The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-30
THE BAD BOY.
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guess yARe Pc s.tossessn that silver
mine have made him crazy, havn't they?"
said the grocery man to the bad boy, as
he came into the store with his eve whis-
kers singed off, and powder marks on his
face, and begun to play on the harmonica,
az he sat down on stick of stove wood
and balanced himself.
ooh, / guess not. He has hedged.
He got in with a deacon of another
church and sold some of the stock to him,
and pa says if l will keep my condemn
mouth shut he will unload the whole Of
it, if the churches hold out He goes to
q new church every night there is prayer
meeting, or anything, and makes ma 60
with him to give him tone, and after
meeting she talks with the sisters about
how to piece silk bed quilt, while pa
gets in his work selling silver stock. l
don't know but what he will order some
more stock from the factory, if he sells
all he has got" and tine boy went On
playing, There's a land that is fairer
than day."
But what was he skipping up street
for the other night, with his hat off and
grabbing at his coat tails as though they
were ON fire? And what was the cele-
bration down on your street about that
time? l thought the world was coming
to an end" and the grocery man kept
away from the boy for fear he would ex-
plode.
"Oh, that was only Fenian scare.
Nothin' serious. You see, pa is sort of
half Englishman. He claims to be an
American citizen when he wants an Office,
but when they talk about draft, he
claims to be a subject of Great Britain,
and he says they can't touch him. Pa is
darn smart man, and don't you forget
it. Pa said good deal about the wicked
Fenians, and that they ought to be
pulled, and when 1 read the story in the
papers about the explosion in the British
Parliament pa was hot. He said the
Irish was running the whole world. He
didn't dare say it at the table. or oul
hired girl would have knocked him silly
with spoonful of mashed potatoes,
cause she's a Nirish girl, and she car
lick any Englishman in this town. P;
said there ought to have been somebody
there to have taken the bomb up ant
throwed it into the sewer before it ex
ploded. He said if he should ever see
bomb he would grab it right up ant
throw it away where it wouldn't hur
anybody. Pa has me read the papers t,
him nights, cause his eyes has got splin
ters in them; and after l had read al
there was in the paper made up a who'll
lot more and pretended to read it, abou
how it was rumored that the Fenians il
Milwaukee were goirg to place dynamit
bombs at every house where an English
man lived, and at a given signal bloy
them all up Pa looked pale around tn
gills, but he said he wasn't scared. P
and ma was going to call on she deaco
that night, that has lots of money in tn
bank, to see if she didn't want to inves
in dead sure paying silver mine, an
me and my chum concluded to give ther
send of. We got big black Inj
rubber football. and painted Dinymite
in big white letters on it, and tied
piece of tarred rope to it for fuse, an
got big frecracker--one of those bi
Fourth Of July horse scarers, and a ba
ketful of broken glass. We put the foo
ball in front of the step, and lit the tarre
rope, and got under the step with Il
firecracker and the basket, where the
60 down into the basement. Pa and n
came out of the front door and down Il
steps, and when pa saw the football al
the burning fuse he said, Great Gos
Hammer, we're blowed up, and he starte
to run, and ma she stopped to look at
just as he started to run ! touched {
the firecracker, and my chum arrange
it to pour out broken glass on the brio
pavement just as the firecracker wei
off. Well, everything went off just as v
expected, except ma She had examine
the football, and concluded it was n
dangerous, and was just giving it XII
as the frccracker went of, and the gla