Daily globe., 1882-09-18
THE BAD BOY.
Why JOlinny's Father Walked on One Foot.
GErOrp pacL-s, Gun

"'.! oohnny's Fatner Wanleu on One Foot
From Peck's SUM-
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 In
the morning, taking some pieces of
brick out of his coat-tail pockets. "Oh,
she got back at midnight last night" said
the boy, as 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 In
his hand and was trying to back up the
stairs on one foot Pa hasn't got no
sense" Il 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 trou-
bic, and it Is wonder to me that they
don't send you to the reform school.
What deyiltry was you up to last night
to get kicked this morning?" "No
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 I forgot to- give him
the dispatch. 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 laughed. We put pair of No.
l slippers with blue stockings down in
front of the rocking chair, beside pas
boots, and red corset on chair, and
my chum's sisters best silk dress on
another chair, and hat with a white
feather on the bureau, and some friz-
zes an the gas bracket, and everything
we could find that belonged to a girl in
my chum's sisters room. Oh, we got a
red parasol, too, and left it right in the
middle OF the floor. Well, when T
looked at the layout, and heard pa
snoring, thought I should die. You
see, ma is easily excited. My chum
slept with me that night, and when we
heard the door-bell ring I stuffed pill
low in 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, at not being met at the
depot. Where's your father?' said
she, as she began to look upstairs. I
told her guessed pa had gone to sleep
by this time; that he had gone to bed
an hour ago. Then I slipped upstairs
and looked over the bannister. Ma said
something about heavens and earth, and
where is the huzzy, and 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. I Is'pose they finally laid it to
me, as they always do, and when come
down stairs he hurt my feelings I see
they had my chum's sisters clothes all
pinned up in newspaper, and I s'pose.
when l go back I shall have to carry
them home, and then she'll be down on
me, too. I'll tell you what, [ have
good notion to take some shoemakers
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 the time" And the boy sampled
some strawberries in case in front OF
the store, and went down the street
whistling for his chum, who was look
ing out of an alley to see if the coast
was clear.