The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-08-24
PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY AUGUST "A. 1888.

With it Saturdays daily paper aud
pa barrel, glanced it over as
he got on his overalls and
went out in his shirt sleeves
10 hOeing IN the garden,
| and my chum helped ma carry
water to wash. She said il seemed
like the longest week she ever saw,
but when we brought tue water,
and took a plate of pickles to the
hired girl that was down With the
mumps, We got in the lilac bushes
and waited for the curtain To rise.
IL wasn't long before folks began
going to church, and syoa'd died
laughing to see them all stop in
front OF where ma was washing and
look at her, aud then go TO where
pa sas hOlng weeds aud stop aud
look at him, aud then drive on.
After about a dozen teams had pass.
eel | beard ma ask pa ii he knew
who was dead. Pa had just hOe,l
into a bumblebee's nest, and said
he did not know OF anybody that was
dead, but some that ought to be,
and ma she did not ask any foolish
questions any more. After about
twenty teams had stopped, ma she
got nervous aud asked Deacon
Smith il he saw anything green f;
he said something about desecra.
ton aud drove away. Deacon
Brown asked pa if he did not think
he was setting a bad example be.
fore his boy, but pa said he thonght
it would be "a good one it the boy
cnuld only be hired to do it. Fl
nally md got mad aud took the tub
behind the house where they conld
not see her. About 4 o'clock that
afternoon we saw dozen of our
congregation, headed By the min
lister, file into our yard, and my
chum and knew it was time to fly,
so we got on the back steps where
we could hear. Pa met them at
the door expecting some bad news,
and when they were seated ma came
in aud remarked il was IA very un,
healthy year aud 1t stood people in
hand to meet the latter end. None
of them said u word until the elder
put on bis specs aud said it was Il
solemn occasion, aud ma she turn
ell pale and wondered who IL could
be, aud pa rays, don't keep us ii
suspense, who is dead I aud the
elder said no one was dead, bul
they called as duty they Owed
the cause to take action on them fol
working on Sunday. Ma she faint
cd away, and they threw II pitcher
of water down her back, and p,
said he guessed they were d pacl
of luuatlcs; but they all Sworc il
was Sunday, and they saw ma wash
ing and pa ont Loeing as they went
to church, and they had called te
take action on them. Then there
was u few minutes low converse
ton | could not catch, and then We
heard pa kick his chair over aud
say it was more tricks OF that darn.
ed boy. Then we knew it was time
to adjourn, and | was just getting
through the back fence as pa reach
eel me with barrel.stave, and
that's what makes me limp some."
"That was real mean in you
boys,' said the grocery man. at
will be hard for your ma and pa to
explain that matter. just think
how bad they must feelr
30, | don't know. | remember
hearing pa and Uncle Ezra telling
how they fooled their father once
and got him to go to mill with a
grist on Sunday, and pa said he
would defyanybody to fool him on
the day of the week. | don't think
"a man ought to tempt his little boy
by defying him to fool his father
Well, IN take glass of your fifty
cent cider and go,r rand the boy took
a glass of cider aud went out, aud
soon the grocery man looked out
the window and found somebody
had added cypher to the "sweeI
cider, only five cents a glsss," ma
king it an expensive drink, consid
eling it was made of sour apples.