The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-04-10

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had always claimed that the Fenians
were the incest men in the world,
and 1t seemed to relieve him very
much. When he got home and found
the house there, he was tickled, and
when ma called him an old bald
headed coward, and said it was only
a joke of the boys with a football,
he laughed right out and said he
Kew it all the time, and he ran to
see If ma would be scared. And
then he wanted to hug me, but it
wasn't my night to hug, and I went
down to the theatre. Pa don't amount
to much when there is trouble. The
time ma had the cramps, you remem-
ber, when you got your cucumbers
first last season, pa came near faint
ing away, and ma said ever since
they had been married when any
thing allied her, pa has had pains just
as she has, only he grunted more,
and thought he was going to die.
Gosh, if 1 was man l wouldn't be
sick every time one Of the neighbors
had the backache, would your
"Well, you can't tell. When you
have been married twenty or thirty
years you will know O good deal
more than you do now. You think
you know it all, now, and you
are pretty intelligent, for a boy that
has been brought up carelessly, but
there are things that you will learn
after a while that will astonish you.
But what ails your pas teeth? The
hired girl was over here to get some
corn meal for cruel, and she said
your pa was cumming it, since he
lost his teeth"
20, about the teeth. That was too
bad. You see, my chum has got =
dog that is old, and his teeth have all
come out in front, and this morning !
borried pas teeth, before he got up,
to see if we couldn't fix them in the
dogs mouth, so he could eat better.
Pa says it's an evidence of a kind
heart for boy to be good to dumb
animals, but it's a darn mean dog
that will 60 back OH a friend. We
tied the teeth in the dogs mouth with
u string that went around his upper
jaw, and another around his under
jaw, and you'd dide to see how fun
ny he looked when he laf1ed. He
looked just like pa when he tries to
smile SO as to get me to come up to
him, so he can lick me. The dog
paved his mouth spell to get the
teeth out, and then we gave him q
bone with some meat on, and he be-
gan to gnaw the bone, and the teeth
come off the plate, and he thought it
was pieces Of the bone, and he swal.
lowed the teeth. My chum noticed
it first, and he said we had got to get
in our work pretty quick to save the
plates, and l think we were in luck
to save them, I held the dog, and
my chum, who was better acquainted
with him, united the strings and got
the gold plates out but there were
only two teeth left, and the dog was
happy. He woggled his tail for more
teeth, but we hadn't any more. l
am going to give him mas teeth,
some day. My chum says when a
dog gets an appetite for anything,
you have got to keep giving it to him,
or he goes back on you. But l think
my chum played dirt on me. We
sold the gold plates to jewelry man,
and my chum kept the money. 1
think, as / furnished the goods, he
ought to have given me something
besides the experience, don't you 2
After this, / don't have no more part
ners, you bet" All this time the boy
was marking on piece of paper, and
soon after he went out the grocery
noticed crowd outside, and on going
out, he found sign hanging up,
which read: "Wormy figs, for par
ties"