The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
THE ROMAN CAN;Slss ROCK
EFT THE BAD BOY
WORKED ON
HIS PA.

Gnu youI HaiF Ihey seem TO be
burned off,
'Oh, thunder, didn't pa tell you
about the comet exploding and burn
ing us all ? that was the worst thing
since the flood, when Noar run the
excursion boat from Kalamazoo to
Mount Ararat. You see we had been
reading about the comet, which is
visible at A o'clock in the morning.
and / heard pa tell the hired cir! to
wake him and ma up, when she got
mp to set the pancakes and go to
early mass, SO they could see the
critter. Toe hired girl is catholic
and she don't make no fuss about it.
but she has got more good square
religion than dozen like pa. 1t
makes good deal of deffsrenee how
religion affects folks, don't it? Now
pas religion makes him wild. and he
wants to kick my pants and pull my
hair, but the hired girls religian
makes her want to hug me. if I am
abuseds and she puts anarchy on nv
bruises and gives me pie. Pa would
not get up at 4 o'clock in the morn.
ing to go to early mass, unless he
could take a fish pole along and
some angle worms. The hired girl
praYs when no one sees her Nut God,
but pa wants to get a church full Of
sisterins, and pray loud, as Though
he was an auctioneer selling tin ra-
gers.
well, when ] heard pa tell the
hire girl to wake him and ma up,
and thea | got my chum to stay with
me, and we made a comet to play on
pa. You see my room is right over
pas roo 4, and l got two lengths Of
stove pipes and covered them all
over with phosphorus, so they looked
just as brightas commet. Then we
got two roman candles and big sky
rocket, and we were going to touch
otf the Roman candles and the sky
rocket, just as ma and pa got to
looking at the comet. Ididn't know
that a sky rocket would kick back,
did you? Well, you'd o died to seen
that comet. We tied piece of white
rubber garden hose to the stove pipe
for a tail, and then went to bed, and
'Then the hired girl woke us we lay
for ma and pa.
Pretty soon we heard pas win
dow open, and then looked out and
ma and pa had their heards and half
their bodies out of their window.
They had their night shirts on and
looked just like the pictures of Mill
critics waiting for the world to come
to an end Pa looked up and seed
the stove pipe, and he said. Hammer
for God sake look up there. That's
the dist comet 1 ever seed. II is
as bright as day. See the tail of it.
Now that is worth getting up to
sees
Just then my chum touched off
the two Roman candles and touch
ed off the rocket, and there's where
my eye-winkers went. The rocket
busted the joints of the stove pipe,
and they fell down on pa, but ma
got her head inside before the comet
struck, and wasn't hurt, but one end
of the stovegpipe struck pa endways
on the neck and almost cut biscuit
out of him, and the fra and the
sparks just poured down on him and
burned his hair and night shirt. Pa
was scant. He must have thought
the world was coming to an end, and
the window came down on his back
and he begun to sing:
Earth is but a desert ,lrear,
Heaven is my home.
seed he was caught in the win
dow, and I went down to put ont the
hire on his Lle,1t shirt, and pat up
the window to let him in. and he
said: My hoy your ma and me are
going to heaven, but I fear you will
go to the bad place, and I told him
l would take my chances, aud that
he had better put on his pants if he
was going anywhere, that $50
would be liable to be ladies present,
and when he got his head ma told him
that tho world YVES not coming to an
end, but somebody had been setting
off fire works, and she said she
guessed it was their dear little boy.
and when I saw pa feeling under
the bed for bed slat, got up stairs
pretty previous now, and don't you
forget it, and ma put cold cream on
where the sparks burnt pas shirt,
and pa said another day would not
pass over my head before heMhad