The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-12
THE HAD BOY.
Rreks San.f

Sec here. you coon. you gc, out of here" said the grocery man to the bad boy. as he came in the store with his face black and shining. ~l don't want any colotcd boys around here. White boys break me up bad enough"
 "o. philcpenc," said the bad boy. as he put hss hands on his knees and laughed so the candy jars ra.tled on the shelves. :" ou d,dn', know me am the same boy ,ha, comes in here and talks your arm oil. and the boy opened the cheese box and GU, of piece of cheese so nat urai ths, the grocery man had no dlti,- culty in recognizing him.
 What in the name of the seven sleep ing sisters have you got on your hands and lace said the grocery man. as he look the boy by the car and turned h,m around. You would pass in a eolorcd prayer meeting, and no one would think you were galvanized. What ,ou got on such an onsiandish TIE for 2"
 Well, III tell you, fl yau will keep watch .s, the dcor. if you sec a bald. headed colpred man coming along the street with lub. you whistle. and will tall down ccllar The baid.headed eol- W moved yesterday fa told me to get n vacation irnm the livery stable, and VIC would have fun moving isu, don, want any more fun. know when ihavc gn, enough fun. pa carried all the iigh, things, and when t came ,o lifting. he had erick in the back. Gosh, never was so tired as was last night. and hope ~e have got settled. only some of the goods haven | turned up yet. \ dray- man took one load over on the west side. and delivered them to house that seemed to be expecting load of house hold furniture. He thought tt vas all right. fl everybody that was moving go, a load of goods. We'll. after we got moved pa sad we must make garden. and he sad VIC would go out and spade up the ground and sow peas, and rad ,shes. and beets. There was some ne.gh- bors lived m the next house to our new one, tha, was all wimmen, and pa didn't like 10 have them think he had to work, so he said |, would be good joke ,o dis guise ourselves as uamps. and the neighbors woui, think we had hired some uamps 10 dix in the garden told pa of boss scheme 10 fool them sug gcsted that we take some of this shoe blaeking thai is put up with q sponge and black our faces, and the nrighbors would think we had hired an old eolosrd man and hi> boy to work m the garden fa sad II was immense. and he told me to go and black up. and If |, worked he would black hisself. So l vent and put ,his burnt cork m my iaee. cause Il would wash of. and pa looked d, me and sad Il was ~haek. and for me to fs ham up too. 10 got the bottle ef shoe blaeking and paiated pa so he looked like 4 colorcd coal heaser Actually. when ma saw hlm she ordered him oa the premises. and when he iaffed at her and talked sassy, shc was going to throw bling water on pa. bst l told her the scheme and she let up on pa. Q. you'd A didr to sec us out m the garden. Ia looked like Uncle Tom, and looked like Topsy, only amt that kind of colored person. We worked til . boy throwed some tomato cans over the alley fence and hIt me. and piled over the fence after hlin, and left pa. IL was my chum. and when had caught him we put up a Iob to get pa to chase us. We throwed some more cans. and pa come out and my sAatttb ahti | AHSt nun. a1I pa after both of us. He chased us two blocks ard then ~e go, behind policeman. and my ehnm told the policeman II was a cray old colored man that wanted to kidnap us, and the policeman took pa by the neck and wzs gong to club him, but pa said he would go home and behave. He was offul mad, and he went hefne and we looked through the alley fence saw pa trying to wash off the blacking. You sec that blaoking won't wash of You have to scar t of. pa would wash his face ~i,h soap suds. and then look in the glass. and he was blaekcf every time he wAShed. and when ma lAftcd ai him he said the offules, wotds. something like sweet spirit hear my prayer then he washed himseif again. 1 am going 10 leave my burnt cork on, cause fl washed ii of pa would kno1 there had been some smouging somewhere. ssksd the shoe store man how long i, would take the blaeking to wear oh. and he sad II ought 70 wear of in week. l guess pa won't 70 cut of doors mueh, unless il is ln the night. 1 am going to gel him to les me go Of in the country fishing. tall mine wears of, and wher ge, ous of town viii wash up Say, you eont think A little bizcking huns a mans com piesion do you, and you don't think m ,n ought 70 get mad became IL won't wash of. do youi"
 70. probably it don't hun the com plcxion,' said the grocery man, As he sprinkied some fresh water on the wtlfed lettuce, - ii would look frssA while the hired gih vas bsying some, ''asd ret ii is mighty unpseasznt, where a man has go< an engagement to % tO card party, as ] knos your pa has fo-nighl A to gesting mad about il, if wss your pa, 1 would take basrel-seave and skafser your castle srasdaloss. What lind sf ] fate do you think svzits you, when you de. anywsy9"
 "WeIi, I'm mixed on the fate that 1 awaits me when die. 1T 1 should 20 of sudden. with ali my sins on my head, and 1 ,his burnt cerk on my face, should prob 1 ofx tzn t.s