The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
PICKS BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
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anu sAafft-stAk Hta A<&st1s 1Ef utS tGkN have heard something to-day that has hurt me as much as though yoa was my own boy and the grocesyman looked as though II wouldn't take many good sifed onions to make the tears come.
 Great lewhillkens, what IS H." asked the bad boy. as hls face sobered down al the look of pain on the face ot hls mer~ cannle trend. What IS the matter !. Woat your creditors aecep, ten cents on the dollar !" and the boy looked like a lawyer, ready to help a chent out. and reached into cinnamon bag and took oat handful of cinnamon.
 No. nothing of that kind" said the grocegman. "i have concluded not to fail. But l am told on good authority that you have become bad again, and that you have beea playing the mcanes, trick on your pa that you have ever played. The minister told me he was coming m from a country funeral the other day, and he overlook your pa en the road with a gun. and asked him to get ,n and rlde. and your pas pants were all torn. has boots and gun tal. of snow. aad he was so scared that he kept look ing around all the way 10 town, expecting 10 be sho, Tn the back. Now. what klnd of way Is that to treat the author of your being Say, you will have through ticket to the bad place. and you, train will leave on schedule tune. and att,se at the grand central depo, tn hades. rus, as the fire Is kindled. You bad. bad. boy 1 have been proud oi you, and thought that you would eoMe oui all rtght. but no" know you arc hypociitc
 There. there, don't put on any eN,ra sadness, sald the boy. as he quarteted an orange. ra .s all righ,. He wanted us Ia stir hIm up. hou see. sincc have been good. pa has been neglected. and he has become sour, and h,s clothes don't ht. He told ma tha, what he wanted was excitement, and he had got 10 have It. He sad when the boys were playing things on him. and making hlm scratch gravel and he fel, as though A house was gong to fall on hun every minute, he enjoyed himself. had good appetite. and iel, equal 10 aey cmetgen, Y. ] but since the boys had become good, and let him alone hts life was burden. he had failed Tn business, and everything went wrong. and unless there was A change soon. he would lose his mind. He sad he sighed for ,he old tunes. when he didn't know whether he vas atooi or horseback, and when something was liable To happen every minute. He said he was brought up to he surprised, and tall through holes, and to have every. thing stop. and to lead quiet lite. and l lust Cat. dflnk, and sleep, with no ~. clones, no happy children raIsing the deuce. was more than ne could bear Ma told me about II. and the state of mind pa was iii, and iel, sorry for pa Ma told me 10 try and ,hink up something that would sou ot wake up pa. or he would relapse into d state of melane hollc and have 10 hife A doctor. 1 told my chum about pas case, and he sand Il was too bad to see man suffer tha, way, and we must do something to save his hie 70 VIC agreed to take pa out rabbit hunt ing asked pa II he didn't want to go with us. and he jumped righ, up and yelled. and sand Ii would uckle hlm hall to death to go. told h,m where there vas place about four miies out oi town. where there was dead loads oi fabbits, but the man that owned the farm drove everybody oft d saId there Couldn no man drNe him of. and for us to come on. Well you'd d dide. Ia wasn't dirald oi anybody unill the man hollered to htm ls glt. You see. we wen, ou, to the farm, and sialoned pa b, a fence. and my chum and me went on the other s,de of d picde of woods. to scare rabbits toward pa. Then we went up to the farm house, where man lived that we know and ,old htm VIC wanted to scare man out of his boost. and he sad All nght. go ahead. 50 we borrow ed some farmer clothes, and old plug hats. and veui around behind the barn and yelled ,o pa to ge, oil tha, fatIn. IA satd for us 10 70 to the bad place. He sad he came oa, to hunt rabbits and by ,sos
 he was gong ,o hunt rabbits. Then my chum and me siaued towards pa, wading through tho snow. and pa though, ~e were grown men, seven fee, hIgh. When we got about ,*en,y rods from pa se told him ,o g,, and he was gong io argue with 4s. shen we pulled up our guns and fired both barrels A; hIn. We had blank cartridges. bn pA thought he felt shot sirik'ng hIm everywhere. and hr started for baIbed wite fente. and we loaded our Jnns again and hred us, A pa go. on he fence. and he yelled nui- der. You know these barbed wlre fen es, don you he 0arDs catch on your pants and hang on. Well pa go, oaugh, by the pants, and coGidn't get over, and we kept hung. ard he dropped his gun In the snow and irlec to teal the ienfe down. and he .ep' yeii4ng or G.oei sake, gentlemen. spare my life don wan, apy of yo4r rsbbns ! 70, io laughing so so8idn' shoo, and 1 lad do~n in A snoe-bans ard my hum kep' shooting hnai.y 70; o@ the teur. ana barFoaed ID 4 snoG -bsn.. and beld up A pgece of t3s sAf' Ri3ta inc fence tore ef; for a~s af 'r4ee. and ~e tait. aud he stack up ns head ard sa~ me .ayng there on tbe snow. and pA though; his gun had gone of and killed one 1f the farmers. and nj eh8m sad. ;,reaf h..-
 ngs. you have killed hin A thS, ps grabbed hss gun and run for the road
 and started iot town. ard that's where ,he minister ogerook hum. Along ,o- w2fdS pts,bf me and m v [ hmm z. anne ko,ne