Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-15
PECK'S BAD BOY.
He Turns Nurse and Sits up With a
chun.
His Girl Takes in a Fourth Of July Pic
nie-his Pa in the
Country.

that cat" said the grocery man to the
bad boy, as he came in the grocery
store all broke up, the morning aster
the Fourth of July.
"What eat:' said the boy, IS he
leaned against the zinc ice box to cool
his back, which had been having
trouble with q bunch Of fire crackers in
his pistol pocket. ave haven't ordered
any cat from here. Who ordered any
cat sent to our house? We get our
sausage at the market" and the boy
rubbed some cold cream on his nose
and eyebrows, where the skin was of.
Eyes, that's all right enough" said
the grocery man, "but somebody who
knew where the eat slept, in the box of
sawJlust back of the store, filled il full
of fire crackers Wednesday forenoon
when was out so see the procession,
and never notified the eat, and touched
them of, and
The Cat Went Through the Roof
Of the shed, and she hasn't got enough
hair left on her to put in tea. Now,
YOU didn't show up all the forenoon, and
] went and asked your ma where you
was, and she said you had been setting
UP four nights straight along with q
sick boy in the Third ward, and you
was sleeping all the forenoon the Fourth
of July. If that's is so, that lets you
out on the cat, but it don't stand to
reason. Own up, now, was you asleep
all the forenoon, the Fourth, while the
other boys were celebrating, or did you
scorch my cat" and the grocery man
looked at the boy as though he would
believe every word he said, if he rus
bad.
We'll" said the boy, as he yawned
rs though he had been up all night, al
am innocent of sitting up with your eat,
but plead guilty to sitting up with
Duffy. You see, / am bad, and 1t don't
make any difference where / am, and
Duffy thumped me once, when we
were playing marbles, and / said L
would get even with him some time.
His ma washes for US, and when she
told me that
Her Boy was Sick
with fever, and had nobody to stay
with him while she was away, l thought
it would be good way 10 get even with
Duffy when he was weak, and | went
down there to his shanty and gave him
and he cried, cause he knew ought to
have mauled him, and that night | sat
up with him while his ma did the IRON
ing, and Duffy was so glad that / went
down every day, and stayed there every
night, and fired medicine down him,
and let his ma sleep, and Duffy has goo
mashed on me, and he says | Will be
an angel when die. Last night makes
five nights have sat up with him, and
he has got SO he can eat beef tea and
crackers. My girl went back on me
cause she said was sitting up with
another girl. She said that Duffy story
was too thin, but Duffy's ma was wash
ing at my girls house and she proved
what said, and was all right again.
slept all the forenoon the Fourth, and
then stayed with Duffy till 1 O'Clock,
and got a Through and took
NY Girl
to the Soldiers Home. / had rather
set up with Duffy, though"
40, get out. Sou can't make me be-
lieve you had rather stay in a sick room
and set up with boy, than to take
girl to the Fourth of July" said the
grocery man, as he took a brush and
wiped the saw dust Off some bottles of
pepper.sauce that he was taking out ola
box. "You didn't have any trouble
with the girl, did you"
"No-nOt with her." said the boy as
he looked into the little round zine mir
rOr to see if mis- eyebrows were begin
ming to grow. "But her pa Is so un-
reasonable. | think man ought 20
know better than to kick q boy right
where he has had n packOf fire crackers
explode in his pocket. You see, when
brought the girl back home, she was
a total wreck. Don't you ever take q
girl TO the Fourth of July. Take the
advice Of q boy who has had expert
ence We hadn't more than got to the
Soldiers Home grounds before some
boys who were playing tag grabbed hold
of my girls
crushed-Strswberry Polonaise
and ripped it or That made her mad
and she wanted me to take OffenSe at
il, aud tried to reason with the boys
and they both jumped on me, and | see
the only way to get out of it hOnOrably,
was to get out real spry, and got out.
Then we sat down under q tree, TO eat
lunch, and my girl swallowed pickle
the Wong way, and i pounded her on
the back, the way ma does me when 1
choke, and she yelled, and policeman
grabbed me and shook me, and asked
me what was hurting that poor girl
for, and told me if ] did ii again he
would arrest me. Everything went
wrong. After dark somebody fired q
Roman candle into my girls hat, and
set it on fire, and grabbed the hat and
stamped on it, and spoiled her hair that
ma bought her. BY gosh, L thought
her hair was curly, but when the wig
was off, her own hair was as straight as
could be. But she was purity, all the
same. We got under another tree, to
get away from the smell of burned hair,
and boy set OIL Niger chaser, and it
MY Girls Feet
and burned her stockings, and yo-
man put the fire out for her, while
looked for the boy that fired the niger
chaser, but didn't want to find him.
She was pretty near y wreck at tha.
time, though she had all her dress left
except the polonaise, and we went and
sat under q tree In quiet place, and |
but my arm around her and told her
never TO mind the accidents, cause il
would be dark when we got home, and
Just then q spark dropped down through
the tree and fell in my pistol pocket,
right next to her, where my bunch of
fire crackers was, and they began to 60
OF. Well, L never saw such q sight IS
she was. Her dress was one Of these
mosquito bar, cheese cloth dresses, aud
II burnt just like punk. had presence
of mind enough to roll her on the grass
and put out the fire, but in doing that
neglected nay own eonf1agration, and
when got her put out, my coat tail
and trowsers were q total loss. Ny,
but she looked like goose that has been
picked, and looked like fireman that
has fell through hstchwsy. My girl
wanted 20 go home and / took her
home, and her pa was sitting on
The Front steps.
and he wouldn't accept her, looking
that way. He said he placed in my
possession whole girl, clothed and in
her right mind. and had brought back
burnt offering. He teaches in our
Sunday school and knows how to talk