The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-11-17
pEcx's BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
BY GEORGE W. PECK.

through the window from the outside to sec if any customers were in, "Come in and let me look at those bruises you are carrying. Great heavens, how did you get that italic style on your nose, and did the same blow blacken both eyes v and the groceryman laughed at the broke up condition of the boy.
 70, you laugh if you wan, to, bu, when you get walked all over by an infdel, aud have some teeth knocked down your throat, you won't laugh so much. and the boy pouted as much as he could with his mouth swelled, and looked at the grocer as though he would like to tip the stove over.
 "What about an infidel. You haven't been fighting with a heather have you !! Tell me all about il, because you are cn your last legs, and confession is good for the soul. Reveal to me the cause of that leaning tower of Pisa nose, and that hie yaeef colored eye" and the groceryman .winked at carpenter who came in to fill his tobacco box.
 Well, you see one of the boys be- longing to our gang of widow helpers, his pa IS an inhdei, and he don't believe any thing, but he can saw more wood for widows than any of the boys. He Is a good fellow, only he does not go to Sun day-school, and don't believe there is any God, o. devil. or anything. He has made us boys tired more than six times, when we have been saving wood, talking about things that we believed in that he didn't. He said the idea that whale swallowed Jonah was all bosh, and Eli ] lah going up in chariot of fire was poppycolic. and everything was wrong. went to a deacon of our church, a regular old hard-shell, and told him about the boy, and asked him what ought to be done about 1t, and he was mad at the inhdel boy, and said he ought to be seourged, and We should smite him, and beat him with many stripes. asked the deacon if it would be right for us good boys to pile on to the infidel boy, and make him believe things, if we had to choke them down him and he said ii would be doing service to humanity, and would win for us everlasting fame and glory. Well. here's your glory Gaze on my leh-handed nose and you can see the fame. tell you, don, take no more jobs converting infdels. lwan, to do everything that is right. but here after, if an infidel meets me on the side walk, shall go across the street and le, him have the whole street. You see, we got the infdel boy up in the hay mow oi the barn, and while the boys were talk ing to him slipped clothes line around his legs and tied them. and than tied his arms. and we had him so tight he couldn't wiggle. He tried 10 get away, but he couldn't and then commenced on him about Adam and Eve eating the apples. At first he wouldn't believe anything, but choked him until he admitted that the devil got them into the sCrape. Then asked him If he believed that the Lord cut spare lib out of Adam and took lot of dust and puttied ii up and made Eve, and set her up in the sun to dry. The darned n- tidel kicked on that and said he never would believe it. but sat down on his stomach and tiekled his nose with straw, and finally he caved. and said he be- lieved it, but he was mad, and tried to chew the clothes line around his arms to get away, but we held him tight, Then
 tackled him on the children of Israel walk ing through the sea without getting their feet wet or catching cold, and he said that was blasted lie. gave him two minutes To believe that. and when the time had expired he said he couldn't swallow it, so took hold of his ears and tried ts pin them together at the back of hts head, and finally he weakened and said the story did begin 10 look reason able. and he believedit. We were getting along splendidly. and though, what a triumph 1t would be 10 bring that boy into sunday school. hrm believer. 1 brand plueked from the burning. We took recess. and played mumblety peg, all except the inhdel, for ten minutes and then tackled him on Joshua. com mandng the sun 10 stand sull. and he said that was all nonsense. tha; II couldn't be done. and began to run timothy hay and tickle grass up his trousers legs, and finally he weakened and admitted that osh was all righ, on the sun scheme. He kicked on Solo, mon having thousand wives and sand he never would believe man cosld be such blasted fool. but took a hay rake and parted his hair in the middle. and filled the inside of his undershirt with oats, and when they began to hurt him he said the Solomon story was true, and he even went so far as to believe Solomon had twelve hundred wives, so got him to believe two hundred more than there was, which was pretty good for an intdel He wouldn't take anv stock in Jonah and the whale. until we butfed him up in the hay and made him believe we were going to set the hay on ire, when he said he believed in at vh alec were used in those days to carry pas sengers. and were fitted up with state rooms on the inside. Then tackled him on the Hebrew children being cas, into the fiery furance. and not being scorched at all, but he said he would believe any thing but that. so put on my roller skates and began to walk on him, and skate, and fall down on him, and he beg ged and said come 10 think of it ths, fiery furnace story looked the mos, reasonable of the whole lot. Then thought he was getting to be converted | ,.vk I