The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-20
BAD BOY is DECEIVED.
Re CALLS UPON THE GROCERY MAN
IN A HURRY.

olNC hiO uOli bCliOo NOlIll VI SttlllOl,
uick," said the bad boy to the grocery
nan, as he came in the grocery on a
kallop, early one morning, with no
ollar on and no vest. lie looked as
hough he had been routed out of bed
q a hurry, and had jumped into his
PANTS and boots and put on his coat
ind hat on the run.
81 don't keep saffron" said the
grocery man, as he picked up a barrel
|f ax-handles the boy had tipped
over in his hurry. "You want to 60
kver to the drug store on the corner, if
Fou want saffron. But what on earth
5 the mat"
AT this point the boy shot out Of the
DOR, tipping over a basket of white
beans, and disappeared in the drug
tore. The grocery man got down on
lis knees on the sidewalk and scooped
Up the beans, occasionally looking over
0 the drug store, and just as he got
hem picked up the boy came out of
he drug store and walked deliberately
oward his home, S though there was
DO particular hurry. The grocery man
OOF III ilOCl Hill, JUN ND tll tA-llttllult.
pit on his hands and shouted to the
poy to cCme over pretty soon, as he
wanted to talk with him. The boy did
lot come to the grocery till toward
light, but the grocery man had seen
i'm running downtown dozen times
uring the day, and once he rode up
o the house with the doctor, aud the
trnoar Cttrn,iSa1 urhnt ,yo thn trDtl1n
Along toward night the boy camein in
detected sort of Il tired way, sat down
n a barrel of sugar, and never spoke.
"What is it, Il boy or girl" said the
frocery man, winking at an old lady
With a shawl over her head who was
rying to hold a paper over a pitcher
e yeast with her thumb.
"How the deuce did you know
nything about it," said the boy, as he
boked around in establishment, and
kith some Indignation. "Well, it's a
Firl, if you must know, and that's
nough," and he looked down at the
at playing on the floor with a potato,
is face a picture of detection.
"Oh, don't feel bad about it," said
he grocery man, as he opened the door
or the old lady. "Such things are
ound to occur. Buty u take my word
Or it, that young one is going to have
hard life, unless you mend your ways.
on will be using it for a cork to a
lg, or to wad a gun with, the first
hing your ma knows"
81 wouldn't touch the blame thing
18th longs" said the boy, as he rallied
nough to eat some crackers and
heese. Gosh, this cheese tastes
God. l hain't had nothing to eat
nee morning. l have been all over
lis town trolling for nurses. They
mink a boy hasn't got any feelings.
tut l. wouldn't care if ma hadn't been
ending me for neuralgia medicine
nd hay fever snuff all winter, when
he wanted to get rid of me. 1 have
ONE in the room lots of times when
IA and the sewing.girl were at work
n some flannel things, and ma would
ide them III a basket and send me off
fter medicine. L was deceived up
D about 4 o'clock this morning,
|hen pa ONE to my room and
ulled me out of bed to 90 over on
ne west side after some old women
hat knew ma, and they have kept me
Vhooping ever since. What does a
oy want of a sister, unless it is a big
fster. | don't want no sister that l
ave got to hold, and rock, and hold a
ottle for. This affair breaks me all
p," and the boy picked the cheese out
f his teeth with a silver he cut off
ne counter.
"Well, how does your pa take it,"
aid the grocery man, as he charged
he boys pa with cheese, and saffron,
nd a number of such things.
"Oh, pa will pull through. He
Janted to boss the whole concern
ntil mas chum, an old woman that
axes snuff, fired him out in the
all. Pa sat there on my hand-sled
perfect picture of despair, and l
bought it would be a kindness
play it on him. 1 found the
at asleep in the bathroom, and l
oiled the cat up in a shawl, and
rought it out to pa and told him the
urse wanted him to hold the baby.
t seemed to do pa good to feel that he
Fas indispensable around the house,
nd he took the cat on his lap IS ten
erly as you eve saw a mother hold
n infant. Well, l got in the back
all, where he couldn't see me, and
retty oon the cat began to wake up
nd stretch himself, and pa said,
-h-h-tootsy, go to sleep now, and let
IS pa hold It, and pa he rocked back
nd forth on the hand sled and began
b sing by low, baby That settled it
vith the cat. Well, some cats can't
tand music, anyway, and the more
he cat wanted to get out of the shawl,
he louder pa sung, and bimeby !
card something rip, and pa yelled,
Beat you brute and when l
boxed around the corner of the
Jail the cat was bracing his
elf against pas vest with his
oe-nails, and yowing, and pa fell over
he sled and began to talk about the
GREATER like the minister does when
e gets excited in church, and then pa
licked up the sled and seemed to be