The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-12-08
THR BAD BOY.


them from bursting with suppress
ed laughter, What has occurred
to carse a pious young man to
laugh in that worldly manner!
Yon must try to cultivate a long.
mourntul countenance, and learn
70 sigh and look sick when You
are the happiest," and the grocery
man weighed out a couple OF
pounds Of b%uckwheat flour for a
hired girl. ''Ilas your pa joined
the ~ lice force! sawli driving
a big lot of hogs to the pound yes
terday.'
That's what ! am laughing
about" said the boy, rs he put an
apple on the stove to bake it. "Pa
has gone to the pound afte- the
hogs this morning. You see. |
have been taking lessons in paint
ing and drawing, and the other
day ] surprised pa by showing him
IL picture Of a blue cow, with a
green tail and old gold horns, and
- told me he never saw anything
-.loro natural, and he advised me
to turn nv attention entirely to
animal painting. Pa keeps four
hogs in a pen in the back lot, and
c day he turns them out in the
alley and let's them run, and takes
them up when they come home.
The hogs arc large white ones, reg
ular beauties, and pa thinks abont
rs much ofthem as he does of me.
Well, pa told me to turn the hogs
out Yesterday, and / took my paint
brush along and before turning
them out | painted black spots all
over the hogs. You never see a
lot of speckled hogs, where the
spots were put on any better. The
hogs looked at each other kind of
astonishcd and | turned them out.
In the afternoon, pa went out to
the pen and began to call, poig.
poig,' and the pigs came running
to the alley. Pa saw the strange
hogs coming, and he got mad and
dro,e them out of the alley, and
then he called for his pigs again in
q muscular tone OF voice, and the
speckled hogs came again, a little
slower, and seeming to wonder
what allied pa. They acted as tho
they felt hurt at being received in
such a violent manner. Pa met
the spcckled hogs with q broom,
and he run them down the alley
again, and the hogs stood off and
looked at him as though they
thought he had the iim!iams. You
would a dide to e pa drive his
w hogs away, and talk sassy.
lie got a pail Of swill and called the
hogs again and they came on a
gallop, and then pa called a police
man and they drove the hogs to
the pound. | didn't see pa last
night. but the first thing this morn
ing ! told Inn | had takon his adj
vice, and turned my attention to
animal painting, and that | had
painted snots on our white hogs OF
them. and tn It speckled hogs were
worth a cent q pound more than
white ones. Well pa didn't faint
away. hut when it all came upon
him, that he had drove his own
hogs to the p und, he was so cross
he could have hit a nail. But he
didn't say al yth'ng to me, cause !
'spose he didn'l want to discourage
my artistic ambitions. and he he
has gone down to the pound after
the hogs. Maybe the rain has
washed the spots off. and the mar
that keeps the pound will not lei
pa have white hogs when he left
sneckled ones there. However. ]
1T warrant the hogs to he fast
coIors, anyway. DO You think il
was wrong to put spots on the
hogs"
Wrong" said the grocerymar
rs he put some white -four into
the sack of buckwheat flour, anC
stirred it up Kit was a condemn
ed outrage and deception on YOU
pa, and YOU ought to be punished
for il. But that was not as bad al
your wheeling a Niger baby BIO
hind your pa and ma, when they
were coming from the museum
What on earth did you do tina
forf"
"Well. the colored baby wa
sawed off onto me, and l had t.
wheel it," said the boy, as he ral
his teeth into a baked apple he haC
taken off the stove. "You'see, IL
bows had been saving wood forth'
ladies that keep the founding asy
lum. and when we got through
asked the boss woman, the ont
who warns the milk and puts 1t il