Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — A GLORIOUS BIRTHDAY. [ARTICLE]

A GLORIOUS BIRTHDAY.

How Bobby Did Just u Ho Pleased tot On# Wfcol# Day. Fond Mother (to young hopeful)— Now, Bobby, darling, to-day jg your birthday, and you are 12 year# of age. To-day I mean to let you have your own way in everything, so run out and have.a good time. Bobby, in high glee, runs out to hunt up Tom Jones, while mamma goes down-town to do some shopping; and this is the conversation which follows, when Tom and Bobby meet: “Halloa, Tom, old boy!” ’ “Halloa, Bob, how is things?” “Oh! everything is lovely, an* I waß just looking for you to help me wreck the garden.” “Why, what’s up, Bob?” “Oh, it’s my birthday to-day, and ma has gone down-town, and left me to do just as I please.” “Well, if that isn’t splendid! I say, haw shall we begin?” •“Well, Tom, first I think it would b# a good joke to tie a pail to Uncle Jim’s dog!* tail, and set Fim loose in the greenhouse; and then—let’s see —oh, yes, Uncle Jim has got a can oT gunpowder up in his room, and we will take that and blow up the henhouse.” “Jumbo, hut you’ve got a head, Bob. I wouldn’t have thought of so much fun in a whole week.” Two hours later Bobby’s mamma is hastily summoned home to the bedside of her darling boy, where she finds two surgeons working over Bobby and Tom, setting a bone here, sewing up a cut there, and bandaging more or less everywhere. The henhouse is a total wreck, likewise the greenhouse, while Uncle Jim’s dog has been shot by a policeman, who thought him mad. And as mamma bends over her darling boy, smoothing his damp brow and weeping motherly tears, she softly whispers: “I might have known, Bobby, darling, that that horrid Tom Jones would lead you into mischief.” And in spite of his pain Bobby smiles and replies: “Yes, mamma, but you ought to have been here to see the fun—l—l —wish—I had a birthday—once a week—” (Faints with pain.)—London Tit-Bits. »