Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-08
Eos Augflts Atrald.
CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
MacStlnser's Boy.

Sometimes when he is very busy,
MacStinger don't have time to go
home to dinner, and MacStinger's boy
happened to intercept the school chill
dren as they were going up State
street from the Sullivan school
building, and he stopped awhile to
exchange observations with some Of
the boys.
"Hey, Johnny! how dye git along
now ?" said the boy, with the easy in
difference of q man of the world, who
left school ages ago and has bills and
household expenses on his mind, but
preserves tender recollections of num-
bic peg and other youthful indiscre-
tions. Nsl{n.
Johnny returned the salutation with
somewhat of modest pride in his de-
meanor, as became one who was sim
gled out for special attention from the
higher powers, and the two boys i'm
mediately became the centre of an ad-
miring circle of something under q
thousand school boys.
~ can't complain; how do " find
yourself ?' said Johnny. laf
40, kind O. moderate like" said the
boy, drawing cigar from his pock-
ct and lighting it with bacchanalian
air. 1af
What " got there ?n asked q
butchers boy, pushing his way through
the crowd, with light-stepping dog
at his heels, who seemed to take q
morose view of things, as if he had
been disappointed in love, and looked
at life through Byron collar.
"Its pas dinner,u said MacStingers
boy with shaken confidence. "I
must get il to the old man in time. or
there will be trouble in the family"
and he started up Fourth street, cast
ing wistful glances at the misanthrop-
ic looking dog. ~g.f,mssfm. "
eDid " ever notice what bully COM
balls " can make out of a tin bucket
like that ?" inquired the butchers
boy, taking the tin pail from the Mac
Stinger boys hand. Then he laid
MacStingers dinner near by, and put
ting one hand through the handle Of
the cover and the other through the
handle of the bucket, began rapping
the cover against the bottom of the
pail, after the manner or playing
cymbals, marching along like brass
band. The boys all fell in and
marched after the butchers boy,
singing the Mulligan Guards" like
mad.
The butcher-boy's dog east discon-
tented look at the proceedings and
then went up and smelled at old Mac
SINGERS dinner. He stood on his hind
legs rejecting minute over it, then
cautiously bolted it in two gulps,
and then sat down on the stump of q
tail, looking pious and forlorn, as
if all was "vanity and vexation of
spirit.n III sll&e + Agt@
The boys took martial turn up the
street and came back, looking re-
freshed in body and mind.
"HelloW cried the butchers boy,
the dinner is gone! Tige must "a
swallowed itW
Tige looked up in his masters face,
mournfully with one eye, as if he be-
l0nged to the crusaders, and thought
there was entirely too much ruin
abroad in the land from reckless in
diligence of the intoxicating bowl.
MacStinger's boy looked the image
of despair, nervously moving his
right hand up and down, and rubbing
his right hand over the lower part of
his spinal column with an abstracted
air, as if trying to recall a painful in
cident of personal biography which
had partially slipped his memory.
"Pll show you how we'll pay him
of tor it," said the butchers boy,
with sudden decision in his manner.
He put q few pebbles in the bucket,
then whipped out the string from his
pocket and approached the dog, MAX
ing loop-knot. The loop was slipped
over the stump of a tail which wagged
defiance to wicked world, then all
the boys set up simultaneous yell.
The dog gave one bound then settled
down to business. The last seen of
him he was going down Fourth with
| crowd OF boys after him.-Ohio State
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