The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-30

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well, when did you get out of
the asylum, said the grocery man,
who had been standing back with
open mouth looking at the boy as
though he was crazy. What you
want is to have your head soaked.
Iou are getting so you reach out
too far with that small mind Of
yours. In about another year you
will want to run this world your
self. don't think you are reform
ing very much. 1t is wicked for
a boy Of your size to argue about
such things. Your folks better
send you to college.
"What do | want to go to col
lege for, and be q heartless hazer,
and poor base ball player. l can
be bad enough at home. The more
| read the more | think. | don't
think | could ever be good enough
to 60 to heaven, anyway, and |
guess | will go into the newspaper
business, where they don't haveto
be good, and where they have pas
es anywhere. Do you know, |
when | was built they left out cog
wheel Or something in my head.
| can't think like some boys. ! get
to thinking about Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden, and of the
dude with the cloven hoof that
firted with Eve, and treated her
and Adam to the dried apples, and
/ can't think of them as some boys
do, with a fig leaf polonaire, and
fig leaf vescs. | imagine them
dressed up in the latest style. |
know it is wrong, but that is what
a poor boy has to suffer who has
an Imagination, and where did |
get the Imagination! This con
founded imagination of mine shows
lie Adam with a plug hat on, Just
like our minister wears, and a
stand-up collar, and tight pants,
and picked-toed shoes, and Eve is
pictured to me with IA crushed an
aforementioned dress, and brown
striped stockings, and newspapers
in her dress to make it set out,
and a hat with dandelions on, and
q red parasol, and lace handker-
chief, which she puts to her lips
and winks with her left eye to the
mashSr who is standing by the cor
ner of the house, in an attitude,
while the tail with a dart on the
end is wound around the rain wat
er barrel, so Eve won't see it and
get scared. Say, don't you think
it is better for a boy to think Of our
first parents with clothes on, than
to think of them almost naked, ex-
posed to the inclemency OF the
weather, with nohing but tigleaves
pinned ONT | want to do right,
as near as | can, but | had rather
Of them dressed like our
folks are today, than to think of
them in a cyclone with leaves for
wearing apparel. Say, it is wrong
to fight, but don't you think if
Adam had put on a par of boxing
gloves, when he found the devil
was getting too fresh about the
place, and knocked him out in a
couple OF rounds, and pasted him
in the nose, and fired him out OF
the summer garden, that it would
have been a big thing for this
world. Now, honestl'
'Lookabere, said the grocery
man, who had been looking at the
boy in dismay, "you better go
right home, and let your ma fix up
some warm drink for You. and put
you to bed. You are all wrong in
the head, and if you are not at
tended to youwill have brain fever.
l tell you, boy; you are in danger.
Come, l will go home with you
''Oh, danger nothin.' | am just
telling how things look to a boy
who has not got the facilities fol
being too good in his youth. Some
boys can take things just as they
read them, and Not think any fol
themselves, but | am a thinker
from Thinkerville, and my imagi
nation plays the dickens with me.
There is nothing | read about old
times but what l compare it Will
the same line of business at the
present day. Now, when | think
of the fishermen OF Galilee, draw
ing their seines, | wonder what
they would have done il there haC
been a law against hauling %seines.
as there is in Wisconsin to-day,
and | can see a constable with Z
warrant 70. the arrest Of the Gall
lee fishermen, snatching the old
apostles and taking them to the
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