Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-14
THE BAD BOYS HOLIDAY.
Trip to Chicago With His Dsd-Tricks he
 Played on His Respected Progenitor.

Played on His Respected Prosenitor.
 From Peck's Milwaukee Sun.
 We went down on the cars, and pa had hesdaehe because he had been out all night electioneering for the pro. hlbltlOn ticket, and he was cross, and he was dry, and scolded me, and once he pulled my ear because asked him il he knew the girl he was smiling at Tn d seat across the aisle. l didn't enjoy myself much, and some men were talk ing about kidnapping children, and 1t gave me an ice, and just before We got to Chicago l went after a drink of water at the t'other end of the car, and saw a man who looked as If he wouldn't stand any fooling, and | whispered to him and told hlm that that bald-headed man was sitting with was taking me away from my home in Milwaukee, and mis- trusted be was gong to make a thief or pickpocket of me. l said 's-h-h-h,' and told hIm not tO say anything or the man would maui me. Then 1 went back tO the seat and asked pa to buy me gold watch; he looked mad and cuffed me on the ear. The man that 1 whispered to got tO talking with some other men, and when we got of the cars at Chicago a policeman came up to pa and took him by the neck and said: MT. hidnapper, ] guess we will run you in." Pa was mad and tired to jerk away, and the cop choked him and another cop came along and helped, and the passengers crowd ed around and wanted to lynch pa, and pa wanted to know what they meant, and they asked hlm where he stole the kid. and he said 1 was his kid and asked me If wasn't, and looked scared as though l was afraid to say no, and I said, Yes, sir, guess sO.' Then the police sad the poor boy was scart, and they would take us both to the station, and they made pa walk aspry, and when he held back they jerked him along. He was offul mad, and said he would make somebody smart for this, and hoped it wouldn't be tme. At the station they charged pa with kidnapping boy from Milwaukee, and he says 1t was a he and was his boy; l said of course I was, and the boss asked who told the cops pa was kidnapper, and they said damfino, and then the boss told pa he could go, but not to let 1t occur again, and pa and me went away. looked 50 sorry for pa that he never tumbled to me. that was to blame.
 "Me walked around town oil day, and went to the stores, and at night pa was awful tired, and he put me to bed in the tavern and he went out to walk around and get rested. 1 was not tired, and 1 walked all around theHhOtel. l thought pa had gone to a theater, and that made me mad, and ] thought l thought 1 would play joke on him. Our room was 2lO, and the next room was 215, and the was an old maid with scotch terrier occupied PIP l saw her twice and she called me names, cause she thought l wanted to steal her dog. That made me mad at her, and so l took my jack-k knife and drew the Jacks out of tue tiE thing that the numbers were painted on, and put the old maids number on our door and our number on her door. and then l went to bed. l tried to keep awake, so as to help pa If he had any difficulty; but l guess 1 got asleep, but woke up when the dog parked. If the dog had not woke me up the woman's scream would, and If that had not pa would. You see, pa came home from theater about leven, and he had been drinking. He says everybody drinks when they go to Chicago, even the minister. Pa looked at the nun bers on the doors all along the hall till he found 2l0, and walked right in and pulled of his coat and threw it on the loungue where the dog was. The old maid was asleep, but the dog parked, and pa said, That cussed boy has bought a dogP and he kicked the dog, and the old maid woke up and said, What Is the matter petP Pa laifed and said, Nothing Is the mazzer with me, pet and then you Onght to have heard the yelling. The old maid covered her head and screamed louder, and the dog snsrled and bit pa, and pa had his coat of, and he got scared and took his coat and vest and went out in the hall, and l opened our door and told pa he was in She wrong room, and he said be guessed he knowed It, and he came into our room and locked the door. then the bell boy and the porter and the clerk came up to see what ailed the old maid, and she said burglar go into her room- and they found pas hat on the lounge, and they took 1t and told her to be quiet and they would find the burglar.
 "Pa was SO scared that be sweat like everything, and the bed was Offul warm, and he pretended to go to sleep, but he WAS thinking how he could get his hat pack. In the morning I told him 1t would be hard Work to explain 1t to ma, how he happened to get into the wrong room, and he said 1t wasn't necessary to say anything about 1t to ma. Then he gave me five dollass to go out and buy him a new hat, and he said might keep the change if I would not mention II when I got home, and got one for ten shilIings, and we took tbe So'ciock train in the morning and came home, and l s'pose the Chicago detectives are trying to fit pas hat onto burglar. Pa seemed awfully relieved when we got across the state line into Wisconsin. But you'd a dide to see him come out of that old lady's room with his coat and vest on his arm, and his suspenders hanging down looking scart. He dassept hck me any more, or I'll tell ma where pa left