Daily Republican., 1883-12-04
Peck'O Bo0 Roy.

Hello, Hennery," said the grocery.
man to the bal boy, Is he came In hold.
ing his sides to keep them from burst
ing with suppressed laughter, "what
has occurred to cause q pious young
man to laugh in that worldly manner.
You must try to cultivate a long, mourn
ful countenance, and try to sigh and
look sick when you are the happiest, I"
and the groceryman weighed out a couple
pounds Of buakwheat Hour for hired
girl. Has your pa Joined the police
force {? saw him driving lot Of hogs
TO the pound yesterday"
That's what am laughing about,
said the boy, m he put an apple on the
stove 10 bake 1t. - Pa has gone to the
pound after the hogs this morning You
see, l have been taking lessons In paint.
ing and drawing, and the other day I
surprised pa by showing him picture
of blue COW, with green tail and old
gold horns, and he told me he never
saw anythlng more natural, and he sd-
vised me to turn my attention entirely
TO animal painting. Pc keeps four hogs
In pen In the back lot, and every day
be turns them out In the alley and let's
them run, and takes them up when they
come home. The hogs are large, white
ones, regular beauties, and pa thinks
about ~ much OF them o. he does of me,
Well, pa told lne to 60 and turn out the
hogs yesterday, and l took my paint
brush along and before turning them
out painted black spots all over the
hogs. You never seen lot of speckled
hogs where tho spots we're put on any
better. The pigs looked at each other
kind OF astonished, and turned them
out. In the afternoon, pa went out to
the pen and began to call poig, poig, 4
and the pigs came running upthe a ley.
Pa saw the strange hogs coming, and he
got mad and drove them out Of the alley
and then he called for his pigs again, In
o muscular tone Of voice, and the speck-
led hogs came again, q little slower and
seeming to wonder what allied pa. They
acted as though they felt hurt at being
received In such violent manner. Pa
met the speckled hogs with o broom,
and he run them down the alley again,
and the hogs stood OFT and looked at him
% though they thought he had the Jim.
jams. You'd dide to see pa drive his
own hogs away, and talk sassy. He
got . pail Of swill and called the hogs
again, and they came on a gallop, and |
then pa called policeman and they
drove the hogs to the pound. ] didn't
see pa last night, but the first thing this |
morning told bin had taken his id.
vice, and turned my attention to animal |
painting, and that I had painted spots
on our white hogs, and made speckled
hogs of them, and that speckled hogs
were worth cent q pound more than
white hogs. Well, pa didn't faint away,
but when 1t all came over him, that he
had drove his own hogs o the pound he
was 10 Cross he could have bit a nsA
But he didn't say anything to me, cause
l 'spose ha didn't want to discourage
my artistic ambitions, but he has gone
down to tho pound after the hogs. May
be the rain has washed the spots of, and /
the man that keeps the pound Will not
let pa have White hogs when be left
speckle'l hogs there. However, didn't
the hogs TO be fast colOrs, any
way. Do you think 1t was wrong to put
lpots on the hogs"
Wrong" said the groceryman as
he put some wheat -four In the sack OF
bHckwheat flour, and stirred it up, sit
was co. d mlsl outrage and decep.
ion on your pa, and you ought to be
punished"