St. Landry democrat., 1884-01-19
PECK'S BAD BOY.
The Boys Play "Wild West
show
The Bad Boys Ps LBssos Cow, and
Gets Pulled Around i'm a Most
PrOmiscuaus Manner
milwaukee, SIM,

Milwaukee Sun.
"You see' said the bad boy to the
grocery man, "all of US boys in the
neighborhood wanted to have Buffalo
Bill show, and pa gave us permission to
use the back yard, and he said he would
come out and help us. You know that
| Boston girl that was visiting at OH
| house, with the glasses on 2 Well, she
went home the next day. She says this
climate is too wild for her. You see,
we boys all fixed up as Indians, and we
laid for some one to come out OF the
house, to scalp, the way they do in the
show. We heard rustic of female
garments, and all hid, and when the
Boston girl came out to pick some pan
sizes in mas f1Owerbed, we captured her.
You never see a girl so astOnished as
she was. We yelled 'yip-yip' and took
hold OF one of her hands and my chnm
took hold of the other, and her bangs
raised right up, and her glasses fell oil
and she said oh, you hoWWid things
"We took her to our lair in the hen
house and tied her to a tin rain water
conductor that came down by the cor
ner of the barn and then we danced a
war dance around her, and yelled Xxi
vi until she perspired. took my TOM
ahawk and lifted her hair and hung it
on the chicken roost, and then made a
speech to her in Indian. said j:
"The pale faced maiden from the ris-
ing sun is in the hands of the Apaches,
and they yearn for gore. Her brothers
and fathers and uncles, the Indian
agents, have robbed the children of the
forest of their army blankets and cam
ed lobster, and the red man must be
avenged. But we will not harm the
pretty white maiden, except to burn her
to the stake. What has she to say 2
Will she give the red men tatfy, or will
she burnP
"Just then pa comes out with els
tern pole, and he rescued the white
maiden, and said we mustn't be so
rough. Then the girl said she would
give Us all the taffy we wanted, and she
went in and she and ma watched us
from the back window. Pa he watched
us rob a coach, and he said it was first
rate. The man that collects the ashes
from the alley, with a horse and wagon,
he had just loaded up, and got on the
wagon, when two of my Indians took
the horse by the bits, and four of us
mounted the wagon and robbed the
driver of clay pipe and pocket comb,
and knife, but he saved his ashes by
the robbers. Pa Just laughed, when we
gave the ash man back his knife and
things, and said he hadn't had so much
fun in a long time. Then we were go-
ing to lasso a wild Texas steer, and ride
it, the way they did in the show, and pa
said that was where he came in handy.
He said he could throw q lasso just like
a cowboy. We got my chum's pas
cow out OF the barn, and drove her up
the alley, and pa stood there with
clothes line, with a big moose in the end,
and he headed oft the cow and threw
the lasso. Well, you'd a died to see pa
sweep things out of the alley with his
pants. The cow was sort of scared when
we drove her up the alley, cause / guess
she thought it was lime she was MIXED,
and when pa stepped out from behind
the barrel and throwed the rope around
her neck, guess she thought it was all
day with her, for she turned and gallop-
ed, and kicked up and bellered, and pa
did not know enough to let go of the
rope. First pa followed the COW down
the alley sitting down, and about a
bushel of ashes got up his trousers leg,
and the tomato cans and old oyster cans
flew around like cyclone was blowing.
Us lniins climed up on the fences to get
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more, and she snatched pa along too
quick. yelled to pa to let go of the
rope, and just as the cow drawed him
under wagon he let go, and the COW
took the clothes line home, Pa got up
and shook the ashes out of his trowsers
legs and picked up piece of board and
started back. You never saw tribe of
Indians get scared so quick as we did.
As went in the hen coop and got under
a barrel heard pa say
THAT busts up the Buffalo Bill bust
ness. No more wild steer lassoing for
your uncle Ike.n
We'll, no one was to blame but pa.
He thinks he can do everything, and
when he tries it and gets tangled, he
lays it to me. We went out on the
street with our tomabawks, when pa
went in to brush himself, and disband-
ed, aud went to our reservation, and
peace reigns again, and the Boston girl
has gone home with an idea that we
are all heathens out west"