The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-07-21

sHC eaA0 -aOb C4 k&A14s A4OA was bereaved of a coat tail and some pants, but he wouldn't reason a, all, and when his foo, hit me thought it gas the resurrection. sure, and when l got over the fence, and had picked myself up never stopped till got to Duf1y's. and set up with him, cause thought her pa vas after me, and thought he wouldn't enter sick room and maui watcher at the bedside of an invalid. But that settles it with me about celebrating. l don't care if we did whip the British, after declasing independence, don't W ant my pants burnt off What is the declaration of inde- pendence for to girl who loses her pol onaise, and has her hair burned o9, and a nigger chaser burning her stockingS2 No, sir, they may talk about the glorious Fourth of July, but will it bring back dat blonde wig, or retail my coat? Here after am rebel, and l will go out in the woods the way pa does, and come home with black eye, got in a rational way"
 What. did your pa get a black eye, too! l hadn't heard about that" said the grocery man, giving the boy handful of unbaked peanuts to draw him out. !" Didn't get to fighting, did he."
 :. No, pa don't fight l, is wrong, he says, to fight, unless you are sare you can whip the fellow. and pa always gets whip ped, so he quit fighting. You see. one of the deaoons in our church lives out on a farm, and all his folks were going away to spend the Fourth, and he had te do all the chores, so he invited pa and ma to come out to the farm and have a nice quiet time, and they went. There is nothing pa likes better than 10 go out on farm and pretend he knows everything. When the farmer got ma and pa out there he set them to work. and ma shelled peas while pa went 10 dig potatoes for dinner. think il was mean for the deacon 10 send pa out into the cornheld to dig po- tatoes, and after he had dug up a whole row of corn without finding any potatoes. to set the dog on pa. and tree him in an apple tree near the bee-hiyes. and then 20 and visit with ma and leave pa in the tree with the dog barking al him. Pa said he never knew how mean a deacon could be, until he had sat on limb oftha, apple tree all the afternoon Ahou, time to do chores the farmer came and found pa, and called the dog off. and pa came down. and then the farmer played the meanest trick of all. He said city people didn't know how to milk COWS. and pa said he wished he had as many dollars as he knew how 10 milk COWS. He said his spechulty was milking kicking COWS. and the farmer gave pa tin-pail and milk ing stool. and let down the bars, and pointed out to pa the worst COW on the place Pa knew his reputation was at stake. and he went up 10 the COW and punched 1t in the flank and Said, hist. confound you. Well. the COW wasn't histng COW. but a hlsting bull, and pa knew II was bull as quick as he see II put down its head and boiler, and pa dropped the tin-pail and stool and started for the bars, and the bull after pa. don't think il was right in ma to bet two shillings with the farmer that pa would get 10 the bars before the bull did, though she won the bet. Pa said he horns got tangled up in his coat tail. and when he struck on the other side of the bars, ard his nose hit the ash barrel where they make lye for soap. pa said hc saw more nre-works than we did a, the Soldier Home. la wouldn't celebrate any more. and he ime home. after thanking the farmer for his coar,esies. but he wants me to borrow d gun to 70 out out with him hunting. We are going to shoot bull and dog. ard some bees. maybe we will shoot inc farmer. If pa keeps on IS mad as he Is now Well. we won't have another hnaTtn of July for d year, and maybe by that tune my giri's polonaise and hair will grow out and that bull may become gentle. so pa an milk t. Ta-;a