The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-04
Peck's Bad Bow.

HWhat makes you limp sof' salt
the grocery man to the bad boy.
swell, you see, me and my chun
put up job on pa to make hin
think Sunday was only Saturday
You sec they didn't go to meetin
last Sunday because mas new bon
net hadn't come, and Monday anC
Tuesday it rained, and the rest Of
the week was so muddy none called
or they could not get anywhere
and on Tuesday my chum he got
the paper off the steps and put
Mondays paper in its place. Then
Wednesday we put Tuesdays pa
per on the steps and pa said that
seemed more than Tuesday, but ma
she got the paper of the day before
and looked at the date and said it
seemed so to her but she guessed
they had lost a day somehow.
Thursday we got Wednesdays pa
per on the steps Saturday Friday S
paper, and ma said she guessed she
would wash to-mon ow, and pa said
he believed he would hoe in the
garden and get the weeds out so it
would look. better to folks when
they went by Sunday to church.
Well, Sunday morning came, and
with it Saturdays daily paper, and
pa barely glanced it over as he got
on his overalls and went out in his
shirt sleeves a hoeing in the front
garden. And 1 and my chum
helped ma to carry water to wash.
She said it seemed like the longest
week she ever saw, but when we
brought the water we got IN the Ii
lac bushes and waited. It wasn't
long before folks began going to
church and You'd a dide laughing
to see them all stop in front of
where ma was washing and look at
her and go on to where pa was hoe
ing weeds and stop and look at him,
and drive on. After about a dozen
teams had passed l heard ma ask
pa if he knew who was dead, as
there must be a funeral somewhere.
Pa had just hoed into humble
bees nestiand said that he did not
know of any body that was dead, but
knew some that ought to be, and
ma she did not ask any more fool
ish questions. About twenty teams
had stopped. Deacon Smith said
OF Dissertation and drove
away. Deacon Brown asked pa
if he did not think he was setting a
bad example before his boy, but pa
he said he thought it would be a
good one if the boy could only be
hired to do it. Finally ma took the
tub behind the house where they
could not see her. About four
o'clock that afternoon we saw a
dozen of our congregation headed
by the minister file into our yard,
and my chum and 1 knew it was
time to fly, so we got on the back
steps where we could hear. Pa met
them at the door expecting some
bad news, and when they were
seated, ma she came in and re-
marked it was q very unhealthy
year.. None of them said a word
until the elder put on his specs and
said it was a solemn occasion,and ma
she turned pale and wondered who
it could be, and pa says don't keep
us in suspense-who is deadY and
the elder said no one was dead, but
they called as duty they owed
the cause to take action on them
for working on Sunday. Ma she
tainted away and they threw a
pitcher of water down her back, and
pa said he guessed theyiwere pack
of lunatics, but they all swore it
vas Sunday and they saw ma wash
ing and pa out hoeing as they
went to church, and they had
calledto take faction on them. Then
there was a few minutes of low
1 could not catch, and
then we heard pa kick over his
chair and say it was more tricks of
that darned boy, then we knew it
time to adjourn, and ! was just get
ting through the back fence as pa
reached me with barrel stave, and
that is what makes me limp some"