Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-11-16

Gerry m4n, - he gave the boy little
dried up lemon. about as dig IS =
prime, and told him be was terror.
whist is the matter with your eye
winkers and your hairg They seem
to Be burned Of.
20. thunder. didn't pa tell you
about the comet exploding and bnrn-
ing ne alp That was the worst thing |
since the food. when Near ran the |
excursion boat from Kalamazoo 10 |
Mount Ararat. Yon wee we had
been reading about the comet, which /
is visible At four o'clock in the
morning. and heard pa tell the hir-
ed girl to wake him aud ma up when
sbe got up to set the pancakes and
70 TO early mass, 80 they could zee
the critter. The hired girl is 4 cath
Ole. aud she don I make no fuss about
il. bnt she has got more good. square
relidgin than a dozen like pa IT.
makes a good deal Of difference how
relidgen affects different people, don't
it. Now pas relidgin makes him
wild, and he wants 10 kick my pants,
and pull ms hair, l,nt the hired girls
relidgin makes her want 70 hug me.
if I am abused. and she pnss anarchy
on mv bruises and gives me pie Pa
wouldn't get mp at four O'Clock in the
in0rning To go 10 curly mass. uHless
he could take fish pole along. and
some angle worms. Thehired girl prays
x..baf. az S.rn 49,. Aar l,,nk fwnI l.stf
pa wants TO get church fnli of sis
term, and fray loni. as though be
was an auctioneer selling tin razors.
Well, when bear,l pa tell the hired
girl to wake him anal ma mp. told
her 10 wake me mp about half an
hour before she walsed pa mp. aii'l
then got my chun TO stay with me,
and we made comet 10 play Cd pa.
You see ny room is right over pa
room. and / got two lengths Of stove
pipe and covered them all over with
phosphorus, 80 they looked Just as
bright "a \ comet. Then we got two
Roman candles and big sky rocket,
and we were going TO touch off the
Roman candles and the sky rocket
just as pa and ma got to looking at
the comet. / dIdn { know that sky
rocket wonld kick back, did Won?
Well. you'd dids to see that comet.
We tied pieceof white rubber garden
hose 10 thes ove-pil,e for a tail and went
tn be |. aud when the girl woke usup we
lai for pa and ma
Pretty soom We heard pas window
OF and | looked out. and pa and
ln.l hpi their heals and half their
bo lies ont OF tie window. Thew had
I'll .ir night shirts on and looked just
like PICTURES Of Afilleaite. waiting
for the world to come 10 an end. Pa
lo.k-d ~ and seed the stove pipe.
and he said Hammer. for Gods
sake. Look mp there That Is the
danest co net I ever see. It il IA
bright as day. See the tail of it.
Now that Is worth getting up to see.
just then my chum lit the two
Raman candles and touched off the
racket. aud that's where my eye
winkerS went The rocket bnFsted
the joints of the stove pipe, and they
fell down on lsl. but ma got her head
inside before the comet struck, and
wlstn hurt, but one length of stove
pipe struck pr endways on the neck
l.1d almost cut biscuit ont Of him.
aud the tiro and sparks Just poured
down in his hair, and burned his
nighishirt. Pa was scarf. He thought
the world was coming to an end. and
the window came down on his back,
aud he began to sing. 'Etrth's but
desert drear, Heaven is INV home.
81 see he WAS caught in the window.
and | went down stairs, 10 put ont
the fire on his nightslirt, and put mp
sHe window to let MIN in, he said:
ly boy, your ma and / are going to
Heaven, but fear Won will 90 to the
bad place. aud | told him / would
take nay chances. and lie better put
on his pants if he was going anywhere,
HAT there would be liable to be la
dies present, and when he got his
head in ma told him the world was
not coming to an end. but somebody
bad been setting otftireworks. and she
said size guessed it was their dear little
hoy, and when saw pa feeling under
The bed for bedslat got up stairs
pretty previous, now, and don you
forget it, and ma put cold cream on
where the sparks burnt pas shirt.
and IVA said another day wouldn't
pass over his head before he had me
in the reform school
We'll. If i go to the reform school.
somebody got 10 pay attention. you
can bet yourliver. A hoy cant have
any fun these DAYS without every
body thinks he is heather. What
hurt did il do to play comet2 It's a
mean father that won't stand little
scorchin' in the interest Of science. !"
The boy went out, scratching the
the place where his eye-winkers were,
and then the groceryman knew what
it was that caused the fire engines to be
out around at four o'clock in the
morning looking for a fire. AfilsUuss-
kes San.