Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-20

hereinbefore provided, to direct recess
of such house not beyond the next day,
Sunday excepted, at the hour of 1C
o'clock in the forenoon; but if the
counting of electoral votes and declara.
ton of result shall not have been com
pleted before the tenth calendar day
next after such first meeting of the two
houses, no further or other recess shall
be taken by either house.
Interview With Small Boy.
New York Sun.
A small boy leaned out of the rear
third-story window of his fathers
house in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon,
looking at the sky, and at times break.
ing out with the tune, "In the North
Sea Lived a Whale" His noise at
tracted his newspaper neighbor, who
also leaned out and said, .sWell,
George, how are you?"
"Tse prisoner locked up on bread
and water" George replied, sjust cause
l didn't know it was loaded. You see,
father was in the army, and last week
when you heard him firm off his pis-
tolls he was shootin' at a cat. He
shot five times, and the cat looked up
and smiled when he got frou'. Says 1,
Father, did you ever kill man when
you was a soldier?" thinking, you
know, that he couldn't shoot fur a cent.
He says, Il s'pOse So WELL says,
you muster bin close enough to hit
him with an AK and he sent me into
the house. Well, seed where he hid
his pistol in his overcoat aud yester-
day got it out, an there was an acct
dent. felt sure it wasn't loaded, for
didn't 1 hear father fire it OFF, I put it
under my piller, n waited for sup
per to be over, cause 1 wanted to scare
the girls. Girls always boiler when
they see pistol. Well, our minister
come to tea. Ministers are the great.
est hands to come to tea; its 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, Iend me your blanket shawl
for few minutes, want to be an In
dian brave 1 wrapped the shawl
round me, put fathers cane over my
shoulder for a gan, n then got the
pistol, n crept softly down to the par
lor so they wouldn't know Indians were
skirmishin' round their camp. I
pushed open the door, n there was the
minister and Bess sittin' at opposite
ends of the sofy, n Lii was crocheting
lamp mat. All was still. n says:
The hour has come Then gave
three whar whoops N rushed in and
said, Surrender or 1 shoot! There was
a panic. The girls went into hyster-
les, n the preacher said, My son, meb-
be that pistols loaded.
Says /, "S'render, pale chief, or I'll
shoot yer dead in yer tracks, They all
made rush at me to take the pistol
away n fired. Lordy, what noise.
L was skeered most to death. The bull
let went into picture of the signers
of Declaration of independence, and
took off the head of one of the signers.
The preacher turned pale n said was
a wicked boy. 1 knowd it n L knowd
what was goin' to ketch. The girls
cried like as though there was fun'ral
n 1 was whipped. 1 dreamed all
night was fightin' the Indians, n
when 1 woke up this mornin' felt
sure my name would be in the papers.
They gave me bread n water for break
fast n wouldn't let me see a news
paper. So 1 thought I'd escape. 1 tore
up the two sheets, tied one end to the
bureau drawer, and was climbin' down
like folks do at fire, when somethin'
give way. fell about thousand feet
L thought, came down so hard. l hit
the stone area, n it seemed to me as
If it was night and 1 was lookin' at
about million stars. 1 didn't know
nothin' for minute. Then L come
do"
What broker"
'Nothih' broke; the bureau drawer
come out. 1 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.
L s'posc now I'll be a month on bread
n water"
But you mustn't make so much
nclse."
That was op'ra 1 was singin'. Don't
you like Op'rap Well, you don't care
If play the umpah ?"
what is the umpah?'
"Why, didn't you never hear brass
band going down the street? One man
with little horn goes 'Ta-te-reat-ta-
ta-ta-ta,' and man with a big horn
goes 'umpah, umpah, umpah.' That's
the umpah play"
As the neighbor drew in his head
the small boy began on the ~umpah,"
and he was playing it when the report
er went away.