The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-05-14
A BAD BOY.
Aife and Death 81 John E.endeyson,
Michigan laad-Eou cfe Fooled
Aifh NskKo GIyrerine ana died.
CHAPTER I.-ISTRopUgToRY.
From the Dstroi, Free PRISE.

4'*0 ''''n~ TuG cpi4b 4i~b AsIFtI 4 HO-lD-
Rms, and he was going on thirteen years
old. lie had freekles ell over his nose,
cheged plug tobacco, and ioafed around Sc
lee, schools anG put tin ears on bows small
er than hfmself. His father was killed by
Canada saw log, bis only sister slept in
The silent tomb. and his mother divided her
time between gossipng and ean7assing
money for the heathens il Africa.
CHAPTER H-FHCsLY.
Thus j: will be seen that there was no
one to give John Henderson Thompkins
any domestic attention beyond an occasion
n ~hack With slipper, which made him
the worse. lie wasn't sent to school; never
lad 30 take dose Of castor oil was al
loved to 10 around with letter in the
posf-of6ce and bis pants supported by a
magnificent belt Of sheep tuine, and if he
wasn't home n. ten O'Clock at night his
mother fel. perfectly sure that he would
dump down somewhere and be home in
time for goldfish and potatoes in the morn
ing.
CHAPTER IT-sHAaEFUL NEGLECT.
John Henderson, TonI kns' mother
never took him on her knee and asked him
if he knew what was beyond the bright
stars, and if he knew where he'd 90 to if
be grew up an awful liar ard horse thief
She never told him about the Children Of
Egypt, Moses il, the bulrushes or Daniel in
tile lions den, and it is no wonder that he
grew W to be bad boy. She didn't ever
have sticking plasters ady when he got
cnt, and on Sunday mornings there was
10 one TO rub him behind the ears, FIJI his
eyes with soap and water, and coIab his
hair the wrong way.
CHAPTER TY-Hs REGULARITIEs.
Everything which happened in the vii.
lage was laid at j Ohm Henderson Tompkins'
2oor. cts some of that boys work."
they said, whenever q bushel Of plums, a
watermelon or peek of peaches mysteri-
ously disappeared. lie was probably guilty
Of everything charged as when he died they
found where lie had hidden seventeen stolen
cow bells, forty axes, ever so many saw-
bucks, fifteen or twenty front gates and
cant remember how many snow shovcls.
CHAPTER Y.-DowN on HIM.
In time, as the reader was informed in
previous chapter, the adult male population
Of the village got down CD John Henderson
Tompkns. Old maids iabbed at him with
umbrellas merchants flung pound weights !
at him shoemakers do5ed him with strap
ell, and grcccrs always looked around for
John Henderson when they wanted to
heaye out bad eggs and spoiled fruit.
CHAPTER Wits AMBITIONS.
You might think that they would have
eventually succeeded in breaking the boys
spirit and dashing his hopes, but they
couldn't do il. lie had the ambition which
nothing could check He wanted to be
bold pirate and sail the raging main, and
ne was patiently waiting for the time to
come when he could wear No 10 boots and
swear in a voice ike the echoes of bass
VOL lie would be content to crawl into hen
BOOSTS and to creep around horse barns for
for a few years, but thcn-but then
CHAPTER yn.-EFFoRTS AT REFORM.
Some Of the more philanthropic citizens
made strenuous efforts to reform the boy
They locked him up in smoka.hcuse for |
D week they dubbed him until be couldn't
vel. ana the held him under pump until /.
ne was as limp as rag, but as soon as
hey let bin, g he went right back to his
old habits again.
CHAPTER VIII.--NEARtNG HIS END.
John Henderson Tomr kins had kept this I
-,iing Up for eight or nire years when our
story cpens, and be was nearing his end.
Justice over.akes TIE guilty sooner or latter,
d Justice was laying low fer this bad boy
lie had the cheek to believe that he would
ire TO be a hundred years old, and his
mother left an orphan.
CHAPTER TX.-THE END.
One day while in the bayday of his wick
edness, John Henderson Tompkins came
pom something new in the line Of plumber
I / was pile of little cans labeled Nitro
observation-disclosures OF-Dangerous Poison
SC. but he couldn't read and he didr' care
d copper He carried a can behind the
leeting- house and sat down on a rock to
pen it. There wasn't any guardian angel
round to tell him that he d get busted If he
,oled with that can, and SO he spit on his
aands and gave it whack on the stone.
CHATTER X.-oBITUARY.
The folks all ran out, and after a &c
cal of trouble they found and separated
Z le pieces of meeting house from the pieces
e the boy, and they got together enough
= John Henderson to Gil a cigar box and
a.wer ms the basis of funeral. They
lried the remains in a quiet nook, and the
Srave-stone maker put little lamb on the
.ad stone to show that John Henderson
olnpkins was meek anG lovely.
NJ QUAD.
SAID Lord John Russell to Hume, at n
cial dir ne-, What do you consider the
ject Of legislation "The greatest