The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-14
THE REGENT BAD BOY.
BY oEoRcs W. Pxcx.

BY GEORGE W PxCk.
 "Hsllo, where you been 2" said the groceyman to the bad boy, as he came along with an old fashioned oil cloth carpet bag, with one handle gone, and a tired look on the carpet bag and the boy as though they had just returned from a journey. "Havent seen you in here for two weeks, and 1 began to think you had been abducted, or mysteriously disap. peared. You look sick.n
 70, am not sick, but tired, and sleepy, and hungry. wish you would cut me of cheese lind. or give me a herring skin, or anything" said the bad boy, as he dropped the carpet bag on the floor and dropped onto a half bushel measure, and closed his eyes. "We are just on the way from the depot, and pa has lett me to carry this old carpet sack, and he has gone up the alley to climb over the back $ence, cause he wore his boets out on the railroad ties coming up from the Chicago convention"
 "Whati Had to walk back r said the grocery man, as he handed the boy a generous slice of cheese with a spot of green mould on the under side. II sAould suppose your pa had influence enough to get . pass, or borrow money to ga home vith, if he got busted"
 SThass what pa Aough4" said the boy, as he made a camefs track in the piece of cheese, and then, making up . face at the mouldy mouthful, reached into q cracker barrel to get some crackers to take the taste out. But borrowing vas played ont the second day. Pa lent money for two days, and then had to bor- rov, but they had all quit lending when pas tum came to borrow. Gosh, but pa and are ont of politics from this out. Pa says he will never vote again. He says the country is all gone to the dogs" ]"
 "Well, what ~as your pa down there for, anywayf He want delegate was her asked the grocesyman.
 No, p was only m assistant delegate, and l vas pas assistant" said the boy, as he gathered in groceries and pro- visions with both hands, and ate as though he had lasted for several days. "You see, the politicians have been playing it on Pa tor six months. They get him to work in ward politics, by escouraging him to think he is an important factor in the country's aAhira He wanted to be . delegaae, and theyencoarased him, but he got beaA and thss they told him he better @ as aa a. siseanf deaegase. Taey tod him that dele gatss did not amount to anything without some smast fellows to cell them how to vote, and what they wanted vas . lot of ostsidess to go aloag and brace up the delegaseA and 'vhoop-ia-up.' TAee is nothing that p likes any better thaa to vhoop-it-up, and he took me along to give me an insight into politics, and cary tAe satchel. don't want sny mere in- sight into politics. have had insight eaeseh O AA ne uutl m tvezky- -ooe. Pa told me, all the vay douz to Chicazo, what an impotsazt business ik was b be as1iseant de3eGsse. and how much d. pndud upca cieay-headed ouesiden, vAo rsaly managed the vhols basiass. I@Psc2ea thsy would CITY pa oa their sAo1lde1 There vas . band at the de- poe, and p >pulled up his cellar, and puI3sd down kis vsst, ard looked around . ned aa so say watch me sow.' ssd tAs1gA hs vas geiug to make . speech, whe1 the oovd vailed right over him, cd his haf cane o1 and rolled under . CT aad so0ebody picksd t up asd lsfi an ed dnsy k2 sn the ground Pa vas n.A. bss wAa she eEsvd gus away sAaa vas an the hsa there vas, and p took it, gsse t te me, sAd he aook mine. k vas Sse aaan fer pa, bst t nsds hin look e thsagh he Aad 2 essae hig hssA cd sol G6t ktck. We Wenf so | koprl, ana . uan Rrsbbsd the ssecAsl and epad - e = >p snon tsslye kandEed aad
 1s cd pa vas tiekisd, 'canse hs ooagAf . soom had bean sassd fss hin. IA1 . l1llev csme alsag ed sid fps 0e de1egn1ss b put oa hadQss. raseok m1gg aed paa t oa, cd le ioehed puso and . fello~ ke ned 0 ov an1s1 him Soe Eve dollaEs till he cSsld - the eh6ruAan of the de1sUnaina. fa ssak est his pockes-book cd Ief hin 1De ik, cd befsse he got the pockef- hoak in his pocket another fallow sshed - ir change fos ten, and pa handed = him, and the crowd eiosed in 90 dGA p coVld not 6nd the man to get