The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-05
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 Yes, he go; to Bay View sf the ap- pointed time. and met him with some of my pants and coat He had shirs, or pArt of one, and hat But. O. my, how he looked when he came up the railroad track. If every boy in this country who thinks of running away from home. could have seen my ehnm CD his return from hts trial trip with the circus, there would be less runaways- He was thin, and seemed 10 have grown a foot longer than when he vent away, and he was hungry. The hrs; thing he asked me fo1 vas bologna. and gave him link, and he couldn't sAt l, fas, enough, and he tried 10 talk and hug me with the bologna in his mouth. like hngging as well as anybody. but when fellow hugs me with a stick of bologna sausage in his mouth, and the end of the sausage runs down my shirt collar. have go, enough. ] l told my chum not to be too demonstra- tive, and he let up. and we went down be- hind the rolling mill so be could put on my clothes brouah, him some clothes that wore two years ago, and they were too quick for him. They ht him toe near, and when he got his hind legs in the pants. his fec, and ankles and the calves of his legs went clear through, and l don't know but the pants would have kept on going clear up above his knees fl hac not grabbed hold of them and held them down. The lower end of his legs were tanned. and they looked like a couple of sassidges tha, the ulster has been peeled of of The coat was too small, and my ohum vas inclined to find fault, but when told him he couldn't expect all the .uxuries of the season, bologna and dress suit, he said he vas thankful 10 ge, home and even get into as much clothes as that He said he wondered If the veal that the prodigal sons pl fed him with when he go, back from the stock yards, tasted as good as iha, bologna. Well, after dark 1 took my chum home. and had been 10 his forehand about their boy being far away and no one knew whether he was suife : ing or not, and got his pa to say he would forgive him If he would only come home, so 1t was easy enough for my ehum. cause they nearly hugged him half to death, and his pa was SO tickled he cried, and then he told us how he ran away once when he was boy, and then came away and Jeff them and they were awful happy, and there wil. be nc more running away there, l tell you. Say, this IS a pretty good cucumber, ain; .n
 Good enough cucumber said the groceryman, as nc went 10 the book and charged the boys father with four cu- cumbers. But have often wondered what made you peel cucumber eight square. There, you see those slices you eat are oetagon shape. What good does tha, do!s
 We'll, you see, cucumbers give a fel- low koliek. Now, if the cucumber does down you solid. and round like, the chol. era morbus medicine has to go to work and bore hole nigh, through the whole eight square, and swallow the pieces whole, and they lay ugh, on top of each other inside of ufe. like stack of poker chips, and when l have kolick 1 swallow pam killer, and II goes right down the sides of the stack of cucumber chips, where peeled II, and fills up the air chambers with red pepper sauce, and knocks your koliok higher nor kite. l am going to get that patented.
 {" You arc an original fellow, sure Bu, what is this hear about the church go- ing for your pa for fishing on Sunday He ought to know better than that and the groceryman looked as though he had lost confidence in everybody.
 ' Pa didn't go fishing and when the matter comes up in church can clear pa in minute, though appearances were very much against him. You sec all our family, and one of the deacon's families, and several other folks that belong to our church, wen, out riding las, Sunday in the country, cause the minister was hay ing vacation, and we went to one Of the -lit,ie lakes, where there IS hotels, and we laid on the bank and swea. all day, and cat iCnch, and catched bugs 10 our trousers, and did everything but fish. None of us would :ish on Sunday, though VIC watched .he other people catch fish 1. as they rowed around near the shore in boats It's awful tanialiring to see peo- pie catch fish, as fast as they can pull them out when you can't go fishing. One woman got a big bass on her hook and 1t was all ma could do to keep pa from wading right in and helping her land il. He didn't touch her pole. hut he told her, in a few well-chosen remarks how to handle the fish, though she was total stranger to him. Well. when we all got in the bus to come home, boy who had a big string of fish asked me if he couldn't hitch them on under the hind axiessee of our bus, and didn't think it would bs any harm, % told him to hitch 'em on. thought it would save him tagging them all the way home, and he said when we got home coult take them in oar house, and he wculd walk home and call for them h the evening. No ese knew the boy hitched his fish sn Our wagon but me, and ss ve rode along home noticed people on the streets looked al the Ssh and laughed. One place there vas . crowd on the sidewalk, and they all laded, and one skof5er hoI- iered to the deacon that was on the front seat with pa and said, 'You had pretty l Il E- Il