The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-01-18
THAT AwFULLY BAD BOY.
And How Hc Plays tt ON tho Fear.
ofa Deceived Parent.

anu HOW dc FlayS 1t ON tho Fears
Ofa Deceived Parent,
Peck's Milwaukee Sun.
II guess your pas losses in tho silver
mine has made him crazy, Invent
they" said the grocery man to tho bad
boy, a. he came in the store With his
eye winkers singed off, and powder
marks on his face, and began to play on
tho harmonica, rs he sat down on the
end of stick Of stove wood and bal
anccd himself.
ooh, I guess not. He has hedged.
He got in with . deacon of another
church, and sold some of his stock to
him, and pa saws II keep my COM.
denim mouth shut he will 1nload the
whole of it. ii the church holds out.
He goes to . new church every night
there il prayer meeting, and makes ma
60 with him, to give him tone, and after
meeting she talks with the sisters about
low to piece silk bed quilt, while pa
gets in his work selling silver stock.
don't know what he will order some
more stock from the factory, II he sells
all he has got" and the boy went on
playing There's Land that 10 fairer
than Day."
"But what was he skipping up street
for the other night with his hat of, grab.
bling at his coat tails az though they were
On fire? thought never saw pussy
man run any faster. And what was the
celebration down OH your street about
that time? l though. ~. ...S y urld was com.
ing to an cnd," and the grocery man
kept away from the boy. for fear he
woald explode.
80. that was only ienian scare
Nothin' serious. You see pa is sort 9.
half Englishlnan. He claims to be an
American citizen, when he vans of.
ice. hut when they talk about draft he
claims to be.a subject of Great Britain,
and he says they can't tonch him. Pa is
darned smart man, and don't you for.
get it. There don't any of them get
ahead OF pa much. Well, pa has said q
good deal about the wicked Fcnians,
and that they ought to be pulled, and all
that, and when read the story in the
papers about the explosion in the Brit
lsh parliament pa was hot. He said tho
damerish was running the whole world:
He didn't say it at the table orour hired
girl would have knocked him silly With
q spoonful of mashed potatoes, cause
she's nirish girl, aud she can lick any
Englishman in this town. Pa said there
ought to have been somebody there to
have taken That bomb and throwed It in
the sewer before exploded. He said If
he ever should SEQ bomb he should grab
it right up and throw it away where il
wouldn't hurt anybody. Pa has me
read the papers to him nights, cause his
eyes have got splinters in tem, and after
Lad read all there was in the paper 1
made up q lot more and pretended to
read it, a0out how it was rumored that
the Fenians here ia Milwaukee were
going to place dynamite bombs at every
house were an Englishman lived, and
at o given signal blow them all up. Pa
looked pale around the gills, but he
said he wasn't scared. Pa and ma we're
going to call on she deacon that has
lots Of money In the bank, to see il she
didn't want to invest in dead-sure nay.
ing silver mine, and me and my chum
concluded to give them q send. of. We
got my big black y.rubbey football and
painted "Dinymight" in big white let
tiers on it, and tied piece oftarred rope
to 1t for fuse, and got fre.cracker,
one of those old Fourth of July horse
scarers, and basket full ofb.oken'glass.
We put the football in front of the step,
-. .n ia. aarr9u sope, ana GOT under the
step with the hrecracker AMI basket.
where they 60 down into the basement.
II ana ma got out the front door and
aown the steps, ana pa saw the football
a ana, tn ~ oarning iuse, and he said, Great
God! TANNER, we are bowed up" and
ne started to run, and ma she stopped
70 LOOK az u. Just as pa started to run l
toucNed on the hrecracker, and my cflum
arranged u 70 pour out the broken glass
on the brick pavement just 90 the fire.
thiex went oil. Well, every.
.ning went just as We expected,
e4cept ma; =, She had exam.
lned ehe football, and concluded it was
not dangerous. and was just giving it q
Kick as the hrecracker went of, and the
giass Tell, ana the frecracker was SO near
her that it scared her, and when pa
Looked around ma was flying across the
sidewalk, and pa heard the noise and
he thought the house was blown TO
atoms. ., you'd a dido to see him 70
around the corner: You could play GRO
kay ON his coat.tail, aud his face was az
pale as mas when she goes to a party
But ma didn't scare much. As quick as
she stopped against tho hltchins post
she J new it was us boys, and she came
dowsl there, and maybe she didn't maui
pT r. e. .S =. T.. net .no AleGtacker went