The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-27
bad boy.
By GEORGE ". PECK.
copyright. lGn BY American Press Associa-
toni
tcoSrrSurD.1
CHAPTER XIV.
HIS PA nISSFlTFD

his PA DIssEcTED.
understand your Pa has got TO drink
ing again ike Q fish" says the grocery
man TO the bad boy as the youth came
in the grocery and took handful o.
dried apples. The boy ate dried apple
and then made up terrible face, and
the grocery man asked him what he was
trying to do with his face. The boy
caught his breath and then said:
Say, don't you know any better than
TO keep dried apples where a boy can get
hold OF them when he has got the
mumps: You will kill some boy vet by
such dunn carelessness. thought these
were sweet dried apples. but they are
sour as boarding house keeper, ard
they make me tired. Didn't You ever
have the numps: Gosh, but don't it
hurt though: You have got TO be darn
careful when You have the mumps, and
not 60 out bob Shedding or skating. or
you Will have your neck swell up bigger'n
milk pail. Pa says he had the mumps
once when he was boy and it broke
him all up.
well. never mind the mumps; how
about your Pa spreeing it: Try one of
those pickles in the jar there, won't you?
always like TO have a boy enjoy him
self when he comes TO see me-" said the
grocery man, winking 10 a man who was
filling an old fashioned tin box with to-
bacco out of the pail, who winked back,
as much as TO say, If that boy eats
49, l. g
have a circus sure
You can't play no pickle on me, not
when have the mumps. Ma passed the
pickles 10 me this morning. and / took
one mouthful and like TO had the lock
jaw. But Ma didn't do it on purpose, /
guess. She never had the mumps and
didn't know how discouraging a pickle
is. Darn if didn't feel as though had
been struck in the butt Of the ear with
brick. But about Pa. He has been
fuller'n a goose ever since New Years
day. ! think it's wrong for women to
tempt feeble minded persons with liquor
on New Years. Now, me and my chum
we can take drink and then let il alone.
We have got brain, and know when we
have got enough, but Pa when he gets
to going don't ever stop until he gets SO
sick that he can't keep his stummick in
side of hisself. 1t is getting so they look
TO me to brace Pa up every time he gets
on tear, and guess fixed him this
time SO he will never touch liquor again.
I scared him so his bald head turned
gray in a single night"
What under the heavens have you
done to him now!' says the grocery man
in establishment. Il hope you haven't
done anything you will regret in after
years"
Regret nothing said the boy as he
turned the lid Of the cheesebox back
and took the knife and sliced off pie. >
81 cheese and took few crackers out cf
! barrel and sat down on q soapbox by
the stove. you see, Ma was annoyed to
death with Pa. He would come home
full when she had company and lay
down on the sofa and snore, and he
would smell like distillery. 1t hurt
me 70 see Ma cry, and told her would
b. AK Pa Of drinking if she would let
me, and she said if would promise not
10 hurt Pa to go ahead, and / promised
not to. Then / got my chum and an
other hoy-quite big boy-to help, and
Pa Is all right. We went down to the
place where they sell arms and legs to
'olks who have served in the army, or a
awmill. or a thrashing machine and
ost their limbs, and we borried some
Irms and legs and fixed up dissecting
Dom.
I'VE fixed long table in the base
nent big enough to lay Pa out on. you
NOW. and then we got false whiskers
md mustaches, and when Pa came in
he house drunk and laid down on the |
ola and got to sleep we took him and
aid him ont on the table and took some
nd a surcingle and strapped |
lim down to the table. He slept right |
long all through it, and we had another
able with false arms and legs on, and |
We rolled up our sleeves and smoked
'ipes Just like read that medical stu
Gx.< H. n. ~