The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-12-15
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CHAPTER X III.

iaiue nave MADE MIN ray, haven
they" said the grocery ran to the ba
boy as he came in the sto o with his ey
winkers singed of and pc vder marks o.
his face and began to play on the har
monica as he sat down on the end Of
stick OF stove wood and bal anced himself
"Oh, guess not. He HIS hedged. IL
got in with deacon Of another church
and sold some of his stock TO him, ant
Pa says If will keep my condemn
mouth shut he will unload the whole o.
1T Il the churches hold out. He goes Il
rev church every night here is praye,
meeting or anything and makes Ma &c
with him to give him one, and after
meeting she talks to thu sisters about
how to piece a silk bed quilt, while Pa
gets IN his work selling silver stock. ]
don't know but he will or er some more
stock from the factory il he sells all he
has got" and the boy went on playing
There's land that is fairer than day."
But what was he skip ing up street
for tho other night will his hat off,
grabbing at his coat tails |; though they
were on fire? ! thought ] never saw a
pussy man run any faster. And what
was the celebration down IN your street
about that time? thought the world
was coming to an end" and the grocery
man kept away from the boy for fear
he would explode.
"Oh, that was only Fenian scare.
Nothin serious. You see Pa is q sort of
half Englishman. He claims to be an
American citizen when he wants Office.
but when they talk about a draft he
claims to be a subject Of Great Britain.
and he says they can't touch him. Pa is
darn smart man and don't you forget
it. 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-
lament Pa was hot. He said the dam
Nirish was running the whole world. He
didn't dare say it at the table or our
hired girl would have knocked him silly
with . spoonful Of mashed potatoes,
cause she is Nirish girl, and she can
lick any Englishman in this town.
PA said there ought to have been
somebody there to have taken that bomb
up and throwed it in the sewer before it
exploded. He said that If he ever should
see bomb he would grab it right up
and throw it away where it wouldn't |
hurt anybody. Pa has me read the pa-
pers to him nights, cause his eyes have
got splinters in 'em, and after had read
al there was in the paper made up
ot more and pretended to read it, about
now 1t was rumored that the Fenians
lere in Milwaukee were going to place
dynamite bombs at every house where
IN Englishman lived and at a given sig
IA, blow them all up. Ia looked pale
around the gills, but he said he wasn't
scared.
PA and Ma were goirg to call on q
The 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
yer mine, and me and my chum conclud-
ID to give them a sendoff. We got my
Dig black injy rubber football and paint
d 'Dinymight in big white letters on it
md tied piece of tarred rope to it for
use and got big firecracker, one Of
hose old Fourth Of July horse scarers,
nd basket full of broken glass. We
mt the football in front OF the step and
it the tarred rope and rot under the
tep with the firecrackers and basket.
where they go down into the basement.
"a and Ma came out the front door and
own the steps, and Pa saw the football ,
nd the burning fuse, and he said, Great I
rod. Hammer, we are bowed upr and he :
tarted to run, and Ma sic stopped to .
)ok at 1t.
Just rs Pa started to run l touched 8
Il the firecracker, and my chum ar !
anged it to pour out the broken glass
n the brick pavement Just as the fire.
racker went off. Well, everything went
nst as we expected, except Ma. She had q
the football and concluded il 9
'as not dangerous and wis just giving G
kick as the firecracker went off and v
ne glass fell, and the firecracker was so /
ear her that II scared her and when Pa o
'oked around Ma was flying across the s,
dewalk, and Pa heard the noise. and he n
fought the house was blown to atoms. II
b, you'd a died to see him 90 around the y
'rner. You could play crokay on his 4,
'attail, and his face was as pale as Mas
hen she goes to party. But Ma didn't :,
are much. As quick as she stopped - :,
yainst the hitching post she knew it was
boys, and she came down there, and "
aybe she didn't maui me. cried and o.
led to gain her sympathy by telling her e
Q firecracker went of before it was 81
10 and burned my eyebrows of, but CT
q didn't let mp until promised to 20 ca
ID find Pa. n,
Il tell You my Ma ought to be engaged hi
the British government to hunt out 70
Q dynamite fiends. She would corral
EN- in two minutes. II Pa had as much
nd as Ma has got, 1t would be warm
eather for me. Well, me and my chum a,
ent and headed Pa of, or Rues he y,
ould DO running yet. We got him mn -,
the lake shore, and he wanted to know =.
the house fell down. He said he would ~
I'VE It to mo II he ever said ANYTHING -. ~
ainst the Fenians, and told him he had -
ways claimed that. the Fenians wero IN
incest men in the world apd a .n.---a plI