Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-11

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You'd "a died to sec him 90 around the
corner"
went and headed Pa off, or | guess he
would be running yet. We got him up
by the lake shore, and he wanted to know
if the house fell down. He said he would
leave it to me if he ever said anything
against the Fenians, and told him he had
always claimed that the Fenians were
the incest men in the world, and it seemed
to relieve him very much When he got
home and found the house there, he was
tickled, and when Ma called him an old
baldheaded coward and said it was only
a joke of the boys with a football he
laughed right out and said he knew it all
the time, and he ran to see if Ma would
be scared. And then he wanted to hug
me, but it wasn't my night to hug, and l
went down to the theater. Pa don't
amount to much when there is trouble.
| The time Ma had them cramps, you re-
member, when you get your cucumbers
! first last season, Pa came near faiuting
away, and Ma said ever since they had
| been married when anything allied her
| Pa has had pains just the same as she
has, only he grunted more and thought
he was going to die. Gosh, if l was a
| man | wouldn't be sick every time one
of the neighbors had back ache, would
your"
We'll, you can't tell. When you have
! been married 20 or 80 years, You will
| know a good deal more than you do
! now. You think you know it all now,
and you are pretty intelligent for a boy
| that has been brought up carelessly,
but there are things that you will learn
after awhile that will astonish you.
But what ails your Pas teeth: The hired
girl was over here to get some cornmeal
for Cruel, and she said your Pa was
! cumming it since he lost his teeth"
"Oh, about the teeth. That was too
bad. You see, my chum has got dog
that is old, and his teeth have all come
out in front, and this morning Dor
! ried Pas teeth before he got up to see
if we couldn't fix them in the dogs
mouth, so he could eat better Pa SAYS
it is an evidence of kind heart for
! boy to be good to dumb animals, but it
is darn mean dog that will go back on
| a friend. We tied the teeth in the dogs
mouth with string that went around
his upper jaw, and another around his
under jaw, and you'd "a died to see how
funny he looked when he LATED.
He looked just like Pa when he tried
to smile so as to get me to come up to
him so he can HEX me. The dog paved
his mouth spell to get the teeth ont,
and then we gave him a bone with some
meat on, and he began to gnaw the bone,
and the teeth come off the plate, and he
thought it was pieces of the bone, and he
swallowed the teeth. Ny chum noticed
it first, and he said we had got to get in
our work pretty quick to save the plates,
and think we were in luck to save them
held the dog, and my chum, who was
better acquainted with bin, united the
strings ana got the gold plates out, but
there were only two teeth left, and the
dog was happy. He woggled his tail for
more teeth, but we hadn't any more l am
going to give him Mas teeth some day.
MY chum says when dog gets an ap-
petite for anything you have got to keep
giving it to him or he goes back on you.
But think my chum played dirt on me-
We sold the gold plates to a jewelry
man, and my chum kept the money. I
think, as long as l furnished the goods,
he ought to have given me something
besides the experience, don't you? After
this l don't have no more partners, you
bet" All this time the boy was marking
on a piece of paper, and soon after he
went out the grocery man noticed a
crowd outside, and on going out he
found sign hanging up which read:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
WORAIY FIGS FOR PARTIES.
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