Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-06-22
THE BAD BOY.
He Plays a Scandalous Trick on His Pa
With Bottle of IndeIible shoe
Elacking and Calls the Police.

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bad boy, as he came into the store
with his face black and shining. 81
don't want any colored Toys around
here. White boys break me up bad
enough"
80, philopene,' said the bad boy, as
he put his hands on his knees and
laughed till the candy jars ratified on
the shelves. "You didn't know me.
am the same boy that comes in here
and talks your arm off, and the boy
opened the cheese box and cut off a
piece of cheese SO natural that the
grocery man had no difficulty in rec
ognizing him.
What in the name of the seven
sleeping sisters have you got on your
hands and face?" said the grocery
man, as he took the boy by the ear
and turned him around. "You would
pass in colored prayer meeting, and
no one would think you were galvan-
lied. What you got up in such an
outlandish rig for?''
"Well, I'll tell you, if you will keep
watch at the door. If you see bald
headed colored man coming along the
street with club, you whistle, and I
will fall down cellar. The bald head
ed colored man will be pa. You see,
we moved yesterday. Pa told me to
get vacation from the livery stable,
and we would have fun moving. But
l don't want any more fun. 1 know
when l have got enough fun. Pa car
ried all the light things, and when it
came to lifting he had a crick in the
back. Gosh, never was so tired as
l was last night, and 1 hope We have
got settled, only some Of the goods
haven't turned up yet. A drayman
took one load over on the west side,
and delivered them to a house that
seemed to be expecting a load of
household furniture. He thought it
was all right, if everybody that was
moving got a load of goods. Well,
after We got moved pa said we must
make garden, and he said we would
go out and spade up the ground and
sow peas, and radishes, and beets.
There was some neighbors lived in
the next house to our new one, that
was all wimmen, and pa didn't like to
have them think he had to work, so
lie said it would be a good joke to
disguise ourselves as tramps, and the
neighbors would think we had hired
some tramps to dig in the garden. I
told pa of boss scheme to fool them.
l suggested that we take some of
this shoe backing that is put on with
a sponge, and black our faces. and
the neighbors would think we had
hired an old colored man and his boy
to work in the garden. Pa said it
was immense, and told me to 90 and
black up, and if it worked he would
black hisself. SO l went and put
this burnt cork on my face, cause it
would wash off, and pa looked at me
and said it was whack, and for me
fix him up too. SO 1 got the bottle
of shoe backing and painted pa so
he looked like colored coal HEAVIER.
Actually, when ma saw Linn she Or
dered him off the premises, and when
he latfed at her and acted sassy, she
was going to throw boiling water on
pa, but I told her the scheme. and
she let up ON pa. o, you'd a dide to
see us out in the garden. Pa looked
like Uncle Tom and l looked like
Topsy. Pa and | worked till boy
throwed some tomato cans over the
alley fence and hit me, and I piled
over the fence after him, and left pa.
1t was my chum, and when I caught
him we put up job to get pa to
chase us. We thrOwed some more
cans, and pa come out and my chum
started and after him, and pa after
us both. He chased lis two blocks
and then we got behind a policeman,
and my chum told the policeman it
was a crazy old colored man that
wanted to kidnap us, and the police
man took pa by the back of the neck
and was going to club him, but pa
said he would go home and behave.
He was awful mad, and he went home
and we looked through the alley fence
and saw pa trying to wash off the
backing. You see that blacking
won't wash off. You have to wear it
off,
"What kind of fate do you think
awaits you when you die, anyway"
swell, l am mixed OH the fate that
awaits me when I die. If / should
go off sudden with all my sins on my
head, and this burnt cork on my face,
I should probably be a neighbor to
you, way down below, and they would
give me a job as a fireman, and I
should feel bad for you every time
chucked nuther chunk of birthstone,
and thought of you trying 10 swim
dog fashion in the lake of fire, and
straining your eyes to find an iceberg
that you could crawl up on to cool
your parched hind legs. If I can't
die slow, so l will have time to re-
pent, and be saved, shall be toasted
brown. That's what the minister
says, and they wouldn't pay him two
lHouStuu ycdI anu give ulIu d va
cation to tell anything that was not
SO. tell You, it is painful to think
of that place that SO many pretty fair
average people here are going to
when they die Just think of it, a
man that swears just once, if he don't
hedge, and take it back, will 90 to the
bad place. If person steals a pin,
just small. no account pin. he is as
bad as If he stole all there was in the
bank, and he stands the best chance
of going to the bad place. You see,
if a fellow steals a little thing like a
pin, he forgets to repent, cause it
don't seem to be worth while to make
SO much fuss about. But if fellow
robs bank. or steals a whole lot of
money from orphans, he knows 1t is
mighty serious matter, and he gets
in his work repenting, too quick, and
he is liable to get to the good place,
while you, who have only stole a few
potatoes out of a bushel that you sold
to the orphan asylum, will forget to