Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-03-03
A N~ANKlVELlE JR
A Precocious Kid Circumyented
by Strategy.

During the past week Frank Nanki-
velle, the newspaper artist. his wife
and son have been the guests Of Par
son Davis. But it is more particu-
larlv Of Nankivelle Jr. of whom we
wish to speak.
Nankivelle Jr. is a trife over three
wears of AGE. With his fine head, his
big. soulful eyes and long, curly hair,
he is a child for women and fond
mothers to rave over. He learned to
talk very young and is precocious to
a remarkable degree.
Good morning, Mr.. Nankivelle,"
is the stately way he addresses his
father, and it is,
Good morning, Mrs. Nankivelle,"
when his mother shows up
But as the day wears on he becomes
more familiar with his parents. It is
"Oh, Num-" and IT say Frank" or
"How are you Nankey." He reminds
one of the bow in London immortal
lied in the Coster song.
He called his mother Sally
His father Dear old Pallev,'
And was just about so high-That's
all"
Or like the girl also treated poeti-
callv Who,
when she was good was awfully
good,
And when she was bad she was hor-
rid"
For some years Bob Davis. the par
sons favoritp son, has been ambitious
to he a Godfather and he talked the
Nankivplles into having the boy hap
tized in Carson. All hands were
agreeable and when the matter was
preached to the kid he was agreeable,
bnt when he got to thinking the mat
ter YER he got an idea that baptism
was something akin to vaccination
and he sOon began to bristle up and
show fight when the matter was al
luded to.
Now when Nankivelle Jr. once gets
himself on a war footing be becomes
an 'infant TERRIBLE in the est a.
ceptiOn Of the term.
As the time approached ',r the ce1e.
mOnv ne began to declare 1imseIf anG
bring out his naval reserves. Pc
sentlv a V que dread Of the cnrpmOnN
began to pervade the parsOn. Ho init
mated that he was getting old anC
might need some help to hold the boy
in such a way that he would not kicl
a hole in his stomach.
The family finally did not dare t.
discuss the subject until after the boy
was put to bed. Last Friday evening
while they were talking the mattel
over Bob suggested to steal quietly NJ
on he hoy and christen him wher
asleep. It was regarded "a a gnoC
idea, but his mother suggested that j
a light was taken into the room h,
would wake up. Bob said he had J.;
dark lantern in his trunk, used wher
he was doing interviewing in the Con
gregational church trouble for tn,
Call and he got it out and lit it. Thel
the family, with the dark Lantern
turned down low, stole in on the boz
at midnight on tiptoe with a prolonged
"H~n-s-s-s-h,' and whispering the Ger
emOny through sprinkled the Ra
phaelite forehead of the sleeping in
FAINT very sparinClv ana stole out o.
tiptoe holding thier breaths, Just abou
the way miners get away from a bias
after they have lighted the fuse.
Had an outsider peered into tn
| window he would have supposed tina
@ a safe was about to be cracked. L
6 the morning the boy was about a
sassy as ever and they have kept tn
facts from him fearing a row.
The news will be broken to him O
0 his 10th birthday, hat Bob Davis
whom he now insists is his UNCLE
his Godfather.
KING Cotton"
C1,, or-o. =. ~ $500