The Arizona sentinel., 1883-04-28

yellow handkerchief. The poll
 ceman told pa his life was not
 safe, and he'd @ ter go home anC lock Himself in, and he did, anC
 l was tellin ma about how 1 gOt
 the boys to scare pa, and he
 heard It, and he told me that set
 tied it He said had caused
 tim to run more foot races than
 any champion pedestrian, and
 had made his life miserable, and
 now must go it alone. Now l
 want you to send couple of
 pounds of crackers over to the
 house, and have your boy tell the
 hired girl that l have gone down
 to the river to drown myself and. |.
 she will tell ma and ma will tell
 pa, and pretty soon you will see d baId-headed pussy man WhOOp- ing it up towards the river with a rope They may think, at times, that I am little tough, but when it comes to parting forever, they weaken"
 "Well, the teacher at school says you are a hardened infidel," said the grocery man, as he char ged the crackers to the boys pa. "He says he had to run you out to keep you from ruining the morals of the other scholars. How was that""
 Tt was about speaking a piece. When 1 asked hlm what IshOu,d speak. he told me to learn come speech of some great man, sOmp lawyer or staternan, so learned one of Bob Ingersoll's speeches. Well, you'd a dide to see the teacher and the school com nittee when l sta ted in on Bob Inger-
 AI> ~~c that WI r t.a astsr- rtaa BHa Wes here You see l .neugu :, a . nevnap per that all the pinus folks l
 -- u. their fa- as c0ui3 pub !
 sE ltger-ojFs speech # w olia'l . 6J any huFt for a Fa3f '-Il- nav. who ain't knee high to giraffe. l to speak it in school, but they l made me dry 1p. The teacher is a Republikin, and when Inger- soil was speaking around here on politix, the time of the election. the teacher said Bob was the snartest man this country ever 1 produced. I heard him say that | in a corrus. when he went bnm ming around the ward Settin' lem up nights, 'Spec'ing to be Superintendent of schools. H. l said Bob Ingersoll just took the cake, and I think it was darn mean in him to go back on Bob and me, too, just Cause there was no 'lectiOn. The school com- mittee made the teacher stop me, and they asked me if I didn't know any other piece 10 speak. and 1 told them I new one of Beecher's and they let me g. ahead, but it was one Beechtr', new ones, where he said he didn't believe Tn any h4ll, and afore 1 got warmed up they said that was enough of that, and had to wind up on Mary had a Little Lam.' Noue of them didn't kick on Mary's lam, and l went through it, and they let me go home. ThaI's about he safest | thing d boy can speak in school. now days, either Mary had d Little L'm',' or Twinkle Twinkle | Little Star That's about up tu l the average intelleck of the com mittee. But ii a boy tries to branch out as statesman; they choke hIm off. Well 1 am going down to the river, and I will leave my coat and hat by the wood-yard, and get behind the wood, and you steer pa down there and you will see some tall weepinp over them clothes, and m rybe pa will jump in after me. and then I will come out from behind the wood and throw in board for him to swim ashore on. Good-hy. Give my pocket comb to my chum." and the boy went out and hung up a sign in front of the grocery, as follow ;: