Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-06
ghe aaaia Daily eagle Tuesday a1p12ua, g1Frh s. 1888.


T BadI Aren't they bsd RlE yDrsN
over! But those boys were awfua. WheD
your innocent father went there they gave
one terrifying whoop and went for him.
They stove in his hat; they tore his coat;
there were thousand boys, more or less,
ON his shoulders most of the time. and
when your honored parent got outside
you wouldn't have known him. He was
the worst used up parent you ever saw"
.sWhat did those boys do that for,
Didn't they know you had little boy at
homeG'
''My son, they didn't stop to make any
inquiries. They seemed to want no par
ticulars about my family. 1t was me
they wanted at that moment, and they
got me-"
Il think that was dreadful"
81 quite agreed with you at that mo-
ment. You see, this was how it was:
There is one day in the year when all the
little boys of Amsterdam have the run Of
the exchange. If grown up man goes
in that day they have a picnic with him.
The doorkeeper knew all about it, but
your poor papa didn't, though he noticed
the doorman grin when he went in"
He was bad man."
nc " do, AlUccCl DuU ~ iudNc up IOr IL
he told your papa all about why the boys
were there, and so that kind of made up
for it. The guide book says that in 1922,
some few years before you came to this
country, the boys of the town discovered
plot Of the Spaniards to take the city OF
Amsterdam, and since that time the
children are allowed to play for week in
the exchange. But like better Che story
lo IL 49,
little boy who was the hero Of
Not the hero of HARLEM, papa?"
"What about him.
''Oh that little boy. You know. He
staid up all night and didn't let the water
run into the town till his arm ached.
Don't you remember?'
Didn't / say this was a new story!
You are trying to work off that old one
on me-"
"Then it isn't that one," with sigh Of
relief.
mo, that danger is past. This is An
entirely fresh one. The little boy was one
day playing under bridge. There are
lots Of bridges in Amsterdam. He heard
two men ON barge tell each other how
next day when the king was to cross
that bridge they were going to blow it up.
You see the barge was full of gunpowder.
So the little boy crept out and ran aud
told his father, and his father went to the
palace and told the kings men, and they
went and caught the two men and found
the barge full of powder, and then the
men confessed and told who had given
them the money to do it. Then the king
sent for the little boy and his father
brought him there before all the court.
ha 1a In hrv,
much frightened"
"Did they kill him?'
'Why, of course not. What would they
kill him for?''
II thought kings always killed little
boys when they caught them"
ooh, no. You wrong kings very much.
They often have little boys of their own,
and, strangeito say, like them very much"
little boys:"
king tell stories till his head aches and the
the king heard how this little boy had
saved his life, and he patted the boy on
the head and told him that he could have
whatever he asked for.
''Then there was an awful. anxious mo-
boy would have sense enough to ask for
500, 600 and new suit of clothes Every
body held their breath to hear what the
boy would ask for. Now, what do yor
think it wass''
"a rocking horse!"
ssNo."
"a locomotivei''
"No."
ga cIa;ob, What rroc i+1,
''He said he wanted to play all day in
the exchange. Then everybody laughed
and his father tore his bair.;'
''The boys hair?"
"No, his own. He would have liked to
tear the boys hair, but he remembered
where the switch and the strap We're ut
home, and thought he would wait bit
But the king gave the boy lot of money
and said that on that day every year the
big men would have to go fishing or do
something else and let all the little boys
Of Amsterdam jump over the seats of the
great hall in the exchange"
sis that all%'
can. Isn't that enough"
eyes. Tell me another papa" Luke
Sharp in Detroit Free Press.