National Republican., 1875-12-27
TIN TOOTERs.
A Boy With q Horn, and What Became
af Tt

a Boy With Q Horn, and What Became
Of It.
There 10 one boy who blew . tin horn inosssantly
all day that got his due-s boy Of seventeen sum-
mers, with freckled nose and red hair. He was
caught up short, interrupted, stopped in his
melancholy rantings. He planted himself firmly
an the oov,...tep Of man with but very little
foolishness IN Ills ns.--,se man who had rather
hold baby than listen to pv, making music on
8 horn and not do anything. He saia y nus Siast S
rades: "Htst, boys,While blow old Bungs
that will fill his house with melodious strsins."
The boys "histed.n The blast broke In telling
fury on the night ar, and died away in the eois.
and still another, and more outlaws and more
blas.e, until the door few open and Mr.. boy was
gathered up by the coat and taken IN. Bungs it
not man to invite people into his house without
treating them according to their deserts.
When the boy went in he shot across the room
head frst, and stopped under the legs OF chair
in the corner. mr.. Bungs followed him, lifted
him up quickly by the hair, and said that she
was very sorry that he fell" at the same time
tWitchiDg him about until he spun ike top and
curled up In the other corner. Mr.. Bungs sp-
preached him, and wanted to know 'if the acci-
dent hurt him, !" and again elevated him to an
0pirinT tHoW have ave YOU W emf enjoyed the happy fsstai
day, young man? hope your stocking was Well
filled. You are such q good, quiet boy, should
tofiouS I T yenth @ among ten thousand. II there is
anything do like TO see It is good, quiet, mod
est boy" And then he jerked him into the third
corner and picked up q double soled slipper, and
asked him show he liked It as far as he had got"
As we had occasion to remark before, Bungs was
Q man 70 treat invited guests according to their
deserts.
He was liberal man and gave freely what he
attempted to give. Nothing penurious, nothing
stingy, nothing mean was there about Bungs and,
better than the simple assertion, he proved It. A
double-soied slipper in the hands Of Q liberal.
minded and energetic man, who feels like It, can
get more dust out Of boys pants IN two minutes
than Is actually necessary for boys comfort.
When he bent over the tin tooter with the slipper
he appeared to be anxious to do the boy some
good. 81 love you, my child, /" he said as he
brought the slipper with no inconsiderable -four
ish down on the lower part OF the boys Jacket.
SOchn was the response. "You are q besutiful
musician" pursued the old man;...just lovely
cornet pIayer"-whack, Whack-"How many in
struments do you play y?"-crack, crack, crack
"Why don't you go Ion the stage, you've long
missed IT,; II you were only"-Whack, whack-
Ton the stage tonight how much more healthy It
wsuld be for you;" and then he reached down and
quietly fxed his fingers in the boys collar and
gave one Of those twitches peculiar 70 old men who
have any business to transact with bad boys, and
the young tooter came quickly 10 an upright, was
faced towards the door and requested ste travel"
The most important feature Of the exit was tie
remarkably close relations between the boys
waist-hand and Bung g's foot and the feature next
Of interest was the noticeable scarcity Of horn
music Iuf the rest Of the night ip that immediate