Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1883-05-05
SULLIVAN.
THE BAD BOY.
fPeck's Sun.1

"When is your ma coming back IN asked
the groceryman Of the bad boy As he found
him standing on the sidewalk when the gro,
Gerry was opened in the morning, taking some
pieces of brick out of his coat tail pocket
50, she got back at midnight last night" said
! the boy, as he ate q few blue berries out of q
case. "Thars what makes me up SO early.
PAS been kicking at, these pieces Of brick
with his bare feet, and when 1 came away he
had his toes in his hand and was trying to go
| up stairs on one foot. Pa hain't got NO sense"
s.pm afraid you are terror" said the gro
ceryman, as he looked at the innocent face OF
the boy. You are always making your par
ents some trouble, and it is y wonder to me
that they don't send you to some reform
school. What deviltry were you up to last
night to get kicked this morning :"
"No deviItry, Just little fun. You see Ma
went to Chicago to stay week, and she got
tired, and telegraphed she would be home last
night, and pa was down town and forgot to
give him the dispatch, and after we went to
bed me and chum of mine thought we would
have Fourth of July. You see my chum
has got sister about as big as ma, and we
hooked some of her clothes, and after pa got
to snoring we put them in his room. 0. you'd d
q LATED. We put pair of number one slip
pers with blue stockings, down in front of the
rocking chair, beside pas boots. and red
corset on the chair, and a hat with white
feather in it on the bureau, and some frizzes
on the gas bracket, and everything we could
lind that belonged to girl, in my chum's sis
ter's room, o, we got a red parasel. too, and
left it in the middle of the door. Well, when
thought Should die. You see, ma knows
pa is a darn good feller, hut she is easily ex-
ciiel. My chum slept with me that night and
when we heard the door bell ring stuffed a
pillow in my mouth. There was nobody to
meet ma at the depot; and she hired hack
but me, and had to go down and let ma in.
She was pretty hot now, you bet, at not be-
Ing met at the depot.
''Where's your father ~ said she as she be-
gan to so up the stairs.
by this lime, but heard good deal of noise
In the room about AN hour ago, and may be
he was taking bath. Then I slipped up
Stairs and look. over the banisters. Ma said
something about heaven and earth, and
where ''Is the huZzy;" and lot of things I
could not hear. and pa said '.damfino. and its
no such Thug and the door slammed and
they talked for three hours. s'pose they
finally layed it on 10 me, as they always do,
cause pa called me very early in the morning,
and when came down stairs he came in the
hail and his face was redder N q beet, and he
tried to stab HE with his big toe-nail. and if
it hadn't been for these pieces of brick he
would have hurt my feelings. see they have
my chum's sisters clothes all pinned up In a
Newspaper, and su ,pose when 20 back
-hall have to carry them home, and then I
suppose she will be down on me. tell you
what, have got good notion to take some
>hoemaker's wax and stick my chum on my
back and travel with circus as double
header from Borneo. A fellow could have
more fun and not get kicked all the time.'
And he sampled some strawberries from a
case in front of the store and went down the
street whistling for his chum, who was look
ing out OF an alley to see ii the coast was
clear.