The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-21
THE BAD BOY,
n~Sks Ssal


 and sal down on the char with the back gone. an looked vesy tired.
 ~o, darn the baby. Everybody asks me about the baby as though a was mine. don't pay no attention to the darn thing, except so notice the tcoisshaess going cn around the house. Say. guess that baby wiii grow up 10 be a sFc engine. The nurse coupled the baby on ,o section of rubber hose ,ha, runs down into bottle oi milk, and II began to get up steam and pretty soon the milk began 10 disappear. last like the water does when ire engine couples on 10 a hydfsat. Ia calls the baby old Number Two am Mum Der one.' and fl pa had hook and ladder truck and hose-cau and tire gong, he would imagine ,ha, he was chief engineer of the lire department Hut the baby kicks on this milk wagon milk. and hosis like dog that's got lost. The doe tor told pa the bes, thing he could dc was 10 get goat, but pa said since ~e initiated him into the Mascns with the goa, he wouldn't have a goat around no hos. The doctor told pa the other kind of goat. think il was Sam .ntha goat he sad, wouldn't kick with it's head, and pa sent me up into the Rclack settlement to see f couldn't borrow milk goat for few weeks. got woman to lend us her goa, tlli the baby got big enough to chew beef, for dollar a week. and paid dollar in advance. and pa went up in the evening to help me get the goat. Well, is was the dArndest mistake you ever sec. There wAs two goats co near 4~st ..A we leased, and the other goat was the ehum ofour goat. but i, belonged to a
 Nirish woman. We 90, bed cord hitched around the Irish goat, and that goat didn't recognize the lease, and when we tired to Jerk il along Il rared righ, up, and made things real puck for pa. l
 dont know what there IS about a goat that makes it get so spunky. but that goat seemed to have grudge against pa rom the trst If there were any places on pas
 manly form tha, the goat did not explore
 with its head. pa don't know where the
 places are. o. il damned him. and when
 lafied pa got mad. told htm every
 man ough, 10 furnish his own goats. when he had a baby. and l ic, 70
 ot the rope and started oa, and pa said
 he knew how II vas. wanted him to gc, killed. 1, wasn't that. bu, saw the
 lrsh woman tha, owned the goat coming around the corner of the house
 @ith a clstcrn-pole. lust as pa was get ting the goat ou, of the gate the gsa, go, cross~ays efthe gate. and pa yanked, and doubled the goat right up. and thought
 he had broke the goats neck and the
 woman thought so. too. for she labbed pa ~ith the cistern pole, lus, below the belt.
 and she tired 10 ge, hold on pas hair,
 but he had here there. No woman can
 ge, the advantage of pa ,ha, way. for ma
 has tired It. Well, pa explained |, to the
 woman, and she let pa of if he would
 pay her two dollars for damages 10 the goat. and he paid l, and then we took the nanny-goa,. and Il wen, night along
 with us. But have got my opinion of a baby that Wili drink goats milk Gosh :
 II is Ike this s;atf that comes Tn a spoiled coooanut. The baby hasn't done any thing bu. bla,. since the nurse coupled il on to the goa, hydtan,. had ia take all my plsyth,ngs out of the basement, to keep the goat from eating them
 guess the milk nil taste oi powder and snged hair. nov. The goat got to eat
 ing some Roman candles me and my chum had lad away in the coal-bin. and ehewed them around the furnace. and the powder leaked out. aad coal fell ou, of the furnace on the hearth, and you d a dide to see pa and the hired gifl and the goat. lou sec. pa can't milk nothing bu; milk wagon, and he go, the hired girl to milk the goat. and they were just hunting around the basemen, for the goat, ~ith a ian cup. when the fireworks went on. We'll, there was balls of green, and blue. and rcd fire. and spilled po~- der bla1ed up. and the goa, Jat looked aslonished and looked as though II vas sorry so much good toddes was spoiled :: but when ifs hair began to burn. the goa, gave ode snort. and went between pa and the hired gir like x was shot out of A cannon. and Il knocked pa over wash boiler into the coai-bin. and the hned girl n among the k,ndling wood, and she crossed herself. and repeated the oatekism and the goat jumped up on top of the br,ek furnace, and they couldn't get hsm down. heard the celebsstson. and went down and took pa by the pants and pulled him ou, oi the eoAl-bin: and he said he would sur render, and plead guilty ,s being the big ges, fool m Mii~auk@e. pulled the kindl,ng wood of the hired girl. and then she 20, mad. and said she would milk that goat or de. c. tha, gIr has got sand. She used to Sofk m the glass fAe- tory. We'll, sir. il was 4 sight worth two shilling admission to sec that hired girl ges up on a step-lzdder to milk tha, goat, on top of the furnace. with pa sitting on bar rel of potatoes, bosssng the Job. They are going to fix a gang plank to ges the goa, down of the furnace. The baby kicked on the milk lAa night guess besides tasting d powder and busns nair. the milk was toe warm on account of the furnace Pa has go, to gros a new lot of hAir on that goat. or the woman won't take it back. She don't wAni no bald goat. We'll, they can rrn the baby and goat to saii themselres. cause have re- signed. have gone into business. Don't you smell anything thz; would lead you ,o surmise that had gone into buaness! sAs = all