The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-15
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as the boy came into the store anc sat uy on the edge cf the counter, "yca loou Up well for boy with the ague. n. ugh you couldn't get ou, of bed. you Ina, eni been around for nearly week"
 70, the ague's played out, guess s,hey run oa; ot quinine m this town while l was s,1k. Anyhow. they hred nearly barrel of il down my neck. replied the boy. helping himself ,e an , apple.
 ] heard your father was arrested last Saturday. What's the trcehlef- asked , the groceryman as he closed a new gate al he end of the counter he had IF .de so ketp ,he ecy away iro'a the >assr s'n.
 Wel.. he dld come near beng mn in. sure. and guess he would n it hadn't been for me. You see ma has been sick ever since she went into the deaeon's cellar to draw cider and met that skunk. so she told pa II he wosld get a couple of good tat hens, she would try and make Il pot-pie for Sunday. as she felt her health failing. and If her appetite didn't improve some she would gc hence. what ever tha, means. SO that evening pa started out after hens. He was too late 10 ge, dressed ones. so he got two live ones from the market and started home Me and nly hum were layln' tor him. and when he got ahou, hali way home Il commenced to tain and he started Me followed and met a poareman and told him we saw man steal two hens, and pointed pa ou, as the man. The policeman started after hIm and yelled al him ,o halt. but pa dld no, hear him. Pretty soon pa saw some one was chasing hlm. and thought l, was robher, so he ran ali the harder. Then the policeman pulled oa, hts revol yer and hred m the ar to scare pa, rus, as one oi the hens got her wings loose and fiopped II in pas eye. Ia dropped with groan and said I'm shot Tell my wife l died happy Then a crowd got around hlm and was going to hang the policeman, hut he swore the shot came across the street. for he saw two men run and said he didn't carry n re- volver. anyway. and the crowd mgh, search him. But l saw hum throw Il over m yard and me and my ehum go, I, the next morning When pa found he wasn't dead. he called ioi stfet,her to be earned home to die with hts fanll, While some of ihe crowd went for a strci, her. the res, began ,o examine him ;a see where the bullet went in. and when they couldn't md II. he got up and offered to iiek any man sha, sand he was shot. lust then. another policeman came up and sad he recognized pa as Chieago lili, a notorious satc-fobbcI. and that t reward was offered for hun. ia sad he was an honest man and agreed ;a go back to the market with the fhi, keus and hc identihed. They found only one ot the chiekens, bat the market man knr,, yi and nsed H. and then the policeman began to beg pa } paidon and pa gave ham ilNc dollars 10 keep suli about t When pa rot home he told ma how he had helped catch safe -blo~cf and when he go, his share oi the reward shc should have 4 neW seai-skin sat que.
 Noui iatherll kili you some day liut what abou, the fuss at the social ai the deacon's night before last /" asked Inc proC eryman. as he picked the ily-spe k oii from lot of maple sugar he was putting away for new maple sugar next spring :" l heard the whole chur, was mad al each other over grab bag. and the presiding elder had all he could do ,o que, things down.
 Ina don, amour, io much, replied the boy. There's always something turns ap when the aeIable scsson hfst starts in. You sec, ma was appointed I committee to Tx up q grab-hag Me and my ohum were digging bat tha, morning to go fishing. when pa came ou' and said. Hennefy, l believe you pu, up that chicken lob ou me. and 1 don | believe anything but hand work will re- form you. want you ,o spade up the ground under the ourrant bushes asked hun fl he wanted d hump-backcd, dishgured boy. made SD by hand work Ia said he would risk ,he hump. and told me to pitch m. and then went down town. My ohum said he would help me. and me and him 70, the lob done before two q clock. When wc got done come m and found ma had finished the grab-bsg, and had II all loaded, wit1 the top fast ened with puckering string, and hung on the back of a chair. Ma was up stairs getting her Sunday clothes on. ,o go 10 the soeiable, so il didn't take me and my chum long To empty the bag and [ x trap and took Il 10 the barn, and eaugh, two nice big ia, mice and pu, 'em In d collar box wl,h holes cat m II, to give 'em air, ard dropped that in the bag Then my chum remembered big snapp,ng turtle he had m the swiil-barrel. and ne and him got that and wiped l, as dry as VIC could. and tied it all up but is head and pu, that in jus, as the dea on , h,res. man came to take the bag over ,o he so- cable. Me and my chum wen, down to his house and waited iiil the people go, over to the sociable, and then we ~efg' over ard got up in d rec where we could see through the open ~indo~, and hear all that wzs gong on. "a he stood over the bag asd shouted Ten cents grab don, let anybody be backyard in goo cause Thee or four had put up the
 ten cents and made a grab vhen an olf maid rom Oshkosh, who had been 10 'he springs 'os hyssersrs. got n her wors on