Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01
THE BOY IN CHURCH.
M. Quad Tells the Graphic About the Littl'
 Boy on Sunday.

M. Quad Tells the Graphic About the Little
 .+..... Boy on Sunday.
 He was playing at the gate as went past, and heard his father call out:
 "Boy, you want to gallop in here and get ready for meeting!"
 "Shi p briefly replied the lad.
 "Shi! I'll shi you, young man. if you don't trot in here lively: You'd be as bad as Jesse Pomeroy if left without father for three months l''
 "I would, heys"
 "No sass, young man-it's time you were getting ready for church p
 The minister was giving out his text when the boy and his father came ill. There was considerable improvement in the lads looks. His hair had been greased and combed, he had on his Sun day jacket, and there was 8 religious look in his eyes as he fell into the pew.
 I ought to have listened closely to the sermon, but did not. The boy and his father were in the pew next ahead, and I couldn't help but watch him. A" He got along very well for the first ten minutes. Then he asked his father what time it was. and when the parent replied with g warning shake of the head the boy cast around him for some thing to interest his mind. The preach CT settled down to his discourse and the boy settled down to his plan of wearing away the coming hour. He reached over and got hold of his fathers silk hat, and was trying to remove the band when the parent took 1t away and bent over and whispered: ' ''
 n"Boy, if you don't pay attention to ,anIyr 7l,nTo we get homel" -. ...-.s.
 The lad fixed his eyes on the clergyman. He saw that the good man had auburn hair, blue eyes, forid complexion, and was well dressed. He heard him make use of such words as " fortuitous, " unexampled," and "repellant," and without being able to tell whether they referred te new kind of string-beans or the gospel of Christian light, he reached out and secured his fathers cane. He punched at several flies, crammed the silver head into his mouth until he turned purple in the face, and finally reached over and jabbed women under grasped the cane, laid it away, and whis- pered j., .'< .3t
 "Young man, I'll tan the hide off'n you when we get homel"
 The words were intended to make the boy pay strict attention to the balance of the sermon He strengthened up, looked at the preacher again, and tried hard to understand the discourse. The good man was trying to explain the difference between theoretical and practical Chris tianity, and in two minutes the lads eyes were fixed on the chandeliers. He counted the number of burners over and over again, and forgetting himself for an l instant he began to sing. His father gave him kick and leaned over and | whispered : .n .4 .-s ..i' .. "Ohl boy, I'll make you hump the minute we get into the house '" Know ing that his father would keep his word, l but yet hoping to break the force of the prospective "peeling" by being real good for the next half hour, the boy faced the clergyman again. He knit his brows and plainly showed his determine tion to understand and interest himself in all that was said. The good man was drawing @ parallel, and dozen of the church members were half asleep. It was discouraging, and after two or three minutes the boy got hold of bit of paper, wadded it up, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it awhile, and then balancing the wad on his thumb, he ele- vated it ten feet towards the ceiling.
 The law of gravitation applies to paper wads as well as to iron weights. This one came down in short time, and, as luck would have it, it struck the bald pate of the half asleep sexton. The vic- tim gave start of alarm, whirled quick | ly around, and the boys father pinched him sayaoelv and whisoered.
 | "Ohi I'll fix you for thisl Just let me get you home once 1"
 couldn't see how the boy was to blame. He couldn't understand one word in ten of the sermon he saw 8 dozen men around him asleep it was a hot day he was nervous boy and used to moving around, and his own father l had been gazing out of the window in an absent way for a quarter of an hour. He made last grand effort. He braced his nerves, shut his teeth hard, and sat as erect as new hitching post. The cler- gyman seemed to look right at the boy as he used twenty big words in success sion, and the lad gave it up. He opened the pew door, and was trying to entice @ small dog to come in, when his father awoke and whispered:
 "You wait-oh, you just wait P The exercises closed just then, and the boy walked home behind his parent to get dressing down for not having the mental caliber of full-grown man, and for not sitting still and going to sleep like his father.