Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-11-08
PECK's BAD BOY.
His Experience ina Wild West Show
The Gid Man.

hts experience fI4 W1lo west Show
The Old Man.
"Well, how is my little angel with
cut wings, to-day?'' asked the gro
ceryman of the had. boy, IS he came
in with red paintssacking to his ears
and blue paint asauad his eyes and
nose, which looked as though a fee
BILE sttempt had been made to wash it
off, while rooster feather stuck
through his hat, and bead moccasin
was on one foot and rubber shoe on
the other.
so, ] am all bushoo. Bushoo,
that is Indian. / am ON the war;
path, and I am no angel this week.
This Is my week off. 1t beats all,
don't it, how different fellow feels
at different times. For the last two
weeks have been so good that it
made me fairly ache, and since that
Buffalo Bill show was here, with the
Indians, and buffaloes, and cow boys,
and steers, I am all broke up. We
have had the worst time over to our
house that ever was. You see, all of
us boys in the neighborhood wanted
to have Buffalo Bill show, and pa
gave US permission to use the back
yard, and he said he would come out
and help us. You know that Boston
girl that was visiting at our house,
with the glasses on? Well, she went
home the next day. She says thus
climate is too wild for her. You see,
we boys all fixed up as Indians, and
we laid for some one to come out Of
the house, to scalp, the way they do
in the show. We heard rustic of
female garments, and we all hid, and
when the Boston girl came out to pick
some pansies in mas flowerbed, we
captured her. You never see girl
SO astonished as she was. We yelled
'ylp-plp' and I took hold of one Of
her hands and my chum took hold of
the other, and her bangs raised right
up and her glasses fell off and she
said, o., you howwid things We
took her to our lair in the hen-house
and tied her to tin rain-water con-
ductor that came down by the corner
Of the barn, and then we danced q
war-dance around her, and yelled Xxi
yi,' until she perspired. I took my
tomahawk and lifted her hair and
hung 1t on the chicken roost, and then
l made speech to her in Indian. /
said, 'The pale-faced maiden from
the rising sun is in the hands of the
Apaches, and they yearn for gore.
Her brothers, and fathers and uncles,
the Indian agents, have robbed the
children of the forest of their army
blankets and canned lobster, and the
red man must be avenged. But we
will not harm the pretty white maiden
except to burn her to the stake.
What has she to say? Will she give
the red men taffy, or will she burn?'
just then pa came out with a cistern
| pole, and he rescued the white maid
en-, and said we mustn't be so rough.
Then the girl said she would give US
all the taffy we wanted, and she went
in and she and ma watched us from
the back window. Pa he watched us
rob coach, and he said it was first
rate. The man that collects the ashes
from the alley, with a horse and wag-
on, he had just loaded up, and got on
the wagon, when two Of my Indians
took the horse by the bits, and foul
of us mounted the wagon and robbed
the driver of a clay pipe and a pocket
comb, and knife, but he saved his
ashes by promising never to revea
the names Of the robbers. Pa JUS
laughed, when we gave the ash mar
back his knife and things, and sale
he hadn't had so much fun in a Ions
time. Then we were going to lasso
wild Texas steer, and ride it, the way
they did in the show, and pa sale
that was where he came in handy. HI
said he could throw a lasso just lik'
a cowboy. We got my chum's pa
cow out Of the barn, and drove he
up the alley and pa stood there with
clothes line, with a big moose in tn
lend, and he headed off the COW ant
threw the lasso. Well, you'd a diet
to see pa sweep things out of the al
Iley with his pants. The cow wa
sort of scared when we drove her u
the alley, cause guess she though
it was time she was milked, and wheI
pa stepped out from behind the bar
Irel and throwed the rope around he
neck, guess she thought it was al
day with her, for she turned and gal
Hoped, and kicked up and belIered
and pa did not know enough to let g
of the rope. First pa followed th
cow down the alley sitting down, an
about bushel of ashes got up hi
trowsers legs, and the tomato can
and old oyster cans few around iik
/ cyclone was blowing. Us Injin
climbed up on the fences to get OF
of the way, and that scared the CO..
1 more, and she snatched pa along to
quick. / yelled to pa to let go OF u
rope. and just as the COW drawed MI
under q wagon be let go, and the CO
la..l~ a. rl,tboo limo home Pa t0f