Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1883-05-17
THE BAD BOY.

See here, you coon, you get out OF
here, said tho grocery man to the bad
boy, as lie came in the store with his
face black and shining. II don't want
any colored boys around here. White
boys break me up bad enough"
30, philopene, said the bad boy, as
he put his hands OH his knees and laugh
ed so the candy jars ratified on the
shelves. You didn't know ne. / am
the same boy that comes in here and
talks your arm off, and the boy open
ed the cheese box and cut off a piece of
cheese so natural that the grocery man
had no difficulty in recognizing him.
What in the name Of the seven
sleeping sisters have you got on your
hands and facet" said the grocery
man, as he took the boy by the ear and
turned him around. You would pass
In a colorei prayer meeting, and no one
would think you were galvanized. -
What you got sp in such all outlandish
rig fort"
We'll, I'll tell you, If you will keep
watch at the door. Ii you See bald
headed colored man coming along the
| street with n club, you whistle and l
will fall down cellar. The bald-heatied
colored man will be pa. You see, we
IN owed yesterday. Pa told Inc to get
u vacation from the livery stable. and
we would have fun moving. But |
don't want any more fun. / know
when I've got enough fun. Pa carried
all the light things, and when it come
to lifting lie had a crack in the back.
Gosh, never was so tired rs was last
night, and hope we have got settled,
only some of the goods haven't turned
up yet. A drayman took one load
over on the west side. and delivered
them to house that seemed to be ex
pecting load of household furniture
He thought it was all right, if every
body that was moving got load ol
goods. Well, after we got moved pa
said we must make garden, and he saiC
we would go out and spade up the
ground and SOW peas and radishes anc
beets. There was some neighbors live'
i'm the next house to our new one tina
was all wimmen, and pa didn't like t.
have them think he had to work, so h
said it would be good Joke to disguis
, ourselves as tramps, and the neighbor
! would think we had hired some tramp
! TO dig in the garden. told pa of
e boss scheme to fool them. l suggeste
that we take some of this shoe black
d ing that is put on with a sponge, an
- black our faces. and the neighbor
i would think We had hired an old co
8 ored man and his boy to work in tn
e garden. Pa said it was immense, an
! he told me to go and black up, and
it worked he would black hisself. s
went and put this burnt cork on III
d face, cause it would wash off, and p
|
and for me to fix him up, too. So
got the bottle of shoe blacking an
painted pa so he looked like II colore
Z coal HEAVIER Actually, when ma sa
him she ordered him off the premises
/ and when he lafred at her and acte
= sassy, she was going to throw bilir
L water on pa, but | told her the schen
7, and she let up on pa o, you'd die
;; 10 see us out in the garden. Pa locke
ID like uncle Tom, and looked like To
u ~. only ! ain't that kind of color'
=. person. We worked till boy throw'
. some tomato cans over the alley fen
and hit me, aud piled over the fen
nf,er him, and left pa. Ii was my chu
= aud wheu had caught him we put I
n "a job to s't pa to chase us. We thro
~ ed some more cans, and pa come o
aud nv cbuin started and J after hi