Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-04-27
HOW HE CURED CYRUS.
Old Man Hayseod Enters the Ring 60
Maintain Paternal Authority.

OAo man Hayaeod Enters the Ring 20
Maintain Paternal Authority.
'This ere athletics and gymnasiums
is all wrong" said the old man, as he
laid down his paper and began to shucIz
a three-ply peanut. '.rve had sample
oft in my own family, and l know how
it works.
Don't you believe in such exercise
for a young manp"
"Wall, the exercise may be all right,
but the fellers git false ideas in their
heads. Take my son Cyrus, fr instance.
Cy was leetle inclined to consumption,
and rayther encouraged gymnastics.
1t wasn't three weeks afore he begun to
git sassy. / gave him lickin' one day,
and could see that he didn't take it
kindly. He began to put on airs over
his mother, and when / cum to inquire
around leetle / found that Cy was on
the box. He was a-holdin' up his dukes
and knockin' the boys right and left.
overheard him talkin' to our Bill about
position guard, break away knock
out and sich, and every day he got
sassier and sassier. He was eighteen
years old, but allus lick my boys till
they are past twenty. / saw that Cy
was goin' to buck. Thar was Bill and
Tom and Jerry to be affected by his ex-
ample, and / felt that sunthin' orter be
done. One day we was holm corn, and
Cy was off. didn't mind it fur awhile,
but bine-by / got riled and said
"'Seems to me you ar achin' fur a
lickin'
"Mebbe I am, father, he replies, as
cool as ice, but / shan't git 1t. I've bin
licked fur the last time
""Cause whyP' l asked.
""Cause l won't allow it.
"Then 1 knew that the time had
come when he'd got to have sunthin
stronger than hoss medicine. He'd got
the big head on him tremenjus, and ii
was then or never.
"'Suppose we walk over to the barn,
Cyp keerlessly remarked as finished
a row.
HE said he was my huckleberry, and
we dropped our hoes and went. When
we got inside we both begun to peel by
mutual consent and Cy carried a grin
all over his face. He'd been put on to
a new upper-cut two or three days be-
fore and he was calkelatin' on spilin'
my chawin' machine at the fust blow.
He looked the jim-dandy as he squared
of, and l raythur anticipated the wust.
| never fit in my life, but when we
squared off was bound to down Cyrus.
Says l:
"'Cy, will ye quit yer sass and
knuckle If | don't lick yep
"And he said: Father, raise yer
dukes leetle higher, and look out fur
mer
"With that he tapped me on the
with one hand and cuffed |
my ear with the other, and l sailed in.
He gave me one on the tooth-box as / |
closed in, but arter that the gate money
was mine. / throwed him into the |
over the fannin' mill, and be-
hind the granary, and l was goin' to
run him through the cornsheller, when
he hollered 'EnoughF and begged me
10 let up on him. It worked a mighty |
sudden cure on him. Swellin' all went |
put his head that night, and when ]
licked him with a cornstalk next day |
he was as humble as calf. Gymnas-
,ics is all right up to a certain pint, but
when you git beyond it it's dangerous.
posen hadn't come out on top of Cy! |
Why, sir, he'd have bin bluffln' me
,uter the house by this time, and prob
IDLY had match on with Sullivanp
\. Y. Sun.