Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-04-05
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His Pa and Dynamite.

al guess your pas losses in the silver
mine has made him crazy, haven't they"
said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he
came in the store with his eye winkers singed
off. and powder marks on his face, and be-
gan TO play on the harmonca, as he sat
down on the end Of a stick OF stove wood,
and balanced himself.
40. guess not. He has hedged He
got in with deacon of another church,
and sold some of his stock to him, and pa
says If will keep my condemn mouth shut
he will unload the whole Of il. If the church
es hold out He goes to a new church every
night there is prayer meeting or ANYTHING.
and makes ma go with him. to give him
tone. and after meeting she talks with the
sisters about how 10 piece silk bed quilt.
while pa gets in his work selling silver
stock. ! don't know but he will order some
more stock. from the factory If he sells all
he has got" and the boy went on playing
There's a land that is falrer than Day"
But what was he skipping up street for
the other night with his hat off, grabbing
at his coat tails as though they we're on fire.
| thought never saw pussy man run any
faster. And what was the celebration down
on Your street about that time ? thought
the world was coming To an end" and the
grocery man kept away from the boy, for
tear he would explode.
30, that was only a Feuian scare. Moth
in serious. You see pa is sort of half
EngIshman. He claims To be an American
citizen. when he wants office. but when they
talk about draft he claims 10 be a subject
of Great Britain. aud he say, they can't
touch him. Pa is darn smart man and
don't YOU forget it. There don't any Of
them get ahead Of pa. much Well. pa ha,
said good deal about the wicked Fcnian..
and that they ought to be- pulled. and all
that. and when | read the story in the papers
about the explosion 10 the British Parlis
mcnt "a vas hot. lie said the damnlri-n
was running the whole world. He didn't
dare say It at the table OF our hired gir
would nave Knocked him sllS with spoon
III Of mashed potatoes, cause she Is 1 nIrIsh
glri, and ,he can ick any Enghshman IN ,hl-
town. ia said there ought to have been
somebody there 10 have taken that bomb Up
and throwcd II in the sewer before II eS-
plJded. lie said II he ever should see a
bomb he would grab 1t righ, up and throw
I Il a~as where 1t wouldn't hurt an, body. Pa
has me read the papers TO him nights. cause
I hi eye, have got sphn,ers IN EN-. and after
.
up lot more and pretended to read 1t.
about how II Was rumored that the Fruians
mere IN Milwaukee aere going to place l>
nanIite bombs al every house where an Eng
llshman lived. ind at gwen signal blow
them all up. Pa looked pale around the
/ gll!-. but he said he wasn't scared Pa and
ma ~efr going TO call on .he deacon that
night that ha- lots nf mont, in the bank,
I I'M II ~. Itflttr ~ Va. Ia "A
sure paying silver nine. and me and m,
chum concluded TO give them send off
We eo, my h,g black I'M. rubber football.
ana painted "i,rHymight' ID big white let
trr, on Il, and tied piece uf tarrrd rope ID
Il for fuse, and got bis fire cracker, one
Of these old fourth OF Juiy horse scarer-
and basket fail Of broken glass. We put
the football IN froat Of the step and t the
tarrrd ROPE, and gpt under the step With the
FIRE crackers and basket, where theS (, down
lnto the basement pa and ma came out thr
door, and down the steps. and pa .a~ the
foot ball, and the burning fuse. and he said
Great God, Hammer. We are blo~ed up, and
he started to run. and ma She stopped u
look At il. Just a, pa started to run !
touched of the fire cracker. and mv chum
arranged 1t to pour out the broken glass on
Nht p44'A 'AN''ifhA J4NN aH tt4F AldA
went of Well. everything went Just as
We expected except ma She had examined
the foot ball, and concluded il was not dan
gerous. and was just giving ii kick the
firecracker ven, of, and the gla., fell, and
the hrecracker vas 50 near her that II scared
her, and when pa looked around ma was ti,
ing across the sidewalk. and pa heard the
noise and he though, the house was blown
n a -
round the corner. You could play crokay
on his coat tail. and his face va, as pale a,
ma, ~hen she goes 70 party. But ma
didn't scare much. 4, quick she stopped
again,, the hitchlng post she knew it wa,
Us hoSs, and she came down there and may
be she didn't maui me. | cried and tried To
gain her sympathy BY telling her the fire
cracker went of before il was due. and
burned ms eyebrows of, bu, she didn't let
up until promised to 90 and find pa tell
YOU. IN, ma ought to be engaged Dy the
Britl.h government to hunt out the dynam-
ite hrnds. She would corral them in two
minutes. II pa had a. much sand as ma
has got. 1t would be warm weather for me
Well me and my chum went and headed pa |
off or | guess he would b. running vet. We |
got him up hy the lake shore, and he want |
gu W hlbN ~ Ailt muse itsA iit -dlt
he would leave it to me If he ever said any |
thing against the Fenians, and told him he
had ALWAYS claimed that the Fenians were
the incest men in the world, and it seemed
to relhve him very much. When he got
honiy and found the house there he was
tick led ard when ma called him an old bald
headed coward, and said il was only a joke
of the BOYS with foot bali, he laughed
~ l.. - h., |
and he ran TO see if ma would be scared
And then he wanted to hug me, bu, il wasn't
my night TO hug and went down to the
theater. Pa don't amount to much when
there is trouble. The time ma had them
cramps. you remember, when you 20,
your cucumbers first last season, pa came
near faintng away, and ma said ever since
they had been married when anything allied
her, pa has had pains just the same as she
has, only he grunted more, and thought he
wouldn't be sick every time one Of the neigh
bors had back acne, would you p
"Well, you can't tell. When you have
been married twenty or thirty years you will
know good deal more than YOU do now.
You think YOU know il all, now. and you are
pretty intelligent, for boy that has been
YOU will learn after a while that will aston
ish you. But what ails your pas teeth. The
hired girl was over here TO get some corn
meal for Cruel, and she said your pa was
cumming IL, since he lost his teeth.
20. about the teeth. That was too bad.
You see my chum has got dog that is old,
and his teeth nave all come out in front, and
this morning borried pas teeth before he
got up, to see if We couldn't fix them in the
dogs mouth. SO he could eat better. Pa saws
it is an evidence of kind heart for boy to
be good to dumb animals, but its darn
mean dog that will 20 back on a friend.
We tied the teeth in the dogs mouth with
string that went around his upper jaw and
another around his under jaw, and you'd
dide to see how funny he looked when he
LATED. He looked just like pa when he tries
to smile so as to get me to come up to him
SO he can lick me. The dog paved his
mouth spell to get the teeth out, and .hen
we gave him bone with some meat on, and