The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
More About That BAD Boy.

when pa and me got to Raleigh"
said the bad boy, we walked around
own all day and went to the stores, and
at night pa was offul tired, and he put
me to bed in the tavern and went out to
walk around and get rested. l wasn't
tired, and | walked around the hotel. |
thought pa had gone to the theatre, and
that made me mad, and l thought |
would play him for all l was worth. Our
room was 30, and there was an old
maid, with a scotch terror, occupied 2l2.
| saw her twice and she called me names,
cause she thought | wanted to steal her
dog. That made me mad at her, and
s" | took my jack knife and drew the
tacks out of the tin thing that the num-
bers we're painted on, and got the old
maids number on our door, and our mum
be; on her door, and then | went to bed.
] tried to keep awake, SO as to help pa
if he had any difficulty, but l rather
guess l got asleep, but woke up when
the dog barked. If the dog had not
woke me up, the woman screams would,
and if that hadn't pa would. You see.
pa came home from the theatre about
II, and he had been drinking. He says
everybody drinks when they go to Raj
eigh, ever the Legislators. Pa looked at
the numbers on the doors all along the
hall till he found 2lO, and he walked
right in and pulled off his coat and threw
it on the lounge where the dog was.
The old maid was asleep, but the dog
barked and pa said, That cussed boy
has bought a dogI' and he kicked the
dog and the old maid woke and said,
What is the matter, pet? Pa LATED
and said. 'Nuthin' the mazzer with me,
pet, and you ought to heard the yell
ling. The old maid covered her he I'd
and kicked and yelled, and the dog
snarled and bit pa or the pants, and pa
had his vest off and bis suspepders un-
buttoDed, and he got scared and took
his coat and vest and went out in the
hall. and | opened our door and told pa
he was in the wrong room and | knowed
it, and he came In our room and |
locked the door, and the bell-boy. the
porter, and the clerk came up to see
what allied the old maid, and she said a
burglar got in her room, and they found
pas hat on the lounge, and they took it
and told her to be quiet and they would
find the burglar. Pa was so scared that
he sweat like everything, and the bed
was oful warn, and he pretended to 20
to sleep, but he was wondering how he
could get the hat back. Ia the morning
[ told him it would be hard work to ex-
plain it to ma how he happened to get
into the wrong room, and he said it
wasn't necessary to say anything about
it to ma. Then he gave me IS to go
out and buy him a new hat, and he said
| might keep the change if would not
mention it when I got home. and I got
him one for ten s%hillinss, and we took
the eight o'clock train in the morning
and came home. and | s'pose the Raleigh
| policemen are trying to fit pas hat onto
a burglar. Pa seemed awffully relieved
when we got across the State line into
Wisconsin. But you'd a died to see him
| come out of that old lady's room with
his coat and vest on his arm, and his
suspenders hanging down: looking scarf.
| He dasent lick me any more or I'll tell
ma where pa left his hat'.-Peck's Sun