The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-19

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to get sewing to do. but they wouldn't
have her. l guess cause she cried SO
much when she was sewing, and t. e
tears wet the cloth she was sew on.
Once / asked pa why ma didn't give
her some sewing to do, and he said
to dry up and never speak to her if
| met her on the street. 1t seemed
tufi to pass her OH the street, when
/ know her SO we'll, and she had been
SO kind to me at school, just cause a
dude wouldn't marry her; but l
wanted to obey pa, so | used to walk
around block when / see her coming,
cause l didn't want TO hurt her feel
ings. Well, last night she came in
the store looking pretty shabby, and
wanted glass of soda, and l gave it
to her, and Oh, how her hand trem-
bled when she raised the glass to her
lips, and how wet her eyes were, and
how pale her FACE was! l choked up
50 / couldn't speak when she handed
me the nickle, and when she looked
up at me she was smilingjus like she
used to, and said / was getting to be
almost man since we went to school
at the old house, and put her handker-
chi f to her eyes, by gosh, my eyes
got 60 full l couldn't. tell whether it
was nickle or a lozenger she gave
me. Just then me of those loafers
began to laugh at her and call her
names, and say the police ought to
take her up for stray, and he made
fun of her until she cried some more,
and l got hot and went around to
where he was and told him if be said
another unkind word to that girl /
would maui him. He laughed and
asked if she was my sister, and l told
him that a poor. friendless girl, who
was sick and in distress, and who was
insulted, ought to be every boys sis
ter for a minute, and any boy whs
had a spark of manhood should pro-
tect her, and then he laughed and said
fought to be one of the little sisters of
the poor, and he took hold of her fad
ed shawl and pulled the weak girl
against the showcase and said some
thing mean to her, and she looked as
though she wanted to die, and |
mashed that boy one right on the
nose. Well. the air seemed to be full
of me for minute, cause he was big
ger than me, and he got me down
and got his thumb Ia my
eye. l guess he was going
to take my eye out, but l
turned him over and got on top, and
/ mauled him until he begged, but |
wouldn't let him up until he asked
the girls psrdon and swore that he
would whip any boy that insulted her,
and then l let him up, and the girl
thanked me. but 1 told her l couldn't
speak to her, cause she was tuff, and
pa didn't want me to speak to any,
body who was tua, but if anybody
ever lnsulted her so she had to cry,
that would whip him i'll had to
take club. told pa about it, and l
thought he would be mad at me for
taking TIE part of a girl that was
tuff, but by gosh, pa Rugged me, and
the tears came to his eyes, and he
said 1 had got good blood in me,
and l did just right, and if l would
show him the father of the boy that
/ had whipped, pa said he would
whip the old man and ma said for
me to find the poor girl and send
her up to the house and she would
give her a job making pillow-cases
and night-shirts. Don't it seem
darn queer to you that everybody
goes back on a door girl cause she
makes a mistake, and the blasted
whelp that is to blame &c chrome.
1t makes me tired to think Of it, /" and
the boy got up and shook himself, and
looked in the cracked mirror hanging
upon a post to see how his eye was
getting along.
"Say, young fellow, you are a
thoroughbred" said the grocery man
as he sprinkled some water ON the
asparagus and lettuce, land you can
come in here and get all the herring
you want, and never mind the black
eye. l wish l had it myself. Yes, it
does seem tough to see people never
allow a girl to reform. Now, in
Bible times, the Saviour fOrgave
Mary, or somebody, 1 forget now
what her name was, and she was a
better girl than ever. What we
need is more of the spirit of Christ,
and the world would be better"
"What We want is about ten thou
sand Christs. We ought to have ten
or fifteen rig hit here in Milwaukee,
and they would find plenty of bust
noss too Rut this climate seems tn