Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-11-08
er saw tribe of Injins get scared so

quick as we did. As I went in the
hen coop and got under a barrel I
heard pa say: That busts up the
Buffalo Bill business. No more wild
western steer lassolng for your uncle
Ike. Well, no one was to blame
but pa. He thinks he can do every
thing, and when he tries and gets tan
gled he lays it to me. We went out
on the street with our tomahawks,
when pa went in the brush himself,
and disbanded, and went on to our
reservation, and peace reigns again,
and the Boston girl has gone home
with an idea that we are all heathens
out west
|. ~ should think your pa would
learn, after awhile that he is too old
to fool around as he did when he was
a boy" said the grocery man, as he
got away from the boy for fear he
would be scaiped.
That's what / told him when he
wanted to try my BICYCLE said the
boy, as he broke out laughing. He
saw me riding the bicycle, and said
he could do it as well as I could, if
he could once get on, but be couldn't
spring up on it quite as spry as he
used to, and he wanted me and my
chum to hold it while he got on. I
told him he would get hurt, but he
said there couldn't no boy tell him
anything about riding, and SO we got
the bicycle up against shade tree,
and he put his feet on the treadles,
and told us to turn her loose. Well,
honest, I shut my eyes cause didn't
want to see pa get tied up in knot.
But he did. He pushed with one
foot, and the bicycle turned sideways
then he pushed with the other foot,
and it began to wiggle, and then he
pushed with both feet, and pulled on
/ the handles, and the front wheel
struck an iron fence, and as pa went
on top of the fence the hind wheel
seemed to rear up and kick him, and
pa hung to the fence and the bicycle
hung to him, and they both went
down on the sidewalk, the big wheel
on pas stomach, one handle up his
trousers leg, the other handle down
his coat collar, and the other wheel
rolling around back and forth over
his fingers, and he yelling to us to
take it off. I never saw two people
tangled up the way pa and the bicycle
was, and we had to take it apart, and
take pas coat off and roll up his pants
to get him out. And when he got
tup, and shook himself, to see if he
was all there, and looked at it as
though he didn't know it was loaded,
and looked at me and then at my
chum in a sort Of nervous way, and
looked around and scringed as though
he expected the bicycle was going to
sneak up behind him and kick him
again, he wanted me to go and get
the ak to break the bicycle up with,
and when / laughed he was going to
take me by the neck and maui the BIZ
cycle, but reasoned him out of it.
| / wasn't to blame for his trying to
gallop over an iron picket fence with
a bicycle, cause told him to keep
off it. 1 think If men would take
advice from boys oftener they would
not be so apt to get their suspenders
caught on an iron fence and have te
be picked up in basket.
But there is no use telling grown
person anything, and by keeping
still and letting them break theil
bones, we save getting kicked. 1
would do some men good to be boys
all their lives, then they would't have
to initiate. Hello, there goes ths
police patrol wagon. and ! am goins
to see how it rides on the back step,
and the boy went out and jumped OF
the hind end of the wagon, and theI
picked himself up out of the mud an'
felt Of bis head where the police
mans club dropped on it.-Peck
Sun.
i Indignation will fill tine breast o
, every artist when we state that tw
!, men were arrested in lumber-yar'