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How the Bad Boy Stabbed His Pa.

You see, heard ma tell pa to bring
| up another bottle of liniment. last night
! When ma corks herself or has a pain
anywhere, she just uses liniment for all
| that is out, and pint bottle don't last
more than week Well, | told my
chum, and we laid for pa. This lini-
ment ma uses is offill hot, and almost
| bllsters. Pa went to the Langtrv show,
and did not get home till eleven o clock,
and me and my chum decided to teach
| pa lesson. / don't think it is right
for man to go to the theaters and not
take his wife or his little boy. So we
concluded to burgle pa. We agreed to
| lay on the stairs and when he came I'D
my chum was to hit him on the head
with a dried bladder, and was to stab
| him on his breast pocket with stick,
and break the liniment bottle and make
| him think he was killed. It couldn't
| have worked better if we had rehearsed
it. We had talked about burglars at
supper time, and pa got nervous, SO
when he came up stairs and was hit on
| the head with the bladder, the first thing
he said was burglars by mighty and
he started to 90 back, and then |
hit him on the breast pocket, where
the bottle was, and then we rushed
by him, down stairs, and I said in a
| stage whisper: i guess he's dead
man, and we went down cellar and up
the back stairs to my room and un-
| dressed. Pa hollored to me that he was
murdered, and ma called me, and
came down in my night shirt, and the
hired girl she came down, and pa was
on the lounge, and he said his life-blood
was fast ebbing away. He held his
| hand on the wound and said he could
feel the warm blood trickling clear
down to his boots. / told pa to stuff
some tar into the wound, such as he told
me to put on my lip to make my mus
tache grow, and pa said: Ny boy this
is no time for tritiing. Your pa is ON
his last legs. When | come up stairs I
met six burglars, and | attacked them
and forced four of them down and was
going to hold them and send for tho
police, when two more, that | did not
know about, jumped ON me, and Twas
getting the best of them, when one OF
them struck me over the head with a
crow bar and the other stabbed me to
the heart with a butcher knife / have
received my death wound, my boy, and
my hot Southern blood that offered up
so freely for my country, in her time OF
need, is passing from my body, and
soon your pa will be only piece OF
poor clay. Get some ice and put on
my stomach, and all the way down, for
am burning up. ] went to the water
pitcher and got a chunk of ice and put
inside pas shirt, and while ma was
tearing up an old shirt to stop the flood
of blood, asked pa if he felt better and
If he could describe the villains who had
murdered him. Pa gasped and moved
his legs to get them cool from the clot-
ted blood, he said, and he went on:
One of them was about six foot high
and had sandy moustache. got him
down and hit him in the nose, and if the
police find him his nose will be broke.
The second was thick set and weighed
about two hundred, ]. had him down,
and my boot was on his neck, and i
was knocking two more down, when
was hit. The thick set one viii have
the mark of boot heels on his throat.
Tell the police, when / am gone. about
the boot heel marks BY this time ma
had got the skirt fore up and she stuffed
it under pas shirt. right where he said
ne was, hit, and pa was telling us what
to do to settle his estate, when ma began
to smell the liniment, and she found the
broken bottle in his pocket, and searched
pa for the place where he was stabbed,
and then she begun to laugh, and pa got
mad and said he didn't see as a death
bed scene was such an almighty funny
affair, and then she told him he was not
hurt, but that he had fallen on the
stairs and broken his bottle and that
there was no blood on him. and he said,
do you mean to tell me my body and
legs are not bathed in human gore.
and then pa got up and found it was
only the hniment. He got mad and
asked ma why she didn' fly around and
get something to take that liniment Oft
his legs, as it was eating them right
through to the bone, and then he saw
my ehum put his head in the door, with
one gallus hanging down, and pa looked
at me and then he said: .Lookahere, If
| find out it was you boys that put up
this job on me, I'll make it so hot for
you that you will think liniment is lee
cream in comparison I told pa it
didn' look reasonable that me and INV
cham could be six burglars, six feet
high, with our noses broke and boot
heel marks on our neck, and pa he said
for us to go to bed alfred quick and
give him a chance to rinse off that lini-
ment, and we retired. Say, does my
pa strike you as a good single-handed
harP' and the boy went up to the coun-
ter while the grocery man went after q
seuttle of coal. APeck's Sun.
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