Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-14
Peck's Son.

A young fellow who is pretty smart on
general principles. and who is always IN
a good humor, went into a Chicago store
the other morning hmpiDg and seemed to
be broke up generally, The proprietor asked
him if he wouldn't sit down, and he said
he couldn't very well, as his back was
lame. He seemed discouraged and the
proprietor asked HIM what was the matter.
SWELL" said he, as he put his hand on his
pistol pocket and greaned, There is no
encouragement for boy to have any fun
nowadays Ii boy tries TO play an inno-
cent JOKE he gets kicked all over the
house" The store-keeper asked him what
had happened to disturb his hlls-ity. he
said he played joke on his father and
bad been limping ever since.
You see, thought the old man was
little spry You know he is no spring
chicken yourself, and though his eyes are
not what they used to be, yet he can see
pretty girl further than L can.
The other day wrote a note in a fine
Land and addressed II to HIM asking him
TO meet me on the corner of Wisconsin and
Milwaukee streets at 7:50 on Saturday
evening, as / had an errand with him, and
signed the name Daisy to if. At supper
time pa he was all shaved up and had his
hair all p!astered over the bald spot, and
got on some clean cuffs, and said he was
going down to the Consistory to initiate
some candidates from the country, and he
might not be in till late. He didn't eat
much supper, and hurried off with my
umbrella. l winked at ma but didn't say
Il o,,l he
standing there by the post-office corner IN
a dark place. went by him and said:
"Hello pa, what are you doing there e.
he SAID he was waiting for a man. lie
went down the street, and pretty soon i
went up on the otter corner by Chapman's
and be was standing there, He didn't
know what corner Daisy was going to be
OF, and he had to cover the four corners;
l saluted HIM if he hadn't found his man
yet, and he said no, the man was little
late 1t Is a mean boy that won speak TO
his pa when he sees him standing on the
corner. Invent up the street and | saw pa
cross over by the drugstore IN sort of a
hurry, and could see girl going by with
a waterproof on, but she skited right along
and pa looked kind of solemn the way he
does when | ask for new clothes. turned
and came back, and he was standing there
in the doorway, and | SAID. PA, you WI
catch cold if you stand around waiting for
a man. You go down to the Consistory
and let me lay for the man. ''Pa said,
"Never you mind; you go about your busi-
ness and will attend to the man." Well.
when a boys pa tells him to never you
mind and looks spunky my experience is
that 10y wants TO go right away from
there, and | went down the street. i
thought l would cross over and go up The
olher SIDE, and see how long he would
stay. There YVES girl or two going up
a head of me, ana see man hurrying |
across from the drugstore to Van Pelt's |
corner. 1t was pa, and as the girls went
along and never lOoked around, pa looked |
mad and stepped into the doorway. 1t
was about eight o'clock then, and pa
was tired and l felt sorry for HIM, and l
went up to him and asked him for q bali |
q dollar to GO to the Acaden,y. never
knew him to shell out so quick. He gave |
me dollar, and / told HIM | would go
and get it changed and bring HIM back the
BALI dollar, but be said 1 needn't mind |
the cjange. Ii Is awful mean Of boy |
who has always been Treated well to play 1
that way. and felt ashamed.
As turned the corner and saw him |
standing there shiverlng, waiting fer the |
man, my conscience troubled me, and |
told g ro.iceman TO 60 and tel pa that |
Daisy Lad been sudd, My taken with |
worms, aud would not be there that eve
nirg. peeped around the corner, and pa |
and The p lhceman went of TO get q drink.
was glad they did, cause pa needed 1t |
after standing around so long. We'll, when
L went tcme tie joke was 50 good | told |
ma all about it, and she Va mad. / guess
she was mad at me for treating him that
way. | head pa come home about eleven
o clock, and Ma was real kind to him She
told him to Warm his feet, cause they was
just like CHUNKS OF ice. Then she asked
HIM how many they initiated in the Con-
slstOry, and he SAID six, and then she
asked il they initiated Daisy in the Con
sistory, and pretty soon heard pa snoring
In the morning, when got up, he took me
into the basement and gave me the hard
est talking to that | ever had with a bed
STAT. He SAID that he knew that | wrote
that note all the time, and he thought he
I
would pretend lie was looking for Daisy
just 10 TOOL me. Il don't look reasonable
that a nan would catch the expizootic
and rheumatism just TO fool his boy, does
II? VI hat did be give NE the dollar for
Ma and pa don't seem to Call each other
pet any more, and IS for me they both
look al me as though was hard citizen.
| am going 10 Missouri to take Jesse
James place. There is no encouragement
Tor hoy here. Well, good morning. Ii
pa comes In Lore asking for me tel him
that YOU saw an express wagon going to
the morgue with the remains of a prt tty
boy who acted as though he died from
OF bed slat en- the pistol
pocket. o, he has got the awfuiest cod,
though
And the roy limped out to separate
couple OF dogs that were fighting.