The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-16
Lincoln County Leader.
Saturday. June Is, 1883.
THE BAD BOY.

rs he blew in with the cyclone, and
left the door open. Say, shut
that door. You want to blow
everything out of the storel Had
any more fights, protecting girls
from dudesl'
mo, everything is quiet so far.
! guess since ! have got a record
as a fighter, the boys will be care
full who they insult when ] am
around. But have had the hard
est week J ever experienced, jerk
ing soda for the Young Mems
Christian association" said the boy,
as he peeled a banana.
what you mean, boyl Don't
cast any reflections on such a no.
bic association. They don't drink,
do tlfeyi"
Drink! O, mol. They don't
drink anything intoxicating, but
when it comes to soda they flood
themselves. You know there has
been a national convention of dele
gates from all the Young Mems
Christian associations of the whole
country, about three hundred here,
and our store is right on the street
where they passed four times a day,
and never saw such apetites for
soda. There has been II contin-
ual tizz in our store since Wednes-
day. The boss wanted me to play
it on some of them by putting some
brandy in with the perfumery a
few times, but | wouldn't do it. l
guess a few weeks ago, before | had
led a different life, | wouldn't had
to be asked twice to play the game
on anybody. But a mar a buy
soda of me and be perfectly safe.
OF course if a man winks, when |
ask him what flavor he wants, and
SAYS never mind, | know enough
TO put in brandy. That is differ
out. But | wouldn't smuggle it in
10 q man for nothing. This chris.
tan association convention has
caused a GOODNESS between pa and
ma though"
"How's that! Your pa isn't
Jealous is hei' and the grocery
man came around from behind the
counter to get the latest gossip to
retail to the hired girls who traded
with him.
jealous nothin', said the boy,
as he took a few raisins out of a
box. "You see, the delegates
were shuhied out to all the church
members to take care of, and they
dealt two to ma, and she never
told pa anything about it. They
came to supper the first night, and
pa didn't get home, 50 when they
went to the convention in the even
ing ma gave them a night key, and
pa came home from the boxing
match about eleven o'clock, and
ma was asleep. Just as pa got
most of his clothes off he heard
somebody tumbling at the front
door, and he thought it was bur
glars. Pa has got nerve enough,
when he is on the inside of the
house and the burglars are on the
outside. He opened the window
and looked out and saw two suspic-
ious looking characters trying to
pick the lock with a skeleton key,
and be picked up a new slop,jar
that ma had bought when we NOV
ed, cover and all, and he dropped
1t down right between the two dele.
gates. Gosh, if 1t had hit one OF
them there would have been the
solmenest funeral you ever saw.
Just as it struck they got the door
opened and came IN the hall, and
the wind was blowing pretty hard
and they thought a cyclone had
taken the cupola off the house.
They We're talking about being
miraculously saved, and trying tc
strike a match on their wet pants,
when pa went to tie head OF the
stairs and pushed over a wire stanc
filled with potted plants, which
struck pretty near the delegates,
and one of them said the house
was coming down sure, and they
better 90 into the cellar, and they
went down and got behind the fur
mace. Pa called me up and wanted
me to 90 down cellar and tell the
burglars we we're into them, anC
for them to get out, but | WASH
very well, so pa locked his door anC
went to bed. | guess it must have
been half an hour before pas colo
feet woke ma mp, and then pa told
hernot to move for her life, cause
there were two ofthe savagest look
ing burglars that ever was, rumag
ing over the house. Ma smelleC
pas breath to see if he had got t.
drinking again, and then she go