The Dawson journal., 1883-12-13
The Bad Boy.

picnic, as heretofore. "What's the
matter with your your father has
not been tampering with you with
boot, has he?"
No said the boy, as he frightened
ap. PA and me are good friends
now. He says he has discovered that
my heart is i'll the right place, and
that / am goins to amount to some
thing. and he has forgiven every fool
ish thing I ever did to him, and says
for me to come to him any time when
want advice or when want nsoney
TO do good with. Why, when pa
found i had pawned my watch to get
moueJ TO buy medicine for the wo-
man. he went and redeemed it, and
offered TO whip the pawn-broker
for charging me too much for the
money. Oh, pa il darling now.
He went to the funeral with U.S."
"What funeral" said the grocery
man, with look Of surprise ''You
crazy? l haven't heard OF any funeral
ct your house. Don't you come no
joke on me"
"Oh, there is no joke about it,"
said the boy. "You see, the little
apple girls grandma lost her grip on
this earth soon after she got the med
icine and the doctor and died. I was
down there and it was the solemnest
scene 1 ever witnessed. L looked
around and see that somebody had
got to act, and I braced up and told
the girl | was all wool, yard wide,
and for her just let me run things.
She was going to the poor masseFand
have the city bury the old lady, but
couldn't bear to see that little girl
play soltAire as mourner and ride in
an express wagon with the remAins,
and not have any minister, and go to
the pauper bT1rying ground, where
they don't say grace over the coffin,
but two shovelers smoke black pipes
and shovel the earth in too quick,
and talk Bohemi an all the time. 1t
didn't seem right for poor little girl
that never committed y crime, except
to be poor and sell wormy apples, to
have no style about ber grandma's
funeral, SO | told her to brace up and
wipe her eyes on oHs of my handker-
chefs and wait for Hennery. Well,
siryI didn't know as I had so much
gall. You have got to be put in a
tight place before you know the kind
OF baled hay there is in you. rushed
out and found q mOtherly old lady
thss used to do our washing and give
me bread and butter with brown
sugar on it when | went after the
clothes. KNEW woman that would
give bad boy bread and butter with
brown sugar on it, and cut the slices
thick, had warm heart, and l got
her to go down the alley, and stay
with the little girl, and be a sort Of
mother to her for couple Of days.
| Then got my bicycle and took il
down to the pawn shop and got $2O
on it, and with that money in my
pocket, I felt as though I owned a
brewery, and I went to feller that
runs anexcursion hearse. and told him
l wanted Aearse and good carriage
q o'clock shaFpe ard the mourner.
would be ready. He thought L was
fooling, but I showed my roll Of bills
and that settled him. He would
have turned out six horses for me
when he see / had the wealth to put
up. l went down and told the little
girl how had arranged things, aDt
she said she wasn't fixed for no sucE
turn ont as that She hadn't an,
clothes, and the toes of one foot Wers
all out of tbs shoe, and the heal was
off the other one, so she walked sort
of italic like. told her not to Dor,
row any trouble, and | would rig hel
out SO she would do credit to O reg.
ular avenue funeral, with plumes on
the hearse, and | went home and
hunted through the clothes and
got lot of clothes ms wore yeare
ago, when my little brother died, and
a pair of her shoes, aud long veil
and everything complete was GO
lug TO jump over the back fence with
the bundle when pa got sight of me
and called Inc back / felt guilty,
and didn't want to explain, and pa
opened the bundle and when he saw
the mourning clothes that he had not
seen before since we buried our little
baby, great tears came to pas eyes,
and he broke down aud wept like a
child, and il made me weaken some,
too. Then oa wanted TO know what