Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
TIE BAD BOY.
His r. IL Inyeigied EBtO u Big Biun-
der.

the back door for in that manner, ike
8 pirate of the Spanish main? My ota-
r, customers don't sneak in through
the back door and hide behind things
What alls your
"S.h.hl la man comes up from the
street car in about Two mintes, with one
cost tail torn of, and pieces o: umbrella
name sticking out Of himself like por.
cuyIue quiil,, his hat gone land scared
q, niuitAiun on his lace, and asks II you
have sCeH chubby faced little boy,
don drive him out doors, cause he Ism
responslble," aud the boy pulled
a C tiee rack down of barrel 81 cover
Tin seit up.
"Nko = tie wild man yNu ara ex.
VtCtiIg, anQ what have YOU dDne:
as6ed tie grocery man.
Ssh ST.! Its pa. And II he got out
o!tI t car without coming through the
window, he is liable TO show up here
rIetly quick. You see, pa has been
irving to make us believe he could see
Just as well ~ be ever could, and ne
mas dut wearing spectactes, and gets
mad every tine anybody suggests that
ne can't see very well. Ma says he Is
asbap ed to have folks think he Is get
ing Old. Sometimes / come in the
10. ia aud pa snaps his nugers aud says
'bfLc, Bruno, good dog, and when he
finds out his mistake he laughs and
laws il was only a joke, and he says 1t
WAS oily Joke, and he says he can see
as we'll as any man in this town. / told
him some day some person would play
nd
he was near sighted, and he said they
might try all the jokes they wanted TO
on him. Well pa Is awful polite 70 Ia
dies, and. for fear he will pass some lady
that he knows, and not speak to her,h
>Ieaks to all Of 'em. Some Oh 'en get
cross to have 3 stranger speak 10 them,
uut la has such innocent, beneVoitnt,
vacant sort OF look when he smiles,
dat they go on, thinking he has es-
caped from sOme asylum. wen, We
Was in street car, and on the other
side of the car Was an old maid, with
pug dog in her lap, curled up like a
uAby, | see pa was getting his eyes sot
on the woman and the dog, but knew
he couldn't make out whether 1t was
baby che had or no., 20 [ whispered to
Oh that it was top bad 10 carry babies
on street cars, poor little things. That
was enough for ia. He bit ike bass.
de began took benevolent, and smiled
a, the lady just as though lie lived next
doer to her, and she looked sort OF
cross, but pa could not see that, and lie
smiled again and leaned over towards
her and POINTED to The dog and asked,
How old Is the little thing" Well, l
thought should just melt aud run right
thTUugh the perforated seat OF the car.
lac woman said it WAS ou!y eleven
rl5l rh- old, but she looked IS though
h, Gi..Ii't kUrw as it was any Ofhl5 bus
- anyway. | tried to get pa
"a e. arge the subject aud talk
with me, bat when he gets TO talking
Ni,E oman that settles 1t, and he
.UjG n.e 10 hush W and look gu. OF the
widow ut the scenery. Then pa
n H.. again and got one eye On the
iaGy Lud ore on the supposed oAoy,
Liri. She had wrapped a shawl around,
I'd :g!r, Little one always been
htalthy suppose" The woman snap
y, Il uut Il AT i had always been healthy
enough. except when it was cutting
,petn it had a sort OF distemper. The
uii.er passengprs began TO lOok at pa
u.i siIi!o, %ud the lady was beginning
10 blush, sud | could see distant NUT
:eriug, OF cycloDe, and | pulled pas
sleeve art told him | wouldn't talk 70
-,ral gers that way if was him, hut pa
he punched IRE III the rib with his
elbow, and told me to mind my own
business, and I went 10 the end OF the
car near the door 30 aS 10 get out quick
in case Of an alarm Of fire. Ia returned
to the assault, and Il made me perspre.
Is it toy or gi,,.' said pa, and the
,ady's face cOloreP up ami she pulled
tie strap to stop the car. Just il the
car stopped pa got up, aud 10 hl'pOliteSt
manner he said a. be held out his
hands, let Ine help YOU with the hlhy.'
Well, you'd dido. You would Lave
iusl lad right down in the straw Ia the
| ear and blattel. When the driver
opcued the door flew cut aud just then
looked in and the dog had got mai at
pa when he lad put out his hands, and
had grabbed pa : hand, and was chew
ing bis mitten aud growing, and the
lady called M All cd wretch AMI said
he ought 10 be arrested for going around
insulting unprotected females, and |
Jaw her umbrella so up III the air and
! cone on pas head, and ps yelte1 to
| SOMSDOUS ~ lshc TIC NOS Oll. AiS
| woman came out Of the car on gaUop.
| holding the dog by the leg and the dog
had one Of pas buckskin mitsens in its
mouth, chewing for all that was out.
| When she struck the street she told me
to call q policeman and have the old
tramp arrested, and | said 'yes'um,
ard She went off with the dog under
her ann. asked pa if should follow
| b. lAGy friend and get hls mItten away
| r. IN her little baby that he was Using it
| e, C,:tttth on, and pa looked 50 mad,
A. H. tod me to go to gCAeEIa, that
| glt T. tie ear and came here, AMI let
| u.u. liking pieces vi umbrella f7On Uut
ni LIS L,chtie, ard explaining 10 The
| other pas eager5 that he knew that dog
aas"'t baby all tho time. Say, car
yCu SIC bow | Was to blame about ra'S
| MS 'UrtUrt?'
IL Can'; $50 - you are to b'ame,' said
the grocrryn.au, ~ he dipped quirt OF
clsnberries out of the barrel behind
which the boy was hid, "your pa ia one
Uflhose men that knows it all and don't
allow anybody tOtell him anything, Ii
he had listened to your advice be would
have kept out of trouble. | think some
men ought to have a boy for guardiSn.
Put, say? How would you like to have
some fun? Ihave got q big pile OF p0.a'
toes in the GO lar, and they are beginning
tosprout. Lets you and l go DIVA ia
the cellar aud pull of our coats aud Just
have q glorious old time picking those
potatoes over and pulling Otfthe sprouts,
Hurrah Come or" and the grocery
man laughed aud run his thumb into
the boy ; rib and started for the cellar.
NO, lot any fun for Hennery," said
the 10y, as he locked out to see il his pa
was IN sight. II thiuk too much fun is
not good for boys. Ifyou want your po-
lato,s looked over you will have to hire
somebody to dolt. Sprouting po stoeS is
work, aCd you can't make it pass for
fun, unless you strike some fool boy that
don't know you are playing it On him.
! You old hypocrites think boys are fools.
Ever since I turned a grindstone for q
man once sil the afternoon for fun, and
| got so tired could walk, have decided
10 pick out my own fun. When man
unfOids scheme to met have fun, and
Isee it is a put up job to get NE to work
for nothing and call it fun, / pas" and
the toy went out 10 see II his pa had got
off the car.