The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-14
HIS PA AND DYNAMITE.

haven't they" said the grocery mar
to the bad boy, as he came in the
store with his eye winkers singed of
and powder marks on his face, and
began 10 play the harmonics, as he
sat down on the end of stick of stove
wood, and balanced himself.
20, | guess not. Hs has hedged
He got in with the deacon of another
church, and sold some of his stock tC
him, and pa says if will keep my
condemn mouth shut he will unload
tine whole of it, ifthe churches hold
out. He goes to new church every
night there is a prayer meeting Oh
anything. and makes ma go with
him, to give him tone, and after
meeting she talks with the sisters
about how to piece a silk bed quilt,
while pa gets in his work selling sill
yer stock. don't know but he will
order some more stock from the
factory, If he sells all be has got, :"
and the boy went on playing There
a land that is iairer than Dav."
But what was he skipping up the
street for the other night with his hat
of. grabbing at bis coat tails as though
they were on fire? l thought
never saw pussy man run any ias-
ter. And what was the celebration
down on your street about that tins ?
thought the world was coming to
an end, and the grocery man kept
away from thu boy, fer fear be would
explode.
20, that was only a Fenian scare
Notbin' serious. You see pa is a sort
of half:Englishman. He claims to be
an American citizen, when he wants
Office, but when thsy talk about q
draft he claims TO be a subject OF
Great Britain, and be says they can't
touch him. Pa is darn smart man,
and don't you forget it. There don't
any of them get ahead of pa, much.
Well, pa hes said good deal about
the wicked Fenians, and that they
ought to be pulled, and all that, and
when read the story in the news
papers about the explosion in the
British Parliament pa was hot. He
said the damnirish was running the
whole world. He didn't dare say it
at the table or our hired girl would
have knocked him silly with sspoonful
of mashed potatoes, cause che is a
niriEh girl, and she can lick any
Englishm an in this town. Pa said
there ought to have been somebody
there to lave takens that bomb and
throWed it in the sewer before it ex-
ploded. He said if he ever should
ace bomb be would grab it right up
and throw it away where it wouldn't
hurt anybody. Pa has me read the
papers to hin nights, cause his eyes
have got splinters IN 'em, and after |
had read all there was in the paper 1
made up lot more and pretended to
read il, about how it was rumored
that the Fenians here in Milwaukee
were going to place dynamite bombs
at every house where an Englishman
lived, and at given signal blow them
all up. Pa looked pale around the
gills, but he said he wasn't scared.
Pa and ma were going to call on a
she deacon that night, that has lots
of money in bank, to see il she didn't
want to invest in a dead cure paying
silver mine, and me and my chum
concluded to give them a send of.
We got my big black ipjy rubber
football, and painted 'Dinymight' in
big white letters on it, and tied a
piece OF tsrred rope to it for a fuse,
and got big fre'Cracker, one OF
these old Fourth of July horse sesrers,
and basket full of broken glass. We
put the football in front OF the step,
and lit the tarred rope, and,got under
the step with the firs-crackeTs and
basket, where they go down in the
basement. Pa and ma came out the
front door, and down the steps, and
pa saw the football, and burning
fuse, and he said Great God, Han.
ner, we are blowed up, and he started
to run, and ma she stopped to look
at it. Just as ma started to run
touched off the fire-cracker, and my
chum arranged it to pour out the
broken glass ON the pavement just as
the fre-cracker went of. Well,
everything went just as.We expected,
except ma. She had examined the
football and concluded it was not
dangerous, and was just giving it q
kick as the fre-cracker went of, and
the glass fell, and the ire.cracker
was 80 near her that it scared her. and
When'pa looked around ma was flying
across the sidewalk and pa heard the
noise and be thought the house vas
blown to atoms. o. you'd a died to
see him go round the corner. You
could play crokay on his coat tail,
and bis face was as pale as mas
when she goes to a party. But ma
didn't scare much. As quick as she
stopped against the hitching post she
knew it was US boys, and she came
there, and maybe she didn't maui
me. cried and tried t. gain her
sympathy by telling her the fire.
cracker went of before it was due,
and burned my eyebrows of, but she
didn't let up uatil I promised to go
and find pa. I tell you my ma
ought to be engaged by the British
Government to hunt out the dyna.
mite fiends. She would corral them
in two months. II De had as much