SrOA'V OF A BAD LITTLE BOY. 



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ered home of his boyhood tumbled down and gone to decay. Ah ! no ; he came 

 home as drunk as a piper, and got into the station-house the first thing. 



And he grew up and married, and raised a large family, and brained them all 

 with an axe one night, and got wealthy by all manner of cheating and rascality ; 

 and now he is the infernalest wickedest scoundrel in his native village, and is 

 universally respected, and belongs to the Legislature. 



So you see there never was a bad James in the Sunday-school books that had 

 such a streak of luck as this sinful Jim with the charmed life. 



