The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-17

tn teacher missed
her pocketbool
and when III detectives got through
with IN case, it was George! But
pshaw. re didn'; haze no chance His
Pa was a chicken thief fer years and
We cant raise sood men under sicl
ausEices,'
1T Goan't seem" drawled Hank
SDctts. ramming his horny finger
In q his pipe bowl 10 ignite the IN
burned tobacco, tibet folks hez much
e DO with IT, Ab, | recall distinctly
Widow Dodge's son out Silver Ridge
way Horace Dodge was as good ?
boy TO begin with as ye ever cnn
acrGst In a hun passed o boys' Ru
when his pa died, Mrs Dodge gis
sortcr lost her grip on that boy. H.
begun b. stayin' out NIGHTS, then h'
rot t Keeping bad cimp'ny, got DRUM
once run away With patent medi
cine show-anl nobody hain't heart
nothir' Of him since! Now his pa wa
a gentleman, as clean as they make
'cm and as square MS die"
That's an right" argued Alb; "ye
kin spoil good apples any time b.
putting en- in the barrel with ba.
uns, TIL hull trouble with Horace
Dodge was his mother. I amt nothin
agin clubs or club women, ner wha
they do or say, but, by iing, sun
times can't help wishin' they'd Pr
rs much ginger and thought intev
their home affairs as they do int"
tn lodge,
"Now in the first place Horace
Dodge went down town nights becu
his ma, who was mighty good won
an, understand. was away tendinf
sum club meetin and tn boy gis
atrally got lonesome.
HE begun smoldn' cigarettes gis'
rs any boy does, and when his m
found it out she cried. When he go
intew bad cump'ny she called tbs
preacher and the deacon in, and on
night when Horace WIZ ont gallutin
around they met in her front parlo'
an prayed fer two hours fer him
THAT was IN niaht afore he run ava
and somehow can't help but thinl
that Horace didn't need prayers hal
as much as he did a lickinN
What his mother should don
was t kept that boy so busy dom sum
him on tn place thet he couldn't fin
time to loaf around town. and wher
she smelled cigarettes on him, sh
should gone out TO the barn and go
the calf rope and saved her prayer
until arter she had gin him one of tn
best dYessin 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. leadir
up t. n climax that would o. broke e.
busted that boy"
"Nebbc so" grunted Hank, blownr
the smoke from the bamboo stem O
his cob pipe. "Mebbe so--but recko'
that boys, like everything else, is dif
ferent at times!
There wuz Squire Dunham's DO,
Alonzo. His pa was one o. tn hor
f'Et'SA iIiFu iiit-t tNtl Ettti III l4-kIl '
day. and as religious as a testament
They had prayers ev'ry mornin', raj
er shine, went { church regular am
lived accordin' T. tn Ten Command
is tn old man and hi
wife did, and Alonzo did until ono
day he went into town and cum hone
SO drunk he couldn't drive TIL hosse'
straight,
THAT nigh killed Old Man Durham
He was teetotlar hisself and had lee
tured a lot agin Ticker Nobudy
knows how the boy happened Z do IL
= this day, except tibet he'd heard st
much about it. that he gist got curious
l. see what whisky tasted like,
"An' the Squire couldn't stop him
He's runnin' a saloon now, down Z
III Rapids-and his fathers heart is
broke If ever a mans wuZ!"
Il guess. by gol yer right, Hank"
admitted Alb. It's gist another cPse
o. not KNOWN which way a frorll |
Jump frum tn looks O him. Gimme a
-haw er terbackprt"