The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04


wouldn't take care Of her year ole
baby for about fifteen minutes, anc
let her and Mrs. Quad go down towr
to get pair of shoes for poor ole
woman. She added that the little
darling was sound asleep and wouldn't
even wink while they were gone, and
consented. She brought him in
and laid him on the safa, snugly
tucked him up, kissed him fourteen
times, and then they were gone.
] sat writing, and by and by | for.
got all about the child. The woman
had been gone about seven minutes
and a-half, when all of sudden the
baby yelled out 4:
"Hi-whoo-koop- boo whook! and
he kicked his little blanket sky-high
and sat up and looked at me.
@Well, my son, the drowsy god has
flown away, eh!" | inquired, as ap.
preached him.
He opened his eyes very wide, dis
covered that | wasn't his father or
mother. and he shrank away and
yelled out:
ski-yi- whoop- whoa-hi"
went in and found the sugar
bowl and selected a fat lump, but he
stuck up his nose in disgust at the
sight of it and howled until chrome
of the Washington family was Jared
down. took down looking glass
and held it 50 that he could see him
self. He held up for a moment,
amazed at the sighl Of such face,
and then he gave the glass kick
and started off in a louder KEY. /
heard pedestrians stopping under the
window to listen, and | scrubbed
around and got hold Of a basin and
the stove-handle.
The pounding stopped his bowling
for about thirty seconds, but then
the novelty wore off, and he threw
himself back and screamed until he
was as red as an Indiana tanning
mill. The crowd under the window
increased, and | heard villain say:
"Some one ought to 60 for the po-
lice. That old tyran, of Quad is
numbering his childw
| got piece Of bread and butter
from the pantry, and the boy took it,
held it under his nose for an instant,
and then threw it and hit me on the
knee and howled until | expected he
would burst a blood-vessel. ! got
down a picture book and tried to
make him look at William Penn
preaching 10 the Indians, under a
tree, on the site of Philadelphia, but
he took one glance and then kicked
me on the chin and yelled:
Boo hoo-ooh hi-yi-ki"
"Young man. l replied, as | bent
over him and pointed my finger at
his nose, sis there anything in this
house you want? What will you
take to shut up? How much to call
it square!"
He seemed TO feel irsulted, and he
how.ed until | could see away down
his throat. ] attempted to pick him
up, but he wriggled away and fell on
his head on the floor. l heard some
thing snap, and | secretly hoped that
his vertebr@ was broken, and that he
was done for; but after moment he
recovered consciousness, and bit at a
sofa like mad dog.
at is our duty to go in there and
the old wretch!' yelled
one Of the crowd under the window,
and | got some sugar and stocking
and made sugar-teat for the scoun-
drel. He took it, held it up and
gazed at it, and then flung it at the
stove. | handed him apples, fried
cakes, prune sauce, raisin cake and
picked peaches; but nothing would
stop his bowling. He kicked in the
crystal of my watch, tore my neck
tie off, pulled my hair, and finally,
when the woman had been gone two
hours, l had determined to kill the
imp. / brought in the butcher-knife,
Ak, revolver and hammer, placed
Them before him and asked him to
take his choice. He wouldn't stop
his dreary bowling, and had my
coat off and the ak raised over him
when his mother came. She doesn't
know to this day but | got those
things in there as playthings to amuse
her young villain; but he knows it,
and $50, 900 IN cash wouldn't hire
him to look into my back yard
through the alley-fence.-M Quad,
in Or Fresiae Friend.