Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-03
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"What in the name of the seven sleep
ing sisters have you got on your hands and
face?" said the grocery man, as he took
the boy by the ear and turned him around.
'You would pass in colored prayer-meet-
ing, and no one would think you were gal
vanized. What you got up in such an out
landish rig for?"
"Well, I'll tell you, if you will keep
watch at the door. If you see bald headed
colored man coming down the street with
club, you whistle, and I'll fall down eel
lar. The bald-headed man will be pa.
You see, we moved yesterday. Pa told me
to get vacation from the livery stable,
and we would have fun moving. But I
don't want any more fun. Pa carried all
the light things, and when it come to lift
ing, he had a crick in the back. Gosh, [
never was so tired as [ was last night and
l hope we have got settled, only some of
the goods haven't turned up yet. A dray-
man took one load over on the west side,
and delivered them to house that seemed
to be expecting a load of household fur
niture.
He thought it was all right, if everybody
that was moving got a load of goods.
Well, after we got moved pa said we must
make garden, and he said we would 90 out
and spade up the ground and sow peas,
and raddishes, and beets. There was some
neighbors lived in the next house to our
new one, that was all wimmen, and pa
didn't like to have them think he had to
work, so he said it would be good Joke
to disguise ourselves as tramps, and the
neighbors would think We had hired some
tramps to dig in the garden. 1 told pa of
a boss scheme to fool them. l suggested
that we take some of this shoe blacking
that is put on Witha sponge, and black our
faces, and the neighbors would think we
had hired an old colored man and his boy
to work in the garden. Pa said it was i'm
mense, and he told me to go and black up,
and if it worked he would black hisself.
So [ went and put this burnt cork on my
face, cause it would wash off, and pa
looked at ne and said it was a whack, and
for me to fix him up too. So l got the
bottle of shoe backing and painted pa so
he looked like colored coal HEAVIER. Actu-
ally, when ma saw him she ordered him off
the premises, and when he LATED at her and
acted sassy, she was going 70 throw billing
water on pa, but [ told her the scheme,
and she let up on pa. o, you'd q dido to
see US out in the garden. Pa looked like
uncle Tom, and looked like Topsy, only
amt that kind of colored person. We
worked till boy throwed some to nato
cans over the alley fence and nit me, and
1 piled over the fence after him, and left
pa. It was my chum, and when l had
caught him we put up job to get pa to
chase us.
We throwed some more cans, and pa
come out, and my chum started and after
him, and pa after both of Us. He chased
US two blocks and then we got behind a
policeman, and my chum told the police
man it was crazy old colored man that
wanted to kidnap us, and the policeman
took pa by the neck and was going to club
him, but pa said he would go home and be-
have. He was offul mad, and he went
home and we looked through the alley
fence and saw pa trying to wash off that
black;ng. You see that backing won't
wash off. You have to wear it off. Pa
would wash his face with soapsuds and
then look in the glass, and he was blacker
every time he washed, and when ma lated
at him he said the offulest words, some
thing like sweet spirit hear my prayer
then he washed himself again. 1 am
going to leave my burnt cork on, cause if
washed it off pa would know there had
been some smourging somewhere. 1 asked
the shoe store man how long it would take
the blacking to wear of, ana he said 1t
ought to wear off in a week. guess pa
won't go out doors much, unless 1t is in
the night. am going to get him to let me
go out in the country fishing, till mine
wears OFF, and when get out of town I will
wash up. Say, you don't think little
backing hurts mans complexion, do
you, and you don't think a man ought
to get mad. because it won't wash of, do
your"