The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-12-31
L'ENFANT TERRIBLE AND The
BAD BOY.
BY CHARLES DIMTTRY.

UaH Doy, VINO Is dangerous without DtlDB
interesting.
The eafdpt trriJh proper is living
denial OF The excellence and desirability
of truth and Candor, as he is the best ar
gument in favor of the hypocrisies of So
ciety Truth bubbles from his lips in con-
fusing words, transformed by the time it
reaches the ear into the voice of accusa-
tory Fate He is the only inspired oracle
that Is left 10 mankind, for he is the only
created thing whose instincts are uner-
ring and who has the hardihood in a
world OF sham TO dare affirm what is
without fear or favor Before his
ninble tongue the humbugs - the
artfCialities = the little pretenses
with which We mutually close
each others cyes-all topple to the
ground, a wreck OF falsehood and detected
DISCUSSES If the entaat terrific be silent
when the masquerader il around, he is
silent because he is thinking; and woe -
the pretender whose pretense is not I'M
fathomable to the happily feeble intelli-
gence OF this childseer! His observant
eyes, his open ears, his logical mind-for
the eafont terrific is nothing if not logical
are constantly at work aiding him TO
store his mental arInory with weapons
which shall surely cut sharply when the
ready tongue, obeying the call of the in
quisitiye mind, makes the last fatal use
of them.
Ma, what's rosy-posy?"
A rosyposy, my sweetsipeetsy?
Wherever could you have heard that
word: John, did you hear that little
monkeys question:"
I" En- Oh. yes!"
Ma, what is a rosyposy:"
Why yDu are a rosy-posy."
A Ind - Johanna a tnnE'
Johanna No; Why"
Why, because pa he pinched
Johanna's cheeks Yesterday behind
the kitchen-door while you was out
and he said, Oh, you rosy-posy,
you.-dldnt you, pat-and so
Johanna must be rosy-posy, too, amt
she, pa?"
Here is a little dialogue which con
Germs ma:
Pa, ma was right mad this mornin'."
Mad? Why what had you been do
ing, you little rogue>'
Oh, ma wasn't mad with me; it was
with Mister Torpeder; Mister Torpeder
he tried TO kiss mas hand in the parlor
and ma, she gave him a good slap-didnt
you, ma? ! teH YOU ma was mad with
Mister Torpeder"
Ma, suddenly compelled TO make pro
friend whom pa has brought home unex-
pectedly TO dinner consoles herself with
the remark, in the hearing of the entdHt
ssr1bie, that the soup Will just 20 round,
and adds nervOusly TO pa
How dreadful would il beif Dawkins
should ask for soup second time-sOup,
you know, is his favorte dish"
At dinner, the catastrophe feared aCtu-
ally occurs
Your soup, my dear ma am" blandly
observes Dawkins, in a complimentary
tone, :" Is 50 delightful that | will tax, the
liberty Of requesting just another spoon
full if you please"
Oh ma, how dreadful Mr. Dawkins
wants some more soup, and there amt
enough To 20 round but oncei' eXclaims
tie untorgcttul entdHt terriJie anXiously
looking at the plate that Dawkins eX-
tends toward the empty turcen.
Maj. Pepper, well preserved old
beau, precise and formal in manners,
fastidious in dress, touChy in disposition
and as vain as "A turkey gobbler Of his
influence with the scx-Mai Pepper is
a tediously visitor at the house
Of a certain etfaht terrfbie-a young and
viyacious widow. Intentions matri
monial, and in consequence rather botl,-
some TO Irippitt, "a young gallant, who's
intentions arc similar, and whom he al
Ways permits to leave the widows pres
enec first on the occasion of a call
llangit" as the Major vigorously re
marks % himself III have the last word
"..a tn. widow il Eve got To wing that
young parrot to have it,
The question with the widow is, how
t. gtt rid Of the Major without causing
illieefng EntHlt terrible solves the
problem in his own way-rather abruptly
however
Standing with his nds clasped be
hind him, with his sturdy legs stretched
apart, and gazing contemplatively at
Mai. Pepper, while that sutton is airily
turning a complimentary period, he in
tcrrupts his platitudes with
MAJ Peppers, is you as ole as ole Me
thusleum?"
Why, what dye mean"
Our Susan says vou's ever SO ole, she
says you's as ole as the hills"
Why, you little"
Na-ior Pip-perm interrupts the wild.
ow, bridling up. - would prefer that no
names be applied to my child, Ii mag
be his misfortune that he is intelligent
beyond his years, but that is no reason
why he should be shamefully spoken to
in this way"
Shamcfully spoken to in this way
Madam, your child may be prodigy of
precocity-and | dare say he is-but il
strikes me that he has been put up to
this thing Ii was only day before yes
terday, while | was waiting for you, that
he inquired of me why | came to the
house so olten-in the presence of Trip
pitt, too. by the way, who had the impu
dence to gjggle behind his handkerchief
and last week when casually asked him
what | should bring him as present he
actually replied that he would like to
have a live .ackass"
Wei, sir, don't see anything so ex-
traordinary in that answer"
Don't you, indeed, madam? Nothing
in the way of suggestion-Of "a diaboli-
cal innuendo?"
Goodness gracious, no! But it seems
to me, Maj Pepper, that person of
your age should reflect before beginning
10 quarrel with child of four years"
II quarrel with a child Why, hang
itl-beg pardon this is worse than the
boys insolencer'
Yes quarrel with a child repeat
it, And as regards the age of Methuse-
lan-which the child absurdly twisted
it INTO Methusleum-thcre was nothing
in the question that should have aroused
your anger Nobody knows positively
how old Methuselah was. Some author
tiles put his age at not more than one
hundred and thir-"
Eth? Well, Madam, | have TOO pro-
found regard for your sex to allow my
self TO be vexed at anything lady may
say To me: but, as for this ll-bred little
nuisance of yours, | should like to lay
him across my knee for a minute or two!"
Maj. Pepper
:" Madam-l-l-'
Nivacious widow rises, paie and pant
ing.
Mai Pepper rises, as red in the face
as the commodity of which his name is
the synonym.
1t occurs to me, Madam, that this in
terview had better end here. Good
morning
Asd the acquaintance, if you please
Good morning, Major
The first stage OF the e1tfdHt terrible
may be said to last until the age of seven
years mp % that period he may be de-
scribtd a. inopportune and artless. As
he grows older, however, he becomes, as
before stated, simply the bad boy" and
generally develops into the open and
avowed enemy of his older sister, espe-
cially when the latter's beau happens to
he on hand,
Il Is the normal condition OF the bad
boy to be never allowed to 20 where he
wishes 10 go and this is why we uni
formls find him expelled from the parlor
tn him 40 parlpr l. hot