Delta chief., 1883-12-19

brute, and then Deacon Perkins and
ma started to the rescue, and ma
slipped sand pulled the deacon down,
and l went to help ma and | met the
fiddler and we both fell; and then
everybody else laughed, and when the
fiddler got up he found | had set down
on the fiddle and it was all broke up. /
have never seen pa cut as many hip
flaps as he did trying to keep from fal.
ling. and the minister was SO annoyed
at the spectacle he presented that I-dare
not go to church for week or two for
fear shall think about it when he is
preaching, and snort right out in meet
ing. We finally got them on their feet,
and the dance Was broke up, but they
didn' blame me and my chum, cause
the deacon told us to wax the floor.
Some of the sober deacons in the church
heard about it, and they say il was a
Judgment on the jolly folks for dane
ing. Do YOU think it was a Judgement
on us2'
Judgment nothing SAID the gro
cry man. lit was simply too much
beeswax. Lots of things in this world
that are laid to providence, is the re-
suit of too much beeswax A man gets
to living high and drinking hard, and
some day he is found dead, and tho
people say il is dispensation of provi
dence. Ii is simply Il case of too much
beeswax A man gets TO doing an i'm
mcnse business on 8 small capital, and
he flies high, and people get to thinking
if he didn't make the earth he had the
controlling interest in the contract. He
walks proud and looks over his old
| friends and seems TO be seeking new
worlds TO conquer and all OF q sudden
you hear something drop, and the sher-
/ IN has the key to the store, and the high
4 f'ycr finds that be is flat on the ground.
| II is too much beeswaN. The beeswaN
I WAS there all the time, but had not got
4 ready 10 be slippery until the bigh-flycr
got too warm. II is just so in every
20. saw" saws The boy. AS he saw
the grocery man was wound up for all
day, 'syuu make me weary. Did tell
you was goiug into the show busi-
/ ncss?"
mo. you didn't tell me- said the
/ grocery man. What Is il? A circus?''
mo. not any circus. ] have been
I looking the thing over. and | think
/ there is more money in being a living
skeleton than anything there is going
| and have got an offer from a museum
of two hundred dollars week as soon
/ as can get lean enough. and l have
quit eating. since Thanksgiving. I've
l lost two pounds. and nj that rate ! will
/ be ready 10 exhibit about Christmas a
/ living skeleton can lay up all his money.
cause he don't have TO eat. and his
clothes don't cost much. and il is a
regular picnic. They wanted me 10 be
J n man withou; legs, but thonght that
would be bad IL ! should ever want to
( quit the show business. and then they
wanted me TO be a jorilla, but jorilla
is only n mammal, and cant 20 in So
cicty. They offered to get n wax head
for me IL | would be a two-headed zulu.
au, don't want TO be a deception.
~ al rather be freak of nature. Pa is
encouraged since l have decided to be n
living skeleton. and says will mount
to something vet He thinks | better
go and board at n cheap boarding
house. in order TO become skeleton
by the time have promised 10 show,
bu, guess ! can lind all the facilities
! want at home. Say, lets go in part
pers. and you be the jorilla, or wild
pirate. Your head is fiat enough on
top. and your eyes look like gimlet
holes in boot heel
The boy got out of the ore Just
ahead of a hatchet: and he went into a
c-ndy store aud bought some chocolate
cas amcls TO become a skeleton on.