The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-05-11
pAsCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY. MAY IL, 1883

cO.0feu handkefellefs, ahU p1 IHl-
mediately had "a sore throat, and he
wanted TO wear IT, aud ma lei him
put it on. Thought | wouIl break
him OF taking everything n:co that
ma got, so when he wentdown town
With the orange handkerchief on
his neck told some of the st. Pat.
rick boys in the Third Ward, who
had green ribbons on, that the old
dutfer that was putting on style was
an Orangeman, and he said he could
whip any ST. Patrick's dsy man in
town. The fellers laid for pa, and
when he came along one OF them
threw barrel ut pa, and another
pulled the yellow handkerchief off
his neck, and they all yelled hang
him. anti one grabbed u rope that
was on the sidewalk where they
were movinga building, aud pa got
up aud busted. You'd Il didc to
see pa run. Ho met II policeman
aud said m0re'n a hundred men had
tried to murder him, aud they had
lnauled him aud stolen his yellow
handkerchief. The policeman told
pa his lite was not safe, and he bet
ter 60 homo aud lock himself in,
and he did, and was telling ma
how l got the boys to scare pa, aud
ho heard it, aud he told me that
settled it. He said | had caused
him to run more foot races than any
champion pedestrian, and had made
his life miserable, and 1 must 20 it
alone. Now want you TO send a
couple of pounds of crackers over
to the house, and have your boy tell
tue hired girl that l have gone
down to the river to drown myself,
and she will tell ma, and ma viii
tell pa, aud pretty soon you will
see a bnlh.headed pussy man whoop.
ing it up toward the river with a
rope. They may think, at times,
that / am a little tough, but wheu
it comes to parting forever, they
weaken
| IWcll, tho teacher at school says
you are u hardened inldel,n said
the grocery man, as he charged the
crackers to the boy's pa. ale says
he had TO turn you out to keep you
from ruiuhig the morals Of the other
scholars. How was that ~
at was about speaking a piece
When I asked him what | should
speak, he told mo to learn some
speech OF some great mau, somo
lawyer or statesman, so / learned
one oi Bob Iigersoll's speeches,
Well, you'd died to see the teach.
er aud tho school committee when
started iu on Bob lngersolls lee.
ture, the one that was In the papers
when Bob was here. You see, |
thought IL newspaper that all the
pious folks take in their families
could publish IngersolFs speech, it
wouldn't do any hurt for II poor lit
tie boy, who ain't Knee high TO a
graf, to speak it in school, but
theyImade he dry up. The teacher
is a Republican, aud when hgersoll
was speaking around here gu poll
Tx, the time of the election, the
teacher said Bob was the smartest
man this country ever produced.
l heard him say that in a corcus,
when he went bummlng around the
ward settin' 'em up nights, specting
to be superintendent OF schools.
lie said Bob Ingersoll just took the
cake, and / think it was darn mean
in him to go back on Bob and me,
too, just cause there was no lee.
tion. Tho school committee made
the teacher stop me, and they asked
me if l didn't know any other piece
to speak, and | told them | knew
one of Beecher's and they let me
| go ahead. but 1t was one of Beech.
er's new ones, where he said be
didn't believe in any hell, aud aiort
l got warmed up they said that was
enough of that, and | had to wind
up on MARY had n Little LAM.
Mono of them didn't kick on Mary's
lamb, aud | went throught it, and
they let me go home. That's about
tho safest thug a boy can speak II
school, now days, either Mary hat
a Little LAM or Twinkle, Twinkle
Little STAR That's about up tt
the average intelleck OF tho com
mittee. But if o boy tries to brancl
out as a statesman, they choke hiu
off. Well, | am going down to th'
river, aud | will leave my coat ant
hat by the woodward, aud get be
! hind the wood, and you steer p'
down there aud you will see som,
: tall weeping over them clothes, aus
maybe pa will jump In after me
! and then will come out from be
! hind the wood and throw a boar
for him to swim ashore on. Good
by. Give my pocket comb to N.
, chum,' and the boy went out an,
hung up a sign in front Of the gro
+. Gerry, Us follows: "Pop corn tina
! the cat has slept in, cheap for po