Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-01-19
Ii, Pa Kills Him.

For heavens sake drv up that
whistling, said the grocery man to the
bad boy, as he sat on bag OF peanuts
whistling and filing his pockets.
Say, what was your pa running after
the doctor in his shirt sleeves for last
Sunday morning? He looked scared.
Was your ma sick again.
%, no, ma is healthy enough, now
she has got rev fur-lined cloak.
She played consumption oil pa. and
cer ceo6rfdn't i've. N and an got tie doctor to
prescribe a fur-lined circular, and pa
went and got one, and ma has i'm
proved awfully. was the one that
vas sick. You see, | wanted to get
pa into the church again, and get him
to stop drinking. so | got a boy to
write . letter TO bin, in female hand.
and sign the name Of choir singer
pa was smit on. and tell him that the
church seemed blank without his
smiling face and benevolent heart,
and to please come back for her sake.
Pa got the letter Saturday night, and
he seemed tickled, but | guess he
dreamed about it all night, and Sun
day morning he was mad and he took
me by the ear and said | couldn't
come no Daisy business on him. He
said he knew | wrote the letter, and
for me to go up in the storeroom and
prepare for the almightiest licking a
toy ever had and he went down stairs
and broke mp an apple arrel, and got
stave to whip me with. Well, | had
TO think mighty quick, but | was
enough for him | got dried blad-
der in my room-one that me and my
chum got to the slotter- house and !
blowed it partly up, so it would be
sort Of fiat like..and | put it down inside
the back part Of my pants, right about
where pa hits when he Furnishes me,
Well, pa he came up and found me
crying. | can cry just as easy as you
can turn on the water at faucet; and
pa took off his coat and looked sorry.
| was afraid he would give up whip
ping me when he seen me cry, and l
wanted to 60 on with the bladder ex-
pertinent. so looked kind of hard, as
if | was defying Kim to do his worst,
and then he took me by the neck and
laid me across a trunk. | didn't dare
struggle much for fear the bladder
wonld lose itself, and pa said, Now,
Hennery. am going TO break you OF
this damfoolishness or | will break
your back and he spit on his hands
and brought the barrel save down on
my best pants. Well, you'd dide if
you had heard the explosion. 1t
almost knocked me off the trunk. 1t
sounded like firing fire cracker away
down cellar in a barrel, and pa looked
scared. | rolled off the trunk on the
floor, and put some flour on my face
to make me look pie, and then | kind
of kicked my legs like a fellow who is
dying on the stage after being stabbed
with piece of lath, and groaned, and
said, Pa, you have killed me, hut |
forgive you.' and then | rolled around
and frothed at the mouth, cause | had
Il piece of soap in my mouth to make
foam. Well, pa was all broke up. He
said, Great God, what have | done
have brok his spinal column. O
u,y poor boy, do not die l kept
chewing the soap and foaming at The
mouth, and drew my legs up kicked
them out, and clutched my hair, and
rolled my eyes, then kicked pa in the
stummick as he bent over me ant
knock d his breath out of him, ant
then my limbs began to get rigid, ano
said, TO late, pa, | die at the hands
of an assassin: Go for the doctor.
, Pa throwed his coat over me and start
ed down stairs on run, saying. :.
have murdered my brave boy and h'
told ma to 60 up stairs and stay will
me, cause l had fallen off trunk ant
ruptured blood vessel, and he wen
after the doctor. When he went ou
1.-The front door sat up and lit cigar