The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-22
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bad boy aS he took up handful ot hick- ory nuts and began cracking them be- tween a couple of sive pound weights oa the counter.
 What do you mean. Who told you pa had been scared :s asked the boy as he put hls thumb n his mouth. after knocking the nail oa with weight. "i didn't know as anybody knew anything abou, il but me and the girl"
 70. brakeman ;ha, runs on the Chi. cago train vas m here ihis morning and he told me your pa came ap on the train last night, and along there about kenosha he went through the tram as though he had been kicked. and go, into the postal car and crawled under lo, cf mail sacks. and rode all the way to Milwaukee. sweating like butcher. and as pale as a ghost. Wha, was 1t all about. You haven't been playing another trick on him. have you ~ and the groceryman picked up the hickory nuts the boy had lief, and threw them m the basket. while the boy wrapped handkerchief around his thumb and looked mad.
 = Nd.l didn't play anything on him. but saved his life He Is an old smarty. and go, himself into scrapc. You see pa and me went down ,o Chicago on pass pa got somehow m politics We took Tn the battle of Gettysburg. where a 1 fellow can see all about the var without 1 getting sho, m the back We came back ] on the five q clock tram. and of course l pa couldn't sit with me. but had to go and sit down tn a seat with A .lrl that was alone. Pa hasn't got any more sense than cos about such things. X g,il don't want an old daffer la slt ~ith her. What she wants IS young fcller, that has i got bear oil on his hair. and smells sou os drug store like. Hut pa thinks he IS rust AS entertaining as when he was young and i ,f he wen, into car where all the seats but one was vacant, and ,ha, one had glrl m II, he would So up to her in hls in- sinuaiing way, and take osi his plug ha, and show his bald heal and say, Mss. Is this seq engaged :" and before she had time ,e say anything he would sit down ~ith her and begin talking about some thing she didn', care any more abou, than she would about the process of em- baiming EgA ptian mumm,es We'll. pa sat down by giil who ~as knitting, and he began ,o talk sweet He sad he was a travelling man. getting siN thousand dollars year and share of the profits , lie found fault with the railroads. the cars. the hotels. and everything. and ,o hear him talk you would think that he was reared Tn a palace. always travelled on speuai cars, and was worth eleven million dollars. l sat behind him. and heard what he saId. and 1t was all could do to keep from asking hlm fl he though, ma would be expecting us home tonight. but l have had experience .s.sk .ssa4k e.. h.. L L
 engaged in business tha, causes lis brain to expand and throb. that the safest way Is to keep still lie told the eIrl she was pusty, and asked her all abau, her seit, and fl She was g-lig far. and he put his arm on the back of the seat and acted AS though he was going 10 hug her. ba, he didn't. cause idst as his arm began to get real near to the girlS small of her back. l initiated the brakeman and shouted, Lake Forrest. aud pa though, the brakeman was right behind him. and he drawed his arm away so quick he hit the funny bone of hIs elbow on the back of the seat and II hurt han like every thing. The girl lAfed. and pa blushed. and m little while he had hIs arm there again. The conductor and the brakema an watched pa. and ust as he got close 10 the girl, and WAS whispering to her, the conductor touched him on his shoulder and asked hun what the number of hi, pass vas. r.. had ,o take hls ann away to get hs pass, and then he pu, Il back again. and was commencing where he left of, to g,ve the girl some i.ify, when the brakeman touched pa on the shoulder, and asked him If [, was his dog m tho baggage c4r, ehes- lng the hinges of the trunks PA sad he didn't have no dog. and the brake man ~en, away. The gtrl ~,s teal dis snsted with pa. and 1 could sec she wanted 10 have rect. us, before the train go, ,o Waukegan the g,rl sad she wanted to send A dispatch ,o acme. and pa gave her some paper and she wrote a message and asked pa to send II for her 1 Pa didn't want to leave his seat xo he said to me. Here. little boy. you get of at Waukegan and send this message for the beautiful young lady and he gave me the dispatch and a dollar l vent out Al WAukegan and read the message and didn', send II. 1, read ike this. I Father, come down ;e Inc depo, ~,,h horse whip. There IS an old drunkard on the train who has made himself very obnoxious ,o me. and ~An, you ,o maui him within an inch of his life We'll wouldn't contribute to pas being m .uled, so kep, i. and after the tram lei, Wau- kegsn called pa into the other end oi the car and told him dIdn', ,hink II was bes, 10 send that dispatch. 90 had kep, Il. He ~as mad in A minute and told me ! had no righ, to think anything When l was told 10 do thing II was my bust ness 10 do II, and ask no questions He sad he was ashamed of me and told me when the tram got to kenosha to 20 right oui and send II quicx He was 70. ing to start back ,o talk wi'h the glfl some more whea l handed hum Inc dis- patch and told hm to read II. std then . fl he wanted me 10 send !, i spuid lie read U, and his face go, as ~aile Al hAlk. and the few hsifs on his head rAtsea ,lgi. ] ep go they were stiff enough tn ,ac doan