The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-04-07

tiltu anu AIltu W gam lti ~ lll-
patty by telling her the f%ire-crackcr
went off before it was due, and
burned my eyebrows off, but she
didn't let up until | promised to go
and find pa. | tell you ma ought
to be engaged by the British gov
ermncnt to hunt out the dynamite
tiond, She would corral them in
two minutes. If pa had as much
sand as ma las got it would be
warm weather for me. Well, me
and my chum went and headed pa
of or | guess he would be running
yet. We got him Up by the lake
shore, and he wanted to know if
the house fell down. He said he
would leave it TO me il he ever
said anything against the Fenians,
and | told him that he had always
claimed that the Fcnians were the
incest men in. the world, and it
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 Il foot
ball, he laughed right out and said
he knew it all the time, and lie ran
to sec if ma would be scared. And
then he wanted to hug me, but it
wasn't my night to hug, and | went
down to The theatre. Pa don't
amount to much when there is
trouble. Tie time ma had them
cramps, YOU remember, when yon
got your cucumbers first last season
pa came near iaintiug away, and
ma said ever since they had been
married, wren any thing allied her,
pa las had pains Just the same as
she has, only he grunted more, and
thought he was going to die. Gosh,
if | was a man | wouldn't be sick
every time one Of the ncighbors
had a backache, would you!"
We'll you can't tell. When
you have been married twenty or
thirty years YOU will know a 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 broughtup carelessly,
but there are things that you will
learn after a while that will aston
ish you. But what aiIs 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
80, about the teeth. That WAS
too bad. You see my nun has
got a 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, 50 he could cat better. Pa
says it'san evidence OF Il kind heart
Tor a boy to be kind to dumb ami
mails, but it's a darn mean dog that
will go back on a friend. We tied
the teeth in the dogs mouth with
a string that went around his up
per Jaw, and another around his
undcr Jaw, and you'd a died to see
how funny he looked when lie
latfed. lie looked Just like pa
when he tries to smile SO as to get
Inc TO come up TO him, SO he can
Hex nae. The dog paved his mouth
Il spell 10 get the teeth out, and
then we gave him a bone with
some meat ON, and he began to
gnaw the bone, and the teeth came
of the plate, and he thought it was
pieces OF the bone, ana ne sWal-
lowed the teeth. My cllum noticed
it first, and said We had got to got
i'll our work pretty quick to save
the plates, and ! think we were in
luck to save them. held the dog,
ana my chWm, who was better ac,
quaintod with him, united the
strings and got The gold plates ont,
but there were only TWO teeth lett,
ana the dog was happy. lie wag-
gIed ms tan for more teeth, but we
naun t any more. am going to
give him mas teeth some day.
My clum says when q dog gees an
appetite ior anything you've got to
kcep giving ii 10 INN, or he goes
back On you. Bat | think my
cAum played dirt on me. We sold
the plates TOT Jewelryman, and my
chum kept the money. | think as
/ furnished the goods, he ought to
have given me something besides
the experience, don't yout After
fins Ibu'f have M mara n3rtuprs