The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-01-27
PINE NEWS
PLAYING
The had Boy at His Old Trick
Again.

HBut look-a here," SAID the gro
cery-man, as he gave the boy a little
dried up lemon, about as big as a
prune. and told him he was a terror,
UwhAt Is the matter with your eye
winkers and hair9 They seem TO be
burned off.
-, thunderl didn't pa tell You
about the comet exploding ana burn
ing US all? That was tue worst thing
since tie Hood when Noar run the ex-
cursion boat from Kalamazoo To
Mount Aarat. You see we had been
reading about the comet which Is seen
at four O'Clock III the morning, and l
heard pa tell the hired girl TO wake
him an ma up. when II got up TO
set the pancakes and 90 TO early mass
30 they could see the critter. Tue
aired girl Is a caIhiick, and sue dont
make no fuss about it, tut she's got
more good square relidgln than a
dozen IKE pa. II makes 4 good deal
of difference now relldgin affects DIFF
ferenI people, don't H.. Now pa ) re-
liaxln makes him Wild, and he vans
to kick my pants, aud pull my hair,
but the hired girls relidgln makes
her want TO hug me, il I'm abused,
and she puts arnachy on my bruises
and gives me PIE.
Pa Wouldn't get up at four O'Clock
In the morning 10 20 10 early mass,
unless be couli take a fish poe along,
and some angle worms. Tue h.red
girl prays When no one sees her Dul
God, but pa wants 10 geta church futl
of sls,erin,' aud pfayo LOUD, As though
he's All auc,ioneer selling razor-.
Well, when | heard pa tell the Iired
girl to wake DIm and ma up, L told
her to wake mt up about nall All hoor
before she walked pa up, and then l
got my chum to stay with me, and We
made a comet to play on pa. You
sss my room Is r1gnt over pas ROOM,
and | got two lengths OF stove pipe
and ouVereu them all over with pnos.
phorus, so they looked just as brlgh-
as a comet. Then we got two Roman
candles aud a big sky rocket AID we
were going to touca oil the kouldn
candles and sky rocket just as pa a.ld
ma got to looking at tile comet. l
didn't know thai = SKY rocket Kicked
back, did our Well, you'd "a die I
TO see that comet. We tied a piece OF
white ruboer garden hose To tue Stove
pipe for a tail and Went to bed, and
when the girl WOKE US u We laid Tor
pa and una.
Pretty soon we heard pas window
open, aud | looked out, and pa and
ma mad their heads anu halI their
bodies out of the window. They mad
their night shirts On, and looked just
like the picture OF Miiierites wal.In5
for the world 10 come 10 an end. IA
looked up anu seed The stovep pipe, and
he said:
Hammer, for Gods sake, look up
there. That is the danIdest comet 1
ever see. Its as bright "a day. And
g the tail Of it. Now that Is just
worth getting up 10 see.'
Just then my chuin lit the two Ro-
man candles, aud | touched oil tile
rocket. aud tnat's why my eye wink
ers went. The rocket busted the
join y of the stove pipe, and they lei.
down on pa, but ma got ner head IN
side before the COMET struck, aud Was
not hurt, but one length Oh s.ose pipe
struck pa end-ways on the neck and
almost cut biscuit out Of MIN, and the
fire and sparks just poured Down III
his hair, aud buried his nlghtsl,rt.
Pa was scarf lie thought h
world was comiug to- IN end, and the
window cauIe down on MS BACK, AUD
he began TO slug:
Earth's but q desert dreary. hesyen is my
home.'
I see pa was caught in the window,
and | went down stairs to put ont the
fire on his night shirt, and put up the
window to let him In, and ne saiu:
'My boy, your ma II me are go
ing to the bad Place, and l told hiIn
/ would take my chances, and he BET
ter put on his pants IL he was goinS
anywhere that there would be liable
to rs ladies' present, and when he got
his head in ma told him the world
was not coming to an end, but soi1e-
body had been setting oil fireworks,
AMI said she guessed 1t was their dear
little boy, AMI when | saw pa feeling
under the bed for "a bed-slat l got up
stairs rather previous, now, anu don l
you forget il, and MA put cream on
where the sparks Duint pas shirt,
and pa said another day wouldn't
pass over his h .ad before | Went 10
the reform scnool.
II | 70 To The reform school, some
body mas got 10 pay attention, you
can bet our liver. A boy can't have
any fun these Gays without e,ery-
body thinks he Is a heathen. Wnat