The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-10-22

more uA awoke Hp and the doctor va over me. and pa and ma looked scared and the doc. had a tin thing like you draw out of a country cistern. only smaller, and ma said if ii hadn't been for the stomach psmp she wouldn't have had any ink boy, and looked at the knobs on pa's face and laffed and asked pa if he go, into the hornets. too. Then the doc. laffed and ma cried. and pa swore. and groaned and got sick again. and then they let me go to sleep again. and this morning had the offulesi headache. and pas face looks like he had fell on a picke, fence. When l got ou; went to my ehum's house to see il they had go, him pumped outg and his ma drove me out with broom. and she says will ruin every boy in the neishborhood. Ia says l was drunk and kicked him II the groin when he nred me up stars. and asked him how could be drunk us; taking medicine for my liver. and he said g 10 the devil. ani come over here. Say. give me lemon ;o set tie my stomach.
 . But. look-a here says the grocery man, as he gave the Do, little dried up lemon. about as big IS prune. and told hIm he was terror. what Is the matter of your eye @inkers and your hair: They seem 10 be burned of
 = Q. thunder. didn't pa tell you about the comet exploding and burning Us all :: That was the mors, thing since the flood when NoalSran the excursion boat from Kalamazoo to Mount Arara, You see we had been reading abou; the comet. which Is visible at four o'elobk in the morning. and heard pa tell the hired girl 10 wake him and ma up when she go, up to set the pancakes and go to early mass. so they could see the comet The hired girl Is cathlick. and she don't make no fuss about II. but she has got more good, square relidgin than dozen like pa. l, makes good deal of difference how relidsin affects different people. don, II: Now pa relidgin makes him wild. and he wants ;o kick my pants and pull my hair. bu, the hired girl's felidgin makes her want 10 hug me. II am abused and she puts anarchy on my bruises. and gives me pc. Mouldn', get up ai four O clock !n the morning ta go 10 carly
 mass. unless he could take 4 fish pole along. and some ansei worIns. The hired girl prays when no one sees her bu, God, bu, pa wants 10 ge; church full ot sisienu, and ptay load as though Ae was an auctioneef selling lin razors. Say. | beats Ill what a difference liver medicine has on two people. tea \ow that hlck ery nut day. when me and my chum got full oi ps llver medicine. felt so good na,ured5l gave my hickory nuts AWAY te the children and wanted to gi1e my coat and pants away to a poor tramp. but my chum who am, no bigger'n me. go; on hls ear and wanted te hi>k the socks of li,tle sIIl who WAS gong home tfom school. l,'> quee;. ant We'll. about inc comet. When heard pa tell the hircd slri to wake hlm and Ina up told her 10 wake me ap about hait .tn heuI he tore she walked pd Up, and then l got my ehuin to staY with me. and Wc made Il comc; to play on pa. Aoa sec ny raorn is right over pas room. .snd ! -, two lengths of stove pipe and eatefcd them III over with phosphorus. so they looked us, as bright aS Il eemei. Then NC got two Roman candles and I big sky ket. and we were going to touch oti the Ko- man candies and the sky rocket ftisi as pa and ma got docking |, :he comet l didn't know ihat . sky rocket would kiG k back. did you, Well. you'd :, e!ide ,o see that comet. We tied t pleee of white rubber garden hose io the stove pipe for tai and wen, io bed, and when the glrl woke us up we lad for pa and ma. l4ett4 soon we heard pa's window open, and l looked out. and pa and ma had their heads and half ;hc.r bndie, out of the window. They had then night shirts on and looked just ike picture of Millertes waiting for the world io come to an end. Ia looked Up and seed the stove pipe. and he said:
 '.- Hammer. for Gods sake. book up there That ls the dame>, comet. ever see. |, Is as bright as day. See the ;ai of |. Now tha; IS worth set.ins up ,o sec,
 '' lust then my c..um 1.-the two Roman candles and toue ned off the roI ke,. and that's where iny eve winkers wen;. The roc kei busted the joints of the stove pipe. and they fell down on pa. bl, ma got her head inside before the comet s,ruek. and wasn't hurt. bu, one length of stove pipe struck pa endways on the neck and almost GU, q biscuit out ot him. and the ire and sparks lust poured down in his hair. and burned his nl 5ht shlrt Ia vas scar,. He thought the world was coming -:o- an end. and the window came down on his back. and he began 10 sing. Earth $ -bu. deser, drear. Heaven s my home. l see he was caught in the window. and l went down stairs ,o put out ,he ire on his night shiu. and pu, up the window 10 let him in. and he sad. My boy. your ma and l are going 10 heaven. bu, l fear you will go to the bad place and told him would take my chances. and he better put on his pants if he was going any where that there would be liable 10 be ladies present; and when he got his head in ma told him ;he world was no, com ing to au end. bu, somebody had been setting of ire works. and she said she guessed t was their dear little boy, and when saw pa feeling under the bed for a bed sla, go; up stars pretty previous, now. and don't you forget it. and ma pu; cold cream or where the sparks burn; pas shir. and pa sad another day woi,ldn', mass over his head before he