The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-06-08
THE BAD BOY.
TPeck's SUM-

Ony, tuouHuS you Wuo guns ~
try 10 lead different life,' said the
grocery man to the bad boy, as the
youth came in with his pockets full
Of angle worms, aud wanted to Dor.
,ow Q baking.powder can to put them
iu,o, while he went fishing, and be
held long sngle.worm up by tho
tail and let il wiggle 30 that it irigh.
tened a little girl that had come il
after two cents worth Of yelst, 20 she
dropped her pitcher and went out OF
The grocery NJ though sho was chns.
ed 10y an an iconda.
~ am going to lead q diffe.en. Life,
but u boy cant change his whole
course If lie in o minute, can H.?
Grown persons have to 20 on rroba.
,ion six uoat hs, before they cln lead
dilTareut life. and half the time
they lose their cud before tho six
months expire, and lave to commence
again. When j. is 40 alfred hard
for man that is endowed with sense
to break of being bad. you ;honldn',
expect too much from boy. But /
am doing as we'll as could b, expsc-
ted. l amt half 30 lad as ! was.
Gnsh. why don't you burn rag.
That ye st that tho girl spilled on
the floor smells like it was sick. ]
should think that bre I'd that was rails.
oi on that yeast would smell like this
Coz king batter that you sell to hired
sir's."
"Wo.l, never you mind tba. cook.
irg butter. know my business
II people want to use poor butter
when they have company, and then
blow up the grocer before folks, ]
can staud it il you ctg. But whit Ia
tbi> / hear ebo,. your Pa fighting u
duel with the minister iu your back
yard, and wound;pg him in the leg.
aud ihsn trying 10 drown himself in
, he cisierr? One of your new E,igh
boys WAS in here this morning ard
told me thore WIS murder in the mir
at your house last night. anl they
we're going to have the police pull
your place a. dis'rdcrly ho1ss' l
think you were at the b);tom Of the
whole business"
10, it's all u dam lio, and tLo'e
neigLhols WI find that they had bet.
ter keep still sbont us. or we will lie
about them li,,le. You see. since
Pa CT that backing on his fice he
don't 60 ont any. and 10 mako it
pleasant for him M invited ir few
friends - spend the evening. MA
has got mp around, and the baby is Q
daisy, only it rnols like goat, on
account Of drinking the goa.'s milk.
Ma invited ,hs minister. among the
rest. ard after supper the men went
mp into Pas library to talk. o, you
thiLk | am bad, don't you. bu. ofthe
Dino IN sn u, our house last night. ]
am an angel compared with wha.
they were when they were boys. ]
got in the bathroom 10 untmgls my
fish lima. an II it's next to Pas rom,
aud | could hear every thing they
said, but I went away cause thought
hair conver sation would hurt my
morals. They wonld all steal. wher
lhoy were Toys, but darned il l ever
stole. Pa has stole over n hundred
wagon loads of wa'er.molons. one
deacon used t, rob orchards, ano,h-
,r oae shot tame ducks belol ging to
q farmer, and another tipped over
in front OF tho village
store, and broke them, and run, au-
other used to steal eggs, and go out
in the wood, and boil them, and tho
mini ter was tie worst of tho lot,
cause bo took seine. with some of
tho boys. and went 10 u stream where
IL nsighbor was raising brook trout,
aud cleaned tho stream GU, and TO
ward of suspicion, LIE went TO the
man the next day and peid him q
dollar t. let him fish in the stream.
and then kicked bee ,uso lhere was
no trout, aud the owner found out
the trout were stolen aid lad it to
some Dutch bays. I wonder 0 l,whcn
those men were telling their exptr,-
encs, il they ever ,honght Of it now
when they were preac hing and pray.
lug and taking up collection !
should think they wouldn't say boy
was going 10 hell right Of cause he
was a little wild now days, when lie
was such an example. Well, lately
somebody has been burglating our
chicken coob, and Pa loa led an old
musket with rock salt, ani sail he
would FIJI the fellow full of salt il he
causht him, and while they were
talking up sairs mn heard a rooster
squawk, and she went to the stairway
and told Pa there wGs somebody 10
the hen.house. Pa jumped up and
told the visitors to follow him, aud
they would see a mtn ruuning down
,he alley. full OF SAL. and he rushed
out with the gun. aud the crowd f,l.
lowed him. Pa is shorter than ths
rest. and he passed under the arst
wire clothes.line oil right, and
was going for the hen hou'o on o
jump. when bis neck caught the Sec
ond wire clotlcs.liue, ju't ss the min-
istev aud two Of The deac,ns caught
their pecks on the other wire. Yoa
know how a wire hitting q man on