The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-09

her, and then he laughed and said
| ought to be one of the Little Sis
tiers of the poor, and he TOOK hold
of her faded shawl and pulled the
weak girl against the showcase,
and SAID something mean to her,
and she looked as though she q
ted to die, and mashed that boy
one right on the nose. Well, the
air seemed to be full of me for a
minute, cause he was bigger than
me, and he got me down and got
his thumb i'll my eye. | guess he
was going to take my eye out, but
! turned him over and got on top
and | mauled him until lie begged,
but | wouldn'tle let him up until he
asked the girls pardon, and swore
he would whip any boy that insul-
ted her, and then Ilet him up and
the girl thanked me, but | told her
| couldn't speak to her, cause she
was tuff, and pa didn't want me to
speak to anybody who was tutf,
but if anybody eve insulted her so
she had to cry, that | would whip
him if had to take a club. | told
pa about it, and | thought that he
would be mad at me for taking the
part ola girl that was tuff, but by
gosh, pa Rugged me, and the tears
came IN his eyes, and he SAID Ihad
got good blood in me, and l did
just right, and if | wouldjust show
him the father of the boy that |
whipped, pa said he would whip
the old man, and ma said for me to
find the poor girl and send her up
to the house and she would give
her a job making pillow-cases and
night shirts. Don't it seem darn
queer that everybody goes back on
a poor girl cause she makes a mis-
take, and the blasted whclp that is
to blame gets a chrome. 1t makes
me tired to think of it," and the
boy got up and shook himself, and
looked in the cracked mirror hang
ing upon a post, to see how his eye
was getting along.
"Say, young fellow, you are a
thoroughbred, "2said the grocery
man, as he sprinkled some water
on the asparagus and lettuce, land
you can come in here and get all
the herring you want, and never
mind the black eye. | wish | had
it myself. Yes, it does seem tough
to see people never allow a girl to
reform. Now, in bible times, the
Savior forgave Mary, or somebody,
| forget now what her name was,
and she was a better girl than ever.
What we need is more OF the spirit
of Christ, and the world would be
better"
"What we want is about ten
thousand Christs. We ought to
have ten or fifteen right here in
Milwaukee, and they would find
plenty of business, too. But this
climate seems to be too rough.
Say, did | tell You about pa and ma
having troubled"
No, what's the row."
"Well you see, ma wants to
economic all she can, and pa has
been getting thinner since he quit
drinking and reformed, and | have
kept growing until / am bigger
than he is. Funny, amt it, that a
boy should ge bigger than his pa9
Pa wanted a new suit of clothes,
and ma said she would fix him,
and so she took one of my old suits
and made it over for pa, and he
wore them a week before he knew
it was an old suit made over, but
one day he found handful Of dried
up angle-worms in the pistol pocket
that | had forgot when | was fish
ing, and pa laid the angle-worms
to ma, and ma had to explain that
she made over one Of my old suits
for pa. He was mad and took
them off and threw them out the
back window, and swore he would
never humiliate himself by wear
ing his sons old clothes. Ma tried
to reason with him, but he was aw-
full worked up, and said he was no
old charity hospital, and he storm
ed around to find his old suit of
clothes, but ma had sold them to
a plaster-ofpars image peddler,
and pa hadn't anything to wear,
and he wanted ma to go out in the
alley and pick up the suit he threw
out the window, but a rag man had
picked them up and was going
away, and pa he grabbed a linen
duster aud put it on and went ont
after the rag picker, and he run and
pa after him, and the rag man told
a policeman there was an escaped
~lunatic from Ethe asylum, and he
was chasing peoDle over thp citv