The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27

was also fond of ginger cake, and on
one occasion distracted the grocery
pass-book from beneath thes paternal
roof, and obtained twelve sections of
that substantial and spicy creature COM
fort for the benefit of his crowd, who
ate it in neighboring board-yard, and
gave three times three the author of
the feast. An attempt to alter the
figures in the book failed, however, and
the youthful fnancier received large
dose of strap-oil, as curative for his
smartness. The Colonel was likewise
fond of gun, and as his father had one,
which the old gentleman priced very
highly, Richard and his brother took il
out on the hill to shoot "chippies on
an average of three times a week,
Richard taking the weapon apart and
ramming the stock up the back of his
coat, while his brother carried the bar
rel IN one of his trousers legs, so as to
get it out of the house unseen. They
managed the ramrod by tying string
to it and making a whip of it until they
got out of sight. They had "lots of
fun" with the gun until the brother
tried to shoot the ramrod out one dav.
when it kicked him over and knocked
both hammers to full cock. Richard
didn't see the brother for five minutes.
and then had to carry him home. There
was no more shooting of {" chippies.'
The most important transaction of
that period of the Coloners existence
was the clandestine carrying away and
pawning of the old man s watch-a ven
cradle timepiece which had been lying
unused in bureau-drawer for over five
years. Richard very reasonably thought
the watch was completely forgotten by
that time, and that he had made very
judicious disposition of it. But the
very next Sunday, as ill-luck would have
it, the old gentleman, on dressing him
self to go to dinner party, said to his
good wife, Well, I guess I'll wear my
watch to-day, and fruitless search being
made for the chronometer, Richard fed
the spot and played "hookey'' both
from school and home for the next six
weeks.
1t has been mentioned that the Colonel
was fond of the canal. So he was, and
a jolly lot of trouble it used to get him
into, too. He was going home from
E" school one day with his shoes in his
hand, when it suddenly occurred to him
to make boat of one of the pedal COW
erings, and straight into the lock it
went. Then the other boys commenced
to watt" it to the other end of the
lock by throwing stones, etc., at it, and
the result was that the ship what hope.
lessly down. Richard trembled at the
thought of going home with one shoe.
1t would be known that he bad played
truant, and a good stout stick would
await him. Various expedients were
thought of and suggested as means of
getting him out of the scrape, but they
were all failures. The last one was to
induce ashoemaker in the neighborhoed
to make mate for tbs shoe inside of an
hour, and for the handsome remunera-
ton of two cents, but Richard was
astounded to learn from the artist that
it could not be done in that brief space
of time, and particularly for that sum
of money. The only thing remaining
was to hook shoe belonging to a mill
hand, which was about five times as
large as the other. The disparity in
size was discovered the very first thing
on his entering the house the mill
hand came, making terrible fuss about
the larceny of his shoe. Richard was
in disgrace again, and had to fee once
more to the mountains. And "sich,"
as Sairy Camp would say, "sich is
boys. '-CEncinnati Commercial.