San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-16

were whooping il up nights the good
boy would be at prayer meeting or
mite society. The other boy had a
father that had seen good deal OF the
world, and he gave his boy what was
considered too much license. The old
man would go boat riding with his boy
ON Sunday, for exercise. They would
drop A hook and line overheard, just
for fun. The boy would ask his father
il IL was not wrong to fish on Sunday,
and the old man would say he didn't
know. as he couldn't find anything in
the Bible that treated on the subject.
He said they would put on the bait Just
for n flyer, and il Gods fish wanted to
learn any new game, they could have II
chance. The result was, the old man
and the boy would get nice string oil
fish. The old man would tell his boy
To look around while he was onng and
take in all the fun he could find lying
around loose, but not to do anything
mean. Sometimes the boy rather over
did the thing, Tor instance when he got
n loc of boys together and told them
nil 10 bring a cat to u place appointed
the next night ut Line o'clock. They
visited good-natured German, VINO
liked fun, and after he and his wife
were asleep, the boys dropped eighteen
cats down the chimney into the room
where the German and his wife were
sleeping. The good hoy would have
tboueht he vas going directly to hell If
he had mixed up in that cat scrape, but
the bad boys had heap OF fun, ana SO
did the German, for he was telling OF
il the next day to the bad boys father,
and he said: avell, ven dem cats walk
ofer de bed, und squawl like dey vas
sick, dink it vas yoost raining CATS
md nv wife, she tink it vas ped pugs::
O. dose boys dey make me laugh"
Tie bad boy grew up hearty, and his
laugh could be heard two blocks, and
his heart was ready to respond to any
appeal for charity. His old man told
him that he didn't want to ever near
that the boy had done wrong to girl.
He wanted him to look upon girls as
the noblest affairs that ever lived. but
he added: "If girl ever wants to have
her ear bit, and you feel as though you
could do the subject justice, and hear
of YOU going around the block to get
AWAY from her, will fan you with
boot Leg" The bad boy had lois OF
fun with girls, and could tell the an,
ference between good one and bad
one block off, while the good boy
would blush and tremble in the knees
at the sight of piece of calico. Our
bad boys father told the bad boy tnat
there was such thing as whisky, which
was good enough in its place, bat a
mighty poor thing to tie to, ana foia
him not to feel as though he was ilaole
to become drunkard If he smelled OF
n bottle. but to let it alone on genera!
principles. Our bad boy tasted OF
whisky and it burned his inwards, SO
he said he guessed he didn't want any
more of that; while the good boy never
looked at bottle without apologlzlng'
Finally, at eighteen years of age the
two boys went to Chicago to take pc,
sitions in business houses. Our baa
bow was met by ropers-in for bunko
game. and he told them to go and soak
their heads; the good boy took the
for nice Christian gentlemen,
and he laid down sixty-hve dollars
Our bad boy was met on the street oy
- gorgeous female who asked him to
see her home, as she was afraid OF the
bad men on the street, and he SAID 10
her: Sophia, you need sailing. You
are too fresh. L am young man from
the country, but you can't play no cir,
Gus on the son OF the old man: Ia-ta!
Our good boy went home with the girl
and she filed him with New Jersey
cider at five dollars bottle, an her
pal stole tn, good boys pants through
\ panel in the door, with forty tour
dollars and testament in the pistol
.,ocket. and then he was kicked down
stairs at midnight, the police picked
him up, and the bad boy vent to the
police court the next morning and pad
his fine. Our bad boy was invited by
other boys to go and see the town at
night, but he said he guessed the town
would exist without his making
,ussed fool of himself. Our good hoy
was asked to "take in the town, and he
went, and got full, and rode to his
house with his feet out of the
window of hack, and he was arrested
The next day for breaking mirror in
Wabash avenue mansion by throwing
IN empty bottle through it. The good
,oy seemed to catch Ola to every sort OF
dissipation. Everything was new to
lim, and he wondered il the world had
,een going on that way all the time,
md he hadn't heard anything about it.
At the end of year he came home
With an erysipelas nos,, cough that