The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-06-01

bin. with her roller skh'ss in bis
neck, add she called him - old bro,e
and told him II be didn,s let 20 Of
her polonaise sbe would 4urder him
Just then my chum and ~ got there
aud We an,putA.sd Pa froh ihe girl,
and liitod him mp. audTtfla him 70,
heavens saks 10 let us tx, of the
skates. Q ause he couldp'tska.e no
more than q cow,- and p.l va. mad
and said for as to let himIaloue, and
he could skate all righ. n We lot
90 and.he struck out 90 20. Well
sir. 1 vas ashamed. All old man
like Pa ought 10 know bettr than to
try TO be a-boy. This f,imo Pa
said he sar g,ing 10 spread himself,
aud # I am II Judge Of big spread,
he did spr, ai himself. Someh.w the
skates had got turned around ride.
ways on his feet, and his feet got to
going in different direc;ions,sni Pa"
ieet got to going go far apart that ]
wss afraid / would have two Pas;
half the siz.U, with che les apiece.
4 ,risd to get Lin to take up n
co!'eciicn n of his legs. and get them
OH in tho samo ward bu. his arms
few around and one Lit me on the
nosc, and / tl.ousLt il TO wanted TO
hi: the bsrt friend he had, hs could
un bis Old legs bisseli. When lie
b-gaa 10 sepsrate l could hear the
bones crack, but maybe il was his
pants, Lu, anyway he came down on
the hjor like one OF these fellows in
circus who spreads hisself, aud lie
kept going aud fi,aily he surrou.dsd
an iron pcs; with III, leg, aud stop
ped, AID 10, ked palc, aud the pro.
prietor Of tLO rink told Pa ;f he wan.
tod to give flying trapez" perform
arcs ho would Lave TO 60 to The
gymuasium, and hs couldn't skate
IN his sEoaldcrs sTymoro, cause 9th
or skaters were afiaid Of him. Theu
Pa said ho could lick the liver out OF
tho proprietor of the riui, and he
got up and steaded himself, and then
ho tried TO kick tho man. but both
hto's went up to wonct. and Pa turn.
oil o beck sumihersault and struck
right on his vest in front. 1 gues j,
knocked the breath out OF him, for
be didn't speak for . few minutes,
and then he wantc | to 60 home, and
We put him in street Car. ,ad be
laid down on tho Eny and rode home.
o. ihe work We had toget Pa'sc..othss
IF II, bal cricks in bis back, and
everywhere. and Nj Was away t, one
Of ihe neighbors, to look at the pres
enis, aud l had to put liuiment on
P,, and I made q miss axe and got a
bottle Of furniture polish aud put it
on Pa aud rubbed it n,aud when Ma
come home, Pa smelled like q cCfiiu
at charity funeral, and Ma said
ihcre was 10 way Of getting that
vnrnish of Of Pa till il work OF. Pa
says holidays are o condemned nni-
sance anyway. H. will have to stay
in tho hou-e all this week.
"Yon ara pretty rough on tao cd
man." said the grocery man, "aitor
he has been 60 kind 70 you and Civ.
on ycu nice presents"
mice presents nothin. Al! ] got
WAS q 'cvme to Je,us' Christmas card
with brindlo fringe, from Ma. and P'
gave me a pair Of his old suspenders'
ard a calender with mot;oes for every
month. sonO quotations from scrip-
iure, euch as honor thy father and
mother and evil communications
corrupt two in the bush,' and % bird
in the hand beats two pair. Such
things don't hep q buy to be good
What o boy wants is club skates,
and seven shot revo.vers. aud such
things. Well. / must 60 and help
Pa roll over in bed, and put on u
new porous p;ssier. Goodbye"