Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-26
TME BAD roy AGAIN.

when is your ma coming back: ;"
asked the grocery man of the bad
boy, as he found him standing on the
sidewalk when the grocery was open
ed in the morning, taking some pieces
OF brick out of his coat-tsil pockets.
"Oh. she got back at midnight last
night" said the boy, and he ate q few
blueberries out of q case. That's
what makes me up 80 early. Pa has
been kicking at these pieces of brick
with his bare feet, and when / came
away he had his toes in his hand and
was trying TO 60 back up the stairs
on one foot. Pa haint got no sense "
Il am afraid you are a terror" said
the groceryman, as he looked at the
face of the boy. "You are always
making your parents some trouble,
and it is wonder to me that they
don't send you to the reform school.
What deviltry was you up to last
night to get kicked this morning."
mo deviltry. just little fun, You
see ma went to Chicgo 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 dispatch. And after he went
to bed, me and q chum of mine
thought We wonld have Fourth of
July. You see. my chum has got q
big sister. and we hooked some of
her clothes, and after pa got to snor-
ing we put them in his room. Oh.
you'd laughed. We put a pair of
No. slippers. with blue stockings,
down in front of the rocking chair be-
sides pas boots, and q red corset on
q chair. and my chum's sisters best
black silk dress on another chair, and
hat with o white feather on the
bureau, and some frizzes Onthc gas
bracket. and everything we could find
that belonged to q girl in my chum's
sisters room. Oh. we got red para
sol, too, and left it right in the middle
Of the floor. Well, when l looked at
the lay out, and heard pa snoring l
thought / should die. You see, ma
is easily excited. My chum slept with
me that night, and when we heard
the door bell ring stuffed q pillow
in my mouth. There was nobody to
meet ma at the depot, and she hired
a hack and came right up. Nobody
heard the bell but me, and / had to
60 down and let ma in. She was
pretty angry, you bet, at not being
met at the depot. where's your
father" said she, as she began to 60
upstairs. ! told her ! guessed pa had
gone to sleep by this time, that he'd
gone to bed an hour ago. Then l
slipped upstairs, and looked over the
banisters. Ma said something about
heavens and earth, where is the huz-
zy, aud q lot Of things ! couldn't
hear; and pa swore, and said it's no
such thing, and the door slammed,
and they: talked for two hours. /
s'pose they finally laid 1t to me. as
they always do, cause pa called me
very early this morning and when L
come down stairs he hurt my feelings.
l see they had my chum's sisters
clothes all pinned up in q newspaper,
and s'pose when / go back l shall
have to carry them home, and then
she'll be down on me, too. I'll tell
you what, ! have q good notion to
take some shoemaker's wax and stick
my chum on my back. and travel
with circus, as . double headed boy
from BOrneo. A fellow could have
more fun, and not get kicked all the
time" And the boy sampled some
strawberries in case In front Of the
store, and went down the street whist
ling for his chum, who was looking
out of an alley to see II the coast was
clear, II Peck's Sun.