The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-09-23

joke on his father and had been
llmping ever since.
"4ou see, l thought the old man
was little spry, You know he is
no spring chicken yourself, and
though his eyes are not what they
used to be, yet he can see a pretty
girl further than can.
1.-The other day l wrote note in a
hne hand and addressed it to him
asking him to meet me on the corner
OF Wisconsin and Milwaukee streets
at 1870 O'Clock on Saturday evening,
as L had an errand with him, and
signed the name Daisy to it. At sup
per time pa he was shaved up and
had his hair all pIastered over the
bald spot, and got on some clean cuffs,
and said he was going down to the
Conslstory to initiate some candidates
nom the country, and he might not
| be IN till late. He didn't eat much
and hurried off with my umbrella,
4 Wlnked at ma but didn't say any
thing. | went down town and he
was standing there by the postoffice
J corner in a dark place. l went by
him and said: Hello pa, what are
you doing there?" He said he was
waiting for man. He went down
the street, and pretty soon | went up
on the other corner by Chapman's
ana he was standing there. He
dldn't know what corner Daisy was
gong to be on, and he had to cover
the four corners. | Saluted him If he
hadn't found his man vet, and he
SAID no, the man was Il little late. 1t
Is mean boy who won't speak to
his pa when he sees him standing on
the corner. | went up the street and
saw pa cross over by the drug store
In sort of a hurry, and could see a
girl going by with waterproof on,
but she skited right along and pa
looked kind Of solemn, the way he
does when | asked for new clothes.
turned and came back, and he was
standing there in the doorway, and
| said, "Pa, you will catch cold ifyou
stand around waiting for a man.
You go down to the COnSIstOry and
let me stay for the man." Pa said,
Never you mind; you go about
your business and | will attend to
to the man." Well, when a boys
pa tells him to never you mind and
looks spunky my experience is that
a boy wants to go right away from
there, and | went down the street.
L thought | would cross oyer and go
up the other side, and see how long
he would stay. There was a girl or
two going UP ahead of me, and | saw
man hurrying across from the drug
store to Van Pelt's corner. 1t was
pa, and as the girls went along and
never looked around pa looked
mad and stepped into the doorway.
1t was about s O'Clock then, and pa
was tired and I felt sorry for him,
and [ went up to him and asked him
for half dollar to 60 to the Acad-
emy. | never knew him to shell out
so quick. He gave me dollar, and
told him l would go and get it
changed and bring him back the half
dollar, but he said | needn't mind
the change. 1t is awful mean of a
boy who has always been treated well
to play that way, and | felt asham-
ed.
GAS | turned the corner and saw
him standing there shivering, wait
ing for the man, my conscience trOub-
led me, and told a policeman to 90
and tell pa that Daisy had been sud-
denly y taken with chills and would
not be there that evening. | peeped
around the corner, and pa and the
policeman went off to get a drink. |
was glad they did, cause pa needed
it after standing around so long.
Well, when / went home the joke
was so good l told ma all about it,
and she was mad. | guess she was
madat me for treating HIM that way.
| heard pa come home about II
O'Clock, and ma was real kind to him.
She told him to warm his feet, cause
they were just like chunks of ice.
Then she asked him how many they
initiated in the Consistory, and he
said six, and then she asked if they
initiated Daisy in the Consistory,
and pretty soon | heard pa snoring.
In the morning, when | got up, he
took me into the basement and gave
me the hardest talking to that ever
had with a bed slat. He said that
he knew that | wrote that note all
the time, and he thought he would
pretend he was looking for Daisy just
TO fool me. 1t don't look reasonable
that Il man would catch the epizootic
and rhematiSm just to fool his boy,
does it? What did he give me the