Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1883-05-24
THE Bad BOY.

Say | thought you was going to
try to lend u different IT. .a'3 tie
grocer, um 10 tie had aoy. as ,Ae
youth caIne in win lis pockets fuil of
angle wo1rs and wanted 80 borrow n
baking powder can to pat them into
while he went fishing, and he held IA
long angle worm up by the tail and let
it wiggle till it frightened a girl that
had come in after two cents worth of
yeast, so she dropped her pitcher and
went ont of the grocery as though she
was chased by an anaconda.
II am going to lead different life,
but boy can't change his whole course
of life in minute can hel Grown
persons have 10 go on probation for six
months before they can lead differ
ent life, and half the time t,.ey lose
tleir cud before the six months expire
and have 10 commence again. When
il is so alfred hard for man that is
endowed with sense TO break off being
bad. you shouldn't expect too much
from boy. But | ann doing as well
as could be expected l amt half as
bad rs | was. Gosh, why don't you
burn n rag! That yeast that the girl
spilled on the floor smells like it was
sick. should think that bread that
was raised with that yeast would smell
like this cooking butter you sell TO
hired gir,s.
We'll, never you mind the cooking
butter. | know my business. 1t peo-
| pie want TO use poor butter when they
have company, and then blow up the
grocer before folks, | can stand it if
they can. But what is this hear about
your pa fighting duel with the minis
ter in your back yard, and wounded
him in'the leg, and then trying TO drown
himself in the cistern! One Of your
new neighbors was in here tins morn
ing aud told me there was murder in
the air at your house last night. and
they were going TO have the police pull
your place as n dsorderly house. i
think you were at the bottom of the
whole business.
80, its all darn lie, and those
neighbors will find they better keeI
still about US or we will he about them
a little. You see, since pa got that
blacking on his face lie don't 90 out
any, and To- make it pleasant for hn
ma invited in n few friends to spenc
the evening. Ma has got up around
and the baby is a daisy only it smells
like goat on account of drinking tin,
goats milk Ma invited the minister
among the rest, and after supper tn,
men went out into pas library to talk
O, you think I'm bad, don't you, bu
of the nine men at our house last nigh
am an angel compared with wha
they were when they were boys. go
in the bath room TO untnugle my tisl
line and it is next TO ia's room. and
could hear everything they said bat
went away cause | thought the con
versation would hurt my morals. The.
would all steal when they were boys
but ,ln'-roi - ovo" sto'o po VA
stole over hundred wagon loads %
watprncions, one deacon used TO ro
orchards, another one shot tame duck
& belonging to farmer, and anothe
tipped over grindstones in front of tin
village store at night and broke then
! and run. another used to steal egg
and go out into the woods and bo
them, and the minister was the wors
OF the lot. cause he took a seine, wit
some other boys. end went to stream
where n neiglIbur was raising broo
trout and cleaned the stream out, an
+, r. warl off suspicion he went to tn
f. u,n tie next day and paid him do
l.ur e. "a ,Im lith in the stream, an