The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-07
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II hear you had BURGERS over to your
house last night" said the grocery man
to the bad boy, as he came in and sat ON
the counter right over a little gimlet hole
where the grocery man had fixed darn
ing needle 50 that by pulling string the
needle would fly up through the hole and
run into the boy about an inch. The
grocery man had been laying for the boy
for two days, and now that he had got
him right over the hole the first time it
made him laugh to think how he would
Jump and yell, and as he edged off and
got hold of the string the boy looked un.
conscious Of impending danger. The
grocery man pulled, and the boy sat still.
He pulled again, and again, and finally
the boy said; Wf6 t8R
Yes, it is reported that We had bur-
glars over there. o, you needn't pull
that string any more. / heard you was
setting trap for me, and put a piece
of board inside my pants, and thought /
would let you exercise yourself. Go
ahead, if it amuses you. 1t don't hurt
me-" .o
The grocery man looked sad, and then
smiled sickly sort of smile, at the fail.
ure OF his plan to puncture the boy, and
then he said. "Well, how was it, The
policeman didn't seem to know much
about the particulars. He said there
was so much deviltry going on At your
house that nobody could tell when any.
thing was serious, and he was inclined
to think it was put-up job"
Now let's have an understanding, I"
Gays the boy. Whatever l. say, you
srs not to give me away. It's go, is it,
have always been afraid of you, because
you have sort of decayed egg look
about you. You are like peck of pota.
toes with the big ones On top, sort Of a
strawberry box with the bottom raised
up, so l have thought you would go back
on fellow. But if you won't give this
away. here goes. You see, heard ma
tell pa to bring up another bottle of lin.
iment last night. When ma corks her.
self or has pain anywhere she just uses
iniment for all that is out, and pint
bottle don't last more than week.
Well, l told my chum, and we laid for
pa. This liniment ma uses is offul hot
and almost blisters. Pa went to the
Langtry show and did not get home
until eleven o'clock, and me and my
chum decided to teach pa lesson.
don't think it is right for man to go to
the theater and not take his wife or little
boy. So we concluded to burgle pa
We agreed to lay on the stairs and when
he came up my chum was to hit him ON
the head with dried bladder, and was
to stab him on the breast pocket with a
stick and break the liniment bottle and
make him think he was killed. 1t could
not have worked better if we had re-.
hearsed it. We had talked about bur.
glars at supper time and got pa nervous,
and when he came up stairs and was hit
On the head with the bladder the frst
thing he said was burglars by mighty,
and ne started to 60 back and then hit
him on the breast pocket where the bot.
tie was and then we rushed by him down
stairs and ! said in stage whisper, Il
guess he's dead man. and we went
down the cellar and up the back stairs to
my room and undressed. Pa hollered to
ma that he was murdered, and ma called
me and came down in my night shirt,
and the hired girl she came down and N
was on the lounge, and he said his life.
blood was fast ebbing away. He held
his hand on the wound and said he could
feel the warm blood trickling clear down
to his boots. / told pa to stuff some tar
into the wound, such as he told me to
put on my lip to make my moustache
grow, and pa said, my boy, this il no
time for triaing. Your pa is on his last
legs. When ! came up stairs met six
BURGERS, and I attacked them, and forced
four Of them down, and was going to
hold them and send for the police when
two more, that did not know about,
jumped on me, aud was getting the
best Of them when one Of them struck
me over the head with q crewbar, and