The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-22
CHAPTER XXI.

<WIukerB slngcd or and powder marks on
40 face and began to play on the har-
monica as he sat down on the end of
&rfick Of stove wood and balanced himself.
"Oh, guess not. He has hedged. He
| not IN with deacon Of another church
4 6nd sold some Of his stock to him, and
M says il / will keep my condemn
mouth shut he will unload the whole OF
q II the churches hold out. He goes to
4 = new church every night there is prayer
|neeting or anything and makes Ma go
with him to give him tone. and after
meeting she talks to the sisters about
how to piece q silk bed quilt, while Pa
refs in his work selling silver stock. /
don't know but he will order some more
~tock from the factory if he sells all he
has got, and the boy went on playing
There's land that is fairer than day."
'But what was he skipping up street
(or the other night with his hat off.
grabbing at his coat tails as though they
. we're on fire? / thought / never saw
/. pussy man run any faster. And what
was the celebration down on your street
about that time? thought the world
was coming to an end" and the grocery
man kept away from the boy for fear
rs would explode.
b "Oh, that was only Fenian scare.
Nothin serious You see Pa is sort of
4 Half Englishman. He claims to be an
American citizen when he wants office,
+. bnt when they talk about draft he
claims to be subject of Great Britain,
and he says they can't touch him. Pa is
w darn smart man and don't you forget
II There don't any of them get ahead
of PA much. Well. Pa has said a good
deal about the wicked Fenians, and that
they ought to be pulled and all that, and
when / read the story in the papers
about the explosion in the British par
1iament Pa was hot. He said the dam
Nirish was running the whole world. He
6idn't dare say it at the table or our
hired girl would have knocked him silly
With q spoonful Of mashed potatoes,
scause she is Nirish girl, and she can
Hex any Englishman in this town.
a ''Pa said there ought to have been
nomebody there to have taken that bomb
Z No and throwed it in the sewer before it
oxploded. He said chat if he ever should
~ 3 bomb he would grab it right up
md throw IL away where it wouldn't
hurt anybody. Pa has me read the pa
rurv to him nights, cause his eyes have
.Iof splinterp in 'em, and after had read
n thero was in the paper made up
Iot more and pretended to read it, about
how It was rumored that the Fenians
kcro IN Milwaukee were going to place
Gynamite bombs at every house where
~ Englishman lived and at given sig
M blow them all up. Pa looked pale
around the gills, but he said he wasn't
ocared.
X "Pa and Ma were going to call on
lie deacon that night, that has lots of
money in the bank, to see if she didn't
Want to invest in dead sure paying sill
Vcr mine, and me and my chum conclud-
"a to give them sendoff. We got my
big black injy rubber football and paint
"a 'Dinymight' in big white letters on it
md tied piece of tarred rope to it for
fuse and go. a big firecracker, one of
those old Foprth Of July horse scarers,
and basket full of broken glass. We
put the football in front Of the step and
slit the tarred rope and got under the
otep with the frecrackers and basket,
where they go down into the basement.
\ Pc and Ma came out the front door and
down the steps. and Pa saw the football
md the burning fuse. and he said, Great
. God. Hammer, we are blowed upr and he
started 10 run. and Ma she stopped to
look ut It.
- "Just as Pa started to run l. touched
~ the frecraczer. and my chum ar
Ranged it TO pour out the broken glass
on the brick pavement just as the fire.
cracker went of. Well, everything went
tust as we expected, except Ma. She had
examined the football and concluded it
was not dangerous and was just giving
kick as the irecracker went off and
She glass fell. and the frecracker was so
near her that It scared her, and when Pa
looked around Ma was flying across the
oidewslk. ard Pm heard the noise. and he
thought the house was blown TO atoms.
Oh, you'd "a died to see him go around the
corner. You could play crokay on his
coattnil. and his face was as pale as Mas
when she goes 10 party. But Ma didn't
scare much As quick as she stopped
against the hitching post she knew it was
us boys. and she came down there, and
maybe she didn't maui me. cried and
txied to gain her sympathy by telling her
the 6recracker went off before it was
Iue and burned my eyebrows off. but
ehe didn't let up until promised to 20
+ md find Pa.
II tell you my Ma ought TO be engaged
( by the British government to hunt out
the dynamite fends. She would corral
(hom in two minutes. II Pa had as much
oand ~ Ma has got, IL would be warm
weather for me. Well. me and my chum
. went and headed Ia of, or 1 guess ne
would be running yet. We got him mp
by the lake shore, and he wanted to know
& < the house fell down. He said he would
. lave Il to me II he ever said anything
+ oen!nst the Fenians, and told him he had
Z always claimed that the Fenians were
- incest men IN the world, and il seemed
. - relieve him very much When he got
K &r~uo and found the house there. he was