The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-11-24
pscx.s BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
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 to the bad boy, as he came in holding his sides to keep them from bursting wish suppressed laughter, "~ha, has occurred to cause pious young man to laugh m that worldly man, CT. You must try to cultivate long. mournsul coaatenanee. and learn to sigh and look Sick when you are the happ.est, and the grocery man weighed out a couple of pounds of buck wheat -four for hired eul. Has your pa joined the police sotce; l saw h,m driving lot of hogs to the pound yesser- day
 That's whA, am laughing about" said the boy. as he pa, an apple on the stove 10 b..ke Il. -.'rA has gone to the pound afer the hogs this morning. You sec. have been taking lessons in painting and drawing, and the other day l sur prised pa by showing him a picture of blue COW. with green tall and old gold horns, and he told me he never Saw any thing more natural, and he advised me to turn my attention entirely to animal painting. Ia keeps four hogs m a pen Tn the back lot. and every day he turns them out in the alley and lets them run. and takes them up when they come home. l The hogs are large white ones. regular beauties. and pa thinks about as much ol ! them AS he does ot me. Well. pa told me to 50 and turn the hogs out yes,ei day. and took my paint brush along and before turning them out l painted black spots all over the hogs You never sec a lot of speekled hogs, where the spots where put on any better. Inc hogs ] looked al each other kind of as,on,shed. and turned them out. In the afternoon, pa went out 10 the pen and began to call poig, polg. and the pigs came running up the alley Pa saw the strange hogs coming, and he go, mad and drove them ou, of the alley, and then he called for his pigs again, m muscular tone ot voice, and the speokled hogs came again. a lit,le slower, and seeming to wonder wha, ailed pa. They acted AS though they felt hurt A, being receNed m such a violent manner. "a met the sreckled hogs with broom. and he run them down the alley again, ard the hogs stood of and looked a, him AS though they thought he had the ),m-9ams. You'd d dide ,o see pa dnve his own hogs away. and talk sassy. He go, d pal oi swill and called the hogs again. and the, came on gallop. and then Pa called a policeman and they drove the hogs to the pound. didn't see pa last night. bu, he trs, ihing thls morning told him had taken hls advice. and turned my attention Ia animal painting, and that ] had painted spots on our white hogs. and made spe, kled hogs oi them, and that speckled hogs were worth a cent a pound moro than white hogs. We'll. pa didn 1 taint away. but when Il all came over hlm. that he had drove his own hogs to he pound, he was so cross he could have bit nail. Hut he didn't say anything 10 me, cause 'spose he didn't want to discourage my artls,ic ambitions, bu, he has gone down to the pound after the hogs. Maybe the ram has washed the spots oif and the man that keeps Inc pound will not le, pa have white hogs when he left spc. kled ones there. How ever. didn', warrant the hogs 10 be fast colors, anyway. Do you think Il was wrong to pu, spots on the hogs
 Nrong.s sand the grocery man. as he put some white flour into the sack oi buokwheat flour. and stirred Il ap. .'it was condemned outrage and dee option on your pa. and you ought To be punished. But that was no, as bad as ,our wheeling a nigger baby be- hind your pa and ma. when they were coming from the museum. What did you do that Tor
 Well. the oolored baby was sawed of onto me, and ] had 10 wheel II. sad the boy. AS he ran his teeth into A baked apple he had taken off the stove. lou see. Us boys had been sA~ing some wood for the ladies that keep the founding asylum, and when NC go,through asked the boss woman. the one who warns the mllk and puts Il Tn the bottles for the ba- bies. II there was anything more ~e could do. Well. she sad II was nice day for the babies to be out doors. and Il Us boys would wheel the babes around a block. on the sidewalk, and g,ye Inc poor ltile ,hing, litle hcsh an, they would be real glad, SO told them to tfot ou, the baby wagons. and ~e had boss tune wheeling those poor hitle infants.
 guess they haze about iorty and they look awful sad. Gosh. wouldn', like io De founding, @lth no pa or ma. eK- cept rubber nursing bottle, would you, II those ladies that take the foundlings and bring them up, don, se, 10 heaven without any questions being asked as 10 what church they belong to- then S,. Peter IS d different kind of a box office ,cket seller than 1 take him ,o be We boys took tao babies a, a tune. in baby wagons, until we had gwen 'em all A rlde but one, and tell you ii did us good 10 see the poor little things look around al the people we passed, as though they were looking for their parents. don't suppose they see any parents, bu, noticed couple of young fellers ge, on the other side of the street mighty quick when they saw the procession coming. Say, some oi those babies are us, as smar, as anybody's babies, and after they had been out a little while in the sun shine they would laugh and look so pleasant and happy tha, l had more fun and felt better than fl had been in drcus- But when the las, baby was brought out II was a coiored baby, t.-~~. f<.1L~<4 s.x~A <k.,.. k~