The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-24
SEDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY, April. y, 1888.
The Bad Boy.

asked the grocer man of the had boy
as he found him standing on the side
walk when the grocery was opened in
the morning. taking some pieces of
brick out Of his coat tail pocket. go.
she got back at midnight last night. Z"
said the boy, as he ate few blue
berries out of case. That's what
makes me up so early. Pas been
kicking at these pieces of brick with
his bare feet. and when came away
he had his toes in his hand and was
trying to 60 up stairs on one foot. Pa
hain't got no sense.
I'm afraid you are terror" said
the groceryman, us he looked at the
innocent face Of the boy. You are
always maxim your parents some
trouble, and it is wonder to me that
they don't send you to some reform
school. What devitlry were you up
to last night to get kicked this morn
ing p
ono deviltry, just a little fun. You
see Ma went to Chicago to STAY o
week, and she got tired, and tele-
graphed she would be home last
night, and pa was down town and /
forgot to give him the dispatch, and
after We went to bed me and a chum
Of mine thought We would have q 4th
of July. You see my chum has got
sister about as big as ma, and we
hooked some of ner clothes. and after
pa got to snoring We put them in his
room. o, you'd a LATED. We put
pair of number one slippers with blue
stockings down in front Of the rock
Ing chair, beside pas boots, and a
red corset on the chair, and a hat with
q white feather in in it on the bureau,
and some frizzes on the gas bracket,
and everything we could find that be-
loHged to a girl, in nv chum sisters
room. o, we got red parasol, too,
and left it in the middle of the floor.
Well, when l looked at the layout.
and heard pa snoring. / thought /
should die. You see, ma knows pa is
a darn good Teller, but she is easily
excited. Ny chum slept with
me that night. and when We heard
the door bell ring ] stuffed pillow
in nv mouth. There was nobody to
meet ma at the depot, and she hired
a hack and came right up. Nobody
heard the bell but me, and had to
go down and let ma in. She was
pretty hot now, you bet, at not being
met at the depot.
"Where's your father ?" said she
as she began to 60 up the stairs
81 told her | guessed pa had gone
tn sleep by this time, butt heard
good deal of noise in the room about
an hour ago, and may be he was
taking a bath. Then / slipper up
stairs and looked over the banisters.
Ma said something about heaven ami
earth. and where sis the huzzy. and
a lot of things I could not hear, and
pa said "dam6no, and its no such
thing and the door slammed and
they talked for three hours. spose
they finally layed it on to me, as
they always do cause pa called ME
very early in the morning, and when
l came down stairs he came in the
ball and his face was redder in beet,
and he tried to stab me with his big
toe-nail. and if it hadn't been for
these pieces of brick he would have
hurt nv ceilings. | see they have my
chum's sisters clothes all pinned up in
a newspaper, and | suppose when l
go back | shall have to carry them
home. and then / suppose she will be
down on me. | tell you what, | have
got a good notion to take some shoe
makers wax and stick nv chum ON
my back and travel with a circus as q
double header from Borneo. A fel-
low could have more fun and not get
kicked all the time" And he SAM
ped some strawberries from q case in
front of the store and went down the
street whistling for his chum, who was
looking out of an alley to see if the