"'You licked him? Sho! Really? Well, now, I hadn't any idea you could lick that Tommy Kelly! I don't believe John Bunyan, at ten years old, could have done it. Johnny, my boy, you can't think how I hate to have you fighting every day or two. I wouldn't have had him lick you for five, no, not for ten dollars! Now, sonny, go right in and wash up, and tell your mother to put a rag on your finger. And, Johnny, don't let me hear of your fighting again!'"
"I never see anybody so down on fighting as the old man, was, but somehow he never could break me from it."
THE OLD MAN IN THE STYLISH CHURCH.
JOHN H. YATES.
Additional effect may be given to this piece by any one who can impersonate the old man.
W
ELL, wife, I've been to church to-day—been to a stylish one—
And, seein' you can't go from home, I'll tell you what was done;