The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-02-28
The Bad Boys Holiday.

Peck's AFilacGukee Sun.
eve went down on the cars and
pa had headache, because he had
been out all night electioneering for
the prohibition ticket, and he was
dry and scolded me and once he
pulled my ears because asked him
if he knew the girl he was smiling at
in a seat across the aisle. | didn't
enjoy myself much, and some men
were talking about kidnapping child
rem, and it gave me an ice, and just
before we got to Chicago | went
after drink OF water at the t'other
end of the car, and / saw man who
looked as though he wouldn't stand
any tooing, and | whispered to
him and told him that that bal0-
headed man l was sitting with
was taking me away from my home
in Milwaukee, and ! mistrusted
he was going to make thief or q
pick pocket OF me. | said 81 ill., and
told him not to say anything or the
man would maui me. Then went
back to the seat and asked pa to buy
me a gold watch; he looked mad
and cufed me on tse ear. The man
that / whispered got TO talking
with some other me- And when we
gos Of tAsl I'd q yel.s Police '1ls,s,
] guess we will have to run you in.'
Pa was mad and tried TO Jerk away,
and the cop chucked him, and an
other cop came along and helped him,
and the passengers crowded and
wanted to lynch pa, and pa wanted
to know what they meant, and they
asked him where he stole the kid,
and he said was his kid, and asked
me if i wasn't, and ] looked scared
as though / was afraid to say no, and
I said, 'Y>e s, SIR, / guess so. Then
the police said the poor boy was scarf,
and they would take us both to the
station, and they would make him
walk spry, and when he held back
they jerked him along. He was oful
mad, and said he would make some>
body smart for this, and I hoped it
wouldn't be me. AT the station they
charged pa with kidnapping a boy
from Milwaukee, and he says it was
lie, and / was his boy; | said OF
course l was, and the boss asked who
told the cops pa was kidnapper,
and then the boss told pa he could
90, but not to let it occur again, and
pa and me went away. looked so
sorry for pa that he never tumbled
to me that | was to blame.
"We walked around town all day,
and went TO the stores, and ct night
pa was offul tired, and he put me to
bed in the tavern and be went out TO
walk around and get rested. | was
not tired and | walked around the
hotel. thought pa had gone to the
theatre, and that made me mad, and
Thought would play a joke on him.
Our room was No. 30, and the next
room was No. 2l2, and there was an
old maid with Scotch terrier occu>
pied 212. l saw her twice and she
called me names cause she thought l
wanted to steal her dog. That made
me mad at her, and SO l took my
jack knife and took the tacks out OF
the tin thing that the numbers are
painted on, and put the old maids
number on our door, and then | went
to bed. Itried to keep awake, so as
to help pa if he had any difficulty,
but l guess got asleep, but woke
up when the dog barked. If the
dog had not woke me up the woman's
screams would, and if that hadn't, pa
would. You see pa came home from
the theatre about 'Ieven, and he had
been drinking. He says everybody
drinks when they 60 TO CHICAGO,