The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26
Interview With a Small Boy.


third-story window of his fathers house
in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, look.
ing at the sky, and at times breaking
out with the tune, "In the North Sea
Lived Whale" His noise attracted
his newspaper neighbor, who also
leaned out and said, well, George,
how are you?"
Use prisoner locked up on bread
sgd Ater," George replied, "jusf
Hangi l didn't know it was loaded.
sse. father was in the army, and
sli lex when you heard him firm of
la : tolls he was shootin' at cat
te . y five times, and the cat looked
up andsmiled when he got fHou' Says
l, Father, did you ever kill man
when you was a soldier?'' thinking,
you know, that he couldn't shoot fur a
cent. Ht says, Il s'pose So well, /
says, 'yoI muster bin close enough to
hit him with an AK, and he sent me into
the house.l Well, | seed where he hid
his pistol IN his overcoat and Yesterday
| got it out, an there was an accident.
| felt sure it wasn't loaded, for didn't |
hear father FIRE it off? put it under my
piller, N Iwaited for supper to be
over, cause WANTED to scare the girls.
Girls always holler when they see q
pistol. Well, our minister come to tea.
Ministers are the greatest hands to
come to tea; it's half their work to go
round an eat suppers with the ladies.
Father went down to the Convention
and Bess and Lily, them's the girls,
went into the parlor to see the minister
didn't get sleepy. 'Bess,' says l, lend
me your blanket shawl for few min
utes, want to be an Indian brave i
wrapped the shawl round me-, put
fathers cane over my shoulder for a
gun, m then l got the pistol, m
crept softly down to the parlor
so they wouldn't know Indians
was skirmishin' round their camp. ]
pushed open the door, n there was the
minister and Bess sittin' at opposite
ends of the sofy, m Lii was crocheting
a lamp mat. All was still, m says:
The hour has come Then give
three whar. whoops m rushed in and
said, Surrender or | shootr There
was panic. The girls went into fys.
terics, m the preacher said, My son,
mebbe that pistols loaded H5ts.
"Says l, ''S'render, pale chief, OF
I'll shoot yer dead in yer tracks. They
all made a rush at me to take the pistol
away, m / fired. Lordy, what noise.
| was skeered most to death. The bull
let went into picture of the signers Of
the Defamation of Independence, and
took off the head of one of the signers.
The preacher turned pale m said was
a wicked boy. knowd it m | knowd
what | was goin' to ketch. The girls
cried like as though there was a fun raj
m was whipped. dreamed all night
| was fightin' the Indians, m when /
woke up this mornin l felt sure my
name would be in the papers. They
gave me bread m water for breakfast
m wouldn't let me see a newspaper.
So thought I'd escape. l tore up the
two sheets, tied one end to the bureau
drawer, and was climbin' down like
folks do at a fire, when somethin' give
way. l fell about a thousand feet
thought, came down so hard. / hit
the stone area, N it seemed to me as if
it was night and | was lookin' at about
a million stars. didn't know nothin'
for a minute. Then l come to-
g What broke?" "''' 't'.' 'i'
"Nothin' broke; the bureau drawer
come out oughter tied on to the gas
fixture. , Father wouldn't give me a
but he gave me another
lickin' and some more bread and water.
| s'pose now FIJI be- a month on bread
m water.' 20 e4.N ir ls ~
rBut you mustn't make so much
noise ,..,.. ....., ,..... ..,,,,..i......7
THAT was op'r was singin'. Don't
you like op'raP Well, you don't care il
l play the umpaha" ol sH. ~ 81 y
-'.,What is the umpah?'' .a gaese
"Why, didn't you never hear brass
band going down the street? One man
with d little horn goes Ta-te-rent-ta-
ta-ta-ta,' and man with a big horn
goes 'um-pah. um.pah, um-pah.' That's
The umpah / play" CO.,
AS the neighbor drew in his head the
small boy began on the "umpah, and
ne was playing it when the reporter
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