Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-06-15
The Bad Boy.

coal ScuttIe ana began WnlstllnS as
unconcerned as possible. whats the
matter with your eye:"
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. lie is in bed
now, and his ma is poulticing him,
and she says he will be out about the
last of next week.
50, you are going to be a prize
fighter, amt you,' said the grocery
man, disgusted. when a boy leaves
Il job where he is working and goes to
loafing around, be becomes a fighter
the first thing. What your pa ought
to DO is to bind You out with farmer,
where you would have to work all the
time | wish you would 90 away from
here, because you look like one of
those fellows that comes up before the
police Judge Monday morning, and
gets thirty days in the House of Cor
rection. Why don't you 60 out and
loaf around slaughter house, where
YOU would look appropriate p and the
grocery man took hair brush and
brushed some loose sugar and tea that
was on the counter into the sugar bar
rel.
We'll, if you have got through with
your sermon, will toot a little on my
horn and the boy threw the re-
mains of the herring over behind a
barrel of potatoes, and wiped his hands
on a coffee sack If you had this
black eye, aud bad got it the way |
did, it would be more priceless gem
in the crown of glory You hope to
wear, than any gem you can get by
putting quarters in the collection
plate, with the holes filled with lead,
us you did last Sunday. when | was
watching ycu. %, didn't you look
pious when yen picked that silver
quarter out, and held your thumb
over the place where the lead was.
The way of the black eye was this.
| got Il job tending soda fountain,
and last night, just before We closed,
there was two or three young loafers
in the place, and ~ irl came in for a
glass Of soda. F.<e years ago she was
Qpe of the brightest scholars in the
ward school, when | was in the inter
mediate department. She was just as
| hspdsome as peach, and erybody
Ii ll,sesi her = ,-s ,s-ee.ss she used tn tak 2.
my part When the bows knocked me
around. and she lived near MS. She
had heart as big as that cheese box,
and | guess that's what's the matter.
Anyway. she left school, and then it
was SAID she was going to be married
to a fellow who is now in the dude
business, but he went back on her,
ANA after awhile her ma turned her
out doors, ana fer IA year or two she
was Jerking beer III concert saloon,
until the mayor stopped concerts.
She tried hard TO get sewing to do,
but they wouldn't have her. | guess
cause she cried so much when ,he
was sewing, and the tears wet the
cloth she was sewing. Once asked
pa Why ma didn't give her some sew
( ing to do, and he said for me to dry
! up and never speak to her if 1 met
her on the street. 1t seemed tuff to
pass her on the street, when she had
/ tears as big as marbles, and not speak
/ TO her when | knew her so well, and
she had been so kind to ME at school,
just cause dude wouldn't marry
her, but wanted to obey pa, so |
used to walk around block when |
see her coming, cause | didn't want
to hurt her feelings. Well, last night
she came in the store, looking pretty
shabby, and wanted glass of soda,
and ! gave it to her, and o, how her
hand trembled when she raised the
glass to her lips, and how wet her
eyes were, and how pale her face was.
choked up so | couldn't speak when
she handed me Il nickel, and when she
looked up at me and smiled just like
she used to, and said | was getting to
be almost man since we went to
school at the old house, and put her
handkerchief to her eyes, by gosh, nv
eyes got so full couldn't tell heth.
er it was nickel or a lozenger she
gave me. just then one of those loaf
ers began to laugh at her, and call her
names, and say the police ought to
take her up for stray, and he made
fun OF her until she cried some more,
and got hot and went around to
here he was and told him if he said
. another word to her | would mani
, him. He then sneeringly laughed
and asked il she was my sister, and |
told him that Il poor friendless girl,
who was sick and in distress, and was
t lnSnlted, ought to lie every boys Sis
ter, for minute, and any boy who
had IA spark Of manhood should pro-
:, t,ct her, and then he laughed and
said | ought to be one of the Little
Sisters OF the Poor, and he took hold
Of her faded shawl and pulled the
+ weak girl against the showcase, and
SAID something mean to her, and she
looked as though she wanted to die,
and | mashed that boy right on the
nose. Well, the air seemed to be full
of ne for a minute, cause lie was big
ger than me, and he got me down and
got his thumb in my eye. l guess he
was going to take my eye out, but /
turned him over and got on top, and
| mauled him until he begged, but |
wouldn't let him up until he asked
the girls pardon, and swore he would
whip any boy that insulted her, and
then | let him up, and the girl thank
ed me, but told her couldn't speak
to her, cause she was tuff, and pa
, didn't want me to speak to anybody
) who was tuff, but if anybody ever in
suited her so she had to cry, that l
would whip him if | had to take club.
: told pa about it, and | thought he