The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-05-18
The BAD BOY.


Go away from here now. aaid ,he
grocery man to the bad boy. rs h,
came into The rtore and ives going tt
draw some cider. out OF o barrel iut,
q pint measure that had flies in il
Get right out Of this place. and dom
lot mt s,e you around hero uahl III,
health officer says your Ps has got
over the small pox. l saw him thi'
morning and his face is all covered
with pos:ulss, and they will have hin
10 the pest house before night. Yor
git.' and he picked up butter trysi
and went for tho boy who took re-
fuge behind . barrel OF onions, AID
held up his haLds as though Jesse
James had drawn q bead OIL him.
'O.vou 60 aud chase yourself. Tha'
is not sm,l pox Pa has got. He had
q fgh' with b nest Of hornets said
tho boy.
'Ho.nets! Well, III bo cussed.
remarked the grocery man, rs he put
up the butter tryer, aud handed the
boy a slice OF rotten muskmelon.
How in the world did lie got into a
nest of hornets? I hope yon did not
have anything to do with it,
The boy buried his face in the mel
on, until he looked as though ysl-
low cash had been cut from his mouth
to his ears. and ai;or swallowing the
melon. lie said: We'll, Pa says 1 was
responsible. and he says that settles
it. and ! can 60 my way and be will
go his. He said ho was willing to
overlook anything I had done to
make his lie unbearablo. but steer
ing him onto a nest of hornets, and
then getting drunk, WAS too much.
ani can Co.
What, you haven't been druuk,'
says the grocery man. Great heav.
ems, that will kill your poo: ole faith
er.'
o, I guess it won't kill him worry
much. He has been getting drunk
ior twenty years. and he says ho is
healthier to-day than he eyer wae,
since lis liver has got TO working
again. You sac, Monday was reg
ular Iudian summer day. and Pa
said ho would take me and my chum
out in the woods TO gather hickory
nuts, il We would bs good. I said !
would, and my chum said he would,
and We got q couple of bags and
went away out to W0uwatosa, in the
woods. We c'ubbed the trees and
get more puts than anybody, ard
had lunch, aud Pa was just enjoy
ins his rslidgip first rate. While Pa
was taking q nap under q tr'e, my
chum and me looked around aud
found 4 hornets nest on the lower
limb Of the tree We were sitting un-
der, aud my chum said it would be a
good j hs to Got pole ani run it
into the hornets hes and then run.
Honest, l didn't tbiak about Pa be.
ing uuder the tree, aud | went in'o
field aud got h'p pole, and put
the small end into the hornets nest,
and goug.d The nest n couple OF
times, nnd when the boss hornet came
ont Of the hole and looked sassy,and
then Looked back in ,hs hole aud
whis led to the other hornets to come
out and have acircus, and they began
to come, my chum and me ran and
cGmb,d i over a fence, and got behind
pile Of hop poles that was stacked
up. I guess the hornets saw my p
just as quick as they got cut OF the
uest, cause pretty to'n Wa heard Pa
cal to Helen D .mna'ion,' or some
woman we didn't know, and then he
ook his coat, that he had been using
for a pillow. aud whipped around
aud no slapped hisself on the shoul'
ders, and then took the luuch baske,
and pounded around like ho was era
zy, and bime by he started on a rut
towards town. holding his pants up
cause his suspsnders was banging
down on his hips, and never see
fat man nun 80 ,faping himself with
basket. We could hear him yell
'oome on boys. He'll is out for noon,
aud he went over bill. and we didn'
see !Em any more We waited til
near dark because wo was aisaid t.
20 after the bags Of nuts till th'
hornets had gore to bed, and ther
we came home. Tue bag were awfu
heavy. aud I thisk it was reas mea.
in Pa to go Of and leave US, and no
hsp carry the bags
4 .wa,,' says tho grocery man
You ore TOO mean to live. But wha
about your get ting drunkr'