The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-04-07
HIS PA AND DYNAMITE.
From Peck's Sun.

silver mine has made him crazy,
haven't thcyi" said the grocery
man to tic bad boy, as he came in
the store with his eye winkers
singed off, and powder marks on
his face. and began to play on the
harmonica, as he sat down on the
end of n stick of stove wood, and
balanced himself.
80. | guess not. lie has hcdg-
ed. lie got in with a deacon Of an
other church, and sold some of his
stock to Inn, and pa says if | will
keep my condemn mouth shut he
will unload the whole Of it, if the
churches hold cut. He goes to a
new church every night there is
prayer meeting or anything, and
makes me go with him, to give
him tone, and after meeting she
talks with the sisters about how to
piece n silk bed quilt. while pa gets
in his work selling silver stock. |
don't know but lie will order some
more stock from the factory, if he
sells all he hes got" and the boy
went on playing "Thcre's a land
that is taircr than Day"
but what was he shipping up
street for the other night with his
hat off, grabbinga a bis coat tails rs
though they were on freI /
thought | never saw a pussy man
run any faster. And what was the
celebration down on your street
about that timel | thought the
world was coming to an end, and
the grocery man kept away from
the boy, for fear lie would explode
80, that was only a Fenian
scare. Nothin' serious. You see
pa is sort of a half Englishman.
He claims to be az American citi-
zen, when he wants office, but
when they talk Of q draft he claims
to be a subject of Great Britain,
and he says they cant touch him.
Ia is q darn smart man, and don't
YOU forget it. There don't any Of
them get ahead of pa, much. Well,
pa has said a good deal about the
wicked Fcnians, and that they
ought to be pulled, and all that,
and when | read the story i'll the
papers about the explosion in the
British Parliament la was hot. He
SAID the damned Irish was running
the whole world. He didn't dare
say it at the table or our hired girl
would have knocked him silly with
u spoonful Of mashed potatoes,
cause she is a Nirish girl, and she
can lick any E%nglishman in this
town. Pa said there ought to
have been somebody there to haze
taken that bomb up and throwed it
in the sewer before. it exploded.
lie sad if he ever should see a
bomb he would grab it right up
and throw it right away where it
wouldn't hurt anybody. Pa has
me read the papers to him nights,
cause his eyes have got Splinters
in EN-, and after | had read all
there was in the paper | made upa
lot more and pretended to read IL,
about how it "a rumored that the
Fenians here in Milwaukee, were
going to place dynamite bombs at
every house where an Englishman
lived, and at a given signal blow
them all up. Pa looked pale
around the gills, but he said he
wasn't scared. Pa and ma were
going to call on a she deacon that
night, that has lots of money i'll ths
bank, to see if she didn't want TO
invest in q dead sure paying silver
mine, and me and my ctmm con
cluded to vcthcm a send of. We
got my big black ingy rubber foot
ball. and painted "Dinymight' in
big white letters ON it, and tied a
piece Of tarrcd rope to il for a fuse,
and got Il big iire-craoker, one OF
those old hourtn of Juiy horse
scartrs, and a b3,Ltr 'ui. of broken
glass. We pat -by loot bail in
front OF the step and ~ tine tarrcd
rope, and got under the sep wl,h
the tire-crac-,els and basket, where
they g dowu wtJ tue basement.
Pa and ala came out.Ie front door
and Iown The steps, and pa saw
thy loo,-hail, and fl.y burma fuse,