The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-05-09
PECk'S BAD BOY.
What the sraall Boy and the Grocery Man
Had to Say About the Baby.

with q shawl over her head, who was
trylng to hold a paper over pitcher or
yeast with her thumb.
"How in blaxes do you know anything
about it, said the boy as he looked
around in astonishment and with some
indignation a"Wen, it's girl, If you
must know, and that's enough, y and he
looked down at the eat playing on the
floor with potato, his tacea picture OF
detection, mr., ~ a,a,,+ ! }, .a;a t,,e
grocery man, as he opened the door for
the old lady. Such things are bound
to occur. But yoW take my word for it,
that Young one is going to have hard
life, unless you mend your ways You
will be using il for q cork to jug, the
first thing ma knows -
II wouldn't touch the darn thing with
the tongs.n said the boy, as he rallied
enough to eat some crackers ana cneese.
Gosh, this cheese tastes good. haln'I
had nothing to eat since morning.
have been all over this town trolling for
nurses. They think boy hasn't got
any feelings. But I wouldn't care gol
darn if ma hadn't been sending me tor
neuralgia medicine and hay fever snu1I
all winter when she wanted 20 get ud
Of me. / have come in the room lots Or
| times when ma and the sewing girl
were at work at some flannel things,
and ma would hide them in basket
and send me off after medicine. L was
| deceived up to about-4 O'Clock thls
morning, when pa come to my room
and pulled me out Of bed to go over on
the west side after some Old woman tha6
knew ma, and they have kept me
wbooping ever since. What does boy
want of a sister, unless it is q big sister,
T don't want no sister that | have got to
hold. and rock, and hold a bottle for.
This affair breaks me all up" and the
how picked the cheese out OF his teeth
with q silver he cut off the counter.
.uWell, how does your pa take it?'f
said the grocery man, as he charged the
bows pa with cheese, and saffron and
number Of such things.
20. pa will pull through. He wanted
to boss the whole concern until mas
chum, an old woman that takes snuff,
fred him out into the hall. Pa sat there
IN nv hand-sled, a perfect picture OF
despair. and I thought it would be
kindness to play it on him. found the
cat asleep in the bath room, and ! Iolled
: fha cat suD in a shawl and brought it out
ia pa and told hlm the nurse wanted
: him to hold the baby. 1t seemed TO GO
IA GOOD to feel that he was indispensa-
, hle around the house, and he took the
J cat on his lap as tenderly as you ever
saw a mother hold an infant. Well, !
!. cot in the back hall, where he couldh, "
: see me, and pretty soon the cat Degan ~
!, wake up and stretch himself ana pa sald
! 's-h-h-tootsy, go to sleep now ana le0
: its pa hold it, and pa he rocked pack
! and forth on the hand-sled and began
to sing .by. low. baby That settled it
$ with the cat. Well, some cats can't
: stand music, anyway, and the more the
!. caf wanted to get out of the shawl, the
!. louder. pa sung, and bimeby / heard
! something rip, and pa yelled, scat you
], hrufe.' and when / looked arounu the
y Corner Of the hall, the cat was braclne
:. hisself against pa's vest with his toe
! nails and yowing,. and pa. fell over the
! sled. and began to talk about the mere
I after like the minister does when he gets
:, excited in church, and then pa plckee
! up the sled and seemed to be LOOKING m mIol
- me or the cat, but both OF us was ofluI
= scarce. Don't you think there are llllles ll
= when BOYS and cats are kind Q
y faw apound their accustomed haunts'
9 Pa don't look as though he was yer,
Il smart, but he can hold a cat about q
D well as the. next man. But am SOFT.
at for ma. She was just getting ready 9
eoto Florida for her neuralgia, ana thI
will put a stop to If, cause eshe has to sta,
q and take care of that young one. f
= saws i will have. q nice time this sulnne
: pushing the baby wagon, BY the grea
2, horn spoons, there has got to be a dlvld
q inc line somewhere, between bushes
III and pleasure, and I stake the line a
' wheeling a baby. I had rather catch
le string Of perch than to wheel all tn
20 babies ever was. They needen' procur
~ no baby on my account, if it is to anus
OF me. T can't see why babies can't b
Z sawed off onto people that need them Il
q tL cir business. Our folks don't need
o o baby any more than you need a saft
- and gthere are people just suffering TO
babies. Say, how would it be to- tax
the byby some night and leayelt @
I'd some old bachelors doorstep. II it Ia
N been q bicycle, or q breech loadlng-she
er gun. T wouldn't have cared, but a baby
IN Bah, It makes me tired. I'd druthe
I'd have a prize package. Well, | am serr
b. pa allowed me to come home, after 4
of drove me away last week. / guess a
n, he wanted me TO come back for was {
as huniliate me, and send me on errandE
It. Well, L must go and see If lie and tn
ed cat have made up"
TX And the boy went out ana put UP
n paper sign in front of the store tLedt
a goltfq1eedssfre.f for saffron tea
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