The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-16


things, and when it come to lifting, he
had cricll in his back. Gosh, | never
was so tired as | was last night, and
hope we have got settled, only some of
the goods haven't turned up yet. a dray-
man took one load over on the West Side,
and delivered them to a house that SEEM
ed to be expecting load OF household
! furniture. He thought it was all right
| if every body that was moving got a load
Of goods Well, after we got moved VA
SAID We must make Il garden, and he said
he would 20 out and spade mp the ground
and SOW peas, and radishes, and beets.
| There was some ncighbors lived in the
next house to our new one, that was all
winmen, and pa didn't like to have them
think he had to work, SO he said it would
be 4 good joke to disguise ourselves, and
| the neighbors would think we had hired
some tramps to dig in the garden. told
pa of Il boss scheme to fool them. | said
take some of this shocbiacking that is
put on with sponge and black our faces,
and the ncighbors would think We had
hired an old colored man and his boy TO
work III the garden. Pa said it was i'm
menSe, and he told me to 90 aud black
up, and if it worked he would black
h!Saclf. SO | went and pat this burnt
cork ON my face, cause it would wash
afr u 1,A1-,l NJ ,,l cold
a whack, and to fix him up too. SO
got the bottle Of shoe backing and pain
ted pa so he looked like colored coal
HEAVIER. Actually, when ma saw him
she ordered him off the premises, and
when he laifed at her and acted sassy,
she was going to throw billing water ON
let up Oh pa. O. you d Il dde to see us
out III the garden. Pa looked like Uncle
Tom, and | looked like Topsy, only
amt that kind of 4 colored person. We
worked unit! boy throwed some tomato
cans over the alley fence and hit me, and
| piled over the fonce after him and left
caught him we put up Il job to get pa TO
chase us. We throwed some more cans,
and pa come out and my chum starte"
and after him, and pa after both vf us.
He chased us two blocks and then we
got behind 4 policeman, and my chum
told the policeman it was crazy old
Il. Inf ,.-,nJal 70 1-.l,,n,,
and the policeman took pa by the neck
and was going to club him bat pa said
he would so home and behave. He was
oiful mad. and he went home and We
looked through the alley fence and saw
pa trying to wash off the backing. You
see that backing won't wash OIL. You
face " it'll soap SudS, and then look in the
class. and he was blacker every time he
washed, and when ma latled at him, he
said the "ilulcSt words, then he washed
hisSelf again. am going to leave my
burnt cork ON. cause if | washed it off
pa would know there had been some
>Iti'HSlttN ~'Illt W HWY, oSht't llS Sllpt
store man how long it would take the
backing IL wear off, and he said it ought
to wear of in Il week. guess pa won't
go cut doors much. unless it is in the
night. Say. You don't think a little
backing hurts man $ complexion do
you?'
= L. l,n
r'"Nion, " said the grocery man, as he
sprinkleA some fresh water on the wited
lettuce, but if was your pa | would
take Il barrel stave and shatter your
castle scandaous. What kind of Il fare
do You think awaits you when you die,
anyway:'
well, | am mixed on the fate that
awaits me when die. If should 90 off
sudden. With all my sins on my head and
this burnt cork on my face, | should
probably be- rciglhor to you, way down
below. tell you | think a Teller can't
be too careful, and from this out YOU
won't find Il better boy than am. Now
| am going to wash up and help the
minister move.
AS the boy went out the grocery man
sat for several minutes thinking of the
change that had come over the bad boy.
and wondered what had brought it about,
and then he went to the door to watch
! him as he wended his way across the
street with his head down, as though in
deep thought. and the grocery man said
to himself, That boy is not rs bad as
some people thinks he is, - and then he
looked around and saw sign hanging
up in front of the store, written ON a
piece of box cover with a blue pencil,
'.S9oiled canncd liam ard t1aglte, good
etoHgh fer chnrch pic1tits, y and he looked
after the boy, who was slipping down
an alley, and said The condemn little
whelp; wait till catch him.