The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-12-22

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and when tn detectives got through
with tn case. II was Georgiel But,
pshaw! he didn't have no chance. HIS
pa was chicken thief fer years ana
We can't raise good men under sich
auspices!'
ut doan't SEEM" drawled Hank
SPOTS. ramming his horny finger
into his pipe bowl to ignite the I'M
burned tobacco, tibet folks hez much
L do with II. Alb. ] recall distinctly
Widow Dodges son out Silver Ridge
way. Horace Dodge was as good
boy TO begin with as ye ever cum
acrost in a hull passed. o boys! But
when his pa died. Mrs. Dodge gist
sorter lost her grip on that boy He
begun by stayin' out nights, then he
got L keeping bad cump'ny, got drunk
once. run away with a patent medi-
cine show-and nobody hain't heard
nothin of him since! Now his pa was
a gentleman, as clean as they make
'em and as square as die!'
That's all right" argued Abb; "ye
kin spoil good apples any time by
putting 'em in the barrel with bad
uns, Tn hull trouble with Horace
Dodge was his mother. ! amt nothin
agin clubs er club women, ner what
they do err say, but by jung, sum
times can't help wishin they'd put
as much ginger and thought intew
their home affairs as they do int"
tn lodge
Now, In the first place, Horace
Dodge went down town nights becuS
his ma. who was mighty good WON
an, understand, was away tending
sum club meetin', and tn boy gis
naturally got lonesome.
He begun smokin cigarettes gis
as any boy does, and when his ms
found II out. she cried When he go
intew bad cump'ny. she called th'
preacher and the deacon in. and on'
night when Horace wuz out gallutin
around. they met in her front parlo
an prayed fer two hours fer him
That was tn night afore he run ava!
and somehow can't help but thinl
that Horace didn't need prayers hal
as much as he did lickinl
What his mother should a dom
was T. kept that boy so busy dom sun
thin on tn place tibet he couldn't nm
time to loaf around town, and whe
she smelled cigarettes on him, sh
should a gone out to the barn and go
the calf rope and saved her prayer
until arter she had gin him one OF tn
best dressin' downs he ever had
''If he persisted in bein' ornery, sh
should we Increased tn size o tn rop
and the number o. applications, gist a
the Docs. does in serious cases. leadiI
up L a climax that would o broke
busted that boy"
"Mebbe So" grunted Hank. BLOWN
the smoke from the bamboo stem
his cob pipe. "Mebbe so-but / recko
that boys. like everything else, is di
ferent at times!
There wuz Squire Dunham's bo
Alonzo. His pa was one o. tn hoi
esest men tibet ever seen tn light
:. | daX---apd as Eall glolls as O 1eslamen
They had prayers ey'ry mornin', raj
err shine, went { church regular an
lived accordin' T. tn Ten Comman
ments-that is tn old man and h
wife did. and Alonzo did until OF
day he went into town and cum hon
so drunk he couldn't drive tn hoss'
: straight
= THAT nigh killed Old Man Dunbar
} He was teetotlar hisself and had lie
tured a lot agin Ticker. Nobut
knows how the boy happened Z do
L this day. except tibet he'd heard
much about II, that he gist got curiol
L see what whisky tasted like!
AN the Squire couldn't stop hin
He's runnln' a saloon now down
tn Raplds-and his fathers heart
+ broke II ever a mans wuz!"
Il guess, by gol. yer right, Hank
, admitted Alb. IT'S gist another ca
o. not KNOWN which way a frog
D Jump frum tn looks O. him! Gimme
d chaw er terbacker!"
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