The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-27
TIE BAD BOY.
Be Tells How His Uncle Fzra's Visit Caused
Him 10 Backslide.
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Be Tells How His Uncle Fzra's Visit Caused
Him TO Backslide.
IPeck's Sum-
al hear your uncle Ezra Is here on
viait,' said the grocerymsn to the bad boy.
81 suppose you have been having high old
time. There is nothing that does a boy
more good than TO have nice visit with a
good uncle, and hear him tell about old timss
when be and the boys father were boys
together
"Well, l don't know about it," said the
boy, as he took a stick of macsroni and be-
gan 70 blow psper wads through it st wool
sawyer who was fling saw outside the
door. when boy who has been tough
has got his pins all set to reform, 1 don't
think it does him any good TO have real
nice uncle come to the house visiting. Any
way that is my experience 1 have backslid
the worst way, and it is going to take me
month, after Uncle Ezra goes away, toclimb
up to the grace that l have fallen from. IL
is darn discouraging," said the boy as he
locked up a. the ceiling in en- innocent sort
Of z way, and hid the macaroni under his
coat, when the woodsewyer, who had been
hit in the neck, dropped his saw and got up
mad.
whats the trouble? Your uncle has the
reputation where ne lives Of being one of the
pillars Of society. But you cant tell about
these fellows when they get away from
home. Does he dIinki'
''No, he don't drink, but as near as L can
figure it he and ps were about the worst pills
in the box when they were young. / don't
wsnt you to repeat it, but when pa and ms
were married they elOped. Yes, sir, actually
ran away and defed their parents, and they
| had TO hide about 2 week for fear mas father
would I'll pa go fun of cold lesd thai be
would sink If he fell in the water. Pa has
been kicked over the fence and chased down
| alleys dozens Of times By ny grandfather
I when he was snarkirs mo, and ma was
| terror too, cause her mother couldn't do any.
thing with her, though she il awful precise
now, and wants everybody to be too coed.
Why, mas mother used 20 warm her ears,
and shske the dsylights out of her, but il
| didn't do any good. She was mashed on pa,
/ and there Yves no cure for her excsp. to have
pa prescribed for her as husband, and they
rau away. Uncle Ezra told me sll about it.
Ma haint got any patience with girls now
days that have minds of their own about fell.
| lows, and che thinks their parents ought to
have all the say. Well, maybe she thinks
che knows all about it. Bat when people
get in love it is the same now as il was when
pa and ma were trying to keep out of thu
reach of my grandfather's shotgun. But pa
and Uncle Ezra and ma are good friends,
and they talk over old time and have a big
ugh. / guess Uucle Ezra was Too much
for pc in joking when they we're boya, cause
pa told me that all rules against joking were
suspended while Uncle Ezra was here, and
for me to play anything On him could.
told "a / was trying to lead different life
but he said what wanted to do Yves to make
Uncle Ezra think of old times, and the only
way was TO keep him on the ragged edge.
thought If there was anything could do Il
make it pleasant for my uncle, it was my
duty to do it, so fixed the bed stats on the
spare bed so they would fall down at q. N.
she first night, and then / retired. At two
o'clock / heard the awfulest noise in TIT
spare room, and q bowling and screaming
and l went down and met uncle Ezra in tn,
hall, and he asked me what was the matte
u .here. and 1 asked him if he didn't sleey
In the spare room, and he said no, that pl
and ma was in there, and he slept in thei