The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-07-13
THE BAD BOY.
Ipack's Sun !

6lil tue grocery MI w 'hc p"u IVY
cs he came 10. with his arm in II
sling, anl backed NJ aSairst the
s'ovo 20 get warm. Everything haH
gone wrong since yon got to coming
herc, and | think you arc regular
Jonah. / find sand IN my sugar,
kerosene in my butter, Tho goldfish is
oil picked of, and there il something
wrong every time you come here.
Now You leave.'
Il amt 10 Jonor, said Tho boy as
ho wiped his nose on lis coat slcc7c,
and reached into "a barrol FOR snow
apple. Il never swallowed 10 whale.
Say, do You behave that story about
Joncr bsiug in tho whales belly, ali
nigh,? douf. The munster was
tellirg about it in Sunday school last
Sunday, ana asked ms what |
thought Jonor was doing whle he
was in there, and | tod him inter-
pret.d the story this way, that tho
! whalo WAS fixed ilsido with upperand
lower bcr,hs, Ikea tleepirg car,
and J Jp,r had 4 lowor berth, ami
/ Tho or,cr made up tho berth rs 8, on
rs joiner came in with his sntcho'
and Joncr pulled Of his boots aud
gave them % The porter TO back.
aad PIT cut li' watch under tie pill
,ow ard turned in. The Toys in
Sunday school all lsG.d, aud the
minister said | waa bigger fco'
than IN was, and ti.at was ugc!css.
II yen go back on me, now, ! won't
have a friend. except my chrm md
dos, and | swear, by ny ha'idom,
that never put no sand in your su-
gar, or korosen, in your butter, |
admit the picking OF Of tho codf'h,
but You can charge it to Pa, tie
samc rs Jon did tho eggs That |
pushed NY clu,n over int last srm-
mor, ,hough | ihorghtyou did w:ong
in charging Christmas prices for deg
days eggs, When mY ehums Ma
,c;apcd his pants SIC said there Was
not TN eSs represented on there that
was loss than ;wo years old. The
Sunday school folks lave al gore
back on me, since put kyau pep
per on tho steve. when they were
singing Little Drops OF Water and
they all had 10 go and air themselves,
bnt I didn't mean TO let tho pepper
drop On the stove. ] W., just hold
irg It ove- tho stove to warm il,
when NY c.um bit tho funny hone
# my eIo W. Pa anys, | am 4 terror
20 cGtG. ErJry time pa says any
thing, il gives mo q new i'c,. 1,ell
ycu Pa has q grea' brain, bat some.
ines H. d.n'I haYo !. with him.
When he said | WAS terror 10 eats
thought what fun there wag III csts
and ne andmy chun. went 10 steal
ins cas- right CT, and bsicro hight
wo had eleven c'g,d. We had enc
in canary birl cage, thr,o IN Pa
old hct boxor, throo in Mas band
lo1, fyur in va!is,s, two in Il t.ulk,
a.d tie r,sl 10 closet up sta.r1.'
That night p. said he wanted ne
to say at hrmo bccauso the corn
mittee hat is so'us TO Sc, n noy
ster supper in tho church wa' soioG
to moe, n. our house, and they
miga. want to send mo on erran1s.
I asked him if my chum ccnldn't
$ ny to, 'cau.s hs is the henl;hio1'
infant to -un after orrauds that oyor
was, tn | Pa said lie could stay, bni
we must remember that ;hcre musn't
he any monkey business going on
told him there shoaidn'S Io no
monkey business, but 1 didn't prom
iso nothing about cat. Well, sir,
you'd II dido. The coTmit.oo was
in tho library by iho back s'aira, aad
NO aud M chum SO, tho cat boxes
all 10 geiher, at the top OF the s'air',
and We took them ell ont and ru'
them in tie clothes basket, aud jns;
as the minister was speaking, ard
telling what o great good waa done
by these oyster sociables, in bringing
the young people together, and tax
ing their minds from The wickedncss
of the wor,d. and turning their
minis in d.ff.rent channels, ono OF
of the old tom csts in tie basket
gaze a 'purmcow' that sounded like
The vail Of lost soul, OF cha'linse
TO but.le. I,old my chum that we
couldn't hold the b,cad.bcard over
tho clothes lasSet much lerger,~hcp
two or three cats began to yowl. and
and the minister stopped talking and
Pa told Ma to open the stair door
aud tell the hired girl to SEQ wha,
vas the matter up there. She
thought our cat had get shut mp in
| - IL .Lo mn apo1 tho