The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-04-27
THE BAD BOY,

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toes at tho man who callects garbage
in the alley.
70. they are searching for sewer
gas, and such things, and they have
got plumbers and other sanitary ex.
perts till you cau't rest; aud I came
away for fear they would find tho
sower gas and warn my jacket.
'She-h-l! Now dou't breathe n
word OF it to o living soul, or / am a
dead boy. You zee was ovOr to the
dairy fair at the Exposition hui ding
on Saturday light, aud when they
wore breaking mp. me and my chum
holpcd to carry boxes Of chccsc. fir
kins OF butter, and the checscman
gavo each OF rs picco OF limburger
cheese, wrapped in tin foil. Sunday
morning ! opened my piece. and 1t
made me tired. o. 1! was the awful.
lest smell ever hoard Of, except the
smell from tramp WHO hung him.
self in tho woods, on the Whi,efisb
road. md had been dead ,hroc weeks.
Pa and Ma were just getting ready
TO go to church, and / cut of a piece
Of chot Sc. and put it in tho inside
pocket VI Pas vest, and pat another
in tue lining OF Mas muE, and went
to church too, and sat on the back
scat with my chum lookiag as pious
as though was taking up q collec-
tion. Tao church was pretty warm,
and by the time they got up to the
first hymn Pa's cheese began to smell
a match acain.t Mas cheese. Pa
heit ono side OF tho hymn book and
N, helt the other. and Pa he sings
for oil that is out, and when he brac.
cd himself and sang 'J..st As l Am
Ma thought Pas vice was tincturcd
with biliousness, and she looked at
him, and hunched him, and told him
to stop singing, and breathe through
his no.e cause his breath was enough
to stop clock.
Pa storpod singing and turned
around kind OF cross towards Ma. and
then he smclloi Mas cheese, and
,hcn be- turned his head the other
way and said 'whow!'a and they didn't
sing any more, bat thoy looked at
each otLor as though they smclled
fury. When they sa. down they so!
as far apart as they could get, Pa
sat next to q woman who used to be
a nurse 10 hopsi.al. md when she
smclled Pas cheese she looked at
him as though she thought he had tho
smallpox and she lold her haudkcr-
chief to her nose The man in tho
other end Of the pew that Ma SO.
near, he was n stranger from Racine,
wLo bel.nged to our church, aud he
looked at Ma sort OF quoer, md whom
they got up 10 sing again the man
took his hat aud went ont, and when
ho came by me he'said something in
q whisper about female glue facto-
tory. Well sir, before the sermon
was over everybody in tha. part OF
the church had tloir handke,chiois
to their nosce, and thoy looked OF
Pa and Ma scandalous, aud the two
a,hers they came around il the pew'
looking for dog, and when the min
lister got over his sermon, ho wiped
the perspiration Of his fac. ho said
le would ike to have tho trustees
OF tho church stay af,cr meeting ns
there was business to transact. He
said tho question Of proper vcntila-
ton and sewerage Of the church
would be brought up, aud that be
presumed the congregation had not
iced this morning that tho church
was unusually full Of sewer gas. Hc
said he was meek and humble fol.
lower of the Limb, and was willing
to cast Lis lot wherever the Master
decided, but would be blessed II lie
preach my longer in church that
smelled like boue boiling establish.
ment. Ho said religion was o good
thing, but no person could enjoy re
ligion a. we'll in a fat rendering es.
tablishmsnt as he could in a fiowe,
garien; and as far as lie was concern
cd, LIE had got enough.
Everybody looked nt everybod,
els. hut Pa looked at Ma as though h
knew where Tho sewer gas came from
AID Ma looked at Pa real mad, and
me aud my chnm lit ont, and wen'
homo and distributed my cheese al
around. Iput slice in Mas bu-
reau drawer, down under her under
clothing. and p;eos in the spare
room, under the bed. and q piece il
the bathing room in the soap dish
and O ali.s in the album IN the par
lor. aud pieos 10 the library in
book, aud I went to the d ming roor
and put some under tho table, ant
dropped o pisc, under the range II