The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-02-11

- was down TO the drug store this morning, and
saw your ma buying lot of court plaster enough to
make q shirt, should think what's she doing
with much court plaster ~ asked tue grocery man
of the bad boy, as he came In and pulled OF his boots
by the stove aud emptied out lot OF snow That had
collected as he walked through drift, the hearth
which melted aud made q bad smell.
30, guess she is going to patch pa up so he viii
hold water. PAS TEMPER got him into the worst
muss you ever See last night. II that museum was
here now they would hire pa and exhibit him the
tattooed man. tell you, | have got too old to be
mauled as though was "A kid, and any who
attacks me from THIS out, wants 10 have his peace
made with the insurance companies and know that
his calling and election Is sure, because am bad
man, and don't you forget it.n And the boy pulled
on his boots and looked aud desperate that
the grocery man asked him II ho wouldn't try little
new cider.
'Good heavens, - said the grocery man, as the boy
swallowed the cider and his face resumed natural
look, and the piratical frown disappeared with The
cider. - 1Ou have rot stabbed your father, have
you. | have feared that one thing would bring on
another with You, and that you would Vet be hung
- Nav, haven't stabbed him. IL was another cat
bal alhboed NM ron see, pa wants me TO do all the
work around the house. The other day he bought q
load Of kndlng wood, and told me to carry it Into
the basement. | have not been educated up 10 kin
ding wood and didn't do II. When supper time
came, and pa found that had carried In the kim
ding wood he had hot box and he told me IN that
wood was not In when he came back from the lodge
that he would warm my Jacket Well, tried To hire
some one TO carry 1t In, aud got man 10 promise to
come in the morning aud carry 1t in aud take his pay
In groceries, and was going TO buy the groceries
here and have them charged 10 pa. Bat
that wouldn't help me out that night. /
knew when pa came home he would search
for me. So | slept In the back han on q cot
But didn' want pa 10 have all the trouble for noh-
Ing, 50 borrowed an old tom cat that my Chum's
old maid aunt owns and put the cat ia my he'd.
thought II pa came in my room after me. and found
that by his unkindness that had changed To u tom
car he would be sorry. That is the biggest cat YOU
ever see and the worst fighter Ia ward II ISM /
afraid Of anything and can whip n New Found land
dog quicker than You could put sand In barr Ell Of
sugar. Well about eleven o. clock heard pa tumble
over thee kinding wood, aud | knew by the remark
he made, as the wood slid around under him, thar
thee was going 10 be cat night real quick. lie
lIennery had retired 10 his viruons couch. ia is
awful sarcastic when he tries 10 be- could hear him
ns lie picked up trunk strap : I guess /
VIII 20 mp TO his room and watch the
smile On his face, and he dreams of angels. yearn
Ia press MIN TO my aching bosom thought 10 myself
lnebbe you won't yeaTn 50 much directly. lie come
up stairs, and I could bear him breathing hard. /
looked out around the corner aud could see he lust
had his shirt and pants, ana his suspeuders
were hanging down, aud his bald head shOne like a
calcium light just before II eNpodes Pa went In my
Come out here ana bring Ia That kindllng wood,
win start fire on your base burner with this strap
Anu lheh theie was SnMllhk shch az never heard
before, and pa SAID Helen iales, and the furni
ture In my room began 10 fan around and break. oh,
ny think pa took the tom eat right by the neck,
The way he does me, ana that left an the cat feet
free 10 get Ia their work. by the way the eat
hquaW led as though II was being ChOked, know pa
hId him by The neck. suppose the cat thought
and tie eat had record dogs, aud
10 Kicked awful fa's shirt was no protection az an
In car hght, and the cat Just walked all around pa
stomach aud pa yelled police, and IRE, and
turn on The hose, aud he called ma, aud the cat
yowled. " pa had had presence NJ mind enough 10
have dropped the cat rolled 10 up IN the matlTass
u would have been an right bat man always gets
ratified lu time ut danger aud ht held onto HE cat
ANA started down stairs yelling murder aud he met
ma coming mp. guess mas Ught-cap, or some
thing, frightened the eat more, cause lac stabbed ma
uu the ught-shirt with one hnd foot, aud ma said
mercy Ou as, and she went BACK, and p Stumbled
ON a hand-sled that was on the stairs, and they
all fell down, aud the cat got away aud went down Ia
tho coal bin aud yOWled All night IA aud ma
went into their room, and guess they anOiutsd
themselves with yasselino and Ponds extract,
and went ana got into my Ted cause IL was cold
out IN The hall, aud the eat had warmed my bed as
well as II had warmed pa. 4; was an I could do to
90 90 sleep with pa aud ma talking an night and this
morning ! came down the back stairs, and haven /
been 60 breakfast, cause don't want 10 pa when
no Is yeXed. You let tho man that carries IN the
and have them charged to pa. ] have passed the
kindliug wood period In bDY's llfc ana have ar
rived at the coal period win carry Ia coal, but
draw thelina at kudlng wood. 90
'WCll, you are cruel bad boy, ~ said the gro
Gerry man, he went To the book aud charged the sN
shilllngs
ION, don know. think pa Is cruel. man
who win take poor kitty by tho neck, mat hasn'
with trunk strap ought 10 BIO looked after by the
humane society Ana II Il Is cruel 20 take cat by
the neck, how much more cruel II is 10 take boy by
the neck, that had dptheTla only few years ago aud
your Invitation 70 take breakfast with YOU aud the
hoy cut OF piece Of bologna and helped himself TO
tho crackers, and while the grocery man was out
hhuyelinE Oh the snow from the sidewalk, tie boy
ed his pockets with raisns and loaf sugar, and then
went out 10 watch the mau carry Ia his kiudllng
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