Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-24
THAT AwFCLLY BAD BOY.
I'M How He Plays tt ON the Fears
ofa Deceived Parent.

II guess your pas losses in the silver
mine has made him crazy, haven't
they said the grocery man 10 the bad
boy, 40 he came in the store with his
eye winkers singed off, and powder
marks on his face, and began to play on
the ~harmonica, as he sat down on the
end Of q stick of stove wood and bal
Hnced himself.
oh, ! guess not. lie has hedged.
lie got in with a deacon Of another
church, and sold some of his stock 10
him, and pa SAYS IL I keep my COM
denim mouth shut he will unload the
whole OF 1t, If the church holds out.
tie goes TO a new church every night
there ~ O prayer meeting, and makes ms
go with him, to give him tone, and after
meeting she talks with the sisters abort
low TO piece q silk bed quilt, while pa
gets in bis work selling silver stock. T
don't know what he will order some
more stock from the factory, il he sells
~ he has got" and the boy went on
playing There's q Land that is Tairer
than Day"
But what was he skipping up street
for the other night with his hat Off. grab
bing at his coattails as though they were
On fire? / thought / never saw q pussy
man run any faster. And what was tho
celebration down on your street about
tfsattime? thought the world was COM
ing to an end" and the grocery ran
kept away from tho boy, for fear he
woald explode.
20, that was only d I1enian scare
Nothin serious. You see pals u sort o
lalf Englishnan. He claims to be an
American citizen, when he vans OF.
ice. but when they talk about n draft be
claims to be a subject OF Great Britain,
n he saws they can't touch him. Pa is
a darned smart man, and don't you for
get 1t, There don't any Of them Get
ahead OF pa much. Well, pa has said q
good deal about the wicked Fenians,
and that they ought to be pulled, and ali
that, and when | read the story in the
papers about the explosion in the Brit
lsh parliament pa WAC hot. He said tho
damerish was running the whole world
lie didn't say it at the table orour hired
girl would have knocked him silly with
y spoonful of mashed potatoes, cause
shes q nlfish girl, and she can lick any
Englshman In this town. Pa said there
ought 10 have been somebody there to
49, ANhNA AatdA DOulb atlQ LBtTOWttl III III
the sewer before itexploded. He said il
he ever should see a bomb he should grab
II right up and throw it away where il
wouldn't hart ANYBODY. Pa has me
read the papers 10 him nights, cause his
eyes have get spinters in EN-, and after
1 ! ad read all there was in the paper [
made up a lot more and pretended to
read II, ag0ut how it was rGmored that
the FeniRns here ia milwaukee, were
going to place dynamite bombs at every
house we're IA Eaglishman lived, and
st d given signal blow them all up. Pa
looked pale ar0und the gills, but he
said he wasn't scared. Ia and ma were
Eolng 10 call on a she deacon that has
4t'sS sS money ara the fsssssk, to SEQ Ii she
didn't want to invest In a dead-sure pay-
49, silver mine, and me and my chum
concluded to give them a send.of. We
got my big baack inIy-rnbbey football and
painted -Dinymightn in big white let
tiers on il, and lied a piece oftarred rope
TO 1t Tor a fuse, and got a ire,cracker,
of those old Fourth of July horse
scarers, aud a basket full ofbtoken glass.
We put the football IN front of the step,
lit the tarred sope, and cot aRder the
step with the Grecracker and basket
where they 20 down unto the basement
Pa and ma got out the front door and
! down the steps, and pa saw the football
and the barning fuse, and he said, sGrea
G0dl Hammer, we are bowed upn' ane
he started to run, and ma she stopped
to look at it. Just as pa started 10 run |
touched of theiirecracker, and my chun
arranged it to pour out the broken glas
on the brick pavement Just as the tire
cracker went oil. Well, every
thing went Just as we expected
except ma. She had exam
ined the football, aud concluded it YEA
not dangerous, and was Just giving il
kick as the irecracker went OF, and tn,
| glass fell, and the firecracRer was so nea
her that it scared her, and when D,
looked around ma was flying across tn,
sidewalk, and pa heard the noise an,
he thought the honse was blown Il
atoms. O, you'd a dide to see him p,
| around the corner. You could play Gro
kay on his coat-tsil, and his face was a
| pale as mas when she goes to a party
But ma didn't scare much. As quick a
she stopped against the hitching pos
she knew it was Vi boys, and she cam
down there, and maybe she didn't mau
me. / cried and tried to gain her sym
pathy by telling her the ~irecracker wen
off before it was due, and burned m,
eyebrows off, but she didn't let up unit
| promised TO 90 and find pa. / tell you
my ma ought to be engaged by the Brit
ish government to hunt out the dy.
Mantle fiends. She would corral them
in two minutes. If pa had as much
sand as ma has got, it would be warm
weatherfo for me. Well, me and my chum
went and headed "a OF or I guess he
would be running yet. We got him Up
by the lake shore, and he wanted to
know il the house fell down. He sail
he would leave it to me if he ever said
anything against the Fenians, and I told
him he had always claimed that the Fe
mans were the incest men In the world,