The Dawson journal., 1883-03-22

AAA'ii''p'2' ~ "a U'lu DTQSueJ the
bird seed off his knees, and he losk-
ed mad. I thought ma would sink
with modification, and was sitting
on piano stool, looking as pious as
Sunaay-school superintendent the
Sunday before he skips out with the
bank funds, and ma looked at ms as
though she thought it was me that
had been tampering with the parrot.
Gosh, | never said word to that
parrot, and [ eau prove it by my
chum. Well, the minister asked one
of the sisters If she wouldn't pray,
and she wasn't engaged, SO she sa;a
with pleasure, and she kneeled down
but she corked herself, cause she
got one knee on :; east iron Gamb
bell that | had been praoticing with.
She said, o, my, in disgnsted
sort OF away. and then she began to
pray for the reformation of the
youth of the land, aud asked for the
spirit TO descend on the household
and particularly on the boy that was
such a care aud anxiety to his pa
rents, and just then Polly said, 20,
pull down your vest. Well, you'd a
dide to see that woman look at me-
The parrot cage was partly behind
the window curtain, aud they couldn't
see it, and she thought it was me.
She looked at MAJ as though size
didn't hit me with porker, but she
9ent on, and Polly said, 'wipe off
your chin, and the lady got through
and got, up and told ma it must be
a great trial to have an idiotic child.
aud then ma she was mad and SAL
1t wasn't half So bad as ii was to be
a kleptomanlac, and then the woman
got up AMI said she wouldn't stay
no longer, and pa said to me to take
the parrot out doors, and that seem
ed to make them all good naturel
again. Ma said to Ike th9 pJrroi
and give tito the poor | took the
cage and pointed my finger at til
parrot aud it looked at the woman
and said old cataramaran' AMI the
woman triel to look pious and re-
signed, but she couldn't. As / was
going out the door the parrot ruf
hei np his feathers and said, Dam
nit, set EN- up, and | hurrie out
with the cage for fear he would say
something bad, and the folks all
held up their hands and said it was
scandalous. Say, I wonder il a
parro' can so to hell with the rest
of the community. Well, I put the
parrot in the woodshel, and after
theJ all their iuniags, except pa, who
acted as empire, the meeting broke
up, and ma says its the lost time she
will have that gang at her house.
THAI must have been where your
pa got his black eye. said the gro.
cery man, a, ne charged the bunch
Of celery to the boys pa Did the
minister hit him, or Was it one of the
sisters
90, he didn't get his black eve al
prayer meeting said the boy, as he
took his mittens off the stove and
rubbed them to take the stiffsning
odt. 1t was from boxing. Pa told
my ehum aGd me that it was no harm
to learn to box, cause we could lie
fend ourselves, aad he said he used
20 be holy terror with tao boxing
gloves whea he was boy, and he
has been giving us lessons Well.
ne Is no slouch, now tell you, and
handles himself pretty well for a
church member. I read in the paper
how Zack Chandler played it on
Gonkiiu5 by getting Jim Mace, the
prize fighter, to knock him silly, and
| asked pa if he wouldn't let me
bring poor boy who had no father
to teach him boxing, to our house to
learn to box, and pa said certainly,
fetch him along. He said he woul [
De glad to do anything for a poor
orphan. SO l went down in the
Third war and got an Irish boy by
the name Of Duffy, who can knock
the socks off Of any boy in the ward
He tit prize fight once. 1t would
have made You laugh 10 see pa tell
hi.n how to hold his hands aud how
to guard his face. He told Duffy
not to be afraid, but to strike right
out anl hit for keeps. Duffy said
he was afraid pa woull gtt mad il
he hit him, aad pa said, 'nonsenss,
boy, knock me down if you can, an
L will laugh ha ha? Well, Duffy
he hauled back and gave pa one On
the nose, and another in both ewes.