Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys

ryman and Gets Acquainted with His

e Bad Boy had played his last trick on the old man, and gone abroad to chaperone his sick father, in a search for health and adventure. The old man had missed the boy around the grocery, and with no one to keep his blood circulating, and his temperature occasionally soaring above the normal, he had failed in health, and had read with mixed feelings of joy,

crawled under the counter, curled up on a cracker box, and began to snore as the old man came up the stairs, followed by the dog, with a rat in his mouth. The old man heard the snore, and wondered if he had been entertaining a tramp unawares, when the dog dropped the rat and rushing behind the counter began to growl, and grabbed the Bad boy by the seat of his trousers and gave him a good shaking, while the boy s

bed the old man by the arm and shook his hand until it ached. "Introduce me to your friend, the dog, who seems to have acquired an a

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You have got to get used to this young heathen," and he hugged t

out of the cellar. "I did not know you had added a meat market to your grocery. Now, in Paris the rat busi

nd he has proved himself more useful than any boy I ever saw. Say, come and sit down by the stove, and tell m

where the old man lighted it with a match. "Dad is all right, except his back. He slept four nights with a cork life preserver strapped to, his back, coming over,

sn't it," said the old man, as he puffed awa

avor something like a Welsh rabbit, ain't it?" and the old man looked

at," and he threw it aw

y. "They get a smoke and food at the same time. But if you feel

er. "Here, try a glass of my cider," and he handed the boy a dirty glass half

hrough the oil belt in Indiana

ink and light, if they touch a match to their breath. Say, that makes us even. Now

of the groceryman's dog, with an idea of fastening a tomato can to the string a little later, and turning the dog loose. "Do you know," said he to the

bad stuck together and got the goods off dad in the most systematic manner. Some way they got news when we arrived, of the exact amount of money dad had got out of the bank, and before we had breakfast the fakers had divided it up among themselves, and each one kne

t drink all he could hold, and when dad asked him how much his charges were he said, 'Oh, wait till you are cured.' So dad thought he was not going to charge for his advice, but after we had drank the water for ten days, and dad was so weak he couldn't brush the flies off his bald spot, we decided to go to rest cure, and when we had our tickets

y wrench in him when they sewed him up. Well, after he began to drink that water he found iron rust on the towe

and the old man said, "Now, I suppose your father is cured, you will stay at home for awhile, and settle down to decent citizenship, and take an active part in the affairs of your city

the 'jumps,' a disease that is incurable. When a man has the 'jumps' he can't stay long in one place, but his life after taking the disease is one continual round of packing up and unpacking. His literature is time cards and railroad guides, and his meals are largel

out of the dog's way, so he could do his acrobatic stunt. "Where is your dad going ne

ve will be chasing ourselves around our own native land. Say, if you have never been vaccinated against mad dog, you better take something right now, for that dog is mad, and in about two minutes he is going to begin to snap at people, and there is no death

t horseradish is the only thing that will get the system in shape to withstand and throw off the mad dog virus," and he handed the old man the bott

s the matter with the old man, and a boy said a mad dog just escaped from the store, and that the old man had shown signs of madness ever since; the girl gave a yell and rushed out into th

the fiercest grizzly bear get you, and eat you, condemn you,

he dog. Good-bye. You are a good thing. Push yourself along