Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-01
THE BAD BOY.

do you. salu the pau boy
AZ grocery man, as he put
.n VA mittens on the top of the stove
~ and kept his back TO the stove
sl,, I'D could watch the grocery
lps mi he prepared for q kick, IL the
'bould remember the rotten egg
KAY l the boy bad put up in the
\, N the grocery last week. "
INV I don want parrot. had
~ have a fool boy around than
~, But whats the matter with
~ mas parrot? | thought she
t,adn't part with him for any
EWell. she wouldn't, until Wednes-
night, but now she says she will
! have him around, and may have
\ + can ret for him. She told me
y 10 some saloon, or some disreput-
mace and sell him, and / thought
sybc he would about suit you,n and
['boy broke open bunch of celery
/, ,ook out a few tender stalks and
Ibed them on a Goldfish, to salt
fm and began TO bite the stalks.
tiIq he held the sole of one wet boot
Iagaiust the stove to dry it, making
nell of burned leather that came
srturning the stomach of the cigar
II,ookaherc, boy, don't you call
I 4 disreputable place. Some of
hest people in this town come
~ saip the grocery man, us he
i dun the cheese knife and grated
teeth as though he would like to
It into the youth.
(0. that's all right. They GENE here
ne you trust. But you make up
|st you lose by charging it to other
!ple. Pa will make it hot for YOU
| last of the week. He has been
King over your bill, and comparing
IA the hired girl, and she says we
lent ever had "a prune or a dried
Ne, or raisin, or any cinnamon, or
Ikols and cheese out Of your store
! be says you are worse than the
lies brothers, and that you used to
4 three card monte man, and he
have you arrested for highway
berry. But you can settle that with
like you because you are no or
hry sneak thief. You are q high
I'D, gentlemanly sort of blk, and
Didn't take anything you couldn't
o, keep your seat, and
" get excited. 1t does
i good TO hear the truth
b one who has got the nerve to tell
But about the parrot. Ma has
I, atva,, from horna a ,waal, ho,,;,,s,
)gh old time in Chicago, going to
bters and things, and while she
gone l guess the hired girl or
|ebody learned the parrot some now
bgs to say. A parrot that can only
Polly wants cracker don't
PUNT to anything. What we need
lew style parrots that can converse
(he topics of the day and say things
final. Well, when ma got back |
b her conscience hurt her for the
she had been carrying on in Chi
b, and when she heard the base
b of the church was being frescoed
invited the committe to hold the
|inesday evening prayer meeting at
house. First, there were four people
70, and ma asked pa to stay to make
lquorum. and pa said seeing he
two pair, he guessed he would stay
Dad If ma would deal him a queen
fould have ~ full hand. / don't
" what pa meant, but he plays
poker sometimes. Anyway,
fe was eleven people came includ-
the minister, and after they had
! ed about the neighbors u spell, and
had showed the women new tidy
ehad worked for the heather, with
lotto on it which pa had taught
a contrite heart beats bob-tailed
|h,' and pa had talked to the men
uta religious silver mine he was
ing stock in, which. he advised
m as II friend to buy for the
~ of the church, they all went in
back parlor and the minister
jim prayer. He got down on his
kes right under the parrots cage,
you'da died to see Polly hang on
PIE wires of the cage with one foot
drop an apple core on the minis
= head. Ma shook her handlier-
Plat Polly, and looked sassy, and
|lS got up on the perch and as the
hister got warmed up, and began to
|e the roof, Polly said, 20, dry up.n
minister had his eyes shut, but
opened one of them little and
ked at pa, as though it were him
\ was making irreverent remarks,
|was mad. The minister got to the
pen and Polly shook hisself and said
hat you giving us, and the minis
|got up and brushed the bird seed
MS knees, and he looked mad. /
lught ma would sink with mortifi-
ION, and was sitting on a piano
Pl, looking pious as Sunday-school
1erlntendent the Sunday before he
Fps out with the bank funds, and ma
Eed at me as though she thoNght it
/ me that had been tampering with
parrot. Gosh, l never said word
nat parrot, and l can prove it by
chum. Well, the minister asked
A 81 the sisters If she wouldn't pray,
she wasn't engaged, so she said
IA pleasure, and she kneeled down,
she corked herself, causes he got
knee on cast iron dumb
II That | had been prac-
fhg. with. She said % my,
dlsgusted sort of way, and then
began to pray for reformation of
Fyouth of the land, and asked for
spirit to descend on the household,
particularly on the boy that was
Ia care and anxiety TO his parents,
\ JUST then Polly said, %. pull down
~ vest Well, you'd dide to see
FsWoman look at me. The parrot