The Russellville Democrat., 1883-03-15

Polly said, %, pull down your vest.
Well. you'd dide to see that woman
look ut me. The parrot cage was
partly behind the window curtain,
and they couldn't see it, and she
thought it was me. She looked at
ma as though she was wondering
why she didn't bit me with poker,
but she went on, and Polly SAID
wipe off your chin, and then the
lady got through and got up, and
told ma it must be trial to have an
idiotic child. and then ma she was
mad and said it wasn't half so bad
as it was to be kleptomaniac, and
then the women got up and SAID she
wouldn't stay no longer, and pa said
to me to take that parrot out doors,
and that seemed to make them al
good natured again. Ma said to
take the parrot and give it to the
poor. / took the cage and pointed
my finger at the parrot and 1T looked
at the woman and said old catamar-
an and the woman tried to look
pious and resigned, but she couldn't.
As was going out the door the par
rot ruffled up his feather and said
Dammit, set 'em up and hurried
out with the cage for fear he would
say something bad, and the folks
all held up their hands and said it
was scandalous. Say, wonder If a
parrot can go to hell with the rest
OF the community. Well, put the
parrot IN the woodshed, and after
they all had their innings, except pa,
who acted as umpire, the meeting
broke up, and ma says it's the last
time she will have that gang at her
house"
"That must have been where your
pa got his black eye" said the gro
Gerry man, as he charged the bunch
OF celery up to the boys pa. "Did
the minister hit him, or was it one
of the sisters"
20, he didn't get his black eye al
prayer meetingw said the boy, as he
took his mittens of the stove and
rubbed them to take the stiffening
out. ut was from boxing. Pa told
my chum and me that it was no harm
to learn to box, cause we could de
tend ourselves, and he said he used
to be a holy terror with the boxing
gloves when he was boy, and he
has been giving us lessons. Well,
he is no SLOUGH, now, l tell you, and
handles himself pretty well for a
church member. Tread in the paper
how Zach Chandler played it on
Conkling by getting Jem Mace, the
prize fighter, to knock him silly, and
l asked pa il be wouldn't let me
bring a poor boy who had no father
to teach him boxing, to our house to
learn to box, and pa said certainly
fetch him along. He said he would
be glad to do anything for poor
orphan. SO / went down in the
Third ward and got boy by The
name Of Duffy, who can knock the
socks off of any boy in the ward
He fit prize fight once. 1t would
have made you laugh to see pa tel
him how to hold his hands and how
to guard his face. He told Duffy
not to be afraid, but to strike right
out and hit for keeps. Duffy said
be was afraid pa would get mad il
he hit him, and pa said "nonsense
| boy, knock me down if YOU can, and
I will laugh, ha! har Well, Duffy
he hauled back and gave pa one in
the nose and another in both eyes
and cufled him on the ear, and punch
ed him in the stomach, aud damned
him in the mouth and made his
teeth bleed, and then he gave hin
side winder in both eyes. and pa
pulled off the boxing-gloves and
grabbed chair, and we adjourned
and went down stairs as though
there was panic. | haven't seen
pa since. Was bis eye very black 2?
i "Black, ! should say Sc" said the
grocery man. "And his nose seem
ed to be trying to look in his left
ear. He was at the market buying
beefsteak to put on it,"
! 20, beefsteak is no account.
must go and and see him and tel
him that an oyster is the best thing
for black eye. Well. / must go
A boy has hard time running q
house the way it should be run,
and the boy went out and hung NJ
a sign In front Of the grocery
"Frowy Butter Speshulty." Peck
Sun.