The Nevada picayune., 1885-02-05
HUM OROVs.
The Bad Boy.
From Peek's Sun.

uciib' Sdtu tilS SiVSci ' ibaii eo the bad boy, as he camein looking cross.
 Don't hello to me D saidthe boy as he took mp the store cat and went to the sausage machine on the counter and began to turn the handle, Il am no telephone"
 "Well, you are a transmitter Gll the same.' said the grocery man, laughing at his attempt to joke, '''but drop that cat. What sou want to hurt a cat for, putting her in sausage grinder?'
 "Oh, I aint going to hurt your cat, but I wish every cat was dead. Our cat got mo into a mawful scrape last night, and I was no more to blame than the ma l in the mOon." said the boy as he sat down on a box. "Every. thing that goes wrong is ssid on me, Cause 1 used to he little tufl An my youth. That shows boy ought never to be thfT, Cause it sticks to him as long as he lves.n
 "Giyc us the cat story,' said the groceryman as he sat down by the boy and tried to raise his dropping spirits with glass of rotton apple cider.
 "s0h, I wish I had never been born, or that I had been born twins, or tripIets, so there would have been more of us to stand the racket. Last night l went to bed at nine o'clock, and left pa and ma SD playing youcur. 1 don't know how long 1 had been asleep when heard a rattling down in pa and mas room, and pa yelled murder, and ma yelled police, and win dow was smashed, and l heard a cat seealling, and l opened my window and yelled fire, and then l grabbed my pants and went down stairs to see what the row was and laelp pu. ovt the fire. rush ed into the room, and there was the Ofiulest smell of burnt hair ever smelled. Ma was up on a chair in her night clothes yelling, and pa standing looking out of the broken window, the top was of the coal stove, and the stove door open, and the coal hod and the coal scattered all around the car pet, and pa was all mussed mp, with blood on the front of his night shirt, and a scratch on his leg. When 1 came in pa grabbed me by the neck and said he would learn me how to fill the coal hod with black cats, and 1 thought pa was crazy. Ma grabbed pa and told him 1 was not to blame, and ahont that time policeman pound, ed at the door and wanted to know what the riot was about, and pa told him everything was all right and the policeman told the driver of the chemical fire extinguisller he could go home, and then pa told me what was the row. It seems our old black catdidn't have no more sense than togo to sleep In the coal nod, on top of the coal, and just before pa got ready to get into the bed he went to fill up the stove, and he poured the cat right into tine fire. Well, 1 spose you would have died to see pa. As quick as the cat struck the fire she woke up, or maybe she woke up goinginto the reservoir, but anyway there was me ou.w in the stove. and then the atcame right through one of the mica doors and struct pa with her toe nails, and began to walk on him, and howl. Pa was so scared he dropped the coal hod and grabbed the cat by one leg aud threw her through the window, and then he began to dance around l guess at first he didn't know whether 1t was for. sure eat, or on- l" imagination, cause pa has got 10 taking little Tom and Jerry during the holidays, and his nerves are little unstrung. l expressed my sorrow that the cat should have been scorched, and that made pa mad, Cause he said We all thought more of the injuries the eat re. ceived than we did for mS being scratched from Genesis 10 Revela- tions, and he said what l ought to have done was to go around the last thing before l went 10 bed and see that there was no cat i'll the coal shuttle. He said I owed that at least, to my family. Ia Is the unreasonablest man I ever saw. Who would ever think of looking for a cat in the coal shuttles After pa had given me fits about it, he began to jaw ma, ana told her she ought to know better than to yell fo.v
 ''Sav." said the groceryman stor- ping the boy. "I want vou tell the