Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-06-15
Volume XL.---No. l.

gosh, pa hugged me, and the tears
come in his eyes, and he said l had
got good blood in me, aud | did just
right, and if l would show him the
father of the boy that I whipped, pa
said he would whip the old man,
and ma said for me to find the
poor girl and send her up to the house
and she would give her job making
pillow-ca cases and night shirts. Don't
it seem darn queer to you that every
body goes back on poor girl cause
she makes mistake, and the blasted
whelp that is to blame gets chrome.
1t makes me tired to think Of it, and
the boy got up and shook himself,
and looked in the cracked mirror
hanging upon a post to see how his
eye was getting along.
Say, young fellow you are thor
oughbred,' said the grocery man, as
he sprinkled some water on the aspar-
agus, and lettuce, and you can come
in here and get all the herring you
want, and never mind the black eye.
| wish l had it myself. Yes, it does
seem tough to see people never allow
a girl to reform. Now, in Bible times
the Savior forgave Mary, or somebody,
| forget now what her name was, and
she was better girl than ever. What
we need is more of the spirit of Christ,
and the world would be BETTER
What We want is about ten
thousand Christs. We ought to have
ten or fifteen right here in Milwaukee,
they would find plenty Of business,
too. But this climate seems to be too
rough. Say, did l tell you about pa
and ma having trouble!
No, what's the row?
well, you see, ma wants to econo-
mize all she can, and pa has been get
ting thinner since he quit drinking
and reformed and l have kept on,
growing until am bigger than be is.
Funny, amt it, that boy should be
bigger than his own dear, good pa!
Pa wanted a new suit of clothes, and
ma said she would fix him, and so she
took one of my old suits and made it
over for pa, and he wore them a week
before he knew il was an old suit made
over, but one day he found handful
of dried up angle worms in the pistol
pocket, that / had forget when l was
fishing, and pa laid the angle worms
to ma, and ma had to explain that she
made over one of my old suits for pa:
He was mad, and took them off and
threw them out the back window, and
swore he would never humiliate him.
sell by wearing his sons old clothes.
Ma tried to reason with him, but he
was awful worked up and said he was
no old charity hospital, and he storm
around to find his old suit of clothes,
but ma had sold them to plaster OF
paris image pedler, and pa hadn't
anything 10 wear, and he wanted ma to
60 out in the alley and pick up the
suit he threw out the window. but q
rag man had picked them up and was
going away, and pa he grabbed lin
en- duster and put it on and went out
after the rag picker, and he run and
pa after him, and the rag man told a
policeman there was an escaped luna
tic from the asylum, and he was chas-
ing people all over the city, and the
police teok pa by the linen ulster and
pulled it off, and he was sight when
they took him to the police station.
Ma and me had to 60 down and bail
him out, and the police lent us a tau
paluin to put over pa, and we got him
home, and he is wearing his summer
pants while the tailor makes him y
new suit of clothes. think pa is too
excitable and too particular. / never
kicked on wearing pas old clothes,
and | think he ought to wear mine
now. Well, l must 60 down to the
sweetened wind factory and jerk soda,
and the boy went out and hung up a
sign in front of the store. "Spinage, for
green's, that the cat has made nest IN
orer Sunday."-Peck's Sua.