Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-06-10
THE BAD BOY.

tr, to lead different life" said the
grocery man to the bad boy, rs the
youth came in with his pockets full OF
angle worms, and wanted to borrow n
baking powder can to put them into,
while he went fishing, and he held a
long angle worm up by the tail and let
it wiggle SO it frightened girl that
had come in after two cents worth of
yeast, so she dropped her pitcher and
went out of the grocery rs though she
was chased by an anaconda.
II am going to lead "A different life,
but a boy can't change his whole course
of life in minute, can hep Grown
persons have to go on probation for six
months, before they can lead differ
ent life, and half the time they lose
their cud before the six months expire,
and have TO commence again. When
it is SO alfred hard for man that is
endowed with sense, to break off being
bad, you shouldn't expect too much
from boy. But am doing as well as
could be expected. | amt half as bad
rs | was. Gosh, why don't you burn
a rag. That yeast that the girl spilled
on the floor, smells like it was sick.
should think that bread that was raised
with that yeast would smell like this
cooking butter you sell to hired girls. "
"Well, never you mind the cooking
butter. | know my business. If peo-
pie want to use poor butter when they
have company, and then blow up the
grocer before folks, l can stand it if
they can. But what is this | hear
about your pa fighting duel with the
minister in your back yard, and wound
ing him in the leg, and then trying to
drown himself in the cistern? One of
your new neighbOrs was in here this
morning and told me there was murder
in the air at your house last night, and
they were going to have the police
pull your place rs II disOrderly house.
think you were at the bottom of the
whole business"
80, it's all darn lie, and these
neighbors will find they better keep
still about us, or we will lie about them
little. You see, since pa got that
blacking on his face he don't 90 out
any, and to make it pleasant for him
ma invited in few friends to spend
the evening. Ma has got up around,
and the baby is a daisy, only it smells
like a goat, on account of drinking the
goats milk. Ma invited the minister
among the rest, and after supper the
men went up into pas library to talk.
o, you think am bad, don't you, but
of the nine men at our house last
night, am an angel compared with
what they were when they were boys.
| got in the bathroom to untangle my
fish line, and it is next to pas room,
and l could hear everything they said,
bat l went away cause l thought the
conversation would hurt my morals.
They would all steal, when they were
boys, but darned if | ever stole. Pa
has stole over hundred wagon loads
of water-melOns, one deacon used to
rob orchards, another one shot tame
ducks belonging to a farmer, and an
other tipped over grindstones in front
of the village store, at night, and
broke them, and run, another used to
steal eggs, and 90 out in the woods
and boil them, and the minister was
the worst of the lot. cause he took q
seine, with some other boys, and went
to stream whore neighbor was rails
ing brook trout, and cleaned the stream
out, and to ward off suspicion, he went
to the man the next day and paid him
dollar to let him fish in the stream,
and then kicked because there were no
trout, and the owner found the trout
were stolen and laid it to some Dutch
boys. | wondered when those men
were telling their experience, if they
ever thought of it now when they
were preaching and praying, and TAX
ing up collections. l should think
they wouldn't say boy was going to
hell right Off cause he was little
wild now days, when he has such an
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