The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-06-05

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want me to speak to anybody who
was tuff, but if anybody ever insulted
her so she had to cry, that l would
whip him if / had to take club. 1
told pa about it, and 1 thought that
he would be mad at me for taking
the part of a girl that was tuff, but
by gosh, pa hugged me, and the tears
came in his eyes, and he said 1 had
got good blood in me, and did just
right, and if 1 would just show him
the father of the boy that 1 whipped,
pa said he would whip the old maj /,
and ma said for me to find the poor
girl and send her up to the house and
she would give her a job making pill
low-cases and night shirts. Don't it
seem darn queer to you that every
body goes back on poor girl cause
she makes a mistake, and the blasted
whelp that is to blame gets chrome.
1t makes me tired to think of it," and
the boy got up and shook himself,
and looked in the cracked mirror
hanging upon post, to see how his
eye was getting along.
"Say, young fellow, yo u're thor
oughbred, said the grocery man, as
he sprinkled some water OIL the as
paragus and lettuce, "and you can
come in here and get all the herring
you want, and never mind the black
eye. wish 1 had it myself. Yet, it
does seem tough to see people never
allow girl to reform. Now, in BIZ
BILE times, the Saviour forgavc Mary,
or somebody, forget now what her
name was, and she was a better girl
than ever. What we need is more of
the spirit Of Christ, and the world
would be better"
"What we want is about ten thous-
and Christs. We ought to have ten
or fifteen right here in Milwaukee,
and they would find plenty Of busi-
ness too. But this climate seems TO
be too rough. Say, did tell you
about pa and ma having trouble?"
"No, what's the rowI'
swell, you see, ma wants to econO-
mize all she can, and pa has been get
ting thinner since he quit drinking
and reformed, and l have kept ON
growing until l am bigger than he is.
Funny, amt it, that a boy should be
bigger than his pa? Pa wanted
new suit of clothes, and ma said she
would fix him, and 50 she took one
of my old suits and made it over for
pa, and he wore them a week before
he knew it was an old suit made over,
but one day he found a handful Of
dried up angle-worms in the pistol
pocket that 1 had forgot when 1 was
fishing, and pa laid the angle-worms
to ma, and ma had to explain that she
made over one of my old suits for pa.
He was mad and took them Off and
threw them out the back window
and swore he would never humiliate
himself by wearing his sons old
clothes. Ma tried to reason with
him, but he was awful worked up
and said he was no old charity hospi-
tai, and he stormed around to ind his
OLD suit of clothes, but ma had sold
them to plaster-of-paris image ped
dler, and pa hadn't anything to wear,
and he wanted ma to go out in the
alley and pick up the suit he threw
out the window, but rag man had
picked them up and was going away,
and pa he grapped linen duster and
put it on and went out after the rag
picker, and he run and pa after him,
and the rag man told policemen
there was an escaped lunatic from
the asylum, and he was chasing peo-
Pile over the city, and the policeman
took pa by the linen ulster and pulled
it of, and he was sight when they
took him to the police-station. Ma
and me had to 60 down and bail him
out and the police lent us a tarpaulin
to put over pa, and we got him home,
and he is wearing his summer pants
while the tailor makes him new
pair of clothes. think pa is too ex-
citable, and too particular. 1 never
kicked on wearing pas old clothes
and, l think he ought to wear mine
now. Well, l must go down to the
sweetened wind factory and jerk
soda," and the boy went out ant
hung up a sign in front of the store
"Spinage, for greens, that the cat ha
made a nest in over Sunday"