Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27
THE MAYNARD YOUTH.
That Milwaukee Boy and His Poor
Pa. s..
The Old Man Complains that It is too Quiet
Since the Boy Became Good, SO the
Boy and His Chum Make il
Interesting for Him.


thing to day that has hurt me as much
as though you was my own boy" and
the groceryman looked as though it
wouldn't take many good sized onions
TO make the tears come.
"Great jewhilhkens, what it it," ask
ed the bad boy, a. his face Of his mer-
camille friend. "What Is the matter?
Won't YOU creditors accept ten cents on
q dollar ~ and the boy looked like q
lawyer, ready to help q client out, and
reached into q cinnamon bag and took
out a handful of cinnamon.
"No, nothing Of that kind" said the
groceryman. 81 have concluded not to
fail. But 1 am told on good authority
that you have become bad again, and
that you have been playing the mean
est trek on your pa thar you have ever
played. The minister told me he was
coming in from country funeral the
|Other Gay, and he overlook your pa CD
the road with gun, and asked him to
get in and ride, aud you pas pants were
all torn, his boots and gun full Of snow,
ana he was so scared that he kept look
big around all the way to town, expect
ipg to be shot in the back. Now, what
kind of way is that to treat the author
,Of your being? Say, you will have
Through ticket to the bad place, and
|yOur train will leave on schedule time
Lanu arrive at the grand central depot in
|lades, just as the fire is kindled. You
Bad, bad, boy. | have been proud of
'Nou. aud thought you would come out
s.ll right. but now ] know you are 3
EhypOcTite."
There, there, don't put on any extra
sadness said the boy, rs he quartered
|an orange.
Pa IL all Right.
Die wanted us to stir him up. You see,
.siuce have been good, pa has been neg
lected, and he has become sour and his
.rlOthes don't fit. He told ma that what
De wanted was excitement, and he had
..yOt to have it. He said when the boys
@eIe playing things on him, and max.
6Dg HIM scratch gravel, and he felt
be though horse was going to fall on
'bim every minute, he enjoyed himself,
had good appetite, and felt equal to
any emergency, but since the boys had
Become good, and let him alone, his life
WAS burden, he had failed in business
Bird everything went wrong, and unless
tlere was a change soon, he would lose
rs mind. He said he sighed for the
bid times; when he didn't know wheth-
Ter he was afOOt or a horseback, and
when something was liable to happen
livery minute. He said he was brought
lIp to he surprised, and fall through
9hOles and to have everything stop, and
10 lead quiet life, and just eat, drink,
Ind sleep, with no cyclones, no happy
Daughter of children raising the deuce,
WAS more than he could bear. Ma told
1ne about il, and the state of mind pa
WAS in, and felt sorry for pa. Ma told
me to Iry aud think up something that
would sort of wake up pa, or he would
Relapse into a state of melanchOlic, and
have to hire a doctor. | told my Chum
About pas ease, and he said it was
Too bad to SIC man suffer that way
~.,uu We must
DO SomeIhIpx TO Save His Life.
So we agreed to take pa out rabbit
hunting. asked paif he didn't want
|tO go with III, and he jumped right up
nnd yelled, and said it would tickle him
'lalf TO death to go. told him where
there was place about four miles out
Df town, where there was dead loads Of
rabbits, but the man that owned the
farm drove everybody off. Pa said
'there couldn't no man drive him of,
and for US to come on. Well, you'd
.iide. Pa wasn't afraid OF anybody,
until the man hollered to him to git.
N on see, we went out to the farm, and
Stationed pa by a fence, and my chum
and me went to the other side Of piece
hi woods to scare the rabbits towards
fa. Then We went up to the farm
house, where a man lived that we know,
and told him we wanted to scare man
but of his boots, and he said all right,
no ahead. So we borrowed some far
ner's clothes, and old plug hats, and
Sent around behind the barn and yelled
30 pa to get off that farm, Pa said for
ns 20 go to the bad place. He sail he
game out to hunt rabbits, and by gosh
be was going to hunt rabbits. Then my
ehum and me started toward pa, wad-
iDg through the snow, and pa thought
ne were grown men, seven feet high.
When We got about twenty rods from
pa we told him to git, and he was go
ing to argue with us, when we pulled
snp our guns and fired both barrels AT
him. We had blank cartridges, but pa
Thought he felt shot striking him every
where, and he
Started for n Barbed Wire Fence,
md we loaded our guns again and fired
lust as pa got on the fence, and he
yelled murder. You know these barbed
wire fences don't you? The barbs
Patch on TO YOUR pants and hang on.
We'll, pa got caught by the pants, and
eouldn't get over, and we kept firing,
and he dropped his gun in the snow,
And tried to tear the fence down, aud he
kent yelling, For Gods sake, gentle
men, spare my life. 1 don't want any
-pf your rabbits got to laughing so L
eOuldn't shoot and laid down in q
enow bank, and my chum kept shoot
ing. Pa finally got off the fence and
burrowed in a snow bank, ana held up
a piece of his shirt which the fence tore
off, fo- q flag of truce, and We quit, and
he stuck I'D mis- head and saw me laying
fhere in the snow, and pa thought his
nun had gone off and killed one OF the
krmers, and my chum said, Great
Hevings, you have killed him. AT that
"a grabbed his gun and run for the road
nd started for town, and that's where
Ae minister overlook him. Along to-
yards night me and my ehum came
Ipme with four ribbits, and we told pa
II was
APretty Rabbit Hunter
leave before the rabbits got to run
EDg, and that we looked all around for
81: He looked surprised, and asked
We struck any corpses around on
XSt farm, and I thought
X0Aould bust. We told him we didn't
-. any, and then he told US he was
nding there waiting for rabbits, when
|ng of about fifteen roughs came snd
%ered him away, and he refused to
- He did say they opened fire on
and he threw himself into hol-
square, the way they used to do in
army, threw up i1trenchments OF
and defended himself, and when
N4kTas finally surrounded and had to
at, he saw the ground covered with
and wounded, and he expected he
wiped out an entire neighborhood.
aid it was singular We didn't see
eorpses. 1 asked him how he tore
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