The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-02
THE RECORD
II nE BAD Roy.
tPeck's Sun /

lPeck's Sun
"What was it heard about band
screnading your father, and his inviting
them to lunch 2" said the grocery man,
as he deprived the bad boy Of a six.shil-
ling box CT Strawberries.
'Don't let that get out, or pa Will kill
me dead. 1t was Joke. One OF these
bohemian bands that goes. about town
playing tunes for pennies was over on the
next street, and told pa guessed some
of his friends who had heard we had a
baby at our house had hired a band and
was coming in few minutes to serenade
him, and he'd better prepare to make
speech. Pa is proud of being father at
his age, and he thought it was no more
than right for the neighbors to serenade
him, and'he went to loading himself for
speech in the library, and me and my
chum went out and told the leader of the
band there was family up there that
wanted to have some music, and they
didn't care for expense; SO they quit
blowing where they was. and came right
along. None of them could understand
English except the leader, and he only
understands enough to go and take a
drink when he is invited My chum
steered the band up to our house. and
got them to play Babies On our Block
and Baby Mine, and stopped all the
men who where going home and told
them TO wait minute and they would
see some fun. So when the band got
through the second tune, and the Prus-
slams were emptying the beer out of their
horns, and pa stepped out ON the porch,
and there were more nor hundred men
in front of-&ile- house. You'd a died TO
see pa when he put his hand in the breast
of his coat and struck an attitude He
looked like Congressman or tramp.
The band was scared, cause they thought
he was mad, and some of them were
goin' to run, thinking he was goin' to
throw pieces of brick house at them,
but my chum and the leader kept them.
Then pa sailed in. He commenced,
Fellow citizens, and then went way
back to Adam and Eve, and worked up
to the present day, giving history Of
the notable people who had acquired
children, and kept the crowd interested.
l felt sorry for pa, cause / knew how he
would feel when he came to find out he
had been sold.
''The Bohemians in the band that
couldn't understand English they looked
a. each other, and wondered what it was
all about, and finally pa wound up by
stating that it was every citizens duty
to own two children of his own, and then
he invited the band and the crowd in to
take some refreshments Well, you
ought to have seen that band come into
the house. They fell over each other
getting in, 'and the crowd went home,
leaving pa and my chum and me and the
band. Eat? Well, I should smile.
They just reached for things and talked
Bohemian. Drink Oh, no. guess
they didn't pour it down. Pa opened a
dozen bottles Of champagne, and they
fairly bathed in it, as though they had a
fire inside. Pa tried to talk with them
about the baby, but they couldn't under
stand, and finally they got full and started
out, and the leader asked pa for three
dollars, and that broke him up. Pa told
the leader he supposed the gentlemen
who had got up the serenade had paid
for the music. and the leader pointed to
me and said I was the gentleman that
got it up. Pa paid him, but he had a
wicked look in his eye, and me and my
chum lit cut, aud the Bohemians came
down the street b'ilin' full, with their
horns on their arms, and they were talk.
ing Bohemian for all that was out. They
stopped in front of vacant house and
began to play, but you couldn't tell what
tune it was, they were so full, and q
policeman came along and drove them
home. guess will sleep at the livery.
stable tonight, cause pa is offul unreas
enable when anything costs him three
dollars, besides the champagne.
"Well, you have made pretty mesi
OF it. said the grocery man. SITS I
wonder your Pc does not kill you. But