The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
TAAT BAn BoY.
And How He Plays Il ora the Fears
Of n Decnive1 rnrcnt.

OF Deceived rmrcnt.
Peck's Milwaukee Sun.
II guess yonr pas losses in the silver
mine hae made him crazg. 5 veal.
they" said the grocery man TO the bad
boy, as he came in che store with his
eye winkers singed of. and powder
marks on his face. and began 10 nlav ON
the harmonica, 8 he sat down on the
end of a stick of stove wood and bal
| anced himself.
sob, 1 guess not. He has hedged.
He got in with a deacon Of another
church, and sold some of his stock to
him, ana pa saws If I keep my com
denim mouth shut he viii unload the
! whole Of it. IL the church holds out.
He goes to a new church every night
there is a prayer meeting, and makes ma
go with him, to give him tone, and after
meeting she talks with the sisters about
how to. piece q silk bed quilt while pa
! gets ". his WORK selling S..nvef stock.
don't know what he will order some
more stock from the factory, If be sells
al he has got,0 and the boy went on
playing "flere's q Lana ussE ~ rairvE
than Day"
But what was he Skipping up street
for the other night with his hat of, grab
bing at his coattails as though they were
on fire? | thought / never saw q pussy
man run any faster. And what was the
celebration down on your street about
that tuner Thought the world was com
ing to an end" and the grocery i.a
kept away from the boy, for fear he
woald explode.
sF0 TINT urda nu1, a En&s~w
Nothin serious. You see pa is n sort o.
half Englishman. He claims to be an
American citizen, when ne wan 8 Of
dee. bat when they talk about adraft be
claims to be q subject OF Great Britain,
and he savg they can't touch him. Pa il
a darned mart man, anil dent you for
get it. There don't any of them get
ahead of pa much. Well, pa HAS said q
goUd deal about the wicked Fenians.
and thatthey ought to be pulled, and al
that, and when | read the story in the
papers about the explosion in the Brit
ish parliament pa was hot. lie said tho
damerish was running the whole world.
He didn't say it at the table or a hired
girl would have Knocked him silly with
q spoonful Of mashed potatoes, a
she's a nirish girl, and she can lick any
Englishman in this town. Pa said there
OUGilb W 4AdNO UCGU SOlllNrDOdJ tuGT0 W
have taken that bomb and throwed it in
the sewer before itexploded. He said If
he ever should see q bomb he should grab
it right up and throw it away where il
wouldn't hurt anybody. Pa has me
read the papers TO him nights, cause bis
eyes have got splinters In 'eIn, and after
l. ad read all there was in the paper 4
made up q lot more and pretended to
read it, ABOUT how it was rumored that
the Fenians here la Milwaukee were
going to place dynamite bombs at every
house were an Englishman lived, and
at a given signal blow them all up. Pa
looked pale around the gills, bnt he
said he wasn't scared. Pa and ma were
going to call on a she deacon thai mas
lots of money in the bank, IL see il she
didn't want to invest In q daad-sure pay
ing silver mine, and me aud my chum
concluded to give them a send. Off. We
got my big black injy rubbey football and
painted ~"Dinymight" in big white let
tiers on 1t, and tied a piece oftarred rope
to ii for a fuse, and got q tire-cracker,
n of those old Fourth of July horse
scarers, and a basket full ofb. oxen glass.
We put the football ia front of the step,
lit the tafred sope, and got Under the
step with the ~firecgaeker AMI basket.
where they 60 down into the basement.
Pa and ma got out the front door and
down the steps, and pa saw the foot ball
and the barning fuse, and he said, Great
Godi Hammer, we are blowei upls and
he started TO run, and ma she stopped
to look at it. just as pa started TO run
touched of the firecracker, and my chum
arranged it to pour out tine broken glass
on the brick pavement just as the fire.
cracker went oil. Well, every
thing went just as we expected,
except ma. She had exam
ined the football, and concluded il was
not dangerous, and was just giving il a
kick as the firecracker went of, and the
glass fell, and the firecracker was so near
her that it scared her, and when pa
booked around ma was flying across the
sidewalk, and pa heard the noise and
he thought the house was blown to
atoms. O, you'd a dide to see him 20
around the corner. You could play cro-
kay on his coat-tsil, and his face was as
pale as mas when she goes TO q party
But ma didn't scare much. AS quick as
she stopped against tiia hitching post
size knew it MAS us boys, and she came
down there, and maybe she didn't maui
me. l cried and tried to gain her sym
pathy by telling her the irecracker went
off before it wa due, and burned INV
eyebrows off, but she didn't let up until
/ promised TO 10 and find On. tell en.
my ma ought to be engaged by the Brit
ism government to hunt out tile dy-
Mantle iends.t she would corral them
in two minutes. liz pa had as much
sand as ma has got, 1t would be warm
weatherfor me. Well, me and my chum
went and headed pa off or Iguess be
would be running yet. We got him up
by the lake shore, and he wanted 70
know IL the houSa fell down. Hp sail
he would leave 1t TO me If he ever said
anything against the Fenians, and | told
him he had always claimed that the Fee
Esana Mere khe incest men In The world