The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-01
THAT BAD BOY.
He Resolves to Lead Different Life, But
His ChGm Done.
Peck's San.

His ChGm Done.
Pecks SuD
"Say, thought You was going 10 try to
lead diip, ent life,r said the grocery man
to the bad boy, as the youth came i'm with
his pockets full Of angle worms and wanted
TO borrow baking powder can to put them
into, while he went fishing, and he held n
long angle worm up by the tail and let 1t
wiggle so it frightened girl that had come
In after two cents worth Of yeast, so she
dropped her pitcher and went out of the gro
Gerry as though she was chased by sn ana
\ Gonda.
81 am going to lead different life, but q
boy can't change his whole course of life in
a minute, can he? Grown persons have to
60 on probation for six months before they
can lead different life, aud half the time
they lose their cue before the six months ex-
pire, and have to commence over again.
When IL is SO alfred hard for a man that Is
endowed with sense TO break of being bad,
you shouldn't expect too much from a boy.
But am doing as we'll as could be expected.
l amt half as bad as / was. Gosh, why
don't you burn rag. That yeast that the
girl spilled on the floor smells like 1t wa.
sick. should think that bread that was
raised with that yeast would smell like this
cooking butter you sell to hired girls"
"Well, never you mind the cooking but
ter. know my business. If people want
to use poor butter when they have company,
and then blow up the grocer before folks.
can stand ii If they can. But what 10 this
hear ab'ut your pa lighting a duel with the
minister in your back yard, and wounding
him in the leg, and then trying to drown
himself in cistern?' One of your new
neighboS was In here this morning and told
me there was murder in the air at your place
las: night, and they were going to have the
police pull your house as disorderly place.
think you were at the bottom of the whole
business
80, it's all darn lie, and those neighbors
will find they better keep still about us, or
we will lie about them q little. You see,
since pa got that blacking on bis face he
don't 60 out any, and to make 1t pleasant for
him ma invited in few friends to spend the
evening. VA has got up and around, and
the baby is a daisy, only it smells like
goat on account Of drinking the goats milk.
Ma invited the minister, among the rest, and |
after supper the men went up into pas IL
brary to talk. o, you think l am bad, don't |
you bat of the nine men at our house last |
night l am an angel compared to what they |
were when they were boys, got into the |
bathroom to untangle my fish line, and 1t Is |
next to pas room, and / could hear every |
thing they said, but went away cause i |
thought the .conyersation would hurt my |
morals. Well, lately somebody has been
burglarizing our chicken coop, and pa loaded
an old musket with rock salt, and said he
woald fill the fellow with salt If he caught
him. and while they were talking up stairs
ma heard rooster squawk, and she went 10
the stairway and told pa there as somebody
in the hen house. Ia Jumped up aud told
the visitors to follow him, and they would
see mau run down the alley full of salt, aud
he rushed out with the gun, aud the crowd
followed HIM. Pa is shorter than the rest,
aud hr passed under the first wire clothes
line in the yard all right, aud was going for
The hen house on jump, when his neck
caught the second wire clolhes-ine just as
he minister and Two of the deacons caught
heir necks under the other wire. You
know how wire, hitting a man on the
throat, will set him back, head over appetite.
Well, sir, ,as looking out the back window
lndI wouldn't be positive, but think they
all turned double back sommersaulls, and
struck on their ears. Anyway, pa did, and
he gun must have been cooked, or it struck
he hammer on stone, for il went off, and
{ was pointed towards the house, and three
IF the visitors got salted. The minister was
nit the worst, one piece of salt taking
aim in the hind leg, and the other In the
,ack, and he yelled as though it was dyns-
mite. suppose when you shoot man with .
alt, it smarts, like when you get corned beef .
,rine on your chapped hands. They all |
relied, and pa seemed to have been knocked I
lilly, some way, for he pranced around and {
eemed to think he had killed them. He !
wore at the wire clothes-line, aud the n l
missed pa and heard a splash like when you s
hrow a cat in the river, and then thought =,
f the cistern, and went down and We took 4
% by the collar and pulled him ont. o, he 8
Eas awful damp. No sir, il was no duel at I
II, but naxident, and j didn't have any d
hing to do wlthit. The gun wasn't loaded I
D kill, and The salt 5only went through the D
kin, but those men did yell. May be It was b
ly chum that Stirred up the chickens, but /
idnt know. Heb not commenced to lead q
different life yet, and he might think il b
1onld make our folks sick II nothing occur b
I'd 10 make them pay attention. think n
here family has been having good deal a
exercise, the way ours has, 1t hurts them v
, bread of too suddenly. But the visitors n
'ent home, real quick, after we got pa out |,
the cistern, and the minister told ma he
ways felt, when he was In our house, as
sough he was on the verge of yawning A
-ater, ready to be engulfed any minute,
nd be guessed he wouldn't come any more.
a changed his clothes and told ma to have
lem wire clothes lines changed for rope
nes. think it Is hard to suit pa, don't :
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