Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-05-25
Eflfrf Reahing.
That BAD Boy is still Alive.

That BAD Boy is still Alive.
There, you drop that said the
grocery man to the bad boy, as he
came llmping into the store and began
to tumble around box Of strawber-
ries. 4 never kicked at your eating
my cod fish, and there has got to be a
dividing line somewhere, and l make
it at straw berries at six shillings a
box, and only two layers in a box.
1 only bought enc box, hoping some
plumber or gas man would come along
and buy it, and by gum, everybody
that has been in the store has sampled
a straw berry out Of that box, shivered
as though 1t was sour, and gone of
without asking the price, and the
grocery man looked mad took a
hatchet and knocked in the head of
barrel of apples, and said, There,
help Yourself to dried apples
oh, don't want your strawberries
or dried apples SAID the boy, as he
leaned against a show case and looked
at bar of red, transparent soap. i
Was only trying 10 fool you. Say,
that bar of soap rs old enough to vote.
remember seeing it in the show case
when | was about year old, and pa
came in here with me and held me up
TO the show case 10 look at that tin
tocacco box, and that round zinc
looking glass, and the yellow wooden
pocket comb, and the soap looks just
the same, only a little faded. If you
would wash yourself once in a while
your soap wouldn't dry up on your
hands, and tie boy sat down in the
chair without any back feeling that
he was even with the grocery man.
You never mind the soap. 1t is
paid for, and that is more than your
father can say about the soap that has
been in his house the past month, said
The grocery man, as he split up box
10 kiudie the fire. But We won't
quarrel. What was it | heard about
IA band serenading your father, and his
inviting them into lunch:'
Don't let that get out, or pa will
Kill me dead. 1t was joke. One of
these Bohemian bands, that goes
about town playing tunes for pennies,
was over on the next street, and !
told Ia guessed some of his friends
who had heard We had baby at the
house, had hired band and was com
ing IN in few minutes to serenade
him and he better prepare to make a
speech. Pa is proud OF being father
at his age, and he thought it was no
more than right for the neighborhood
to serenade him, and he went to load
ing himself for speech, in the libra
~ and me and my chum went ont
and told the leader Of the band there
was family up there that wanted to
have some music, and they didn't
care for expense, so they quit blowing
where they were and came ri BIT along
None Of them could understand Eng
lish except the leader, and he only
understood enough to 60 and take a
drink when he is invited. My chum
steered the band up to our house and
got them to play Babies on our Block,
and Baby Mine and l stopped all
the men who were going home and
told them TO wait minute and they
would see some fun, SO when the band
got through the second tune, and the
Prussians were Implying the beer out
of the horns, and pa stepped out on
the porch, there was more than a
hundred people in front of the house.
You'd dlde to see pa when he put
his hand in the breast of his coat and
and struck an attitude. He looked
like a Congressman, or tramp.
The band was scared, cause they
thought he was mad, and some OF
them were going to run, thinking he
WAS going to throw piece of brick
house at them, but my chum and the
leader kept them. Then pa sailed in.
He commenced Fellow Citizens and
then went back to Adam and Eve,
and worked up to tie present day,
giving "a history of the notable people
who had acquired children, and kept
the crowd interested. | felt sorry
Tor pa. cause knew how he would
feel when he found out he had been
sold. The Bohemians in the band
that couldn't understand English they
looked at each other, and wondered
what it was all about, and finally pa
wound up by stating that it was every
citizens duty to own children of his
own, and then invited the band and
the crowd in to take some refresh
ments. Well, you ought to have seen
that land come in the house. They
fell over each other getting in, and
the crowd went home, leaving pa and
my chum ard me and the band. Eat?
Well | should smile. They Just
reached for things and talked Bohe-
mian. Drink? 0, no. | guess they
don't pour it down Pa oIened a
dozen bottles Of champagne, and they
fairly bathed in it, as though they
} had IA fire inside. Pa tried to talk
with them about the baby, Int they
, couldn't understand, and finally they
: got full and started ont, and the lead
er asked "a for three dollars and that
1 br' lie him up. Pa told the leader he
supposed the gentleman who had got
mp the serenade had paid for the mu.