The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-05-29
THE BAD BOY.
Pcck's Sun.

| say, lhouShb you was Soihs
to try to lead different life,' sale
the grocery man to the bad boy, as
the youth came in with his pocke
full of angle-worms, and wanted t.
borrow baking-powder can to pu
them into, while he went fishing, and
he held long angle-worm up by th'
tail and let it wiggle so it frightened
girl that had come in after two cents
worth of yeast, SO she dropped hel
pitcher and went out Of the grocery
as though she was chased by an ana
conda.
~ am going to lead different life,
but a boy can't change his whole
course of life in a minute, can he
Grown persons have to go on proba'
tion for six months, before they car
lead a different life, and half the time
they lose their cud before the six
months expire, and have to commence
again. When it is so alfred hard
for man that is endowed with sense
to break off being bad, you shouldn't
expect too much from boy. But ]
am doing as well as could be expect.
ed. l amt half so bad as l was.
Gosh, why don't you burn a rag.
That yeast that the girl spilled on the
floor, smells like it was sick. /
should think that bread that was
raised with the yeast would smell
like this cooking butter you sell to
hired girls
"Well, never you mind that cook
ing butter. l know my business. If
people want to use poor butter when
they have company, and then blow
up the grocer before folks, can
stand it if you can. But what is this
hear about your pa fighting a.duel
with the minister in your back
yard, and wounded him in the leg,
and then trying to drown himself in
the cistern? Ono of your new neigh
bors was in here this morning ana
told me there was murder in the air
at your house last night, and they
were going to have the police pull
your place as disorderly house. l
think you were at the bottom of the
whole business"
20, it's all darn lie, and those
neighbors will find they better keep
still about us, or we will lie about
them little. You see, since pa got
that blacking on his face he don't &c
out any, and to make it pleasant fol
him ma invited in few friends tc
speud the evening. Ma has got uI
around, and the baby is daisy, only
it smells like goat, on account OF
drinking the goats milk. Ma invit-
ed the minister, among the rest and
after supper the men went up into
pas library to talk. o, you think !
am bad, don't you, but Of the nine
men at our house last night, 1 am an
angel compared with what they were
when they were boys. got in the
bathroom to untangle my fish line,
and it is next to pas room, and ]
could hear everything they said, but
1 went away cause thought the
conversation would hurt my morals
They would all steal, when they were
boys, but darned if 1 ever stole. Pa
has stole over hundred wagon loads
Of water-melons, one deacon used to
rob orchards, another one shot tame
ducks belonging to a farmer, and
another tipped over grindstones in
front Of the village store, at night
and broke them, and run, another
used to steal eggs, and 60 out in thu
woods and boil them, and the minis
ter was the worst of the lot, cause b,
took seine, with some of the boys
and went to stream where neigh
Dor was raising brook trout, ant
cleaned the stream out, and to-wart
off suspicion, he went to the man tn
next day and paid him dollar to lie
him fish in the stream, and thel
kicked because there were no trout
and the owner found the trout wer
stolen and laid it to some Dutch boys
l wondered, when those men wer
telling their experience, if they eve
thought of it now when they wer
preaching and praying, and takin
up collections. l should think the.
wouldn't say boy was going to hel
right off cause he was little will
now days, when he has such an ex
ample. Well, lately, somebody ha
been burgling our chicken coop, an
5 pa loaded an old musket with roc
salt, and said he would fill the fello,
: full Of salt If he caught him, an
A while they were talking up stairs m
a heard rooster squawk, and she wen
: to the stairway and told pa there wa
t somebody in the hen-house. p
: jumped up and told the visitors t
s follow him, and they would see
man running down the alley, full q
salt, and he rushed out with the gul
and the crowd followed MIN. Pa
; shorter than the rest, and, he passe
i under the first wire-clothes-line i
n the yard all right, and was going fc
9 the hen-house on jump, when hi
0 neck caught the second wire clothes
Q line, just as the minister and two {
: of the deacons caught their meek
e under the other wire. You kno'