The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-09
The BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
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"Wcll, how is my little angel without
wings, to dayr asked the groceryman
of the bad boy, as he came in with red
paint sticking to his ears and blue paint
around his ears and nose, which looked
as though a feeble attempt had been made
to wash it off, while rooster feather
stuck through his hat, and bead moe
casin was on one foot and rubber shoe
on the other. sob, | am all " bushoo,n
Bushoo, that is Indian. ] am on the war
| path, and | am no angel this week.
This is my week off 1t beats all, don't
| it, how different fellow feels at differ
cnt times. For the last two weeks | have
been so good that it made me fairly ache,
since that Buffalo Bill show was here,
with the Indians. and buffalos, and cow
boys, and steers, | am all broke up. We
have had the worst time over to our
house that ever was. You see all of us
! boys in the ncighborhoOd wanted to have
a Buffalo Bill show, and pa gave us per
mission to use the backyard, and he
said he would come out and help us.
You know that Boston girl that was
visiting at our house, with the glasses on2
| Well. she went home the next day She
says this climate is too wild for her. You
see, we boys all fixed up like Indians,
and we laid for some one to come out of
the house. to scalp, the way they do in a
show. We heard rustic of female gar
mcnts, and we all hid, and when the Bos-
ton girl came out to pick some pansies in
mas tlowerbed, we captured her. We
yelled yip-yip and took hold of one of
| her hands and my chum took hold of the
other, her bangs raised right up, and her
| glasses fell off and she said ooh, you how
wild things. We took her to our lair in the
: hen house and tied her to the rain water
/ conductor that came down to the corner
! of the barn, and then we danced war
dance around her, and yelled 'ki-yi', I'M
til she pcrspired. took my tomahawk
and lifted her hair and hung it on the
chicken roost and then | made a speech
to her in Indian. / said, The pale face
maiden from the rising sun is in the
hands of the Apaches, and they yearn for
gore. Her brothers and fathers and I'M
Giles, the Indian agents. have robbed the
| childaen of the forest of their army blan-
kets and canned lobster and the red man
must be avenged. But we will not harm
| the pretty white maiden, except to burn
her to the stake. What has she to saw
Will she give the red man taffy, or will
! she burnE Just then pa came out with Il
cistern pole, and he rescued the white
maiden, and said we mustn't be so rough.
Then the girl said she would give us all
the tatfy we wanted and she went in and
: she and ma watched us from the back
window. Pa he watched us rob coach.
and he said it was first rate. The man
that collects the ashes from the alley,
with horse and wagon, he had just load
ed 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
| pocket comb, and a knife, but he saved
his ashes by promising never to reveal the
names of the robbers. Pa Just laughed,
when we gave the ash man back his knife
and things, and said he hadn't had so
much fun in a long time. Then we were
going to lasso wild Texas steer. and
ride it. the way they did in the show,
and pa said that was where he came in
handy. He said he could throw a lasso
| just like cowboy. We got my chum's
pas COW out of the barn, and drove her
up the alley, and pa stood there with n
! clothes line, with big moose in the end
and headed off the COW and threw the
/ ldSSO. W til, YOU u tlItNi W SCt pa SMttD
things out of the alley with his pants.
! The COW was sort of scared when we drove
her up the alley, cause | guess she
thought it was time she was MIXED, and
when pa stepped out behind the barrel and
/ throwed the rope around her neck,
! guess she thought it was all day with
her, for she turned and galloped, and
kicked up and bellered, and pa did not
L, IL. Al.
followed the COW down the alley sitting
| down, and about bushel of ashes got
up his trowsers legs and the tomato cans,
and old oyster cans flew around like a
| cyclone was blowing. Us Injins climbed
up on the fences to get out of the way,
and that scared the COW more, and she
snatched pa along too quick. yelled
to pa to let go of the rope, and just as
the COW drawed him under II wagon he
let 90, and the COW took the clothes line
home. Pa got up and shook the ashes
out of his trowsers legs and picked up
a piece of board and started back. You
never saw tribe of Indians get scared so
as we did AS went in the hen coop
and got under barrel l heard pa say
That busts up the Buffalo Bill business.
No more wild western steer lassoing for
your uncle Ike Well, no one was to
blame but pa He thinks he can do
everything, and when he tries and gets
tangled, he lays it to me- We went out
on the street with our tomahawks, when
pa went in to brush himself, and dis
banded, and went on to our reservation,
and peace reigns again, and the Boston
girl has gone home with an idea that we
! are all hcathens out west y
Il should think your pa would learn,
after awhile, that he is too old to fool
around rs he did when he was II boy"
said the grocery man, as he got away
from the boy for fear he would be
scalped. -Pecl's SIN.
TOrpedOes to SKATER SnOWbanks.