The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-09
CHAPTER II.
THE BAD BOY AT WORK AGAIN.

THE BAD BOY AT WORK AGAIN.
OF course all boys are not full of tricks,
but the best Of them are. That is, those
who are the readiest to play innocent
jokes and who are continually looking
for chances to make Rome howl are the
most apt to turn out to be first class busi-
ness men. There is boy in the Seventh
ward who is so full of fun that some
times it makes him ache. he is the same
boy who not long since wrote note TO
his father and signed the name "Daisy" to
it and got the old man 10 stand on q
corner for two hours waiting for the
girl. After that scrapo the old man told
the boy that he had 40 objection to inno-
cent Jokes, such as would not bring re-
proach upon him, aud as long as the boy
confined himself TO jokes that would
simply cause pleasant laughter and not
cause the finger Of scorn to be pointed
at parent he would be the last one to
kick. SO the boy has been for three
weeks trying to think Of some innocent
joke TO play on his father.
The old man is getting little near
sighted, and his teeth arc not as good as
they used to be, but the old man will not
admit it. Nothing that anybody can say
can make him own up that his eyesight
is failing OF that his teeth are poor, and
he would bet 800 that he could see as
far as ever. The boy knew the failing
and made up his mind to demonstrate to
the old man that he was rapidly getting
off his base. The old person is very fond
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a week. The other day the boy was in a
drug store and noticed in showcase
lot of small rubber hose about the size
of sticks of macaroni, such as is used on
nursing bottles and other rubber utensils.
It was white and nice, and the boys mind
was made up at once. He bought a yard
of it and took it home. When the maca-
roni was cooked aud ready to be served,
he hired the table girl to help him play
it on the old man. They took a pair OF
shears and cut the rubber hose in pieces
about the same length as the pieces of
boiled macaroni and put them in saucer
with little macaroni over the rubber
pipes and placed the dish at the old mans
plate.
Well, we suppose If 10, 900 people could
have had reserve seats and seen the old
man struggle with the india rubber mac
aroni and have seen the boys struggle to
keep from laughing they would have had
more fun than they would at a circus.
First tho old delegate attempted to cut
the macaroni into small pieces, and fail
ing he remarked that it was not cooked
enough. The boy said his macaroni was
cooked too tender, and that his fathers
teeth were so poor that he would have to
eat soup entirely pretty soon. The old
man said, "Never you mind my teeth,
young man." and decided that he would
not complainof anything again. He took
up q couple of pieces Of rubber and one
piece of macaroni on fork and put them
in his mouth. The macaroni dissolved
easy enough and went down perfectly
easy, but the fat macaroni was too much
for him.
He chewed on IL for minute or two
and talked about the weather in order
that none of the family should see that
he was in trouble. and when he found
that the macaroni would not go down
he called their attention to something
out of the window and took the rub