirt stuff makes
very good soils. / mean To make a
good many beats, and l know n boy
| whose fathor keeps n watch store,
and has lots of little wheels and
things. That boys name in s,priggins
Hank Spriggins,. l gave him an
apple to-day. 1t was sour, aud |
Didn't want 1t. I mean to make up
to Spriggins, aud see IL he won't give
me some clock works. He can yet
some from his Pa. often get things
from Pa without bothering him hy
asking him beforehand. take 'em.
| Ii saves trouble. .am5 "#a.. a@ .. ..#.t