The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-30
f'ECE1-S BAD ROY.

peaches Win urty cloth, and the boy
took up a handful OF the peaches, smcllcd
Of them, looked as though he was scasicll
and added "'rhey ought to hang man
for selling such stuff
Business is none of orr business. " said
the grocerymln, 'anl young person. if
you don't like those peaches you needn't
buy any Dried peaches were considered a
great luxury in an early day In 1855 ]
remember.
Yes, these are 1855 peaches, " said the
boy intorrupting the old groccryman, who
was getting mad ''But tell me, few
years ago there was an old fellow kept
grocery here on this corner who was the
worst old fraud in the world He would
charge two prices for everything and
charge things to man three times, and he
sold decayod Goldfish glucose for sugar,
and The neighbors used to say he would
steal. Where is he now? Got rich | sup
pose, and gone on a trip around the world
used TO know him and he was bad lot :"
4 am the same man, said the grocery
years And then. recognizing for the
first time the bad Boy, he added, Il was
ruined by young william who used to hang
signs around my place, advertising dead
eat sausage. and such things He made my
life burden, but he went away year or
more ago and have been told he was en-
gagged in stare robbing out West. and had
built UP good business took an oath
to kill him on sight, and you look so much
like the bad boy that think | will run
Ibis cheese knife into you couple oftimes
for luck and the groccryman made a
jump for the boy apparently perfectly
frantic
''Stoperr said the bad boy, as he stepped
back and let loose one of his old laughs
that used to tighten up the gloom in tie
grocery. stay your hand, rash man. or
You Will dull your knife. Embrace me;
am your long lost mascot" and the boy
opened his arms and raised the roof with
such barre laugh as the lonesome old
groecrYman had not heard around the place
for year.
xiii the fat prodiral. the calf has rot
back, shouted the groeeryman. as he
dropped the cheese knife and Rugged the
bad boy. and then pushed him of and look
celat him. Il would have known you ina
minute if i had not been for that mould ON
yeur upper lip like this mould on the
dried peaches. BY rum, am clad to see
Won. Where have Won been and does
your "a know Won have got back > Have
YOU been in iail. and how aid You ret out ?
Are you gong to stay long. or have yotl an
engagement to rob a bank. Tell me
ALL for | have missed you, You young
whelp.
20 90 take walk with yourself and
lose yourself, said the boy, a. he
lisengagtd himself from the embrace of
his old friend Yes, pa knows I'm
ba k and lie is resigned to his fate. =
DO you know, thought you might
have got home when heard somebody
yell murder over to your house last night,
said the groceryman. -''Wlat was you do
ing? Come and sit down on the old soap
box and spit at the stove, and play some
tricks on me, and tell me all about yourself.
It has made me grow old the past year,
not to have a single trick played onme, and
nothing happening to get me mad. A
man wants excitement or he is no good;
and the groceryman pushed mp the soap
box for the boy, and drew the half bushel
measure for himself, and as the two sat
down and looked at each other as though
they expected something to happen out Of
the ordinary run the sight was picture
worth Secin2
"Wen, says &c boy, as he brushed off
the soap box 10 see if there was any bent
pinorany shoemakcr'S wax for him to sit
on, 'old gentleman, you have had a furlough
for year now, and it has not done yon
any good You look pale. what you
want IS something TO think o. to wake yon
up Fora week or 50 snail De at hoine'
and want You to feel natural Just as
though you expected the lioor to i'll IN the
cellar or the ROOT TO blow OF, or a can OF
dynamite to explode any minute. Where
have been Been to college. have
got an education that would surprise you.
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