Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-08-29
The Small Bow in Georgia.

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. )--During
the interval between the letting out and
the taking in Of school the small boy
has been endeayouring to kill time with
the varied amusements Incidental to the
life of the youth.
The school~house had not fairly closed
their doors before the boys were batting
and ballins at the park and over the
back streets. One could not leave the
maddening crowd on the busy thorough
fares and step into the residence por-
ton of the city without running afoul
of game of that national nuisance
bass ball
But the sun grew hot as the summer
solstice came on, and the balls and bats
were laid away, and the boys took up
kites Every household was robbed of
its papers, laid carefully away to read
on Sunday, to be used up in the manu-,
facture of kites. But the small boy Of
the period needs something more excit-
ing than standing like statue reeling up
and watching the w1iggle OF kite tail.
Consequently the kite season Yves OF
short duration.
Then the fremaniac fever struck them,
and everywhere knots of boys could be
seen with miniature hose carts running
at full tilt down tho sidewalks. The
merchants were robbed of their sprink-
ling hose and nozzles to supply the de-
mand. This also had it's run, and the
hose-cart went the way of winter fuel.
Then came the walking match mania.
Go where you would you would find q
brace OF so Of coatlcss boys painting as
they strobe around the blocks, whip
ping their bare calves with keen peach
tree switches, and hopping brows with
sponges stolen from the bath tubs. In
additional to these walking matches they
had hurdle races by stretching cords at
intervals In the alleyways and jumping
over them.
These crazes having been thoroughly
exhausted, the season is now on us when
the small boy is ripe for Satan, who, is
said to be always ready to find some
thing far idle hands to do. It is the
time when, the legitimate amusements
being pegged out, the small boy must
tax his ingenuity to kill time. But day
draws it's weary length along with them.
We mentioned yesterday how he trailed
stuffed snakes across the sidewalk at
night and frightened pedestrians out of
their wits. But the stuffed ssnake rack
ct has about subsidized, and tAey are con-
iuring up other bedevilment. We hear
from them in every direction. A gem
tlelnan on Academy square missed his
favorite house cat the other day, and on
going into the back yard he discovered
his boys with the sprinkling hose.
They had fastened me cat in The hencoop
and with the nozzle through the cracks
were giving pussy shower bath that
was not at all pleasant. .. -. +. j.,
! A College street father found his boys
in stable. They had partitioned off a
small room, supplied it with counters
and shelves, and had q regular grocery
store, doing thriving business The
father discovered that all the preserves,
canned goods, sugar, pickles, and SO on
had been taken from his pantry, and
were being bartered to the neighbor-
hood boys. A branded peach was
worth two glass agates. and a top cord
would command match box full Of
peach preserves. ....-. .....s-. ~"
And so it goes. We could fill col
unln with the depredations upon the
family pantry and pocketbook by these
boys who are waiting for school to re-
sumo. AS that time is nearly two
months off, the prospect is that the
town will not only be painted deep red,
but turned upside down.