The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-19
PECK'S BAD BOY.
TuE BOYS PLAY "WILD WEsT
SHOW.
The Bnd Eoy's Pa Lnssos n Cow, aud Gets
Pulled Around In Most Promiscuous
Manner.
From the Milwaukee sun.l

From the MILWAUKEE, sum-
'You see" said the bad boy to the gro
Gerry man, "all of us boys in the neighbor-
hood wanted to have Buffalo Bill show
and pa gave us | emission to use the
back yard, and he said he would come
out and help us. You know that Boston
girl that was visiting Mt our house, with
the glasses on? Well, she went home
the next day. She says this climate is
too wild for her. You see, we boys all
fixed up as Indians, and We laid for some
one to come out OF the house, to scalp,
the way they do the show. We
heard rustic of female garments, and
all hid, and when the Boston girl came
out to pick some pansies in mas flower
bed, we captured her. You never see a
girl so astonished Ms she was. We
yelled 'yip.yip' and | took hold OF one
Of her hands and my chum took hold OF
the other, and her bangs raised right up,
and her glasses fell of and she said oh,
You howwid things
"We took her to our lair in the men
house and tied her to tin rain water
conductor that came down by the cor
ner OF the barn and then we danced
war dance around 'lrr and yelled Xxi
81, until size ptrSpr,d. took my
tomahawk and lifted her hair and hung
it on the chicken roost, and then made
a speech to her in Indian. l said:
"'The pale faced maiden from the
rising sun is in the hands Of the Apaches,
and they yearn for gore. Her brothers
and fathers and uncles, the Indian agents,
have robbed the children Of the forest OF
their army blankets and canned lobster,
and the red man mustbe avenged. But
we will not harm the pretty white
maiden, except to burn her to the stake.
What has she to say? Will she give the
red men tafIy, or will she burn 2
"Just then pa comes ont with cis-
tern pole, and he rescued the white
maiden, aud said we mustn't he SO
rough. Then the girl said she would give
us all the tally we wanted, and she went
in and she and ma watched u3 from the
back window Pa he watched us rob
coach, and he said it was first
rate. The man that collects the
ashes rom the alley, with morse and
wagon, he had Just loaded up, and got
on the wagon, when two OF my Indians
took the horse by the bits, and four OF
us mounted the wagon and robbed the
driver of clay pipe and n pocket comb,
{ and n knife, but lie saved his ashes by
, promising never to reveal the names OF
the robbers. Pa just laughed, when wo
/. gave the ash man back his knife and
4 things, and said he hadn't had 80 much
n fun in long time. Then we were go
!. ing to lasso wild Texas steer, and ride
4 II, the way they did in the show, and pa
v said that vas where he came in handy.
/. He said he could throw lasso just like
o cowboy. We got my chum's pas
). COW ont of the barn, and drove her up
o the alley, and pa stood there with a
g clothes line, with big moose in the end,
# and he headed of the COW and threw
}. the lasso. Well, you'd died to see pa
= sweep things out of the alley with his
l. pants. The COW was sort of scared when
c we drove her up the alley, cause guess
;. she thought it was time she was MIXED,
g and when pa stepped out from behind
n the barrel and throwed the rope around
e her neck, l guess she thought it was all
.. day with her, for she turned and galloped,
ID and kicked up and bellered, and pa did
not know enough to let go of the rope
ty First pa followed the COW down the allie,
cs sitting down, and about abushelof ashe
lst got up his trowsers leg and the tomat
ur cans and old oyster cans flew around lik
IN. cyclone was blowing. Us injin
IL climed up on the fences to get out OF tn
nd way, and that scared the COW more, an
ed she snatched pa along too quick.
re yelled to pa to let go CT the rope, nm
in lust rs the COW drawed him under
X wagon he let go, and the COW took tl
d. clothes line home. Pa got up and shoe
l." The ashes out of his trowers legs an
ed picked up piece of board an'
n started back. You never saw tribe q
ia Indians get scared so quick as we did
he As went in the hen coop and got 'lnde
o. barrel l heard pa say:
=, "'That busts up the Rulialo Bill bust
I'd ness. No more wild steer lassoing fo
ur your uncle Ike
nv "Wer, no one was to blame bu
lie "a. He thinks he can do every
he thing, and when he tries 1t and gel
ex- tangled, he lays it to me. We wei
,eir out on the street with our tomahawk
rill when pA went in to brush himself, NJ
He iisbanded, ard went to our rcservauo
the and piece reigns again, and the Bost
.ary girl has gone home with an idea that
by are all heathens ont west"