Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-04-09
MORE OF THE BAD BOY.

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MORE OF THE BAD BOY
From peck's Sun.
"Yon don't want to buy a good paI
rot, do yon?" said the bad boy to tn
grocery man, az he put his wet mitten
on the top of the stove to dry, and KEEP
his back to the stove so he could watcl
the grocery man and be prepared for I
kick if the man should remember tn
rotten-egg sign that the boy put up IL
front of the grocery last week.
Ono, don't want no parrot. | hat
rather havea fool boy around than {
parrot. But what's the matter with
your mas parrot / thought sh,
wouldn't part with him for anything.
"Wcll, she wouldn't, until Wednes
day night but now she says she will
not have him around, and | may hav,
half can get for him. She told me t.
90 to n saloon, or some diSrrputabl,
place and sell him, and thought may
be he would about suit yOu," and the
boy broke open bunch of celery, and
took few tender stalks and rubbed
them on a Goldfish TO salt them and be
gan to bite the stalks, while he held tn,
sole of one wet boot up against thu
stove to dry it, making smell of burn
ed leather that came near turning tn.
stomach of the cigar sign.
"Lookahere, hoy, don't yon call this a
hisreputahle place. Some of the
best people in town come here" said
the groceryman, as he held up the
cheese knife and grated his teeth as
though he would like to jab it into the
youth.
ooh, that's all right. They come
here cause you trust. But you make
mp what you lose by charging it to
other people. Pa will make it hot for
you tn" last of the week. He has been
looking over your bill and comparing
it with the hired girl, and she says we
haven't ever had prunc or a dried ap-
pie, or raisin, or any cinnamon, or
cracker" and cheese, out Of your store,
and he says you are worse than the
James Brothers, and that you used to
be a thrre-card monte man, and he will
have you arrested for highway robbery
But you can settle that with pa.
81 like you, because you are no or
binary sneak thief. You are high
toned, gentle manly sort ola blk, and
wouldn't take anything you couldn't
lift. Oh, keep your seat, and don't get
excited. 1t does man good to hear the
truth from one who has got the nerve
I" tell it. But about the parrot. Ma
ha, been away from home for Il week
having hleh olh tliie Ill Chicago, 60
ing 10 'h''l'res ana things', ana "hiIe
sue was gone guess lhe llred glrI, or
Hoiiicoo'ty, learned tle parrot some new
'lilIiHs 10 say. "A parrot mat can only
nj! .o'ls wants a cracker ooh
amount u ai'ythlile, " mai we heen Is
~ lt" s'Sle parroI Nl'at can converse on
me topIcS o' me nay anu say thihsS
"'iS,.','
N'''' "ile', ma 20, pack guess
,I'' '"''S'i'iic' h'r' her ior ,ne way she
lI','' "r'' carrying oi, III 'hicaeo, -"
"he'' S''e il'aru me basement on tilr
'n"r'll was oelhg iresc"ed' she iiiVl,ed
'n' ro'''lill''ee TO l'olu the " ""iieHday
, ,l;' PRAYER meeting III our mouse;
''s'' 'heie were 'o'r people came, ana
III" 'Sh'u pa 10 S'aF an" MAKE up a4"o-
run ana pa Sli,' seeing IL" niel Two
lnalr ne Guessed ne would stay m ana II
MA "oult ueal MN queen ne "o,liu
nave u l'!Il lal.o' "oh Kho" "hat
y" 'litah'' out he pays uraW poker
sohleti''icS'
Anyway, there was eleven people
came, including the minister, and after
they had talked about the neighbors IA
spell and ma had showed the women a
new TIDY she had worked for the heath
EN-, with motto on it which pa had
taught her, a contrite heart beats a
hob-tailcd flush, and pa hal talked to
the men about religious silver mine
he was taking stock in, which he advis-
ed them as friend to buy for the glory
of the church, they all went in the back
parlor and the minister led in PRAYER.
He got down on his knees right under
the parrots cage, and you'd a dide to
see Polly hang on to the wires of the
cage with one foot and drop an apple
'orc ON the minister's head. Ma shook
her handkerchief at Polly and looked
sassy, and Polly got up on the perch,
and AS the minister got warmed up,
and l.pa,l to raisr the roof, Polly said,
on, dry w.
"rhc minister had his eyes shut. but
he opened one Of them a little. and
ooktd ~ pa. Pa was tickled NJ the
parrot, but when the minister looked
1t pa AS though /, was him making
rrryercut remarks, ma was mad, The
minister cot to II e 'Ameu.' and Polly
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