The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-07-11
Pcck's Bad Boy.

"Pa went 10 the theatre the other
night said the bad boy. 81 don't
think il is right for man 10 90 to the
theatres and rot take his little boy. So,
my chum and me concluded TO burglo
pa. We agreed to lay on the stairs, and
when he came up my chum was TO hit
him on the head with dried bladder,
and ! was TO stab him on the breast
pocket with stick and break the liui.
mcut bottle which he had in his pocket
aud make him think hc was killed. 10
couldn't have worked better if We had
rehcarscd it. We had talked about
burglars at supper time, and got pa ner.
vOus, 80 when he came up stairs and
was hit on the head with the bladder,
the first thing no said was Burglars, by
mighty p aud he started to 20 back, and
thcn hit him on the breast whore the
bottle Was, and then We rushed by him
down stairs, and said in u stage Whis-
per: / guess he's dead man, and went
down cellar aud mp tho back stairs TO
my room and undrcsscd. PA hol!crc1 to
ma that hc was murdered, and rna called
me, and came down in my night-.hirt,
sud the hired girl she came down, md
pa was ON the lounge, and he said his
hic-bloo1 was fast cbbing away. He
held his hand on the wound, and said he
could feel the warm blood trichiug clear
down to bis boots. I told pa 10 stuff
some tar into the wound, such as he
tod me 10 put on nay lip TO make NY
moustachc grow, and pa said:
"'My boy, this is no time for lrinmg.
Your pa is on his last logs. When J
como up stairs met six BURGLARS, and /
attacked them, and forced four Of them
down, and was going 10 hold them and
irud for the police, when two more,
'uat / did not know about Jumped on
me, and / was getting the best OF them,
when ono Of them struck me over the
head with crow bar, and the other
stabbed mo TO the heart with Il butcher
knife. have received my death wound,
my boy, and my hot southern blood,
flat offered up 30 freely for my culm-
try, in her time Of need, is passing from
my body, and soOn Your III will be only
piece OF poor clay. Got some Ice md
pat on my stomach, aud all the way
down, for am burning up.' / went TO
the water pitcher and cot u chunk Of
zee and put it inside pas shirt, and while
ma was tearing up an old skirt TO sion
the flow Of blood, ! asked pa if he felt
better, and if he could describe the vii.
lpins who had murdered him. Pa easpcd
and moved hislcgs to get them cool from
Tho clottcd blood, he said, and ho went
on, 'Onc Of them was six foot hiph, and
had sandy mouslachc. | rot him
down and hit him in the nose. and if fine
police find him. his nose will be broke
The second ono VIVA ibick sri and
weighed about two hundrcl / hal
linn down. and INV booi wns on Lis rrrL
and | was kuociiuo twn mona down
when wns hi TLe flick sct ono 'w;ii
have the mari, Of boot bccls on hi.
throat. Tcll lhcpolicc whom I nm n,nr
about the boot bccl mnrkg'
"By tbis time mn had oot tbc sL;,t
tore nm onJ sbc uIulroI + nrinr ,,a,s
shirt ricLt where Lo said Inc woa Iit
and ia was telling us wLnI tn jn T., snt
no bis estate wGon nm HOGAN IN sncl
thc linimout and she founJ lhc LrnLcn
bottle in bis norl,ot and gcorcLrJ mn ror
tho place whcr, he WINS stubhrd and
then she hrpln TO inuob. and mn got