Life — June 21, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘LIFE: You see, my good lit-tle read-ers, it does not do to be Wick-ed and get found Out. HE CAUGHT SOMETHING. Af-ter Tom-my got Well, he was’n’t so hand-some a Kit-ten as he was be-fore, but he knew more. £x-pe- ri-en-ti-a do-cet, and he had a pret-ty good dose. Un- for-tun-ate-ly he ran a-away from home as soon as he LAID UP. This e-vil step soon brought its pun-ish-ment. Tom-my could-n't catch rats, and so he had to steal. ——~ C. SHULTZ. FRESH MEAT, HE WENT TO STEAL A PIECE OF MEAT. Now this was ve-ry wick-ed, for ‘fom-my was al- most sure to be found out. Lit-tle chil-dren, when you are tem-pted to Steal, al ways be cer-tain.that you can-not be Found out. Do as the pi-ous po- i do, an get as-cer-tain- ed. Well, Tom- my went in-to a but-cher’s shop to steal a mut- ton chop, but just as he was a-bout to steal it the but-cher turned A-round, and then Tom- my sud-den-ly rem -em - bered what the Good Book says, and his_con-science whis-pered him to go Home as quickly as he could. He did so, and left the piece of Meat be-hind. Little children, when you are temp-ted, do as Tom-my did. The next ex-per-i-ence of Tom-my was an at-tempt to bur-glar-ize a house. He det-er-mined to enter a house by way of the kit- chen drain. His pi-ous com-pan-i-ons tried to dis- suade him, because they were a-fraid he would eat up HE LEFT A PIECE OF MEAT. comicbooks.com