The Dawson journal., 1883-12-20
THE BAD BOY.

Hello, Hennery," said the
groceryman to the bad boy, as he
came in holding his sides to keen
them from bursting with suppress
ed-laughter, what has occurred
to make a pious young man laugh
in a worldly manner? You must
try to cultivate a long, mournful
countenance, and learn to sigh
when you are the happiest," and
the groceryman weighed out a
couple of pounds of backwheat
flour for hired girl. "Has your
pa joined the police force? L saw
him driving a lot of hogs to the
pond yesterday"
That's what / am laughing at,
said the boy, as he put an apple
on the stove to bake Il. "pa has
gone to the pond after the hots
this morning. Yca see, [ have
been taking lessons in painting
and drawing, and the other day [
surprised pa by showing him q
picture of blue COW with a green
tail and old gold horns, and he
told me he never saw anything
more natural, and he advised me
to turn my attention entirely to an
lmal painting. Pa keeps four
hogs IN pen in the back lot, and
every day he turns them out in the
alley and let's them run and takes
them up when they come home in
the evening. The hogs are large
white ones, regular beauties, and
pa thinks as much Of them o. he
does of me. Well. pa told me to
turn the hogs out yesterday, and /
took my paint brush along, and
before turning them out / painted
black spots all over the hogs
You never saw LOT Of epeckled
hogs where the Spots were pnt On
any better. The hogs looked at
each other kind OF astonished, and
| turned them out. In the after
neon pa went out to the pen and
began to call, 'poig poig,' and the
pigs came running up the alley.
Pa saw the strange hogs coming
and be got mad and drove them
out of the alley, and then he cali
ed for his pigs again and the
specIled hogs come again, little
slower, and seemed to wonder
what allied pa, They acted as
though they felt hurt at being re-
ceived in such a violet manner.
Pa met the speckle hogs with o
broom, and he run them down the
alley again, and the hogs stood
off and looked at him as though he
had the jimjams. You would
have dide to see pa drive his own
hogs away and talked sassy. He
got pail of swill and called the
hogs again, and they came on a
gallop, and then pa called po-
liceman and they drove the hogs
to the pond. l didn't see pa last
night, but the first thing this
morning [ told him 1 had taken
his advice and gone to animal
painting, and that I had painted
spots on our white hogs and made
speckled hogs of them, and speck-
led hogs were worth a cent a
pound more than white hogs
Well, pa didn't faint away, but
when it all came over him that he
had drove his own hogs to the
pond, he was SO cross he could
have bit nail. But he didn't say
anything to me cause l 'spose he
didn't want to discourage my ar
tistic ambitions, but he has gone
down to the pond after the hogs.
May be the rain has washed the
spots off and the man that keeps
the pound won't let pa have white
hogs when he left speckled ones
there. However, / didn't warrant
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