The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-07-13
THAT BAD BOY,

-rS ua' 'nauo nun crazy, haven't they,
SAD the grocery man to the bad boy, as he
4pe III the store with his eye winkers
4pged of, and powder marks on his face
pna begun to play on the harmonica, and
@ftdown on a stick Of stove wood and bal,
anfed himself.
T'pnl guess not, Ho has hedged. He got
ie;Yith tue deacon of another church, and
SOY some OF his stock to him, and pa says ifI
WI keep my condemn mouth shut he will
-uaioad the 'whofo gur it, II the churches
bold out. He gees to new church every
night to prayer meeting or anything and
makes ma go with him, to give him tone,
and after meeting she talks with the sisters
about how to piece silk bed quilt, while
pa gets In his work selling silver stock. l
don't know but he will order some more
stock from the factory, if he sells all he has
got and the boy went on playing There
is land that is fairer than Day"
But what was he slipping up street for
the other night with his hat off, grabbing
at his coat tails as though they ware on fire?
thought never saw a pussy man run any
faster. And what was the celebration down
on your street about that time? | thought
the world was coming 10 an ond,' and the
grocery man kept away from the boy. for
fearhe would explode.
Oh, that was only Fenian scare. Moth
ing serious. You SEQ pa is sort of half
Englishman. He claims to be an Ameri-
can citizen, when he wants Office, but when
they talk abouta draft he claims to be sub
ject Of Great Britain, and he says they can't
touch him. Pa is darn smart man, and
don't you forget it. There don't many of
them get ahead Of pa, much Well pa has
said good deal about the wicked Ferians,
and that they ought TO be pulled, and when
L read the story in the papers about the ex-
plosion in the British Parlimcnt pa was
hot. He said the dam nirish was running
tho whole world. He didn't dare say it at
the table or our hired girl would have
knocked him silly with spoonful of mash
cd potatoes, cause she is nirish girl, and
h1k ;aay Ese g,isbmah in.this town..
Pa says there ought to have been somebody
there to have taken that bomb up and
tniowd it in the sewer before it exploded
He said if he ever should see bomb he
would grab it right up and throw it away
where it wouldn't hurt anybody. Pa has
me read the papers to him nights, cause
his eyes have got splinters in 'em, and after
L had read all there was in the paper made
up lot more and pretended to read it,
about how it was rumorcd that the Fenians
here in Milwaukee were going to place dyn-
amite bombs at every house where an Eng
lishman lived, and at given signal bow
them all up. Pa looked pale around the
gills, but he said he wasn't scared Pa and
ma were going to call on she deacon that
night, that has lots Of money in the bank,
to see if she didn't want to invest in dead
sure paying silver mine, and me and my
chum concluded to give them send off,.
We got my big black ingy rubber foot. ball
and painted 'Dinymight' in big white let
ters on it, and tied piece of tarred rope to
it for fuse, aud got big fre>cracker, one
ofthese old fourth of July hors, scarers,
and basket full of troken glass. We put
the football in front Of the step, and lit the
tarred rope, and got under the step with
the fre-crackcr and basket, where they 60
down into the basement. Pa AMI ma came
out the front door, and down the steps, and
pa saw the football and the burning fuse,
and he said, Great God, Hammer, we are
blowed up, and he started to run, and ma
stopped to look at it. Just as pa started to
run | touched off the frc-cracker, and my
chum arranged it to pour out the broken
glass on the brick pavement Just as the
fire-oracker went off Well, everything
went just as We expected, except ma. She
had examined the foot ball, aud concluded
it was not dangerous, aud was just giving
it kick as tho fire-cracker went off. and
the glass fell, and the fre-cracker was 80
near her that it scared her, and when pa
looked around ma was flying across the
sidewalk, aud pa heard the noise and he
thought the house was blown to atoms. O.,
you'd died to sec him go around the corner
You could play crokay ON his coat.tail,
and his face was as pale as mas when
she goes to party. But ma didn't
scte6 much. AS quick as she stopped
against the hitching post she knew it
was Us boys, and she came down there, and
maybe she didn't maui me. cried and
tried 70 gain her sympathy by telling her
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