The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-07-13
THAT BAD BOY.

kls pa hedycsA F'pian scare dynamite
cdstriuyes-the old man loses his teeth 81
"A guess your pas losses in the silver
nine has made him crazy, haven't they
Fsaid the grocery man to the bad boy, as he
Ecanie in the store with his eye winkers
|singed of, and powder marks on his face,
land begun to play on the harmonica, and
as,,down on stick Ct stove wood and bal>
anscd himself
F'p.i guess not. llo has hedged. He got
ipsvish tie deacon of another church, and
sod some Of his stock to him, and pa says if
Wal keep my condemn mouth shut he will
unload the whoio or ir, If the churches
bold out. He gees to new church every
night to prayer meeting or anything and
makes ina go with him, to give him tone,
and after meeting she talks with the sisters
about how to piece silk bed quilt, while
pa gets In his w~-k selling silver stock. |
don't know but\ will order some more
stock from the "a ory, if he sells all he has
got and the boy snt on playing There
is land that is ia than Day"
But what was b slipping up street for
the other night with s hat off, grabbing
at his coat tails as tn b they ere on fire?
1 thought never saS pussy mau run any
faster. And what was Ncclcbration down
on your street about tn ime? thought
the worl Id was coming 70 an end, aud the
grocery man kept away from the boy, for
fear he would explode.
Oh, that was only Fcnian scare. Moth
ing serious. You sec pa is a sort Of half
Englishman. He claims to be an Amcri-
can citizen, when he wants office, but when
they TX abouta draft he claims to be sub.
ject & Great Britain and he says they can t
touch him. Pa is darn smart man, and
don't you forget it. There don't many of
them get ahead Of pa, much. Well, pa has
said good deal about the wicked Ferians,
and that they ought TO be pulled, and when
read the story in the papers about the cS.
plosion In the British Parlimcnt pa was
tho whole world. lie didn't dare say it at
the table or our hired girl would have
knocked him silly with spoonful of mash
cd potatoes, cause she is nirish girl, and
R1k aay Engsislsmah in this town.
Pa says there ought to have been somebody
there to have taken that bomb up and
tniowd it in the sewer before it exploded
He said if he ever should see a bomb he
would grab it right up and throw it away
where it wouldn't hurt ybody. Pa has
me read the papers to him nights, cause
his eyes have got splinters in EN-, and after
| had read all there was in the paper made
up lot more and pretended to read il,
about how it was rumorcd that the Fcnians
here in Milwaukee were going to place dyn-
amite bombs at every house where an Eng
lshman lived, and at a given signal bow
them all up Pa looked pale around the
gills, but he said he wasn't scared Pa and
ma were going to call on she deacon tha,
night, that has lots Of money in the bank
to see if she didn't want to invest in dead
sure paying silver mine, and me and my
chnm concluded to give them a send off,
We got my big black ingy rubber foot ball
and painted 'Dinymight' in big white let
ters on it, and tied piece Of tarred rope tc
it for a fuse, and got a big fire>cracker, one
of these old fourth Of July hors, scarers
and basket full Of troken glass. We put
the football in front Of the step, and lit the
tarred rope, and got under the step with
the fire.crackcr and basket, where they g,
down into the basement. Pa ami ma came
out the front door, and down the steps, and
pa saw the football aud the burning fuse
and he said,' Great God, Hammer, we arc
blowed up, and he started to run, and ma
stopped to look at it. Just as pa started tc
run touched off the frc-crackcr, and my
chum arranged it to pour out the broken
glass on the brick pavement just as the
fire cracker went off. Well, everything
went just as W" expected, except ma. She
had examined the foot ball. and concluded
it was not dangerous, and was just giving
it q kick as the iirc-crackcr went off, anC
the glass fell, and the tire-cracker was SC
near her that it scared her, aud when pa
looked around ma was flying across the
sidewalk, aud pa heard tho noise and he
thought the house was blown to atoms. o
you'd died to see him go around the corner
You could play crokay on his coat.tail
and his face was as pale as mas whcr
she goes to party. But ma didn'