The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-07-16
PLAYING At Keeninr .Restaurant.

Playing at Keeping .ReStaurant'
"I'm tired of this" said little
Harry Hunter, as he threw down his
bat and ball. what else shall We
play p
play keeping restaurant. I'll be the
barkeeper and you make believe you
are coming in to get a drink. I'll
fix this board on these bricks for
the place the man stands behind when
he pours out the drinks; I'h put
these old bottles on it, and these
blocks for cigar boxes, ike We see
them fixed in the windows. There
now, that's right; but 1 bet you don I
do your part, Harry, you're too lit
tle.P
"Can't l ? deed I can though
"elegant," said Harry gleefully.
"Cause 1 saw pa do it, and he ought
to know how"
"I'd like TO know where you saw
pa taking a drink, Harry? | don't
believe it, said Sidney
"But l did see him, said Harry
stoutly. "I went walking with him
Yesterday; and when We got by the
place at the corner, where the win
dows are fixed l;ke our bar here, on
ly ever so much nicer-well, pa told
me to wait a minute, cause he wan
ted to see a man in there; and when
he opened the door 1 saw such pref
ty things. Big glasses and pictures
and such shiny fxins, and lots Of
other things; so pushed the door
open a wee, and peeped in
"Weli," said Sidney, who wa;
much interested; 'what did pa doY
81 can't show you without a tum-
bier, Sidney" was Harry reply
"But I'll find one, n'sand he scamper-
ed into the kitchen, and was back il
twinkling, with a cracked glass he
found on the table. "Therel now
I'll show you" And he placed the
glass on the make-beliege bar. He
went on a short distance and return
ed with his hands in his pockets
walking with comical strut in imi-
tation of his fathers long strides
"Brandy," said be, elevating his
childish voice. Sidney turned
around, and pretended to pour ou
something in the glass which ht
gave to Harry, and he could hardly
keep from laughing, as the mimi'
topper turned his head back, as i
draining out the last drop of tht
supposed contents, and smacked hi
lips, wiped them with his tiny hand
kerchief, and, placing on the bar
piece of paper as a substitute for I
stamp, he strutted away.
Sidney could hold out no longer
but burst into roar of laughter, up
setting in his merriment the who'll
establishment, and sending bottles
blocks, board, bricks, and tumble
all in one confused pile at his feet.
"Now, Harry, did pa really lOOl
that way? l didn't know he eve
drank any liquor. Ma says it
wrong," said Sidney, as soon as b
could get his face straight.
HYes, he did do just that way
showed you, and when Tn man
| I'll do so too. When he started t
come out, l run out on the pavemhnt
and / heard a man say, IF Hunte
goes on in this way, he'll be in dan
| ger SOON What did he mean, Sid
ney?''
Before Sidney could reply, the din
Iner-bell was rung, and the hungr
| little fellows rush into the house.
Seated at a window overlookia
the play ground, the father Of thes
children had seen and heard througI
the half-closed blinds all that ha
transpired. Words arc powerless t
express the feelings that agitated hi
breast. The childish lesson, so un
consciously taught, was not lost; 70
Inever again did he drink glass 9
| liquor; the little ones had cured hiI
by 'splaying at keeping a restaur
tant.1 s Ea