The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-06-02
rHE bad BOYS PA
Is Worked OvoF Into IAN Amateur Bald
Headed CoIored Man.

Headed Colored Man.
"What in the name Of the seven sleep
ing sisters have you got on your hands
and faceY" said the grocery man. as he
took the boy by the ear and turned him
around. "Y0u would pass in cOlOred
prayer-meeting, and no zone would think
you were galvanized. What you got up
in such an Outlandish rig fOrp''
well, I'll tell you, If you will keep
watch at the door. Ifyou see a bald
headed colored man coming along the
street with a club, you whistle, and l
Will fall down cellar. The bald headed
man will be pa. You see, we moved yes
terday. Pa told me to get vacation
from the livery stable, and we would
have fun moving. But don't want any
more fun. | know when | have got
enough fun. Pa carried all the light
things, and when it came to lifting, he
had criek in the back. Gosh, / never
was so tired as l was last night, and 1
hope we have got settled, only some of
tho goods haven't turned up yet. A dray-
man took one load over on the west side
and delivered them to house that
seemed to be expecting load of house
hold furniture. He Thought it was all
right, If everybody that was moving got
load Of goods. Well, after we got
moved pa said we must make garden,
and he said we would go out and spade
up the ground and SOW peas, and rad
lshes, and beets: There was some
neighbOrs lived in the next house to
our new one, that was all wimmen, and
pa didn't like to have them think he had
TO work, so he said it would be good
joke to disguise ourselves as tTamps, and
the neighbOrs would think that we had
hired some trampS to dig in the garden
told pa of boss scheme to fool them
| suggested that we take some of this
shoe blacking that is put on with a
sponge, and black our faces, and the
netghbOTs would think we had hired an
old cOlOred man and his boy to work in
the garden. Pa said it was immense.
and he told me to go and black up, and
If 1t would work he would black hisself!
SO went and put this burnt cork on
my face, Cause 1t would wash off, and
pa looked at me and said itbWas Whack
and for me to fix him up too. So got
the bottle of shoe blacking and painted
pa so he looked like cOlOred coal heaV-
er- Actually, when ma saw him she
ordered him off the premises, and when
he LATED at her and acted sassy, she was
going to throw billing water on pa, but
told her the scheme, and she let up on
pa. o, you'd dide to see us out in the
garden. Pa looked like Uncle Tom, and
looked like TOpsy, only 1 amt that
kind of eOlOred person. We worked
till boy threw some tomato cans over
the alley fence and hit me, and / piled
over the fence after him, aud left pa. 1t
was my chum, and when l had caught
him we put up job to get pa to chase
us. We thrOwed some more cans, and
pa come out and my chum started and L
after him, and pa after the both of us.
He chased us two blocks and then we
got behind q policeman and nv chum
told the policeman il was a crazy old
cOlOred man that wanted to kidnap us,
and the policeman took pa by the neck
and was going to club him, but pa said
he would go home and behave. He was
Offul mad, and he went home and we
looked through the alley fence and saw
pa trying to wash off the blacking. You
see that blacking won't wash off. You
have to wear it off. Pa would wash his
face with sOapsuds and then look in the
glass, and he was blacker every time he
washed, and when ma LATED at him he
said the Offulest words, something like
sweet spirit hear my prayer then he
washed himself again. am going to
leave my burnt cork on, cause if [ wash
ed 1t off pa would know there had been
some smOurging somewhere. asked
the shoe store man how long it would
take the blaeking to wear off, and he
said IL ought to wear off in a week. l
guess pa won't go out doors much, un-
less it is in the night. 1 am going to
get him to let me go off in the.cOuntry
fishing, till mine wears off, and when /
get out of town l will wash up. Say,
you don't think little blacking hurts
mans complexion, do you, and you don't
think man ought to get mad because
II won't wash of, do yOup'-Peck's Sun.