The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-01-19
CHAPTER XVII.


THE OLD MAN SHOOTS THE MINISTER.
Say, thought you was going to tr,
to lead different life" said the grocer,
man to the bad boy ~ the youth cam,
In with his pockets full of angleworm
and wanted to borrow baking powdel
can to put them into while he went fish
ing. and he held along angleworm nj
by the tail and let il wiggle 10 he fright
ened . girl that had come in after cents
worth Of yeast so she dropped her pitche,
and went ont Of the grocery as though
she was chased by an anaconda.
II am going to lead different life,
but boy cant change his whole course
Of life In minute, can he? Grown per-
sons have to 60 on probation for six
months before they can lead different
life, and half the time they lose their cud
before the six months expire and have to
commence again. When il 10 20 all fired
hard for . man that Is endowed with
sense to break of being bad, you
shouldn't expect too much from a boy.
But ! am doing as well as could be ex-
pected. ! amt half a. bad as l was.
Gosh, why don't you burn q rag? That
yeast that the girl spilled on the floor
smells like it was sick. / should think
that bread that was raised with that
yeast would smell like this cooking but
ter You sell TO hired girls
We'll, never you mind the cooking
butter. know my business If people
want to use poor butter when they have
company and then blow up the grocer
before folks. can stand 1t if they can.
But what is this hear about your Pa
fighting duel with the minister in YOUR
back yard and wounding him in the leg
and then trying to drown himself in the
cistern? One of your new neighbors was
IN here this morning and told me there
was murder in the air at your house last
night, and they were going to have the
police pull your place as disorderly
house. think you We're at the bottom
Of the whole business
''Oh, it's all q darn lie, and those neigh |
bors will find they better keep still about /
u, or we will lie about them a little.
You see. since Pa got that backing ON
his face he don't go out any, and to make
il pleasant for him Ma invited in a few
friends to spend the evening. Ma has
got up around, and the baby is daisy.
only it smells like goat on account Of
drinking the goats milk. Ma invited
The minister among the rest, and after
supper the men went up into PAS library
10 talk. Oh, you think am bad, don't
Tou, bat OF the nine men at our house
last night am an angel compared with
what they were when they were boys.
got into the bathroom to untangle nv
ishline, and it is next to Pas room. and
could hear everything they said, but I
vent away cause thought the CONVEX f.
alton would hurt my morals. They ,
would all steal when they were boys, but I
lArned If I ever stole. II
PA has stolen over hundred wagon
Dads OF watermelons. one deacon used to I
oh orchards, another one shot tame :
ucks belonging to q farmer, and another :
ipped over grindstones in front of the .
1llage store at night and broke them =
nd run, another used to steal eggs and q
o out in the woods and boil them, and y
ne minister was the worst Of the lot, \
'ause he took seine, with some other =
oys, and went to . stream where a
neighbor was raising brook trout and r
leaned the stream out, and to ward of q
nspicion he went to the man the next I,
~ and paid him 81 to let him fish in Z
'e stream and then kicked cause there =
ERE no trout. and the owner found the =
out were stolen and laid 1t to some b
utch boys. wondered when those =,
len were telling their experience il q,
ley ever thought Of it now when they n
ere preaching and praying and taking q,
collections. should think they =
ouldn't say . boy was going to hell Ii
ght on cause he was little wild now Il
Ays when be has such an example. =