The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-31
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From Peck's Sun.

From Peck's Sun.
81 hear you had burglars over to
your house last night, said the gro
Gerry man to the bad boy, as he
came in and sat on the counter
right over a little gimlet hole,
where the grocery man had fixed a
darning needle SO that by pulling a
string the needle would fly up
through the hole and run into the
boy about an inch. The grocery
man had been laying for the boy
for two days and now that he had
got him right over the hole the
first time, it made him laugh to
think how he would make him Jump
and yell, and as he edged of ana
got hold OF the string the boy look
cd unconscious Of impending dan
ger. The grocery man pulled, and
the boy sat still. He pulled again,
and again, and finally the boy said:
~ es, it is reported that we had
burglars over there. q, youneedn't
pull that string any more. | heard
you was setting a trap for me, and
| put a piece of a doard inside my
pants, and thought | would let you
exercise yourself. Go ahead, if it
amuses you. 1t don't hurt me-
The grocery man looked sad, and
then smiled a sickly sort of a smile,
at the failure Of his plan to punct-
ure the boy, and then he said,
We'll, how was it. The police
man didn't seem to know much
aboutthe particulars. lie said there
was so much deviltry going on at
your house that nobody could tell
when anything was serious, and he
was inclined to think ii was a put
up Job."
Nov let's have an understand
ing, says the boy. Whatever |
say, YOU are not to give me away.
1t = a go, is Ia | have always been
afraid OF you, because you have a
sort OF decayed egg look about you.
You + like Il peck OF potatoes
with the big ones on top, a sort of
strawberry box, with the bottom
raised up, So | have thought you
would 90 back on a fellow. But If
you won't give this away, here
goes. You see, | heard ma tell pa
to bring up another bottle OF lini-
ment last night. When ma corks
herself, or has a pain anywhere,
she Just uses linimont for all that
is out, and a pint bottle don't last
more than a week. Wen, | told
my chum, and we laid for pa.
This llniment ma uses is otlul hot,
and almost blisters. Pa went to
the Langtry show, and did not get
home till eleven o'clock, AMI me
and my chum decided to teach pa
Il lesson. | don't think it is right
for a man to 90 to the theatres and
not take his wife or his little boy.
So weconcluded to burgle pa. We
agreed to lay on the stairs, and
when he came up my chum was to
hit him on the head with a dried
bladder, and | was to stab him on
ms breast pocket with a stick, and
break die hniment bottle, and
make him think he was killed. 1t
couldn't have worked better if we
had rehearsed it. We had talked
about burglars at supper time, and
got pa nervous, SO when he come
up stairs and was hit on the head
with the bladder, the first thing he
sad was burglars by mighty, and
he started TO go back, and then l
Int han on the breast pocket, where
the bottle was, ana / SAID ina Stage
whisper, i guess he's adead man,
and we went Gown cellar and up
the back STAIRS To my room and I'M
dressed. Pa iollered TO ma that
he was murdered, and ma called me,
and / came down IN my night-shirl,
and the hired girl she came down,
and pa was on the lounge, and he
said his life-blood was last ebbing
away. He held his hand on the
wound, and he sand he could feel
the warm blood tricklmg 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 mustache grow, and pa
said, My boy, this is no time for
lnlimg, Your pa is on his last
leg-. When come up stairs
me, six burglars, and 1 attacked
them, and forced iour Of them
down, and was going to hold them