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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1893)
mV y,w-, – i V • PECK'S BAD B°Y $ m t f /JW \m m v GEORGE W. PEOM I 1 KOPVRIGHTEP 1893 \ i *: lAMERiCAM PRESS ASSO CIflTlOrt( CHAPTER m. TIIF. BAD BOY’S FOURTH OF JULY. “How long do you think it will be be fore your father will be able to come down to the office?" asked the druggist of the bad boy as he was buying some ar nica and court plaster. “Oh, the doc says he could come down now if he would on some street where there were no horses to scare,” said the boy as lie bought some gum. “But he says he ain’t in no hurry to come down till his hair grows out and he gets some new clothes made. Say, do you wet this court plaster and stick it on?” The drugpst , -XX,,,. told lnm , how the , court plaster worked and then asked him if his Pa couldn’t ride down town. •Ride down? VV oil, I guess nix. , He would have to sit down if lie rode down town, and Pa is no setter this trip. lie is a pointer. That’s where the pinwheel struck him." ell, how did it all happen."’ asked the druggist as ho wrapped a yellow paper over 1 lie bottle of arnica and twist ed the ends and then helped the boy stick the strip of court plaster on his nose. “Nobody knows how it happened but Pa, and when I come near to ask liim about it he feels around his nightshirt where his pistol pocket would be if it was pants lie had on and tells me to leave his sight forever, and I leave, too. quick. You see. he is afraid 1 will get hurt every Fourth of July, and he told me if I wouldn’t tire a firecracker all day he would let me get $4 worth of nice fireworks, and he would fire them off for me in the evening in the back yard. 1 promised, and lie gave me the money. and I bought a dandy lot of fireworks, and don’t you forget it. i had a lot of rockets and roman candles, and six pin wheels, and a let of nigger chasers, and 6 ome of these cannon firecrackers, and torpedoes, and a Box of parlor matches. 1 took them home and put the package in our big stufft .1 chair ana put a news paper over them ii , iv £ jet;* A mm-£> m J: i JmW \li a --r "dust then the explosion took place." “P.i always takes a imp in that stuffed chair after dinner, and he went into the sitting room, and I heard him drivirg our poodle dog out of the chair and board him ask the dog what he was a-chewing. and just then the explosion took place, ami we all rushed in there. 1 tell you what I honestly think. I think that dog was chewing that box of parlor matches—this kind that pop so when you step on them. Pa was just goin- to set down when the whole air was filled with dog and Pa and rockets and every thing When 1 got in there. Pa had a sofa pillow trying to put the dog out, and iu tlie meantime Fa’s linen pants were afire l grabbed a pail of this in dig.) water that they had been rinsing clothes with and throwed it on Pa, or there wouldn’t have been a place on him bigger'n a sixpence that wasn't burnt. and then he threw a camp chair at me and told me to go to Gehenna. Ma says that’s the new hell they have got up in tl '- revised edition of the Bible for had boys. When Pa's pants were out. Ins coattail blazed up, and a roman candle was firing blue and red balls at his legs, and a rocket got into his white vest. The scene beggared description, like the Racine lire. “A nigger chaser got after Ma and treed h -r on top of the sofa, and another one took alter a girl that Ma invited to dinner and burnt one of her stockings bo she had to wear one of Ma s stockings, a good deal too big for her, home. Alter things got a little quiet, and we opened the doors and windows to let out the smoke and the smell of burnt dog hair and IVh whiskers, the big firecrackers began to go off, and a policeman came ‘o the door and asked what was the matter, and Pa told him to go along with rae to G* henna, but l don’t want to go with a p *...-'>i)i.:;'. It would give me dead away, Wei . 1 c • was nobody hurt much l;.t the cb> tJ Pa. 1 felt awful sorry for tee doy th a isn't got huir enough io •’■er 1 ; veif l a didn’t have much hair ouywaj ‘ rcept by the tars, hut ha ht a .. .’-1 of his v-aiskers. i tl a-'.' ' . r.v. ■ 't • 1 . : I it: Tl - * . ,. • . I l : 1 6.1V i i i a i cor 1 . us i . * :i .. i . 1 . factory wnere nooooywu, S 60 me. plode in frout of the drug 8 t ore. CHAPTER IV. THE BAD BOY’S MA COMES HOME. “When is your Ma coming back?” asked the grocery man of the bad boy as he found him standing on the sidewalk w hen the grocery was opened in the morning, taking some pieces of brick out of his coattail pockets. “Oh, she got back e+ midnio-hf last night,” said the boy as_______________ d put a fpw bine berries out of a case. “That’s what makes me up so early. Pa has been kick ing at these pieces of brick with his bare f ee fc t an( j w i ien i C ame away he had his t oes j n his hand and was trying to go back up stairs on one foot. Pahaintgot no sense « “I am afraid you are a terror,” said grocery man as he looked at the in nocent face of the boy. “You are al W ays making your parents some trouble, and it is a wonder to me they don’t send y ori gome reform school. What dev iltry were you up to last night to get kicked this morning?” “No deviltry, just a little fun. You see, Ma went to Chicago to stay a week, and she got tired and telegraphed she would be home last night, and Pa was down town, and I forgot to give him the dispatch, and after he went to bed me and a chum of mine thought we would have a Fourth of July. ^ % JEW*.