The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-09
HE cad BOY.


cee mere, you coon, You get OUT Oh
here" sid Tie grecery man to the bad
boy as he came into the store with his
face black and shining; | don't want
any colored boys around here. White
boy break Inc up bad enough.
"Oh, PAilop.na,' said the bad boy, as
he put his hands on his knees and laughed
50 the candy jars ratified ON the shelves.
Yuu didn't know me. / am the same
boy that comes in here and talks your
arm of, and the boy opened the cheese
box and cut of piece of cheese SO natu-
rally that tl,e grocery man had no diff
Guilty in recognizing him.
"What in the name of the seven Sleep
ing sisters have you got on your hands
aud face:' said the grocery man, as he
took the boy by the ear and turned him
around "You would pass in colored
prayer meeting, and no one would think
you were galvanized. What You got up
IN such an outlandish rig for:''
"Well, I'll tell you, if you viii keep
watch at the door. If you see bald
headed coiored man coming along the
street with a club, you whistle, and /
will fall down cellar. The bald-headed
colored man will be pa. You see. We
moved ye terday. Pa told me to get a
vacation from the livery stable, and we
would have fun moving. But l don't
want any more fun. l know when Ihave
got enough fun. Pa carried all the light
things, and when it come to lifting, he
Nsas so tired as was lat night, and
hope VIC have got. settled. only some of
the goods havn't turned up yet. A dray-
man took one load over on the west side,
and delivered them to house that seemed
to be expecting load of household fur
niture. He thought it was all right if
everybody that was moving got load Of
goods Well, after we got moved pa
said we must make garden, and he said
we would go out and spade up the ground
and sow peas, and radishes, and beets.
There was some neighbors lived in the
next house to our new one, that was all
wimmen, and pa didn't like to have them
think he had to work, so he said it would
be good joke to disguise ourselves as
tramps, and the neighbors would think
we had hired some tramps to dig the
garden. | told pa OF a boss scheme to
fool them. / suggested that we take
some OF this shoe -blacking that is put on
with sponge, and black our faces, and
the nei shbors would think we had hired
an old colored man and his boy to work
in the garden. Pa said it was immense,
and he told me to go and black up, ano
if it worked he would black hisself. 81
I went and put this burnt cork on my
face, cause it would wash of, and pa
looked at me and said it was whack
and for me to fix him up too. SO 60
the bottle ef shoe backing and painted
pa so he looked like colored coal HEAVIER
Actually, when ma saw him she ordered
him off the PREMISE, and when he laffet
at her and acted sassy. she was going t.
throw billing water on pa, but | told he
the scheme, and she let up on pa. Oh
you'd died to see US out in the garden
Pa looked like Uncle Tom, and l locke,
like Topsy, only amt that kind of
c,lored person. We worked till bo
throwed some tomato.cans over the alle
fence and hit me, anu piled over tn
fence after him, and left pa. 1t was M
chum. and when had caught him W
put up a job to get pa to chase us. w
throwed some more cans, and pa com
out and my chum started and l afte
him, and pa after both of US. He chase
us two blocks and then We got behind
policeman, and my chum told the police
man twas crazy old colored man tha
wanted to kidnap us, and the policema
took pa by the neck and was going
club him, but pa said he would go HON
and behave. He was offul mad, and h
went home, and we looked through th
alley fence and saw pa trying to wash 0
he blacking. You see, the blackir
won't wash off. You have to wear it oi
Pa would wash his face with soap.sud
and then look in the glass. and he vi