Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-01
TIE FAD aoYrN HISTORY.
Bin Nye Philosophizes on His Past and
future.

uhuEes
Many years ago there lived in New Ha-
ven very bad boy. He was born L40
years ago, anG az ne is now dead leeI
liberty to write his biOgrapr! some
times i. is perfectly tIresOme waiting Tor
2 man TO die. so that YOU will feel per-
fectly safe ia saying what you thlhk Vi
him; but ii he happens to he large TO-
bust man i. certainly pays 10 40 IT,.
This boy was known IA and WlGe as
the n,eanest and VIGOROUSLY, popelesslg
had boy 10 Connecticut. No other BOY
had any claims whatever when ne was
around, end for years he carried tae Delt'
Tie knew ali the little iina tricks OF mean
ness and cruelty at the age Of twelve
years that it generally takes Lifetime 70
acquire. Where OIL ers studied all day
hard TO devise new kinds of Wickednes5,
ap5 Ia, on their stomachs nights by tne
light Of of a pin knot nd pauenLly
worked out the more difficult problems
of meanhess and laWle5sIess, inns Iau
seemed TO breathe It all In the very arr.
His wonderful genius as successful Oad
boy was remarked Ivy those who G!d not
know him at all. He was prodigy OIL
wickedness. a miracle Of lneanness.
He loved to get little boys INTO MS
hands and then duck them or scare them
out of their senses. He succeeded ID Grip
ping several little sch0o'mates, ana bleW
out the teachers eve with cannon nre-
cracker one day. He loved to see MS
little friends fall into his traps. and very
few Of his most intimate friends sue
ceeded 10 dying ltural deaJh.
ICCuld 20 On fOrpa@e after page tellih9 Oh
the funny pranks OF TINS bad boy, II chose
to. and it wOu l make YOU laugh till the
tears rolled down your cheeks 10 read
/ how he filled the asylum and the hospital
] a u3 tbA ~ aroAfQrV with his TRENDS.
I Whenever any Of the dogs saw this hui
morous boy they would conceal their
/ tails as far as possible and go to Canada
/ till the bad boy had grown up or died.
He was a great lover OF fan, and IN one
/ evening scared three little girls with a
/ skull covered with PHOSPHORUS and
worked by machinery SO that they had MS
/ all their liy,s. He knew of more ways to
produce . laugh and scare child into
hts than any boy Of his age in Connecti-
cut, and you must remember that this
| happened over 100 years ago, when boys
didn't have the advantages they have
/ now.
Year after year he lived on, just as fun
1 Of the cold scratch" IS ever. Now and
then he would burn a LArn. just TO see the
COWS scatter and watch the farmer hus-
tie out in his shirt with pail Of water.
But observe how the prophecies OF his
I OHi2DDUIS iailtus IL GuSHt " CuNOlt4 a -
every bad boy in the United states to-day
whose relatives and friends speak harsh
~ OF him. This led mt last grew to be a
man, and was known All over the civiliz-
ed world. His name is familiar to every
one, and in the history Of our great land
you will find long account Of him, and
still he had tue reputation Of pulling frogs
to pieces while they were alive, and Of
leaving mud Turtles on the track for the
passenger train so tbatbe could hear then
pop, and of putting kittens on the kitch-
en- stove TO watch hem while they danced
Bad boy, do not be DISCOURAGED. Hope
on, for there may be afuture For you. Dc
not lose hope when yOur parents tall
back atyou. You have inst as good chance
to be known all over the world as the boy
of whom l have told you. He was poor
too. he had t. SOW his wild oaJs first, as
you say, but he steadily worked his way
on, until at the time OF mis- death be was
known wherever the English language i!
spoken as Benetsct Arnold, aud every
body wanted to see him very much in
deed. Even the Sheriff, VINO woultn'
recognize him at al when he was boy
walked for miles and miles to find hin
and converse with hlm, and when be go
there Mr.. Arnold wasn't at home. HI
had thought Of something 10 England tina
he wanted TO 20 and get.