The Nevada picayune., 1885-02-12
The Bad Boy.
From Pcckls Sun.


 quick" said the bad boy to the groceryman, as he came in with his face all mufiled up, walking like a person who has been sick unto s3 cath.
 "What hespital?' asked the gro. ceryman, as he began to do up the crackers.
 "Why, over to our house, of course" said the boy, as he took a few crackers cat of the scales and began to nibble them. I've are the sickest crowd you ever see. Pa has been off his feed for about a month, and he hired the doctor 10 recommend 2 trip to Florida. The doc told ma confidentilly, that unless pa got out of this climate pretty soon he would not live till spring, and ma didn't want to loose pa right in the incfem ent season, so she sighed and began to mend up his summer drawers, and fix things so he could endure a tropical eli mate. Pa seemed resigned to his fate, and has dooked awful sick. l found three other fellows down town, chums of pa's, who were go. ing south too, and heard pa and them talking abont how they would paint things red down there and have high old time, and when l spoke of it at the table pa's appe- tite began to improve, and he look ed as though he could eat me with out any horse-radlsh. After din. ner he called me into the wood shed and said ought to have more sense than to trihe with the feel. ings of a sick man in that way. He said he supposed he was on his las { legs, and he wanted to go away in peac, and try and add q few mo. ments to his life, and he didn't want no kicking about his going. He gave me dollar and said for ne not to make no more remarkes, and then he winked at me. The next day ma had some company, and the wimmen got to talking about the south, and asked ma why she didn't go with pa, and ma said she was well and hearty and didn't have to go. Then the wimmen whispcrd spell, and ma went to the telephone and telepnoned to her doctor, and he came, and pret- ty soon ma was in bed with her lungs bandssed, and her head tied up, and hot water bags at her back and feet, and when pa came home he was scared. The doctor had such a mournful look on his face, and seemed to be SO anxious, that pa took him in the bathroom and said, Now, doc, want you to tell me the worst. Is she dangerous?' The doctor said it was not his na- ture to unnecessarily frighten any one, but he said doctors often had a duty to perform that they would prefer to transfer 10 other shoul- ders. He said he would prefer to wait before expressing m opinion, but he thought it was safe to say that unless the patient had a change of climate at once he should ask to be allowed to withdraw from the case, as he did not like to be held responsible for what seemed to him to be slow murder in keep. ing a delicate woman in climate that was forty degrees below zero half the time, by penurious hus- band. Pa was tutched. 1 could see that much through the key hole. The doc said pa would have to approach the matter delicately, and not let ma know she was dan gerous, or she woulden't go, but just go in the room sort of cheer. ful, and laugh, and say, 'Hannar, if you will hurry up and get better, and pack mp, you can go with me to Florida The doc said ma would probably refuse to go, but pa must insist. We'll, pa went in with laff he had borrowed l guess, cause it didn't sound like his at all and he said what the doctor told him, and ma was better right of. She said she didn't want to go co far away from her dear boy, but pa thought it best she would get up and pack up her grip. Pa went out and l told ma she had played it pretty fine, most as fine as pa did, and l was going to tell pa about the vim men putting the idea into her head, and she said that would spoil all,