Delta chief., 1883-12-05

told him | had taken his advice, and
that speckled hogs were worth a cent Il
pound more than white hogs. Well, pa
didn't faint away, but when it all came
over him, that he had drove his own
hogs to the pound, he was SO cross he
could have bit a nail. Eut he didn't
say anything to me, cause | 'sposc he
didn't want to discourage my artistic
ambitions. but he has gone down to the
pound after the hogs. May be the rain
has washed the spots off, and the man
that keeps the pound will not let pa
have white hogs when he left speckled
ones there. However didn't warrant
the hogs to be fast colors, anyway. Do
you think it was wrong to put spots on
the hogs?"
"Wrong?" said the grocery man, as
he put some white flour into the sack of
buckwheat flour. and stirred it up, ''1t
was condemned outrage and decep-
ton. on your pa, and you ought to be
punished. But that was not as bad as
your wheeling a nigger baby be-
hind your pa and ma, when they were
coming from the museum. What did
you do it for?'
well. the colored baby was sawed
off onto me, and | had to wheel it,
said the boy. as he ran his teeth into
baked apple he taken off the stove.
You see. us boys had been saving
some wood for the ladies that keep the
foundling asylum, and when we got
through / asked the boss woman. the
one who warns the milk and puts it in
the bottles for the babies, if there was
anything more we could do. Well, she
said il was nice day for the babies to
be out doors, and if us boys would
wheel the babies around block. on
the sidewalk, and give the poor little
things a little fresh air, they would be
real glad, SO l told them to trot out
the baby wagons. and we had boss
time wheeling those poor little infants.
guess they have about forty and they
look awful sad. Gosh. wouldn't like
to be foundling, with no pa and ma,
except rubber nursing bottle. would
YOU? II those ladies that take the
foundlings and bring them up, don't
get to heaven without any questions be-
ing asked AS to what church they be-
| long to, then ST. Peter is different
kind Of box Office ticket seller than l
take him to be. We boys took two ba-
bies at a time. in baby wagons, un-
til we had given 'em all n ride but one,
and tell you ii did us good to see the
poor little things look around at the
people we passed. AS though they were
looking for their parents. l don't sup
pose they seen any parents, but l no.
ticed n couple Of young fellers get on
the other side of the street mighty
quick when they saw the procession
coming. Say. some Of those babies
are just as smart rs anybody's babies.
and after they had been out little
while in the sunshine. they would laugh
and look so pleasant and happy that l
had more fun and felt bet
ter than If had been in
n circus. But when the last baby
WAS brought out it was colorcd baby,
and MS boys looked tired. NV chum he
kicked on wheeling the colored baby,
cause he is a Democrat. and the other
boys said it was time for them TO go
home. and finally another boy and me
tossed up n cent to see which should
wheel the little black fellow. 1t come
tails, and lost, and the lady put the
baby in the wagon. and | started off
| The first thing that colored baby did was
Ia look up at me and say papa. Gosh.
] thought | should die. and ! turned
around 10 slap 1t side of the head. when
the boys and the lady laughed But
when the lady said they had taught il
to say papa. and | looked at it. and it
was laughing and kicking. and having
fun. | was kind of mashed on that Mig
ger baby, and II it ever wants friend
all II has got tn do is to send postal
card to Hcnnery. had more fun with
that baby than you ever see. | would
wheel it along behind gentleman and
lady who We're talking earnestly, and il
would say papa, and they would look
scared, and the lady would look offend
ed, and they would turn corner and go
off and wouldn't speak to each other.
One fellow gave me half dollar il |
would take il away. and l gave the
money to the lady that keeps the baby
livery. Well. Just before ltook the col
cred baby back TO the Home. | see pa
and ma going along on the sidewalk.
and pa was explaining to ma how it was
that he was out till twelve o'clock the
night before, at q special meeting of
lodge, and ma didn't believe It as well
rs pa thought she ought to. and Just
then | run the baby wagon right up be-
tween them, and the colored baby said
papa" and l laughed. and ma said
.Hcnery. where on earth did You find
il, and pa leaned against the fence and
turned pale and said. It's a condemned
lie, and the baby laughed, and then
told them I was working for the found
ling asylum. wheeling babies for fresh
air, and they went home, but pa walked
awful tired. That's all l did to tritlc