The Nevada picayune., 1884-12-18

had been drinking or not, but 1t. tie after midnight we heard an aw- ful racket down stairs, and when we went down we found that pa had hung the living skeleton on the 'hat-rack, and gone to bed. The Skeleton was rattling bis legs against the umbrellas and canes, yelling, and when we unlocked his collar from the hat-rack anti took him down, he said he had nev- ser been treated so in any place he 'haa ever boarded. When he goes along the street people point to him and say, You can see what kind of a boarding hous9 they keep!' The skeleton is down on me, though, and says he will kick the liver outen me when he catch es me. You see he went in the bathroom to take a bath, and wanted me to come in and take a towel and sort of polish his limbs. So 1 took some furniture polish, vanished his legs and arms, and the next morning he was so mad he couldn't eat any breakfast, ] told him that was the way the an- cient Egyptians treated their num- mics, and they kept for centuries, but it didn't encourage him, and he reached one of his bOny arms across the table towards my hair, and I crawled under the table and lit out. Pa says l was cruel. He said I must remember that ske,c- ton has feelings as well as any body. He said 1 shouldn't do any. thing 10 the skeleton that 1 wouldn't do to my other boarder, and when i 1 looked at the music teacher and ickered right out, ma she Slap. ped me on one side of my head, and pa slapped me on the other, and the music teacher got me by the hair, ard tlfe dlde that waits on her, he kicked me. Oh, we gre having some monkey and parrot times at our house."
 "Well, 1 shonld think you were," said the agroceryman. But what is it l hear about your pa going south. Itis rumored that he is go- ing to New Orleans ana Florida on some secret mission. You know anything about it"
 "kerrect," sald the boy, as he slapped his leg with his hand. "Pa han't been well for year, though he has been around all the time, but the doctors say he has got the heart disease. and bronchial diili- culty, and eight or nine other things, and his head is wrong, and they held an inquest on him, and advised him to go, and he is going. He is going in snucks with rail road manager. The manager fur nishes 6 special car and all the passes, and provisions, and sleep ing utinsils, and pa furnises the so- ciety. He is going to take me along, and let ma keep bOarders. You wait a few weeks and you will see that pa and me will settle all of the sectional difference between the north and south. l bet the southerners will surrender wheu they hear l am coming down. Oh, but won't havefun with pa when I get to New Orleans9 Pa thinks everything down there isjust as 1t was during the war, and ne wants to take along a carbne and a re- yolver and a sabre, and breast plate, thessame as he did during the war. when he was sutler, but I know everything is just as quiet and pleasant as it is here, and all l am going to take is pleasant smile and a fishing rod and some thin underclothes. Gosh, l want to lshake hands with old confederate soldiers, and talk with colored folks, and catch aiiitatcrs with a pin hook, and scare pa out of his boots. When Peck's bad boy and his pa goes south look out for pie nic:' and the bad boy took his bas- ket on his arm and went out whls' ting "Dixie."