Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — A Tough Boy. [ARTICLE]

A Tough Boy.

“Your wickedness will bring down your father’s gray hair in sorrow to the grave,” said au Austin school teacher to the worst boy in the school. “Oh, no; I guess not'” “Are you going to reform, then, and lead a new life?” “Not much; but I am not going to bring the old man’s gray hair in sorrow to the grave, for the old duffer wears a wig and belongs to a cremation sooiety.” —Texas Siftings. People down in Maine are exceedingly ingenious. It is said that they cut out the eye-holes of young cocoanuts, scald out the interior, and fill it with the liquid which is unmentionable in that corner of the country. “The milk in the cocoanut” is a meaning expression in that State. There ip one people who may be called “a nation of rascals” without slander. In Morooco every man is .regarded as a thief. The respectable elements of society are those who do not seek opportunities for pilfering, but merely improve casual chances,