The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-05

| one around that house to- make 4Un !,
H5sm ohSer1'iiveS pd 10
put pn be Aen Of joyfe -. Hi HiS;
ers o On rem ked thief SS3;
{see ~ to sit own ,nd tf3S SSslS
gasss ss.ss IA - d'AA- sSd> : 81. sss sls|!
No. Bob wasn't OF. that maks. q
yApte&ft3sh shays fun. Ret6Els ,sars
Hara nearly xorn-.up by Being .anHsd
30 much, and it took whole row of
Sattant. blsRes. to tffhihh. Whips I'd
EMsfs55 aidS'f fEESS Wat iais; Inv vas, u.s.
until Bob was eight years old. Then
tho boy began to launch out. He
would bore gimlet-holeE in the bottom
Of the water-pail. put cartridges in the
coal stove. nnscrev the door Knobs,
| fill tue kerosene lamp with water, aud
q good thfashing didn't burden his
mind over FIVE mindtes. Sometimes
his father ,wonld, take, him by tho bair
and yapk him up to- tue sofa, and sit
dim down and Ask: sat ...
J. "Robest Psrathon Emerson, what
3Rs efsssa ss ss saIss US ,isauasl.. i guess"
ASOo WNoiA t6piY.
Robert. don't you want to be- uu
angelo" the old man would continue.
| "7ss! ""47sssSsags'ssksE1 ssna0a
ssAss!1 ssAs$ 14ly s'sAeFF1'n . y kite'" ..r,, 1..
"Aud fight hawks?" .,,.. ~.
tY:e g., ! guess So"
ssRst your bAsf I wquld Awhoopi'
bully for the angelsl"
rnoss noa; ssSss Ia "E l ;s}t
Bob's hair 40 me moro aud declare that
The young rascal was boohdrfor the
lgrllows. After lying Under the pear
ttee for six minutes. Bob would reco-
yer from his sadness aud go. over to
the burn. and run the pitch.fork
through the straw-cutter, harness up
tbe COW. and stiok pins iptp the family
hprse
One night he broughe home ~olf
trap and set it in, the middle Of tue
wood shed floor 10 catch y. rat. He
chuckled u good deal that evening ut
the thought of what wonld happen III
the rats, aud he fell asleep and
dreamed that he was q hand organ, aAd,
that some 0Rs atOle the crank 10 him,
70 that he couldn't be played on Juso
before g6ing to Bed. old En- ersoh went
out after scuttle of doRl, and be-
stepped his bootlesa foot into. the trap.
He made t1iahS sRf6@Sta astsfsd
q mighty yell. and it took two men ten
Winptss to spring the trap; Of. his leg,
[, :.aIt's that boy's work l'',he groausd,
as he nursed his foot, and he took up
the boot jack, limped into the bell
room, and gave Bob an awful clip lust
as the child. was dreaming 1of playing
base balliwlth q mermaid. ~ 1,i1 i,
'Iif podtd ye I'd GeAth. II 'ye don't
stop this fooling!" cried tho. old man,
but he hadn't been out of the bedroom
ten minutes. before Bob. was planning
to stop up the chimney next day and
smoke everybody out Of the hbuse. It
wasn't many days before be fixed a
darnjng needle in the Gus hion OF his
fathes's arm chair, and bounced the
old man three feet high; and his Aick
ing hadn't got over smarting before
be exploded q fire cracker in his mo-
theirs snuff box. That night the old
man said to him, HI ha took him nv
the ear: ..'
Robert Parathon Emerson. do you
think of where you will go tor"
Yes. air." he answered, "I'll go to
bed purity sOon."
Then he got another manling, and
vent to bed to dream that he was a
thres.tiued pitoh-fork. and that man
wss using him to load hay with.
Poor boyI Eveu three days before
he died. aud while ou his dying bed.
he managed to slip an eight ounce tack
int" his fathers left boot, aud get up
another circus
The steamer Cyphrenes, from Aus
traiin. brings the following news: "The
bark Wolverine has arrived at Hobart
Town. from Bird Island, having on
board Mr.. Rhodes, second officer OF
the brig James Birnie. who was trans
ferred from the American whaier Beu-
jam!n Cummings Mr.. Rhodes reports
the brig sailed from Sydney in May
last. bound OH cruise. She reached
aud tished at Howe's Island, after.
wards near the Solomon group; sent
out boats for Beche de Mer, the
friendly demeanor Of the natives dis
arming all suspicion. The crew of the
brig separated, or rather were divided
into three parties, the captain COM
manding one. Mr.. Rhodes the second,
and u seaman named Davis the third.
| MIR. RbOde0. who had suDDlied the