The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-04-27

THAT BAD BOY.
He Permits His Pa to Kill Him That He
May Work His Progenitor's Reformation.
..,r..,m. .. Peck's Sun.

He Permits His Pa to XIII Him That He
May Work His Progenitors Reformation.
,r.ra. Peck's Sun. u...
I "No," said the grocery man, as he charged
the cheese to the boys father, and picked up
his cigar stub which he had left on the coun-
| ter which the boy had rubbed on the kero-
sene barrel, "no, sir, that whistle would
scare any aog-say, what was your pa run.
| ming after the doctor In bis shirt sleeves for
last Sunday morning? He looked as II no
was scared. Was your ina taken sick again P"
"Oh, no, ma Is healthy enough now she
has got new fur-lined cloak. She played
consumption on pa, and coughed 20 she liked
to raise her lights and liver, and made pa be-
lieve she couldn't live, and got the doctor to
prescribe . fur-lined circular, and pa went
and got one, and ma improved awfully. Her
cough has all gone and she can walk ten
miles. wanted to get pa In the church
again, and get him TO stop drinking, so got
a boy to wri letter TO him In female
hand and sign the name Of choir singer pa
was mashed on, aud tell him she was yswn.
ing for him to come back to the church, and
that the church seemed blank without his
smiling face spd benevolent heart, and 30
please come back for her sake. Pa got the
letter Saturday night and he seemed tickled,
but guess he dreamed about IL ell night,
and Sunday msrning he took me BY the ear
and said | couldn't come no Daisy business
wrote the letter, and for me to 60 up In the
store and prepare for the alnightiest
licking a boy ever had, and be went down
stairs and broke up an apple barrel aud got .
mighty quick, but was enough for him. 1
got dried bladder In my room, one that me
and my chum got to slaughter house, and
blowed IL up partly so II would be sort of
fiat like, aud put 1t down inside the hack
part Of my pants, right where pa hits when
he Furnishes me. knowed when the barrel
slave hit the bladder IL would explode.
Well, pa came up and found me crying. l
can cry just as easy as you can turn on the
water at the faucet. Pa took of his cost and
looked sorry. was afraid he would give up
whipping me when he seen me cry, and
wanted to 60 on with the bladder expert
ment, so l looked kind Of hard, as If was
defying of him to do his work, and then he
took me by the neck and laid me across q
trunk. didn't dare to struggle much for
fear the bladder would loose itself, and pa
said, Now, Hennery, am going to break
you Of this dam foolishness or IN break your
back, 50 he spit on his hands aud brought
the barrel stave down Oh my best pants.
Well you'd died If you had heard the ex-
plosion. 1t almost Knocked me Off the
trunk. 1t sounded like firing fire cracker
away down cellar In q barrel, and pa locked
scared. rolled of the trunk on the floor
and put some -four on my face to make
me look pale, and then kind Of kicked my
legs like fellow who Is dying on the stage
after being stabbed with piece of lathe, and
groaned and said, "Pa, you have killed me,
but forgive you,' and then I rolled around
and frothed At the mouth. Pa was all broke
up and said, Great tIod, what have done?
l have broke bis spinal column. o, my
poor boy, do not de- kept chewing the
soap and foaming at the mouth, and drew
my legs up and kicked them out, and clutch
ed my hair, and rolled my eyes, then kicked
pa In the stomach Is he bent over me, and
knocked the wind out of him, and then my
limbs began to get rigid and said, Too late
pa, die at the hands of an assassin. Go
for doctor.' Pa throwed his coat over me
and started downstairs on run, saying. i
murdered my brave boy.' He told ma to 90
apstairs and stay with ms, as ha,l fallen OFF
q trunk and ruptured blood vessel, aud he
went for doctor. Then sat up and lit Gig
arctic, and ma came up and told her all
about how fooled pa, and If she would take
on and cry when pa got back would try to
get him to 60 to church and swear of drink
ing. So when pa and the doctor came back,
ma was sitting on Q velocipede used to ride
with her apron over her face, and she more
than beloved. Pa was pale and told the
doctor that he was just playing with me
with piece Of board, when he heard some
thing crack and he guessed my spine got
broke rolling of the trunk. The doctor
wanted to feel where 1t was broke but open
cd my eyes witha vacant sort of stare, like .
woman that leads dog BY string, and told
him there was no use setting my spine as 1t
was broke In several places. I told pa was
going to die and wanted him to promise
me two things on my dying bed. He cried
and said he would, and ! told him to prom
ise he would quit drinking and attend church
regular, and he said he would never drink an.
O her drop and would go TO church every
Sunday made him get down on his knees
bsside me and swear It, and the doctor wit
messed It, and ma called the doctor out into
the hall and told him the joke. Then the
doctor told pa he was afraid that pas pres
ehce would excite the patient, and for pa to
put on hts coat and 90 ost and walk around
the BLOCK or 90 70 church and ma and be
would remove me into another room and do
al that was possible TO make my last hours
pleasant Pa cried and said he would put
o. his Plug hat and go TO church, and he
kissed me ana got -four on his nose. and I
nearly laughed to see the -four on his red
noss, whsGI thought how all the people In
church would laugh II pa Then got up
and p1lled the busted bladder out Of my
pants, and ns and shs doctor they laughed
awful. When pa got back from church and
asked for me, ma said had gone down.
Sbe said the doctor found my spine was only
uncoupled and that be coupled i:togeth.
Or again, and was Albright. Pa said u was
. mighty strange, cause I heard the spine
break wbsn hit him with the barrel stave.
Pa was nervous oil the afternoon, and ma
says he suspects we played 1t on him. Say,
you don't think there ID any harm playlHg Il
on old men . little, do you, for good cause.
] The Commercial Adrertiser moans that the
jersey mosquito, like charity, begins to hum.
Mr.. Vanderbilt does bit Of repairing to
bis new house this spring, to the amount Of
SIS 900. That amount will reset eli the
glass broken BY the boys during the winter,
and settle the fence posts raised Oy the frost,