The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-20
.ECK'S BAD boy.
b. GEORGE W. PECK.
Copyright lsoA By American Press AssociA-
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CHAPTER XIII.
HIS PA Is DISCOURAGED.

HIS PA Is DISCOURAGED.
Say, you leave here mighty quick"
said the grocery man to the bad boy as
he came in with his arm in sling and
backed mp against the stove to get warm
Everything has gone wrong since you
got to coming here, and think You are
regular Jonah. find sand in my
sugar. kerosene in the butter, the cod
fish Is all picked Of, and there is some
thing wrong every time you come here.
Now, You leave"
II amt no joiner, said the boy as he
wiped his nose on his coat sleeve and
reached into barrel for snow apple.
II never swallered no whale. Say, do
You believe that story about joiner being
in the whales belly all night? ! don't.
The minister was telling about it at Sun.
day school last Sunday and asked me
what ! thought joiner was doing while
he was in there, and told him inter-
preted the story this way-that the
whale was fixed up inside with upper
and lower bsrths, like sleeping car, and
joiner had lower berth, and the porter
made up the berth as soon as joiner
came in with his satchel, and joiner
pulled of his boots and gave them to the
porter to black and put his watch un-
der the pillow and turned in. Tho boys
in Sunday school all LATED, and the min
lister said ! was bigger fool than Pa
was, and that was useless. II You go
back on me now, won't have a friend
except my chum and dog, and / swear
BY my halidom that never put no sand
In your sugar or kerosene in your but
ter.
II admit the picking of Of the cod
Dish. but you can charge it to Pa, the
same as you did the eggs that / pushed
my chum over into last summer, though
thought you did wrong in charging
Christmas prices for dog days eggs.
When my chum's Ma scrsped his pants,
she said there was not an egg represent
ID on there that was less than two years
Did. The Sunday school folks have all
gone back on me since put kyan pep
per on the stove when they were singing
Little Drops Of Water and they all |
had to 60 ont doors and air themselves,
but didn't mean to let the pepper drop
,n the stove. Twas just holding it over
he stove to warm it when my chum hit
he funny bone Of my elbow. Pa says
I'm terror to cats. Every time Pa says
It gives me . new idea. tell
Tou Pa has got great brain, but some
imes he don't have 1t with him. When
10 said was terror to cats, ! thought
what fun there Is in cats, and mo and
ny chum went to stealing cats right OF,
md before night we had II cats Gagged.
We had one in canary bird cage, three
a Pas old hatboxes. three in Mas band
'ox, four In valises. two in . trunk and
he rest in q closet up stairs.
THAT night Pa said he wanted me to
tay home because tho committee that
> going to get up noyster supper in the
hurch was going to meet at our house,
nd they might want to send me on err
ands. ! asked him il my chum couldn't
tsy, too, cause he is the healthiest in
ant to run after errands that ever was,
nd Pa said he could stay, but we must
that there mustn't be no
,onkey business going on. told him
mere shouldn't be no monkey business,
ut ! didn't promise nothing about cats.
Veil, sir, you'd died. The committee
as In the library by the back stairs, and
10 and my chum got the catboxes all
'gether at the top of the stairs, and we
,ok them all out and put them in a
othesbasket, and just as the minister
as speaking and telling what q great
BOD was done by these noyster sociables
bringing the young people together
i'd taking thesr minds from the wicked
IS Of the world and turning their
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