Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1883-08-02


on me, and see the only way TO ge
out of it honOrably was to get out rea
sPry, and got out. Then we sat dowr
under tree, to eat lunch. and my Rir
swallowed a pickle the wrong way and
pounded her on the back, the wa,
ma does me when choke, and she
yelled, and a policeman grabbed me
and shook me, and asked me what
was hurting that poor girl for, and told
me IL did 1t again he would arr.s,
me. Everything went wrong. After
dark somebody fired q Roman candle
into my girls hat, and set IL on fire.
and grabbed the hat and stamped on
1t, and spoiled her hair that her INA
bought her. BY gosh, 1 thought her
hair was curly, but when the wig was
of, her own hair was as straight a.
could be. But she was purity, all the
same. We got under another tree. TO
get away from, the smell of burned
hair, and boy set of a D:sger chaser.
and it ran right at my girls feet, and
burned her stockings, and a woman
put the fire out for her, while / looked
for the boy that fred the nigger chas.
sr, but l didn't want to find him. She
Vas pretty near wreck by that time.
though she had all her dress left e.-
eept the polonaise, and we went and
set under tree In q quiet place, and
put my arm around her and told her
never to mind the accidents, cause IL
would DO dark when We got home. and
Just then spark dropped down thro'
fhc tree and fell into my pistol pock-t
right next to her, wherc my bunch q!
IRE cracsers was, and si'~y began To go
OF. Well, ! never saw such a sivht as
she was. Her dress was one Of these
mosquito bar, cheese cloth dresses. and
it burned just like punk. had prex.
rhcc "f mind rr oul,ll 10 roll her on th.
srass and put out the nrs, bur in doing
that neglected my own connaGrstion
and when ! got her put out my coat
tail and trcwsers were n total Ioss. Nv,
but she looked like goore that ha.
been picked, and I looked like a fire.
man that had fell through hatchway.
Ny girl wanted to so home, and took
her home. and her pa was ,etting on
the front steps, and he wouldn't ae.
cept her. looking that way. He said
he placed in my possession q whole
girl, clothed and in her right mind and
had brought back a burnt offerins.
He teaches in our Sunday school, and
knows how to talk pious, but his boots
are offul thick. tried to explain that |
was not responsible for the fire works.
and that he could bring i'm bill against
The government, and 1 showed him
how was bereaved of a coat tail and
some pants, but lie wouldn't reason nj
al, and when his foot hit me thousht
c was the resurrection, sure, and when
got over the fence and had picked
myself up, never stopped till got to
Duffy's, and ! set up with him cause /
thought her pa was after me, and
hought he wouldn't enter q sick room
md maui a watcher at the bedside of
IN invalid. But that settles it with
ne about celebrating. 1 don't care II
We did whip the British, after declar-
ng independence. I don't want my
'ants burnt of. What Is the decIara-
ion OF independence good for to a
'irl who loses her polonaise. and has
Ter hair burned of, and q nig9er chas.
r burning her stockingsf No, sir,
hey may talk about the glorious 4th
Il July, but will II bring back that
'lonje wig or retail my coatf Here
fter 1 am n rebel, snd will go out in
he woods. the way pa does, and com.
'ome with black eye, got in a ration ,
I way"
What, did your pa get black eye,
ooi hadn't heard about that. ~ said
he grocery man, giving the boy a
andful of unbaksd peanuts TO draw
i'm out. Didn't get to fighting, did
ef"
No. pa don't fight. 1t is wrong, .
e says, to Eight, unless you are sure l
on can whip the fellow, and pa always
OF whipped, SO he quit fighting. You 1
ee, one of the deacons in our church I
YES ont on . small farm. and aiI his ,
'iks were going away to spsnd the Attn /
nd ne had to do all the chores, 90 he 4
ivited pa and ma to come cut to the I
arm and have a nice quiet time, and 8
hey went. There Is nothing pa likes
etter than to go out on n farm, and $
retend he knows everything. When G
ie farmer got ps and ma out there he '
20 them 20 work, and ma rbelled ,.~>s =