Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — A Live Western Boy. [ARTICLE]

A Live Western Boy.

Texas Siftings. The teacher of a school in a western town had occasion to rebuke one of his pupils, little Tommy Roundup, for laziness and neglecting to learn his lessons. He said to Tommy: “If you don't learn your lessons better I’ll call on your mother and tell her what sort of a boy you are.” “I wish you would try it, Professor.” “You do?” “Yes; pa is awfully jealous. He is laying with a shotgun right now for a man who called on ma. I’ll tell him what you said about calling to see ma, and I reckon you had better go and buy a lot in "the cemetery, for pa is awful on the shoot.” Tommy has not yet told his pa, and he says he is not going to say a word about the matter as long as the Professor lets him do as he pleases in school and gives him a quarter every Saturday afternoon for candy.