The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-27
A TERROR.
The Latest Freak of the Milwaukee Bad
Boy.

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when is your ma coming backY'
asked the grocery man of a bad boy, as
he found him standing on the sidewalk
when the grocery was opened in the
morning, taking some pieces Of brick out
Of his coat tail pockets, "Oh, she got
home at midnight last night" said the
boy as he ate a few blackberries out OF
the 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
one hand and was trying to get up
sense.'
81 I'M afraid you are a terror said
the grocery man as he looked at the in
nocent face of the boy. You are al
ways making your parents some trouble
and it is a wonder to me they don't send
you to the reform school. What devil
try was you up to last night to be kicked
this morning.!m
mo deviltry, just a little fun. You
see ma went to Chicago-to stay a week,
and she got tired and telegraphed she
would be home last night: and pa was
down town and / forget to give him the
dispatch. After he went to bed me and
q chum thought we would have a Fourth
of July. You see my chum has got a
big sister, and he hooked some Of her
clothes, and after pa got q snoring we
| put some of them in his room. Oh,
! you'd a1Iaughed. We put a pair of No.
/ slippers with blue stockings down in
front OF the rocking chair beside pas
| boots and q red corset on the chair, and
| my. chum's sisters best silk dress on an
other chair, and q hat with a white
feather on the bureau, and some frizzles
on the gas bracket, and everything that
we could find hat belonged to girls in
my chum's sisters room. Oh, we got a
red parasol, too, and left it right in the
| middle OF the floor.
nWel1, when [ looked at the layout
and heard pa snoring | thought I should
die. You see, ma is -asiiiy excited. Ny
chum slept with me that night, and
when we heard the door bell ring
stuffed q pillow in my mouth. There
was no one to meet ma at the depot, and
she hired a hack and came right up.
Nobody heard the bell but me, and l had
to go down and let ma in. She was
angry, yon bet, at not being met at the
depot"
where's your iather??n said she, as
she began to go up stairs. II told her
guessed pa had gone to sleep by this
time, and that he'd gone TO bed al hour
ago. Then / slipped up stairs and
locked over the banisters. Ma said some
thing about heaven and earth, ano
where is the hussy, and q lot of things ]
could not hear; and pa swore and it's ns
such thing, and the door slammed ane
they talked for two hours.'
II suppose they finally laid it to me
as they always do, cause pa called mi
very early this morning and when
came down stairs he hurt my feelings
1 see they had my chum's sisters cloth
all pinned UP in a newspaper, and | sup
pose when I go back / will have to carr
them home, and then she'll be down OF
me too. 7 tell you what I've a good nc
ton to take some shoemaker's wax AM
stick my chum on my back and trave
with q circus as q double-headed DO,
from Borneo. A fellow could have NOR
fun and not get kicked all the time
And the boy sampled some strawberrie
in a case in front of the store, and wen
down the street Whistling for his chun
who was looking out of an alley to Sc
if the coast was clear.