A Milwaukee grocer hears it straight from the boy himself: every prank he plays on his father, the old man, ends with a bed-slat across his back, and every one is worth it. Fake love letters, a mistaken kidnapping charge and many more scrapes follow, told in the boy’s own cheerfully misspelled vernacular.
These newspaper sketches made Peck famous enough to become governor of Wisconsin, and they launched the American bad-boy comic tradition. Download the free EPUB.