The Arizona sentinel., 1883-10-13

'. ing linping and seemed tH h
 broke up generi .y. The prop
 riet0r asked him if he v3u!dn'
 sit COWn, and he said hr coui.iu'
 very well, as his hack was lame
 He seemed diScuus8g ger, and Tn n proprietor asked him what Ra the matter. ''W eli, says ne, q he put his hand on his pistO
 pocket and grOaned, "there is n'
 encouragement for boy to have : any fun nowadays. If a bO. tries to play an innocent joke ht gets kicSed all over the house.
 The store keeper asked hlm wha
 had happened to disturb his hi larity. He said he had played { joke on his father and had beet limping ever since.
 "Y0u see, 1 thought that the old man was d liltle spry. You know he is no spr Ing chicken yourself; and though his eyes are not what they used tu be, yet he can see pretty girl further than ] Can. The ether day l wrote d note in a fine hand and addressed IL to him, asking him to meet ne on the corner of Wisconsin and 1 Milwaukee streets, at 7:30 on Saturday evening, and signed the name of Daisy to it. At supper time Pa was all dressed up and mad hls haIr plaStered over tine bald spot, and he got on some clean cuffs, and said he was going 10 the consistOry to initiate some candidates from the country, and he might not be ill till late. He didn't eat much supper, and hur- ried eff With my umbrella. 1 winked at Ma but didn't say any thIng. At 1880 1 went down town and he was standing there by the pOstuffica corner in d dark place. 1 went up 70 him and said, "Hel- lD, Pa, what are you doing Eere" lie said he was waiting for man i went down the street and pretty soon 1 went up on the corner by Chapman'S and he was standing there. You see, he didn't know Wat corner Daisy was going to be OD, aHd ht. had 10 cover all four corners. l saluted him and asked nam if he hadn't found his man yet and he said no, the man was d little late. It is a mean boy tha at won't speak to his Pa when he sees him standing on d corner. 1 went up street and saw Pa cross over by the drug store in a sort of hurry, and I could see girl going by with waterproof cloak on, hut she skIted right along and Pa looked kind of solemn, the way he does when 1 ask him for clothes. 1 turned and came back and he was standing there in the doorway. and I said, "Pa, you will catch cold if you stand around waiting for man. You go down to the cOnslstOry and let ne lay for the man." Pa said, "never you mind, you go about your business and 1 will tend 10 the man."
 Well, when a boys Pa tells him to never you mind, aud looks epunky, my eXpt zee 'S that d boy wants to go rigtt away from there, and l went down street. thought 1 would cross over aud go up She other side, and see how long he would stay. !ne~- was girl or two going up ahead f me and 1 see a man hurrying across from the drug store to Van Peit'S corner. IL Was Pa, and a> the girls went a'Ong and never looked around Pa looked mad and stepped into the GDorWay. II was about eight o'clock then, q I'd Pa was tired. and 1 felt sorry fOl him and 1 went up to him and asked him fo- half dollar to gC to the academy. l never knew him 10 shell out so freely sud s, quick. He gave me q dollar and 1 told him 1 would gn and get il changed and bring him back tht half a dollar, but ha said In e l"'' mind the change. + k aWiu | L II