The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-22
The FAD coy.
From l's,k SIS.

- Well. ! swow, here comes a
walking hospital said t%hegroccry
man an the bad boys shadow came
in the store, followed by the boy
who looked sick and yellow, and
tired, and he had lost half his flesh.
Whats the matter with you!
Haven't got the yellow fever, have
yonr and the grocery man placed
a chair where the invalid couldfa fall
into it.
mo. Got the ager," said the
boy, as he wiped the pcrsperation
off his upper lip, and looked around
the store to see if there was any
thing in sight that would take the
last Of quinine out of his mouth.
''IIad q too dreamy life Of ease
on the farm, and been shaking ever
SINCE. Darn a farm any way"
what, you hain't hit the deacon
any more, have youl | thought
YOU sent in your resignation, and
the grocery man offered the boy
some limburger to strengthen
him.
80, take the cheese away said
the boy, as he turned pale and gag
ged. "You don't know what a sick
person needs any more than apro-
fessional nurse. What ! want is to
be petted. You see | went out to
the farm with my chum, and took
the fish poles and remained in the
woods while he drove the horse
to the deacon's, and he gave him
my resignation, and the deacon
wouldn't accept it. He said he
wouldn't hold my assignment until
after harvest, and then act on il.
lie said he could put me in jail for
brcech Of promiseif fl quit work and
left him without giving proper
notice, and my chum came and
told me, and SO | concluded to 90
TO work for him rather than have
any trouble, and the deacon said
my chum could work a few day
for his board If he wanted to. 1t
was pretty darn poor board for q
boy to work for, but my chum
wanted to be with me, so he stayed
Pa and ma came out to the farm to
stay a day or two to help. Pa
was going to help harvest and ma
was going TO help the deacon's
wife, but pa wanted to carry the
ing to the field and lay under a
tree while the rest of US worked,
and ma just talked the arm off the
deacon's wife. The deacon and pa
laid in the shade and see my chum
and me work, and ma and the
deacon's wife gossiped so they
forgot to get dinner, and my chum
and me organized a strike, but we
were beaten by monopoly. Pa
took me by the neck and thrashed
out a shock of wheat with my
heels, and the deacon took my
cham and sat down on him, and we
begged and they gave rs Our old
situation hack. But we got even
with them at night. | tell You
when a boy tries to be good, and
quit playing jokes on people, and
then have everybody down on him,
and has his pa hire him out on a
farm to work for a deacon who
hasn't got any soul except when
he is in church, and . boy has to
get up in the nigh gud get his
breakfast and 90 to work, and has
TO work until late AT night, and
they kick because he wants to pnt
butter on his pancakes, and feed
him skim milk and rusty fat pork,
it makes him tough. and he would
play Joke on his aged grandmoth-
cr. After my chum and myself
had got all the chores done at
night, we sat on the fence back of
the house in the orchard, eating
green apples in the moonlight, and
trying to think of some plan of
revenge. Just that time | saw a
skunk back OF the house, right to
drive the skunk down the celler
and shut the door, but my chum
said that would be too mean. ]
asked himif it would be any meaner
than for the deacon 10 snatch us
bald headed because we couldn't
NOW hay away asst enough for two
men to pitch it, and he said it
wouldn't, and so we got on each
side of the skunk and sort of scared
it down cellar, and then We cropt
ap softly and shut the cellar doors.
Then we went in the house and |
whispered to ma and askcd,her If.
she didn't think the deacon had
some cider, and ma she began to
hint that she hadn't had a good
drink Of cider since last winter