The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-06-01
l THE BAD BOY.

saiu the grocery man 10 inc Dhd ooyi
US he cameinto The grocery the morn
ing after Chriamss.
The bay looked ar his shirt front.
put his fingers on the stuff and smel.
lsd OF his fingers, aud then said, %.
that Is no'hing but a little of the tur.
key dressing aud gravy. You SEQ af-
ter 2, and l got back from the rol.
ler skst ng rink yesterday. Pa was oil
broke up and bo could,lt carve the
turkey, ard / hal to do II, aud Pa
sat in clair with lis head tied
up. and pillow amongst his legs,
aud ho Pep: cciap'siuilg & that / didn't
do il right. Gol darn a turkey any
y. / Should think they world
mako turkey fl II on the back. 80 he
would lay on Il gre 'sy plate without
skating all around the table. II
looss easy to $50 Pa carve n turkey,
out when 1 spcarcd into the bosom
Of .ha, turkey, AMI began tn saw on
i, he turkey rolled around as tho l.
~as on cas'ogs, aud it was all ] could
10 10 keep it on, o. M.'s lap. Bu.I
ras,!sd with i, un il | got off enough
white ms at for p. an / Ma aud dark
tncat enorgh for me, and I dug cut
lho dressing, bu, most of it flow int ,
my shir; bosom, csue Ito NriiC
that tied up tho place where tho
ire.siug was nccaled about the per
son OF tho turkey, broke premature
y. and one oyster hit Pa in the eye.
aud 10 said 1 wns as awkward az n
cross-cycd sirl trying to kiss a man
viii la;r-jp. II ever gel TO be
tLe Load If i family i shall carve
,u,keys with com shcller.
Bat what broke your Pa up at
he roller skating riuk?' aeked the
grocory man.
%. everything broke im NJ. H.
is sp il up so M buttons tho top OF
his pants to his collar baton, like q
bycyc'c rider. Woll, h. no business
10 hsvs told NO and my. chum that
he T. cd to DO tho best skater IT,
North America, when he WAS boy.
He said he skatGd once from Allan.
20 New Yolk in All hour and eighty
minutes. Me and my chum though
Il Pa wa4 such terri ON skates We
woald get him to put ON q pair OF
roller skates and enter him as the
"grsat IL known" md clean out the
who'e gang, We told Pa that he
must remember that roller skates
were difiercnt from ice skates, aud
hat IN " be lie couldn't 1ks'e on ,heu,,
but he sail it didn't MAKE any differ.
ence what they Were nc lorg as they
were ,katcs, and that lie would int
psral,ze the whclo crowd. So W.
s,t pair Of big roller sixties for
uim, aud while we were ,trarping
them un, p. no looked at the skaters
glide around on tie nice smooth wax
flor just as though they were grcas'
cd. Pl locked ut the skates on Bis
ies', after they wor. fastened. sort ol
iO,lorn Ike, ths way a horto thiel
dJes when thay pat .hacIies on Ii
'Cgs, aud l told bin i! vac afraid he
coulIG't skate with them we would
take item of, hut he said he would
beat anybody there vas there. or
bast II suspenler. Then We s'raisL,-
ensd La ou', aau P"n'e' "''" w.
wards tho mldd 81 'hei ioom' ah8 Ut
said, 'lcggo, aud we jus, gavo him u
inie pnsh 20 s'ait nim aha nc pess'
60 "s'', 'y so'", you d +" uY"e Wv
o haVo see" "a 'ry 10 a'Up' SOs
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