Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — A Small Poy’s Explanation. [ARTICLE]

A Small Poy’s Explanation.

Yonkers Statesman. It was Bunday evening. Angelica had invited her “best young man” to the evening meal. Everything had passed off harmoniously until Angelica’s seven-year-old brother broke the blissful silence by exclaiming: . “Oh, ma! yer oughter seen Mr. Lighthead the other night, when he called to take Adgie to the drill. He looked so nice sittin’ ’long side of her with his arm —” “Fred!” screamed the maiden, whose face began to assume the color -of a well-done crab—quickly placed her hand over the boy’s mouth. “Yer oughter seen him,” continued the persistent informant, after gaining his breath and the embarrassed girl’s hand was removed, “he had his arm—” —“Freddie!” shouted the mother, as in her frantic attempts to reach the boy’s auricular appendage she upset the contents of the teanot in Mr.Lighthead’s lap, making numerous Russian war maps over his new lavender pantaloons. “I was just goin’ to say,” the halffrightened boy pleaded, between a cry and an injured whine, “he had his arm—” “You bov!” thundered the father, “away to the woodshed.” .A nd the boy made for the nearest exit, exclaiming as he waltzed, “I was only going to say Mr. Lighthead had his army clothes on, and I’ll leave it to him if he didn’t.” And the boy was permitted to return and the remainder of the meal was spent in explanations from the family in regard to the number of times Freddie had to be “talked to” for using bis fingers so a ladle.