The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-07-12
Pcck'S Bad Boy.

"Pa went to the theatre tho other
night" said tho bad boy. "I don't
think it is right for Il man to go to the
theatres and mot take his little boy. SO,
my chum and mo concluded to burglc
pa. We agreed to lay on the stairs, and
when he came up my chum was to hit
him on the head with dried bladder,
and [ was to stab him on the breast
pocket with n stick and break tho Hni-
mcnt bottle which he had in his pocket
aud make him think he was killed. 1t
couldn't heVo worked better if we had
rehearscd it. We had talked about
burglars Mt supper time, and got pa nor
Nous, so when he came up stairs and
WAS hit on the head with the bladder,
The first thing he said was Burglars, by
nlghty ! and he started to 60 back, and
then hit him on the breast where the
bottle was, and then we rushed by him
down stairs, and | said iD u stage whis-
per: guess he's a dead man, and went
down cellar and up tho back stairs to
my room and undrcssed. Pa hollcrcd to
ma that he was murdered, and na called
nc, aud [ came down in my night-3hirt,
aud the hired girl she camo down, and
pn was on the lounge. and he said his
hte-blool was iast obbing away. He
held his hand on the wound, and said he
could feel the warm blood trickling clear
down to his boots. [ told pa to stuff
&omo tar into the wound. such as he
told me to put on my lip to make my
,noustachc grow, and pa said:
My boy, this is no time for trflinc.
GoNr pn IS on his last legs. When
come up stairs met six burglars, and I
attacked them, and forced four of them
down, and was going to hold them and
send for the police, when two moro,
'ttat did not know about, jumped on
me, and was getting the best of them,
when ono Of them struck me over the
head with crow bar, and the other
stabbed me to the heart with butcher
kuitc. have received my death wound,
my boy, and my hot southern blood,
that offered up SO freely for my coun-
Try, III her time of need, is passing from
my body, and soon your pa will be only
piece of poor clay. Get some ice and
rut on my stomach, and all the way
down, for nm burning up went to
the water pitcher and got chunk of
ice and pnt ii inside pas shirt, and while
ma was tearing up IN old skirt to stop
the flow Of blood, asked pm if hc felt
better, and if ho could describe the vii
l@lns who had murdered him. Pa gaspcd
aud moved his legs to get them cool from
'ho clottcd blood, he said, and he went
on, 'Ono of them WAS six foot high and
had sandy moustachc. L got him
down and hit him IL the nose, and if the
police find him, his nose will he broke.
The second one WAS thick set, and
weighed about two hundred. | had
him down, and my boot was ON his neck
aud | WAS knocking two more down,
when was hit. The thick set one will
have the mark of boot heels on his
throat. Tell thc police, when I am gone,
about the boot heel Marks
"By this time ma had got. the skirt
tore up, and she stuffed it under pas
shirt, right where he said he was hit,
and pa was telling us what to do to set
tlc his estate, when ma began to smell
'hc mimcnt, and she found the broken
bottle Ill his pocket, and searched pa for
the place where he was stabbed, and
then she begun to laugh and pa got
mad and said he didn't see ns death
bed scene WAS such an almighty funny
affair, and then she told him he was not
hurt, but that he had fallen on the
stairs and broke his bottle. and that
there WAS no blood on him, and he said,
DO you mean to tell mo my body and
legs are not bnthcd in human gore, and
then pa got up and found it WAS only tho
ilnmcnt. He got mad and asked ma
why she didn't fly around and get some
thing to take that linimcnt of his legs,
rs 1t was eating them right through to
tho bone, and then he saw my chum put
his head in thc door, with one galus
hanging down, and pa looked at me and
then he said. Look a-hcrc, if I find out
II was you boys that put up this job on
me, III nuke it SO hot for you that You
Will think hnim"nt is ice cream in com
parlSom' l told pa it didu't look reason
All lat me and my chum could be six
burglars, six feet high, with or noses
broke, and bont-hrel marks on our nccka,
and pa nc said for us to go to bed all.
fired quick, and give him chance 20
wash off that linimont, and we retired "