Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-27
Johnny's Fat er.

"When is your ma coming back?"
asked the grocery man of the bad boy,
as he found him standing on the side
walk when the grocery was opened III
the morning, taking some pieces of brick
out of his coat-tail pockets. ''Oh. she
got back at midnight last night" said
the boy, rs he ate few blueberries out
of case. ''That's what makes me up
so early. Pa has been kicking at these
pieces of brick with his bare feet, and
when came away he had his toes i'll
h hand and was frying to back up
stairs on one foot. Pa hsin't got no
sense. 81 am afraid you are terror, "
said the grocery man, as he looked at
the innocent face of the boy. 'You
are always making your parents some
trouble, and it is great wonder to me
that they don't send you to the reform
school. What deviitry was you up to
last night to get kicked this mOrning?'
mo deviltry; Just little fun. You
see, ma went to Chicago to stay week,
and she got tired, and telegraphed she
would be home last night; and pa was
down town. and forgot to give him
the despatch. After he went to bed,
me and chum of mine thought We
would have Fourth of July. You see,
my chum has got big sister, and we
hooked some of her clothes, and after
pa got to snoring we put them in his
room. Oh, you'd have laughed. We put
pair of No. l slippers with blue stock
Ings down III front of the rocking chair.
beside Pas boots, and red corset on
a chair, and my chum's sisters best
silk dress on another chair, and a hat
with a white feather ON the bureau,
and some frizzes on the gas bracket,
and everything we could find that he
longed to girl in my ehum's sisters
room. Oh, we got a red plrasol, too.
and left it right in the middle of the
floor. Well, when L looked at the
layout, and heard pa snoring, L thought
l should die. You see, ma is easily
excited. My chum slept with me that
night. and when we heard the door-beii
ring l stuffed pillow III my mouth.
There was nobody to meet ma at the
depot, and she hired hack and came
right up. Nobody heard the bell but
me, and had to go down and let ma
in. She was pretty angry, you bet, a
not being met at the depot. where's
your father?" said she, as she began to
look up stairs, told her guessed pa
had gone to sleep by this time: that he
had gone to bed an hour ago. Then |
slipped upstairs, and looked over the
banister. Ma said something about
heavens and earth, and where is the
huzzy, and a lot of things L couldn't
hear; and pa swore, and said it's no
such thing. and the door slammed, and
then they talked for two hours. l
s'pose they finally laid it to me, as they
always do, aud when he came down
stairs he hurt my feelings. l see they
had my chum's sisters clothes all PIN
ned up in a newspaper, and 1 s'pose
when | go back | shall have to carry
them home again, and then she'll he
down ON me too. I'll tel you what, l
have a good notion to take some shoe
makers wax and stick my chum on my
back and travel with circus as a
double headed boy from BorneO. A
fellow could have more fun, and not get
kicked all tie time" Aud the boy
sampled some strawberries in a case III
front of the store, and went down the
street whistling for his chum, who was
lCoking out OF an alley to see if the
coast was clear.