THE BAB BJQY'S MA COMES,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 8981, 14 January 1891, Page 4

THE BAD BOY'S MA COMES

\ i the grocery rnim of the bad boy, as he found; him standing on'the Sidewalk when the grocery was opened in the, morning, taking somt; pieces' of brick out of hia ob'at'-tairpookets. ' ' " Oh, she got: back', at midri^it, last; ! night," said the boy, as he ate a few blue; berries oat of a case. *' " That's what makes, me npsso early,\pa hafe beep kicknTgSttEeso'; pieces of brick with his bare feet, and when I; came away he had, hia jtoes in his hand and: was trying to go back up stairs on one foot.' ; Pa hain't got no sense," „ '..,'"" -\ "I am afirauf a 1 terror," said th«, grocery man," aa tie lookedat the inrjocenti face of'ttie boy.'- " YoiTare' always making], your parents some trouble, and it is a won- ■ der to me that they don't send yjOUitosonle; reform school. ; -; What deviltry, were,yjou up : to last nigh't, to get kicked.thls, .mojjnihg;!" { : " ?IsJfflßliry» : Just a little fun. ' You see, ma went to Chicago to' stay a week, and she got tired/ahd telegraphed she would behoine last higHt, and pai was down town-ami rforgot to. give, him ,the.;dispatcb, and after he: went to bed, me . and ( , a . churn , of, , mine ' thought we would haye r a fourth of July. You see, my chuoi'hafjgot a sister about; as big as ma, and' we 'got some of her clothes, i and after pa got to snoring we put them in pa's room.. :.Oh, you'd' a laffed. (• Well, when; I looked at tho lay-out, and heard pa snoring! I thought I should die. ;<You;see, ma knows 1 pa is a good feller,* but she is ' easily excited. ! My chum slept with me that night, and when ; we heard the door-bell ring I staffed a pillow! in my mouth. - There was nobody to meet | ma at the depot, and' she hired a haok and 1 L oame right up. t Nobody heard the;bell.bttt; me, and.l had to go down and iei ma in. Snej t was pretty hot; now, you bet, at .not being: -met aVthe.depot." , " ' i ■ ' ""Where's your father?" said" she, bb she', began to go upstairs. • "r " ' ' ! . ; " I told her- 1 guessed pa had gone to sleep : by this time, but I heard a good deal of noise ' in the room about an hoax ago, and may be he was taking a bath. - Thenl slipped up -stairs and looked over the banisters. < Ma said something about heavens and earth, and where is the huzzy, and a. . lot ■ of -things I couldn't hear, and pa said damftno and it's no such thing, and the door dammed and they talked for two hours. - I suppose they finally laid to me, as they always do, because pa called me- early this morning, and when I came down stairs, his face was redder than a beet, and he tried to stab me with his foot, and if it hadn't been for these pieces of brick he would have hurt my ieelinga. . I see they had my chum's sister's clothes pinned up in a newspaper, and I suppose when Igo back I shall have to carry, them home, then she will be down on me. I tell "you, what, I have a good notion to take some shoemaker's wax and stick my chum on my back and travel , with a circus as a double-headed boy from Borneo. A fellow could have more fun, and not get kicked all the time?' . : And the boy sampled some strawberries in a case in front of the store and went down | the street whistling for his chum, who was looking out of an alley to see if the coast was j clear. • '»B