The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-09-15
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Castor OH.

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Castor Oil.
She had had her mind made up for
two or three days that the boy need
ed some castor oil, but she knew that
she must approach him gently. She
placed the bottle where he could see
it, and when he turned up his nose
she said:
s'It's just like honey, my darling" +"
He seemed to doubt her word, and
she continued:
IF you'll take some I'll let you
go to the circus"
s'How much?'' he cautiously in
quired.
''Oh, only a spoonful, just one
spoonful" she replied as sue un-
corked the bottle.
"And you'll give me some sugar,
besides?' he asked.
ssOf course I villa big lump"
He waited until she began pour
ing from the bottle. and then asked /:
'And you'll give me ten cents,
tooS'
'Yes. OF course"
"And you'll buy me shoo-fy
kite?" he went on, seeing his adj
vantage.
81 guess So"
mo kite-no ile," he said. as he
drew back"
sWell, FL buy you the kite" she
replied. filling the spoon clear up.
"And a velocipedeT'
"Pll thinksof it,
'.You can't think no castor oil
down mel he exclaimed, looking
around for his hat.
.sHere-I will, or I'll tease father
to, and know he will. Come, now,
swallow it down."
''And you'll buy me goat?'
"Yes."
"And two hundred marbles?'
"Yes. Now take it right down."
sand coach dogF'
81 can't promise that
Cali right-no dog, no lie p
"We:l, I'll ask your father
Sand you'll buy me pony?
Ous l. COUtAu NAO OAAh1s 4NOW OS
a good boy and swallow it down.
''Oh, yes, I'll swallow that stuff, /
will !'' be said, as he clapped on his
hat. "You may fool some other boy
with a circus ticket and a lump of
brown sugar, but it'll take a hundred
dollar pony to trot that castor oil
down my throat -
And he went out to see if the
neighbor's cat had been caught in
the dead-fall he set for her.
His Apology.
A Tenth Warder rather under the
influence of liquor approached an &C.
quaintance the other day and re.
marked:
"See here, Bill, they say you call
ed me a sheep-thief."
"Yes, / did,
"Well, you've got to apologize or
I'll lick you y
"Pll be happy to apologize.
called you sheep thief-but I mis-
poke myself meant to say that
you had been in Jail for stealing q
horse?''
That's manly" said the Tenth
Warder. LESS take drink. I knew
you didn't think pick up anything
smaller'n horse"
Down the Road.
Down the river road when a boy
of FIVE or six leaves the house his
mother asks:
''Going away, Bill7"
"Yass."
"Where?''
"Down to play on the saw.logs."
"Well, young man, want to tell
you in advance that if you go down
on them logs and fool around and
fall in and get drowned I'll lick the
life out-of you!''
s'Yum," answers Bill, and he wan
ders away.
That Twenty-Five Cents.
"Well, bub," replied Bijah as he
finished hanging up the broom, ''this
currency question bothers many
besides you, though it's clear
enough TO me. You see that twenty.
five cent scrip don't your
The boy remarked that be did,
and Bijah placed it on the window.
sill, weighted it down with a peach.
stone and continued:
'sThat bit Of paper is marked %
cents, but is it twenty-five cents
Is it anything more than piece of
paperF'
II dunno." solemnly replied the
boy.
''Has that bit Of paper any real
value beyond ITS being a promise to
payF demanded BUah.
"What paper?'
THAT ere twenty-five-"
He stopped there. Some one had
sneaked up the alley and slyly sto-
len both scrip and peach-stone.
''Never nind," condoled the boy,
sit hadn't any intrinsic value"
''It hadn't, eh?' growled the old
janit0r; II just want to catch the
wolf who absorbed it u
The bulls for regular bull fights in
Spain are bred with the greatest care,
bred with the greatest care for this
special purpose, the most celebrated