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Title: The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy
Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883

Author: George W. Peck

Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25488]

Language: English

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THE GROCERY MAN AND PECK'S BAD BOY.

Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2

By George W. Peck

1883

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[Illustration: frontispiece]

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

VARIEGATED DOGS--THE BAD BOY SLEEPS ON THE ROOF--A MAN DOESN'T
KNOW EVERYTHING AT FORTY-EIGHT--THE OLD MAN WANTS SOME POLLYNURIOUS
WATER--THE DYER'S DOGS--PROCESSION OF THE DOGS--PINK, BLUE, GREEN AND
WHITE--"WELL, I'M DEM'd"--HIS PA DON'T APPRECIATE.

CHAPTER II.

HIS PA PLAYS JOKES--A MAN SHOULDN'T GET MAD AT A JOKE--THE MAGIC
BOUQUET--THE GROCERY MAN TAKES A TURN--HIS PA TRIES THE BOUQUET AT
CHURCH--ONE FOR THE OLD MAID--A FIGHT ENSUES--THE BAD BOY THREATENS THE
GROCERY man--A COMPROMISE.

CHAPTER III.

HIS PA STABBED--THE GROCERY MAN SETS A TRAP IN VAIN--A BOOM IN
LINIMENT--HIS PA GOES TO THE LANGTRY SHOW--THE BAD BOY TURNS
BURGLAR--THE OLD MAN STABBED--HIS ACCOUNT OF THE FRAY--A GOOD SINGLE
HANDED LIAR.

CHAPTER IV.

HIS PA BUSTED--THE CRAZE FOR MINING STOCK--WHAT'S A BILK?--THE PIOUS
BILK--THE OLD MAN INVESTS--THE DEACONS AND EVEN THE HIRED GIRLS
INVEST--HOT MAPLE SYRUP FOR ONE--GETTING A MAN'S MIND OFF HIS TROUBLES.

CHAPTER V.

HIS PA AND DYNAMITE--THE OLD MAN SELLING SILVER STOCK--FENIAN
SCARE--"DYNAMITE" IN MILWAUKEE--THE FENIAN BOOM--"GREAT GOD, MANNER!
WE ARE BLOWED UP!"--HIS MA HAS LOTS OF SAND--THE OLD MAN USELESS IN
TROUBLE--THE DOG AND THE FALSE TEETH

CHAPTER VI.

HIS PA AN ORANGEMAN--THE GROCERY MAN SHAMEFULLY ABUSED--HE GETS
HOT--BUTTER, OLEOMARGARINE AND AXLE GREASE--THE OLD MAN WEARS ORANGE
ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY--HE HAS TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE--THE BAD BOY AT SUNDAY
SCHOOL--INGERSOLL AND BEECHER VOTED OUT--MARY HAD A LAMB

CHAPTER VII.

HIS MA DECEIVES HIM--THE BAD BOY IN SEARCH OF SAFFRON--"WELL, IT'S