- i" w - V it* w \ P \ ,w%4 \ > A V J “lie tried to stall me with his trig toenail." “You see. my chum has got a sister about as big as Ma, and we hooked some of her clothes, and after Pa got to snor ing we put them in Pi ’s room. Oh, you’d V luffed. We put a pair of No. 1 slippers with blue stockings down in front of the rocking chair beside Pa’s boots, and a red corset on a chair, and my churn’s sister’s best black silk dress on another chair, and a hat with a white feather on on the bureau, and some frizzes on tho gas bracket, and every thing wo could find that belonged to a girl in my chum’s sister’s room. Oh. we got a red parasol, too, and left it right in the middle of the floor. “Well, when I looked at tho layout and heard Pa snoring, I thought I should d' e - You see, Ma knows Pa is a darn feller, but she is easily excited, My chum slept with me that night, and when we heard thedoorbell ring I stuffed a iu! 10 "’ ijl ,n y mouth. There was no body to meet Ma at the depot, and she hired a hack and came right up. No body heard che bell but-me, and I had to go down and let Ma in. She was pretty bot. now. you bet. at not being met at the depot. “ Where's your father?’ said she as she began t.» go up stairs, “I told her 1 guessed Pa had gone to sleep by this time, but 1 heard a good deal of noise in the room about an hour ago. and maybe he was taking a bath, Then l slipjied up stairs and looked over the banisters. Ma said something about heavens and earth, and where is thehus sy. and a lot of things 1 couldn’t hear, and Pa said damfino, and it's no such thing, and the door slammed, and they talked for two hours. “I s’pose they finally layed it tome, as they always do, ’cause Pa called me very early this morning, and when I came down stairs he came out in the hall, and his face was redder ’11 a beet, and he tried to stab me with his big toe nail, and if it hadn't been for these pieces of brick he would have hurt my feelings. I see they had my chum’s sis ter’s clothes all pinned up in a newspa per, and i a'pose when 1 go hack I shall have to carry them home, and then she will t*e down on me. I’ll tell you what. I have got a good notion to take some shoe maker’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." AihI the hov sampled some strawber ties 111 a case in front of the store and vent down i.ie at reel whistling for ni* chum who was looking out of an alley to see ii the coast was dear. CHAPTER V nil ) i ,\ ; :M iiward "1 i;i , ; ’.oil *::. i‘ i is > ln’ave lo ti. MU.j i.;< oi.il i*n • ■ .. - . . fi<- -.viie tryicg n ,-aa -•, *•». r <>u a un i, cn. 'k»a t.i .ae L'l'oc- ' V. ViiiIm 1 !i. •- SCHLEY OOCTKTY HEW®, cer was putting up some canned goods for the boy, who suid the goods were for the folks to use at a picnic, but which were to be taken out camping by the boy and his chum. •*Oh, I suppose he is a brave man,” said the grocer as he charged the goods to the boy’s father. “Your Pa is called a ma jor, and you know at the time of the re union he wore a veteran badge and talked to the boys about how they suffered dur ing the war.” “Suffered nothing," remarked the boy with a sneer, “unless they suffered from the peach brandy and leather pies Pa sold them. Pa vas a sutler—that’s the kind of a veteran he was—and he is a coward.” “What makes you think your Pa is a oifltol pocket. “ Wel1, my chura and m ® trled hlra last night, and he is so sick this morning that he can’t get up. You see, since the burglars got into Magie’s Pa has been telling what he would do if the burglars got into our house. He said he wor ld jump out of bed and knock one senseless with his fist and throw the other over the banister. T told my chum Pa was a cow ard, and we fixed up like burglars, with masks on, and I had Pa’s long hunting boots on, and we pulled caps down over our e >’ ea UUti looked fit to frighten a po r 35 -'■* •*’2 T '-r $ / — -sc i j J > W "/ took a shawl strap ami was strapping his feet together." licenian. I took Pa’s nieerscham pipe case and tied a little piece of ice over the end the stem goes in, and after Pa and Ma was asleep we went in the room, and I put tho cold muzzle of the ice revolver to Pa’s temple, and when he woke up I told him if he moved a muscle or said a word 1 would spatter the wall and the counterpane with his brains. He closed his eyes and began to pray. Then I stood off and told him to hold np his hands and fell me where the valuables was. He held up his hands and sat up ii bed and sweat and trembled and told us the change was in his left hand pants pock et and that Ma's money purse was in the bureau drawer in the eulf box, and my chum went and got them. “Pa shoo!; so the bed fairly squeaked, and I told him 1 was a good notion to shoot a few holes in him just for fun, and he cried and said. ‘Please. Mr. Bur glar, t–Kaa.l I have got, out spare a poor old man’s life, who never did any harm!’ Then I told him to lay down on his stom ach and pull the clothes over his head and stiek his feet over the footboard, and he did it, and 1 took a shawl strap and was strapping his feet together, and ho was scared, 1 tell you. It would have been all right if Ma hadn't woke tip. Pa trembled so Ma woke up and thought he had tho ager, and my chum turned up tho light to see how much there was in Ma’s purse, and Ma see me and asked mo what I was doing, and 1 told her 1 was a burglar, robbing tho house. “I don't know whether Ma tumbled to the racket or not. hut she threw a pillow at me and said, ‘Get out of here, or I’ll take you across my knee,’ and she got np, and we run. She followed us to my room and took Pa’s jointed fishpoleand mauled us both until I don’t want any more burgling, and my chum says he will never speak to me again. I didn't think Ma had so much sand. She is brave as a lion, and Pa is a regular squaw. Pa sent for me to come to his room this morning, hut I ain’t well and am going out to Pe wankee to camp out till the burglar scare is over. If Pa comes around here talk ing about war times and how he faced tho enemy on many a well fought field, yon ask him if he ever threw any bur glars down a banister. He is a frod. Pa is, but Ma would make a good chief of police, and don't yon let it escape you.” And the boy took his canned ham and lobster, and tucking some crackers inside the bosom of bis blue fluuuel shirt start ed for Pewaukee, while the grocer looked at him as though he was a hard citizen. A Hie meldArito of eh'ldliood thR P tand nut, in bold r lief as our m^nrv reverts to the days when we were young none are more proirrndnt than severe sickness. 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