The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-05-10
THE BAD BOY.
Yron PEcK's Sun.


boy, as lie made his regular call
one morning, with a scratch across
his cheek, and = strip of court
plaster m his ose. II heard you
had got into a fight with another
boy about one Of these girls that
graduated from the Industrial
school, who was sent there for be-
ing incorrigible, and after you had
whipped tho boy you walked home
with the girl, in broad daylight,
right before folks. Aan't you
ashamed to associate with such
peoples Bah, you are the most
changeabls boy l ever e one
day you are a regular encyclope-
dia, and a Florence Nightingale
and a philanthropiSt, and the next
day you are a John Sullivan, a
regular tough. What would your
Sunday school teacher have said if
he had seen you fighting with that
boy, and going to her boarding
place with that awful gfrl9"
80, that is all right. Ny Sun
day school teacher lac heard about
the row and he came down to our
house an asked me about it, and
when | told him the particulars he
said l ought to have knocked the
neck all off the boy, and that l did
perfectly right, and he got the hu-
name society to give me this letter
of thanks" and the boy pulled a
letter out of his pocket quito
proudly and showed it to the gro
ceryman. "The Sunday school
teacher amt worrying about Inc
half rs much as you are. You sec
that little girl used to live near us
and she was such = sweet little
thing that everybody loved her.
Three years ago her mother died,
and her pa was all broke up, and
he drank a good deal, and then he
got married again, and the woman
he married was the meanest step
mother that ever was. o, you
have no idea how mean she was to
that little girl. She would maui
the lit lie girl, and drive her out
doors, and the little n slept in
alleys, and it her pa said anything
about it his new wife would knock
him silly. He didn't have no
sand at all, and didn't dare to
stand up for his own flesh and
blood. The little girl got about
one sqnare meal in four days
guess, and she looked dirty, and
her step-mother said she was a dis
grace to the family, and one day
when he was full they both went
to a justice and swore that the girl
was incorrigible, and she was sent
to the girls reform school. Talk
about justice, that was the greatest
piece of injustice that ever was.
The poor little thing found that the
Industrial school was a regular
home, nearer to a home than any
thing she had seen since her mother
died, and she vas happy, and
great fsvorite, and learned every.
thing. She was eve bad at all,
only in the way of tho col darned
step-mother. No one but the step
mother ever said a word against
her. The good ladies' that manag,
the school got mashed OH the little
girl, and knew she vas a perfsc'
little angel, and they got her {
chance to knit silk socks n init
tens for a fancy store, and got hel
place to board, and made he
father help pay her board, but h
had to do 1t unbeknown to his new
wife. or she would have cut gast
in him with an axe. This boy tina
/ had a fight with knew her az wei
AZ | did, whom she lived at home
and knew she never did a wrong
but he pretended to think that be
cause she had been An inmate o
the Industrial school that size mus
be turf, and he used to lay for he:
m the cornAr Whnn aha want ont u