The Dawson journal., 1883-04-26
Has MA DECEsVES HIM.


no vest. He looked as though he ha
been routed out of bed in a hurry, and ha,
jumped into his pants and boots, and pu
on his coat and hat on the run.
1 don't keep saffron said the grocer
man, as he picked up barrel of ax-hand
les the boy bad tipped over in his hurry
You want to go over to the drug store Oh
the corner, if you want saffron. But wha
on earth is the mat
AT this point the boy shot out of the
door, tipping over basket of white beans,
and disappeared in the drug store. The
grocery man got down on his knees on the
sidewalk and scooped up the beans. oc-
casionally locking over to the drug store,
and just as he got theal picked up the boy
came out Of the drug store and walked
deliberately towards his h me, as though
there was no particular hurry. The groce-
ry man looked after him, took up an ak
handle, spit on his hands and shouted to
the boy to come over pretty soon, as ne
wanted to talk with him. The boy did not
come to the grocery till, towards night, but
the grocery man had seen him running
down town dozen times during the day.
once he rode up to the house with the doc
tor, and the grocer surmised what was the
trouble. Along towards night the bow
came in in detected sort of tired way
sat down on a barrel of sugar, and never
spoke.
What is it, a boy Or girl, said the groce-
ry man, winlling at an old lady with a
shawl over her head, who was trying to
hold paper over pitcher of yeast with
her thumb
How in blazes did you know ANYTHING
about it, said the boy as he looked around
in astonishment, and with some indignation.
We'll, it's a girl, if you must know, ana
that's enough, and he looked down at the
cat playing on the floor with a potato, his
face picture of detection.
%, don't feel bad about it. said the
grocery man, as he opened the door for the
old lady. Such things are bound to oc-
cur. But you take my word for it, that
young one is going to have a hard life, un-
less you mend your ways You will be
using it for cork for a jug, or to wad
gun WITH the first thing your ma knows
1 wouldn't touch the dam thing with the
tongs, said the boy, as he rallied enough to
eat some crackers and cheese. Gosh this
cheese tastes good, | haint had nothing to
eat SINCE morning. I have been all over
this town stolling for nurses. They think
boy hasn't got any feelings But
wouldn't care a god darn, If ma hadn't
been sending me for neuralgia medicine
and have fever snuff all winter, when she
wanted to get rid of me. l have come in
the room lots of times when ma and the
sewing girl We're at work on some flannel
things and ma would hide them in bas
ket and send off after medicine. | was
deceived up to about four o'clock this
morning, when pa come to my room and
pulled me out of bed to 60 over on the
| West Side after some old women that knew
ma, and they have kept me whoopng ever
since What does a boy want of sister,
unless it is big sister. don't want no
sister that | have got to hold, and rock, and
hold bottle for. This affair breaks me
all up and the boy picked the cheese out
of his teeth with silver he cut off the
counter.
'Well, how does your pa take it, said
the grocery man, as he charged the boys
pa with the cheese and saffron, and a
number of such things.
%, pa will pull through He wanted to
boss the whole concern Gntil mas chdm,
an old women that takes snuff, fired lhim
out into the hall Pa sat there on nv
hard sed perfect picture of despair, and
| thought it would be a Kindness to play il
on him. | found the cat asleep in the
bath room, and l rolled the cat up in a
shawl and brought it out to pa and told him
the nurse wanted him to hold the baby.
1t seemed to do pa good to feel that he was
indispensable around the house. and he
took the cat on his lap as tenderly as YOU
ever saw mother hold an infant. Well.
got in the back hall, where he couldn't
see me- and pretty soon the cat began to
wake up and stretch himself, and pa said
s-h-h tootsy, go to sleep now, and Iles pa
hold it, and pa he rocked back and forth
on the hand sled and began to sing by, low,
baby That settled it with the cat We'll
some cats can't stand music anyway, and
the more the cat wanted to ret out of the
shawl, the louder pa sung, and bimeby
heard something rip, AID pa yelled, scat
you BRUTE and when / lo0ked-around the
corner of the hall the cat was bracing his
self against pas vest with his toe nails
and yowing, and pa fell over the sled and
began to talk about the hereafter like the
minister does when he gets excited il
church, and then pl picked up the set
and seemed to be looking for me or the cat,
but both of us was offul scarce. Don't you
'niiiN 'uOiO ''iS 'iiiiO' "hCh oVys anu C'tt
are kind Of few around their accustome
Aunts? Pa don't look as though he wa.
very smart, but he can hold a cat about a
well as the next man But am sorry TO
ma. She was just getting ready to go t.
Florida for her neuralgia, and this will pa
a stop to it, cause she viii have to stay AM
take care Of that young one. Pa says
will have nice time this summer pushn
the baby wagon. BY the great horn spoon,
there has got to be dividing line some