The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-07-07
THE BAD BOY IN A NEW ROLE.
HE EXPLAINS HOW HE RECEIVED HIS
BLACK EYE.

BLACK EYE.
The Milwaukee SUES famous bad boy
appears in an entirely new role in the
following sketch:
"A All, ha, you have got your deserts at
last" said the grocery man to the bad
boy, as he came in with one eye black,
and his nose peeled on one side, and sat
down on board across the coal scuttle
and began whistling as unconcerned as
possible. What's the matter with your
eye?"
:" Boy tried to gouge it ont without
asking my CONSENT" and the bad boy
took a dried herring out of the box and
began peeling it. s. He is in bed now,
and his ma is poulticing him, and she
says he Will be ont about the last of next
week
'Oh, yon are going to be prize
fighter, ain t you,' said the grocery man
Disguised. when boy leaves job
where he is working, and goes to loaf
ing around, lie becomes 4 fighter the first
thing. What your pa ought to do is to
bind you ont with a farme:, where YOU
would have to work all the time. | wish
you would go away from here, because
you look like one of these fellows that
comes up before the police judge Monday
morning, and gets thirty days in the
house of correction. Why don't you 20
out and loaf around slaughter house,
where you would look appropriate >" and
the grocery man took hair brush and
brushed some loose sugar and tea, that
was on the counter, into the sugar barrel.
"Well, if you have got through with
your sermon, | will toot q little on my
horn,' and the boy threw the remains of
the herring over behind barrel of pota-
toes, and wiped his hands on 4 coffee
sack. elf you had this black eye, and
had got it the way did, it would be a
more priceless gem in the crown of glory
yon hope to wear, than any gem you can
get by putting quarters in the collection
plate, with the holes filled with lead, as
you did last Sunday, when I was watch
ing you. Oh, didn't you look pious when
you picked that filled quarter out, and
held your thumb over the place where
the lead was. The way of the black eye
was this. | got a job tending a soda
fountain, and last night, just before we
closed, there was two or three young
loafers i'll the place, and girl came in
for 4 glass of soda. Five years ago she
was one Of the brightest scholars in the
ward school, when was in the interme-
diate department. She was Just as hand
some as peach, and everybody liked
her. At recess she used to take my part
when the boys knocked me around, and
she lived near us. She had heart as
big As that cheese box, and guess that's
what's the matter. Anyway, she left
school. and then it was said she was
going TO he married to fellow who is
now in the dude business, but he went
back on her and after awhile her ma
turned her out doors, and for year or
two she was selling beer in a saloon until
the mayor stopped concerts. She tried
hard to get sewing to do, but they would
not have her, | guess cause she cried so
much when she was sewing, and the
tears wet the cloth she was sewing on.
Once asked pa why ma didn't give her
some sewing to do, and lie said for me to
dry up ard never speak to her ii | met
her on the street. 1t seemed tuif to
pass her on the street. when she had
tears in her eyes as big as marbles. and
not speak to her when know her So we'll
and she bad been so kind to me at school
just cause dude wouldn't marry her,
but wanted 10 obey pa, so used to
walk around block when | see her COM
ing, cause | didn't want to hart her
feelings. Well, last night she came in
the store, looking pretty shabby, and
wanted glass of soda, and | gave it to
her, and oh. how her hand trembled
when she raised the glass to her lips,
and how wet her eyes were, and how
pale her face was. | choked up SO
couldn't speak when she handed me the
nickel and when she looked up at me
and smiled just like she used to, and
said l was getting to be almost a man
since we went to school at the old school
house, and put her handkerchief to her
eyes, by gosh, my eyes got so full
couldn't tell whether it was nckle or a
lozenger she gave me. Just then one of
those loafers began to laugh at her and
call her names. and say the police ought
to take her up, and he made fun of her
until she cried some more, and got hot
and went around to where he was and
told him if he said another unkind word
to that girl | would maui him. He
laughed and asked if she was my sister.
and | told him that poor friendess
girl, who was sick and in distress, and
who was insulted, ought to be every
boys sister, and any boy who had a
spark of manhood should protect her.
and then he laughed and said ought to
be one of the Little Sisters of the Poor,
and he took hold of her faded shawl and
pulled the weak girl against the show
case, and said something mean to her,
and she looked as though she wanted to
die, and | mashed that boy one right on
the nose. Well, the air seemed to be full
of me for minute, cause he was biuner
than me, and he got me down and got
his thumb i'll my eye. | guess he was
going to take my eye out, but | turned
him over and got on top and | mauled
him until he begged, but l wouldn't let
him up till he asked the girls pardon.
and swore he would whip any boy that
insultcd her, and then | let him up, and
the girl thanked me, but l told her |
couldn't speak to her, cause she was tutf'
and pa didn't want me to speak to any
body who was tutf, but if anybody ever
insnlted her so she had to cry, that |
would whip him if had to take club.
| told pa about it, and | thought he
would be mad at me for taking the part
of girl that was tuf, but by gosh pa
Rugged me, and the tears come in his
eyes, and he said had got good blood
in me, and | did just right, and if l
would show him the father of the boy
that whipped, pa said he would whip
the old man, and ma said for me to find
the poor girl and send her up to the