boy that won't speak to his
Pa when he sees him standing on a corner, I went up street and I saw
Pa cross over by the drug store in a sort of a hurry, and I could see a
girl going by with a water-proof on, but she skited right along and Pa
looked kind of solemn, the way he does when I ask him for new clothes.
I turned and came back and he was standing there in the doorway, and I
said, "Pa you will catch cold if you stand around waiting for a man. You
go down to the Consistory and let me lay for the man." Pa said, "never
you mind, you go about your business and I will attend to the man."

"Well, when a boy's Pa tells him to never you mind, and looks spunky, my
experience is that a boy wants to go right away from there, and I went
down street. I thought I would cross over and go up the other side, and
see how long he would stay. There was a girl or two going up ahead of
me, and I see a man hurrying across from the drug store to Van Pelt's
corner. It was Pa, and as the girls went along and never looked around
Pa looked mad and stepped into the doorway. It was about eight o'clock
then, and Pa was tired, and I felt sorry for him and I went up to him
and asked him for half a dollar to go to the Academy. I never knew him
to shell out so freely and so quick. He gave me a dollar, and I told him
I would go and get it changed and bring him back the half a dollar, but
he said I needn't mind the change. It is awful mean of a boy that has
always been treated well to play it on his Pa that way, and I felt
ashamed. As I turned the corner and saw him standing there shivering,
waiting for the man, my conscience troubled me, and I told a policeman
to go and tell Pa that "Daisy" had been suddenly taken with worms, and
would not be there that evening. I peeked around the corner and Pa and
the policeman went off to get a drink. I was glad they did cause Pa
needed it, after standing around so long. Well, when I went home the
joke was so good I told Ma about it, and she was mad. I guess she was
mad at me for treating Pa that way. I heard Pa come home about eleven
o'clock, and Ma was real kind to him. She told him to warm his feet,
cause they were just like chunks of ice. Then she asked him how many
they initiated in the Consistory, and he said six, and then she asked
him if they initiated "Daisy" in the Consistory, and pretty soon I heard
Pa snoring. In the morning he took me into the basement, and gave me
the hardest talking to that I over had