The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-31
HIS PA AND DYNAMITE.
fR~ks Sunl

guess your pas losses n the silver mine has made him crary. haven't thcyg" said the grocery man to the bad boy. as he came in the store with his eye winkers singed of, and powder marks on his face. and began Ia play on the harmonica. as i he sat down on the end of stick of stove wood. and balanced himself.
 "o. guess moi. He has hedgcd. He ! got In with deacon of another church. and sold some of his stock to him. and pa says If will keep my condemn mouth stu, he will unload the whole of il, # the churches hold out. He goes 10 a new church every nigh, there IS prayer meet ing or anything. and makes ma gc with him. te give him tone, and after meeting she talks with the sisters about how to piece silk bed quilt. while pa gets in hls work selling silver stock. don know i but he will order some more stock from the factory If he sells Ill he has go;. and the boy went on playing There's I land that IS fairer than Day.
 But what was he skipping up street 1 for the other nigh, wl,h his hat or. grabbing at h,s eoa, tails IS though they were on fire: l thought l never saw a pussy man run any faster. And what MS the celebration down en your street about that tune. l thought the world was coming te an end. and the grocery man kep, away from the boy. for ieai he would explode.
 "o. that was only a Fenlan scare. l Ne,hin seneGs. Neu sec pa Is seft oi i half Englishman. He claims u be an AmeTiSan citizen. when he wants office, bu, when they talk about draft he claims ,o be subject of Great bri,ain, and he says they can't touch him- la ] Is a darn smart man. and don't you for ge, Il. There don't any oi them get ahead ef pa. much. We'll pa has sad a good deal about the wicked tenians. and tha, they ought to be pulled. and all that. and when l read the story m the papers abou, the explosion in the British l Parliament pa Was hot. He said the damn l lush was running the whole world. He didn't dare say It at the table or our hired l girl would have knocked him silly with spoonful of mashed potatoes. cause she IS d N,nsh giil. and sae can liek any Eng l lishman m ,his town. pa said there oagh, 10 have been somebody there to i have taken thai bomb up and throwed Il Tn the sever before Il exploded. He sad II he ever should see a bomb he would grab Il reht up and throw t righ, away where |, wouldn't hurt anybody. fa has me read the papers to him nights. cause his eyes have got splIntcrs Tn 'em. and after had read all there was III the paper i l made up :, .,i mere and =pseteadea- Ia read t. about how Il WAS rumorcd that the Eenians here ln Milwaukee were gong to place dynamite bombs al every house where an Enghshman lived, and at gwen sigma blow them all tip. fa looked pale around the gilis. but he sad he wasn't scared. Ia and ma were going 10 call on Il she deacon tha, night, ,ha, has lots oi money m the bank. to see If she didn't want to invest m Il dead sure paying silver mine, and me and my ohum concluded ,e give them send off. We go, my big black my rubber football. and painted Dinymlgh, in big white letters on II. and tied d piece of ,arred rope te t fef :, fuse, and gat blg hie
 cracker. one oi these old Fourth of July horse soarers, .tnd basket full oi broken glass Me pul the ioo,-ba.! m iipnt of thu sep. and hi the tgred rope. and got under the step with the tiie-etackets and basket. where they @ down into ine bascmrut. Ia and in.s came out the front door. and down the steps, and Pa s,us the fooi-bai and the burning iuse. and hc said Great God. Hammer. NC are btowcd up and he started to ruI. and ma she s;8p3ed7to look at H. est as pl started ta run touched afi thc fire-crackcr. and my thum arranged II to pour ou, the broken glass on the brick pavement lus, as the Ire e.eraoker went off. Well. everything went just as we expected. cN- eept ma She had examined the football and concluded II was not dangerous. and was iust giving Ii kick as the hre-cracker went of. and the glass tcil. and the ire cracker was so near her that II scared her, and when pa looked around ma was fly ing across the sidewalk. and pa heard ,hc noise and he thought the house was blown to atoms. c. you d a died to see hlm go around the corner. You could play crokay on his coai-tail. and hts face was IS pale as ma $ her she goes te d party Bnt ma didn't seafe much. A quick as she stopped agains, the hitehlng post she knew II wa AS Us boys. and she came down there, and maybe she didn't maui me. l cried and tried to gain her sympathy by telling her the fIre-cracker went of before |, was due and burned my eyebrows of. out she dldn, le, up until promised to go and ind pa l tell you my ma ought to be engaged by the British government to hunt Ct; the dynamite hend She would corral them in two minutes If pa had as much sand as ma has 90, Il would be warm weather for me Well. me and my ohum vent and headed pa of or l guess he would be running yet We go, him up bv the lake shore
 and he wanted to know if the house fell down He said he would leave II to ne
 if he ever sad anything agalns, the Eenans, and told hlm he had always claimed that the tenlans were the incest men m the world. and Il seemed ,o re- lieve nim very much. When he god, home and found the house there he was ,,ckled. and when ma called hIm an old a Il a-