Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1883 — The Bad Boy Takes Renge. [ARTICLE]

The Bad Boy Takes Renge.

Peck’s Sun, W “When pa and I got to Chicagosaid the bad boy, “we walked around town all day, and went to the stores, and at night pa was offal tired, and he put me to bed in the tavern and went oat to walk around and. get rested. I wasn't tired and I walked around the hotel. I thought pa had gone te ,a theater, and that made me mad and I thought I would play him for all I was worth. Our room was 210 and the next room was 212, and there was an old maid with a Scotch ter* rier occupied 212. I saw her twioe and she called me names cause she thought I wanted to steal her dog. That made me mad at her, and so I took my jack-knife and drew the tycks out of the tin thing that the numbers were painted on, and put the old maid’s number on our door and our number on her door, and then I went to bed. I tried to keep awake so as help pa if he had any difficuty, but I rather guess I got asleep, but woke up when the dog barked. If the dog had not woke me up the woman’s scream would, and if that hadn’t pa would. You see, pa cama&om&from the theater about 12, and he bad been drinking. He saytr everybody drinks when they go to Chicago, even the minister. Fa looked at the numbers on the doors ail along the hall till he found 210, and walked right' in and pulled off his coat and threw it on the lounge where the dog was. The old maid was asleep, but the dog barked, and pa said: “That cussed boy has bought a dog!” and he kicked the dog and the old maid woke up and said: “What is the matter, pet?” Pa laffed and said: Nothn’ the mazzer with me, pet, and then you ought to have heard the yelling. The old maid oovered her head and kicked and yelled, and the dog snarled and bit pa on the pants, and pa had his vest soffandhis suspenders unbuttoned, and au< ! t°°k his coat and vest into the hall and I opened ,our —mQW and told pa he was in the wrong room and I knowed it, and he came in our room and I locked our door and the bell-boy and the porter and the clerk came up to see what ailed the old maid, and she said a burglar got in her room, and they found pa’s hat on the lounge, and they took it and told her to be quiet and they would find the burglar.' Pa was so scared that he sweat like everything, and the bed was offul warm, and he pretended to go to sleep, but he was wondering how he could get his hat back. In the morning I told him it would be hard work to explain it to ma how he happened to get into the wrong, room, he said it was’t necessary to say anything about it to ma. Then he gave five dollars to go out and buy him a new hat, and he said I might keep the change 4 I would not mention it when I got home, and I got him one for ten shillings and we took the 8 o’clock train in the morning and came home, and I s’pose the Chicago detectives are trying to fit pa’s hat onto a burglar. Pa seemed offully relieved when we got across the State line into Wisconsin. But you’d a died to see him come out of tjrnt old lady’s room with his coat ang vest on his arm and his suspenders hanging v down, looking scart. He doesn : t lick me any more or I’lT tell ma where pa left his hat’