The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-10

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. During
the interval between the letting out and
the taking in Of school the small boy
hos beon endeavouring to kill time with
the varied amusements incidental to the
lie Of the youth.
The school.house had not fairly closed
their doors before the boys were batting
and balling at the park and over the
back streets. One could not leave the
maddening crowd on the busy thorough
fares and step into the residence por-
tion of the city without running afoul
of game of that national nuisance
bass ball.
But the sun grew hot as the summer
solstice came on, and the balls and bats
were laid away, aud the boys took up
kites. Every household was robbed of
its papers, laid carefully away to read
ON Sunday, to be used up in the manu-
facture of kites. But the small boy of
the period needs SC mething more excit-
ing than standing like statue reeling up
and watching the wriggle of o kite tail.
Consequently the kite season was of
short duration.
Then the ftremaniac fever struck them,
and everywhere knots of boys could be
seen with miniature hose carts running
at full tilt down the sidewalks. The
merchants were robbed of their sprink-
ling hose and nozzles to supply the de-
mand. This also lad its run, and the
hose-cart went the way Of winter fuel.
Then came the walking match mania.
Go where you would you would find
brace or so of coatless boys, painting as
they strobe around tho blocks, whip
ping their bare calves with keen peach
tree switches, and mopping brows with
sponges stolen from the bath-tubs. In
additional to these walking matches they
had hurdle races by stretching cords e
intervals IN the alleyways and jumping
over them. -.-~7-sss5577,7E ss,sR
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time WHEN, tAes slatsaake amusements
l3sing pesa out, the small boy must
tax his ingenuity to kill time. But day
draws its weary length along with them.
We mentioned Yesterday how he trailed
stuffed snakes across tho sidewalk ut
night and frightened pedestrians out of
their wits. But the stuffed snake rack
ct has about subsidized, and they are con-
juring up other bedevilment. We hear
from them in every direction. A gen.
tleman on Academy square missed his
favorite house cat the other day, and on
going into tho back yard he discovered
his boys with tho sprinkling hose.
They had fastened the cat in the hencoop
and with the nozzle through the cracks
were giving pussy shower bath that
was not at all pleasant.
A College street father found his boys
in a stable. They had partitioncd off q
small room. supplied it with counters
and shelves, and had a regular grocery
store, doing q thriving business. The
father discovered that all the preserves,
canned goods, sugar, pickles, and SO on
had been taken from his pantry, and
were being bartered to the fleighbor-
hood boys. A branded peach was
worth two glass agates, and top cord
would command match box full OF
peach preserves.
And no it goes. We could fill col.
umn with the dcpredations upon the
family pantry and pocketbook by these
boys who are waiting for school to re-
sumo. As that time is nearly two
months of, the prospect is that the
town will not only be painted deep red,
but turned upside down.