The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-03

mat nau been tampcTlnR Nttn the parrot. Gosh. never said word to that parrot, and can prove II by my chum. Well, the ministers asked one of the sisters If she wouldn't pray. and she wasn't en- gagged. so she sad with pleasure and she sneelcd down. but she corked herself. cause she got one knee on cast iron dumb bell tha, had been praetieing with. She sad 't,. my. i'll :. di>g gusted ,0Ii of d way, and then she began 10 pray for the reform ation of the youth et the land. and asked ior the splrl; to descend on the household. and particularly on the boy that was sush a care and and anNiety to his parents. and lust then Polly said. .O. pull down Your vest Well. you d d dade to see that woman look It me The parrot cage was partly behind ,he Win- dow curtain. and they couldn't see It. and she thought Il was me. She looked at ma .is though she was wondering why she didn hit me with poker. but she went on. and Polly said wipe off your chin, and then the lady got through and got up, and told ma ii mus; be d great trlal to have an idio,ic child. and then ma she was mad and said Il wasn't hall so bad as 1t was to be d klep,omaniac. and then the woman got up and sad she me to take that parrot out doors. and that seemed to make them all good na- tured again. Ma said to take the parrot and give II to the poor. took the cage and pointed my finger at the parrot and Il looked al the woman and said old cat amaran, and the woman tried to look pious and resigned, but she couldn't As was going out the door the parrot ruff fled up his feathers and sad Dammit, SC, 'em up. and l hurried out with the cage for fear he would say something bad. and the folks all held up their hands and said ii was soandalous. Say, won der If parrot can go to hell with the res, of the community. Well. put the par rot in the woodshed, and after they all had their innings, excep, pa, who acted as umpire, the meeting broke up, and ma says |, $ the last time she will have tha, gang al her house.
 That must have been where your pa go, his black eye" sad the grocery man. as he charged the bunch of celery to the boys pa. "Did the minister hi, him, or was it one of he.sisters."
 70, he didn't ge, his black eye at prayer meeting" aid the boy, as he took his miitens off the stove and rubbed them to take the stiffening out. 1t was from boxing. Pa told my chum and me sha, 1t was no harm 10 learn to box, cause we could defend ourselves, and he said he used 10 be noly terror with the boxing gloves when he was boy, and k>k k.e hA. ls is no sloueh, now, tell you. and handles himself pretty well for a church member read m the paper how Zach Chandler played i, on Conkling by getting lem Mace, the prize fighter. 10 knock him silly. and asked pa if he wouldn't le, me bring poor boy who had no father to teach him boxing. to our house ,o lsaFn to box, and Pa sad certainly, fetch him along. He sad he would be glad 10 d. anything for a poer orphan 8 went down II the Third ward and go; an Irish boy by the nar7c 7f puffy. vim ran knock the sock, eff of any boy n the ward. He ht a prize hght once. l, would have made you laugh 10 see pa tell hiin hoa To hold his hands and now 10 guard his face. He told Dufty not to pc All dlAr D-A to >tlHr 1rhk ONt dfsd s8lt for keeps. Duffy said he va. afraid pa would get mad if he hit hiin, and pa said nonsense, boy. knock me down if you can. and l will laugh, ha. ha. Well. Duffy he hauled back and gave pa one in the nose and another in both eyes. and cutied him On the ear. and punched him in the stomach, and damned him in the mouth and made his teeth bleed. and then he gave him side-wiader in both eyes. asd pa pulled of the boxing gloves and grabbed chair, and we adjourned and went down stairs as though there was panic. haven, seen pA since, Was his eye very black
 GBlack. should say So" sad the gro- oery man. And hts nose seemed 10 De trying to look in his lef, ear. He was al the market buying tcefs:eak ,o put on it.
 70. beefs,eak ss no account. mus, go and sec him and tell him ,ha, an oys- Ter ls the best thing for a black eye. Well. must go. \ boy has pretty hard tirne running house ihe Say !, should be run and the boy went out and hung up sign in front Of the gro- cery -fyogy B2ttsr .Spesssfty -