The Dawson journal., 1883-03-22
HIS IA GETS BoXED.
GEORGE W. Pc *.

P"i 'o'' oo you, sald the DAD BOY to
the grocery man, as he put his wei
lnIttens on the top of the stove to
dry, and kept his back to the stove
SO he could watch the grocery man
and be prepared foi kick, if the
man shoull remember the rotten egg
sign that the boy put up in front OF
the grocery last week.
NAV, | don't want no parrot. l
ha rather have q fool boy around
than parrot But what's the mat
ter with your mas parrot? thought
she wouldn't part with him for an,
thing
'Well, she wouldn't until Wednes-
day night, bat now she says she
will not have him around, and | may
have half l can got tor him. She
tod me to go to some saloon, Or
some disreputable place and sell him.
and l thought may be he would
about suit you, and the boy broke
upel bunch of celery and took
out few tender stalks and rubbed
them on cod fish, to salt them,
and began to bite the stalks, while
he held the sole of Que wet boot up
against the stove to dry it, making
a smell Of burned leather that came
near turning the stomach of the cigar
sign.
Ioekahere, boy, don't you call
this a disrepulable place. Some of
the best people IN this town come
here said the grocery man, as he
| held up the cheese knife AMI grated
his teeth as though he would ike
to job it into the youth.
%, that's all right They come
here cause you trust. But you
make mp what you lose BY charging
II to other people. Pa will make it
hot for you the last of the week. He
has been looking over your bill, and
comparing it with the hired girl's,
and she says we haven't ever had a
prune, OF dried apple, or raison,
or any CHINA mon, or crackers and
cheese out Of your store, and he says
you are worse than the james
Brothers, aud that yoa used to be
three card monte nan, aud he will
have yon arrested for highway rob
berry. But you can settle that with
pa. ] like you, because you are no
ordinary sneak thief. You are
high toned, gentlemanly sort of
blk, and wouldn't take anything you
couldn't lift. 0, keep your seat,
and don't get excited. 1t does
man good to hear the truth from one
who has got the never tell him. But
about the parrot Ma has been
away FROM home for Ii week, having
high old time in Chicago, going to
theatres and things, sad / guess the
hired girl or somebody learned the
parrot some new things to say. A
parrot that can only say Polly
wants cracker don't amount to
anything. What we need is new
style of parrots that can converse on
the topics of the day, and say things
original. Well, when lna got back
| guess her conscience hurt her for
the way she had been carrying on in
Chicago, and so when she heard the
basement of the church was being
frescood she invited the committee
to hold the Wednesday evening
prayer meeting at our house. First
there were four people came, and
una asked pa to stay to make up
quorum, ana pa said seeing he had
two pair, he guessed he wodld stay
in, and if ma would leal him a queen
he would nave a falI hand. l don't
know what pa meant, but he plays
draw poker sometimes. Anyway,
there was eleven people came incIud-
ing the minister, and after they ha
talked about the neighbors spell,
and ma had showed the women
new tidy she had worked for the
hoathen, with a motto on it which
pa had taught her, "a eonrite heart
beats a bo3-tailed flush, aad pa ha |
talked 80 the mea about a religious
silver niue he was selling stock in,
which lie lvised taem a. a friend tn
BUY for the glory of tine church, they
all went in the back parlor and the
minister led in prayer. He got down
on his knees right under the parrots
cage, and you'd hide to see Polly
hang ON 20 tie wires Of the cage
with one foot aud drop al apple
core on the minister's head. Ma
shook hey handkerchief at Polly,
ani looked sassy, aud Polly got up