Smyrna times., 1883-06-27
The Bad Boy in a New Role.
HE EXPLAINS HOW HE RECEIVED A
BLACK EYE.

The Milwaukee SUMS famous bad
boy appears in an entirely new role ia
the following sketch:
"Ah, ha, you have got your deserts
at last" said the grocery man to the
bad boy, as he came in with one eye
black, and his nose peeled on one side,
and sat down on q board across the
coal scuttle, and began whistliHg Rs un'
concerned as possible. "What's the
matter with your eyeP"
"BOy tried to gOuge it out without
asking my consent" and the bad boy
took dried herring out of the box
and began peeling it. "He is in bed
now, and his ma is pOulticing him, and
she says he will be out about the last of
next week."
"0h, you arg going tQ be 2 prize
fighter. amt you" said the grocery
man, disgusted. "Whea 4 boy leaves
q job where he is working, and goes to
loalng around, he becomes fighter the
first thing. What your pa ought to do
is bind you out with "a farmer, where
you would have TO wOvk all the time.
l wish you would go away from here,
because you look like one of these
fellows that comes up before the police
judge Monday morning, and gets thirty
day in the house of correction. Why
don't you go out and loaf around a
slaughter-hOuse, where you would look
= appropriated" and the grocery man
a took a hair-brush and brushed some
loose sugar and tea, that was on the
counter, into the sugar barrel.
"Well, if you have got through will
9 your sermon, | will toot a little OF my
horn," ana the boy threW the remain
of the herring over behind a barrel o
potatoes, and wiped his hands on
coffee sack. eff you had this blacl
eye, and had got it the way did, i
would be more priceless gem in tn
, crown of glory you hope to wear, thai
any gem you can get by putting quar-
ters In the collection plate, with tn
holes filed with lead, as you did las
Sunday, when / was watching yor
Oh, didn't you look plous when yo
picked that filled quarter out, and hel
your thumb over the place where th
. lead was. The way of the black ey
was this. ] got job tending a sod
fountain, apd last plight. just before "
or, closed, thefe was 1--WE pr three yoHp
iFyy loafeFs in the place, and girl came
en- en- for glass Of soda. Five years ago 81
Of was one of the brightest scholars In Il
ward school, when was in the inte
mediate department. She was just {
handsome as peach, and everyboC
liked her. At recess she used to tai
ing my part when the boys knocked n
lSr. me around, and she lived near us. 81
lily had heart as big as that cheese bo
90 and guess THAT'S what's the matte
''-' Anyway, she left school, and then
was said she was going to be married
a fellow who ls now In the dude bu
eal- ness, but he went back on her al
after while her ma turned her O
RA doors, and for a year or two she W
selling beer in a saloon until the may
stopped concerts. She tried hard
get sewing to do, but they would
have her, 1 guess cause she cried
much when she was sewing, and t
tears wet the cloth she was sewing I
Once / asked pa why ma didn't q
her some sewing to do, and he said
N me to dry up and never speak to he
/ met her on the street. 1t seemed
to pass her on the street, when she h
and tears in her eyes as big as marbles, q
"''N not speak to her when know her
well, and she had been so kind to
1ork at school, just cause dude would
marry her, but l wanted to obey pa
=, l used to walk around block whe
see her coming, 'eause didn't wan
hurt her feelings, Well, last night
et'' came in the store, looking pretty sh
by, and wanted Q glass of soda, al
4-u gave it to her, and oh, how her h
trembled when she raised the glass
her lips, and how wet her eyes W
and how pale her face was. I choc
III up so l couldn't speak when she ha
50 ed me the nickel, and when she loo
up at me and smiled Just like she l
to, and said T was getting to be alr
sSs a man since we went to school at
old school house, and put her hi
kerchief to her eyes, by gosk, my
ndS. got so full I couldn't tell wheth
was q nickel or q lasenger she
me. Just then one of those loi
began to laugh at her and call
n. names, and say the police ougf
take her up, and he made fun Of
until she cried some mere, and
rom hot and went around IA where he
xed and told him if he said another un
word to that girl I would maui
He laughed and asked if she wa
'b Ally sister, aud told him that poor tT
.TY. less girl, who was sick and In dis
-. and who was insulted, ought
, iii every boys sister, and any boy
lips. had spark Of manhood should pi