Smyrna times., 1883-07-18
That Bad Boy.
HIS PAS sERENADE.

what is it L hear about band
serenading your father, and his invit-
ing them into lunch?" said the grocery
man to the bad boy, as he came limp
ing into the store and began fumbling
around box of strawberries.
"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 pa |
guessed some of his friends who had
heard we had baby at the house had
hired band and was coming in a few
minutes to serenade him, and he better
prepare to make speech Pals proud
of being a father at his age, and he
thought it was no more than right for
the neighbors to serenade him, and he
went to loading himself for speech in
the library, and me and my.chum went
out and told the leader of the band
there was a family up there that want
ed to have some music, and they didn't
| NetlC AOl Ca APChoOoJ oO OhOJ HulO OAOhlhS
where they was and come right along.
None of them could understand English |
except the leader, and he only under
stood enough to go and take 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 Nine and stopped all the men
who were going home and told them
to wait a minute and they would see
, some fun. So when the band got
through the second tune, and the
Prussians were emptying the beer out
of the horns and pa stepped out on the
= front porch, there was more nor a
> hundred people in front of the house.
You'd died to see pa when he put his
hand in the breast pocket of his coat
= and struck an attitude. He looked
like 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 pieces of brick houses at them,
. but my chum and the leader kept them.
" Then pa sailed in. He commenced
y 'Fellow-citizens," and then went back
to Adam and and Eve, and worked up
. to the present day, giving a history of
the notable people who had acquired
~ children, and kept the crowd interest
~ ed. l felt sorry for pa, cause I knew
how he would feel when he come to
y find out he had been sold. The Bohe-
!" mians in the band couldn't understand
:" English, they looked at each other,
~ and wondered what 1t was all about
and finally pa wound up by stating
:. that it was every citizens duty to own
'' children Of his own; and then he invit.
ed the band and the crowd in to take
~ some refreshments. Well, you ought
to have seen that band come into the
ei' house. They fell over each other il
getting in and the crowd went home
y" leaving pa and my chum and me an6
-, the band. Eats Well, should smile
'iii They just reached for things and talk
,S ,1l ed Bohemian. Drink? Oh, no,
Wy guess they didn't pour it down. p
N opened dozen bottles of champagne
.t1, ~, and they fairly hathed in it as thougl
Ai' they had a fire inside. Pa tried t.
os' talk with them about the baby, bu
'eV' they couldn't understand, and finall
en- they got full and started out, and tn
re- leader asked pa for three dollars, an
iih that broke him up. Pa told the leade
J.. he supposed the gentleman who ha
'i9' GO up the serenade had paid for tn
was music, and the leader said was th
anu gentleman that got it up. Pa paid hil
at but he had a wicked look in his ey,
ihu and me and my ehum lit out, and tn
'hS Bohemians came down the street
Dy bilin' full, with their horns ON the
:. arms, and they were talking Bohemia
~ for all that was out. They stopped
pSe front of vacant house and began
700 play, but you couldn't tell what tune
anu was, they we've so full, and policems
pe" came along and drove them home.
ome guess will sleep at the livery stab
tonight, cause pa is offul unreasonab
anu when anything costs him three dollal
80, besides the champagne"
ON - "Well, you have made pretty me
~ of it," said the grocery man, "It's
sort wonder your pa does not kill yC
tho But what is it hear about the trout
tho,, at the church. They lay that FOOLS
The ness to YOU"
ever It's all lie. Ihey lay everythl
ewes to me. 1t was one of them ducks Il
sing in the choir. was just as mu
surprised as anybody when it occurr
Gre. You see our minister is laid up fir
the the effects of the ride to the funel
,erse when he tried to run over a street c
totes and an old deacon, who had sympto
neral of being d minister in his youth v
New invited to take the minister's place 9
calls talk little. He is an absent minC
4uph- old party, who don't keep up with
,tain- events of the day, and whoever pla.
false it on him knew that he was too pi
rbids to even read the daily papers. Th
oney was a notice of choir meeting to
CON- read, and think the tenor smugg
d let in the other notice between that
order the one about the weekly prayer m,
'ttery ing. Anyway it wasn't me, but it
" di- to broke up the meeting. After
news deacon read the choir notice he t
,ttery up the other one and read; Il am
peo- quested to announce that the Yo
POST Mems Christian Association will
at an friendly entertainment with
d that gloves on Tuesday evening, to vi
5 not all are invited. Brother John sulT
rs are the eminent Boston revivalist, will
IS it is the exercises, assisted by Brother s
ertise- the Missionary from Australia. #
carry will be no slugging, but collec
gov will be taken up at the door to de
circu- expenses Well, thought the pc
ely as in the church would sink through