The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1884-01-11
THE BAD BOY.

see your pa wheeling the BABY
around u good deal lately said
the grocery'Inan TO the bad boy, as
he came in the store one evening to
buy n stick OF striped pepperment
candy for the baby, while bis pa
stopped the baby wagon out on the
sidewalk and waited for the boy,
with an expression OF resignation
on his face.
"Whats got into your pa to be
a nurse girl this hot weather.
40, we have had II circus ut our
house." said the boy, as he came in
after putting the candy in the
baby's hand. lyon see, uncle Ezra
came back from Chicago, where he
had been to sell some cheese, and
he stopped over q couple of days
with us, and he said We must play
one more joke Oh pa before he went
home. We played it, aud it is u
wonder | am alive, because | never
saw pa so mad in all my lie. Now
this is the last time go into any
Joke on shares. 1T play any more
Jokes | don't want any old uncle IN
il to give me away"
"What was it n said the grocery
man, as he took stool aud sat ont
by the front door beside the boy
who was trying to eat box OF red
raspbelries on he sly.
swell, uncle Ezra aud me bribed
the nurse girl to dress the baby up
one evening in some old, dirty
baby clothes, belonging to our
wash womau's baby, aud we put 1t
in basket and placed the basket
OIL the front door step, aud put u
note in the basket and address
ed it TO pa. We had the
nurse girl stay out IN front, ny
the basement stairs, SO the baby
couldn't get away, and she rung
the bell and got behind something.
Ma and la, and uncle Ezra aud me
were in the back parlor when the
bell rung, and una told me to go to
the door, and | brought IN the bask-
ct, and set it down, and told pa
there was \ note in it for him. Ma,
she came up and looked at the note
as pa tore it open, aud uncle Ezra
looked in tue basket and sighed.
Pa read part of tue note and stopp-
ed and turued pale, aud sat down,
then ma read some OF it, and she
didn't feel very well, and she
leaned against the piano and
grated her teeth. The note was in
a girls hand writing, and was like
this:
"OLD BALD HEADED PET
You will have to take care oil your
child, because | cannot. Bring It
up tenderly, and don't for heavens
sake, send it to the touudling asy
lum. / shall 60 drown myself.
Your loving, ALMIRA'"
"Wbat did your ma say u said
the grocery man, becoming inter
ested.
40, mn played her part well
Uncle Ezra lad told her the joke
and she said 'retch,' to pa, just IA
the actresses do OIL the stage, ant
put her handkerchief to her eyes
Pa said it was talse,' and uncle
Ezra said, ", brother that | shoul'
live to see this day. and | said, al
| looked in the basket, pa, 1t look'
Just like you, aud III leave it t.
MAJ That was too much, and pi
got mad in o minute. He always
gets mad at me. But he went al
and looked in the basket, and h
said 1t was some dutch baby, an'
was evidently from the lower strait
of society, and the unnatura
mother wanted to get rid OF it, ant
he said he didn't know any sAlmira
at all. When he called it a dutc
baby, and called attention to its II
regular features, that made N
mad, and she took 1t up out OF th
basket aud told pa " was q pcrfec
picture OF him, aud tried to put