Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-11-28
PECK'S BAD BOY.
His Pa JOKES HIM.

on your upper lip?" said the grocery man
to the bad boy as he came in and began
to peal a rutabnga. aud his upper Zip
| hung down over his teeth and was
covered with something that looked like
shoemaker's wax. "You look as though
you had been digging potatoes with yonr
nose
90, that's some of pas smartncss. |
asked him if he knew anything that
would make u boys mustach grow, and
! he tole me the best thing he ever tried
war tar, and for nc to rub 1t on thick
| when went to bed, and wash it off in
| the morning. put 1t on last night, and
by gosh cant got it of. Pa told me all
| had to do was to use a securing brick
and it would come off, and used the
brick, and it took the skin off, and the
tar is there yet, and say, docs my lip look
very bad"
The grocery man told him it was the
worst looking lip he ever saw, bet he
could cure it by rubbing little cayenne
pepper in the ter He said the tar would
neutralIze the pepper. and the pepper
would loosen tn tar, and act as cool
ing lotion to the laccratea lip. The boy
went TO a cln of pepper behind the coun-
ter, and stuck his finger in and rubbed
10. OF it on IN. lip. and then his hrir be-
gan to raise, ami he began to cry, and he
rushed to the water-pail AMI run his fac
into ihe water to wash the pepper t. The
grocery man laughed, and when the boy
h II got the pepper washed OF, and had
resumed his ru'abaga, he said:
That seals your fate. M man ever
tribes with the feelings of the bold buc-
cancer Of the Spanish main, without
living to rue it. l will lay for you, old
man, and don't you forget it. Pa thought
hs was smart when he got rye to put tar
on my lip. tn bring my nlus iach out, and
today he lays on bed Oh pain, and to-
morrow your turn will come. You viii
regret tha: you did not get down on
your knees aud beg MY pardon. You
will be sorry you di d not prescribe cold
cream fer my bruised lip, Instead OF
cayenne pepper. Beware. you base
twelve ounce to.tLe-pound huckstcr, You
gimlet-eyod seller Of cog sausage, you
sandvd sugar idiot, yoa small potato
Il, ,f
egg tirn d, you villain that sells smoked
sturgeon and dogfish for smoked hall
but. The avengcr is on your track"
"L,ok here young man, dou't you
threaten me-, or | will take yea by the
ear and walk you through green fields.
and beside still waters, 20 the front doar
and kick your pistol pocket clear around
so lhat You can wear it for watch pock
ct in your vest. No boy can trighten ms,
hy crmus. But tell me-, how did you
get even with your pa?'
well give me glass of cider AMI we
will be good friends, and will tell you.
Thanksl Gosh. but that ciler was made
out of moul,iy dried apples and sewer
water" and he took a handful of layer
rasns off the top of box to take the
Ia te out o! his mouth, and while the
gr 'ceryman charged peek of rutabagss,a
gallon of cider, and two pounds of rasins
10 the boys pa. the boy proceede'l "You
ser pa likes joke the best of any man
you ever saw, but he kicks like steer !;
il is hm. asked him this morning
il / would be good joke to put SOFT
cap on the front step, so the lcter car
rier would slip up and spill hisselt, aud
D, said it would be elegant. Pa is IA
democrat, and ne thinks that anv thing
that will .uaNc it unpleasant tor republi>
can office. holders is legitimate, and he
encouraged lar to parnl!ze the letter-car-
irr, Tue letter>carrlel is rs old IL man rs
pa, and didn't want to huriiliate him,
but just wanted pa to give his consent,
SO he wouldn't kick # he got caught in
his own trap. You see2 W.ll, this
morning the minister and two of the
deacons called on pa, to have talk With
hiM about his actions in church on two
or three occasions, when he p,ll~A out the
Nank Of cor,lc with his h,nL st,o;t acI