THAT BAD BOY AGAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 6 April 1883, Page 3

THAT BAD BOY AGAIN.

:" I had a little quiet fun thin morning at the breakfast table," Said the bad boy. " You see pa is the contrariest man that ever was. If I complain that anything at tho table don't taste good, pa says that it isall right, This morning I took the syrup pitcher and emptied out the white syrup and put in some cod-liver oil that ma, is taking for her cough. I put some on my pancakes, and pretended to taste of it, and I told pa the syrup was sour, and not fit to eat. Pa was mad in a second, and he poured out some on hk pancakes, and said I was getting too confoundedlyjparticular. He said the syrup was too good for him, and he sopped his pancako in it and fired some down his neck. He is a gaul durned hypocrite, that's what he is, I could see by his face that the cod liver oil was nearly killing him, but he said that syrup was all right, and if I didn't eat mine he'd break my back, and by gosh I had to eat it, and pa said he guessed he .didn't have much appetite and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a dough-nut. I like to died. But. I felt sorry for ma.. Ma ain't got a very strong stommick, and: when she got some of that cod-liver oil in her mouth she went right up stairs sickeni a horse, and pa had to help her; and she had nooralgia all the morning. I eat pickles to take the ■■ tajt* out of

my mouth, and then I iaidjforjjtlk ,'servaute. Theyjdtp too;,much syrup, anyway, and when they got on.to that ) cod liver oil and swallowed a ; lot of it, • one of tliom, an Irish girl," she got up' ] from the table and put her hand on her ; ;*': Howljr"Jayauß," and I went out in the kitchen, as pale as, ma lis when 1 she'has powder'on heV ; face, and the other girl, who is Dutch, she swallowedapancakeand'saidj "Miiie Got, vat is de matter from ine," and »Ke went out and leaned en. -.the, ; coal bin. Then they talked Irjsh anil D.utch aud got clubs and Btarted to look for .me, and I thought I would come over here. The whole family is.. sick, but guess they will get, over it. Pa and , I are going out next week, and I'll' bet we'll have some fun. "Paßays''l'need a change of air, and I think he is going to try and lose me. It's -a cold day when I get left anywhere that I can't find my way back."