The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-06-13
THEBAD BOY AND THE BAND
HE GETS UP A sERENApE IN HONOR
or HIS PA,

serenading your father and his invit-
ing them in TO lunch?" said the gro
Gerry man to the bad boy
Don't let that get out or pa will |
kin me dead 1t was joke. One of |
these Bohemian bands that goes about |
town playing tunes, for pennies, was
over on the next street, and told pa |
guessed some of his friends who had |
heard we had baby at the house had |
hired band and was coming in few |
minutes to serenade him, and he better
prepare to make speech. Pa is proud |
of being father at his age, and he
thought it was no more than right for
the neighbors to serenade him, and he
went to loading himself for speech,
in the library, and me and my chum
went out and told the leader of the
band there was a family up there that
wanted some music, and they didn't
care for expense, so they quit blowing
where they was and came right along.
None of them could understand Eng
lish except the leader, ,and he only under
stood enough to go and take drink
when he is invited. My chum steered
the band up to our house and got them
to play Babies on our Block and
Baby Nine and l stopped all the men
who were going home and told them
to wait a minute and they would see
some fun, so when the band got
through tie second tune, and the
Prus slams were emptying the beer out
of the horns and pa stepped out on
the porch, there was more nor
hundred people in front Of the house.
! You'd a dide to see pa when he put
4 his hand in the breast of his coat and
struck an attitude. He looked like a
congressman, or a tramp. The band
was scared, cause they thought he
was mad, and some of them were
going to run, thinking he was going
to throw pieces of brick house at them,
but my chum and the leader kept
them. Then pa sailed in. He COM
menced, Fellow citizens and then
went away back to Adam and Eve,
and worked up to the present day,
giving history of the notable people
who had acquired children, and kept
the crowd interested. l felt sorry for
pa. cause | knew how he would feel
when he came to find out he had been
sold. The Bohemians in the band that
couldn't understand English, they
looked at each other, and wondered
what it was all about, and finally pa
wound up by saying that it was every
citizens duty to own children Of his
own, and then he invited the band and
the crowd in to take some refresh.
ments. Wen, you ought to have seer
that band come in the house. They
fell over each other getting in, anC
the crowd went home, leaving
8 pa and my chum and mt
and the band. Eat? Well
should smile. They just reached fol
things, and talked Bohemian. Drink
Oh, no. 1 guess they didn't pour il
down. Pa opened dozen bottles OF
chaml agne, and they fairly bathed il
it, as though they had fire inside
Pa tried to talk with them about the
baby, but they couldn't understand
and finally they got full and started
ont, and the leader asked pa for three
dollars, and that broke him up. Pi
told the leader he supposed the gentle
men who had got up the serenade hat
, paid for the music, and the leader
: pointed to me and said l was th'
gentleman that got it up. Pa paiC
him, but he had a wicked look in hi
eye, and me and my chum lit out
9 and the Bohemians came dowI
] the street bilin' full, with their horns
4 on their arms, and they were talking
I Bohemian for all that was out. The.
I stopped in front of vacant house an(
O began to play, but you couldn't tel
y what tune it was, they were so full
T and a policeman came along and drove
T them home. | guess | will sleep I?
e the livery stable tonight, cause pa i
e offul unreasonable when anything
e costs him three dollars, beside tht
n champagne
S "Well, you have made pretty mes
d of it," said the grocery man. Its
/ wonder your pa does not kill you. Blu
: what is it | Lear about the trouble a
h the church? They lay that foolishnes
e to you"
0 Its a lie. They lay everything t
e me-. 1t was some of them ducks tina
{ sing in the choir. / was just as niue
81 surprised as anybody when it occurred
q You see, our minister is laiu up fror
u the effect of the ride to the funera
j when he tried to run over a street cal
and an old deacon, who had symptom
of being minister in his youth, wa
invited to take the minister's plac
and talk little. He is an absen
\. minded old party, who don't keep II
# with the events of yhe day, and VIII
re ever played it on hi.l knew that h
70 was too pious to even read the dali
n papers. There was IA notice Of a choi
n meeting to b read and l think T.!
Z tenor smuggled in the other motto
m between that and the one about II
RI weekly prayer meeting. After Il
re deacon read the choir notice he toe
ar up the other one and read, ! am r