The Arizona sentinel., 1875-04-03
Some Fun.
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received permission to allow a neighbours boy to stay all night with him. The old couple sleep down stairs in the sitting-roOm and the boys were put in a room directly above. When they went up to bed Claudius had the clothes line under his coat, and the neigh bOur's boy had d mask in his pOck- ct. They didn't kneel down and say their prayers like good boys. and then jump into bed and tell bear stories, but as soon as the door was locked the Eraser boy remarked:
 You'll see more fan around here to- nigh than would lie on ten acre lot! d
 From the closet they brought out a cast-o off suit of Brasser's clothes, stuffed them with what ever became handy, tied the mask and an old straw hat on for a head, and while one boy was carefully raising the window the other was tying the clothes-line around the "man." The image was lowered down in front of the sitting. room window, lifted up and down once or twice, ard old Eraser was heard to leap out of bed win great jar. He was just beginning to dose when he heard sounds near the window, and his wife suggested that it was a COW in the yard. He got up, pulled the curtain away. and as he be- held a man standing there he shouted out:
 Great hotties but it's a rob. ber!" and he jumped in to bed.
 "Theodorius Eraser, are you a fool?' screamed the wife as he mon0poliZed all the bed clothes to cover up his head.
 ''Be quiet, you old jadep he whispered, perhaps he'll go awayn noe
 Don't you call me jade '" she replied, reaching over and try ing to find his hair. "Git up and git the gun and blow his head off !"
 70! you do it!"
 "Git up you old coward!" she snapped. "I'll not live another day if you don't do itr
 Eraser turned up the lamp, sat up in bed and cried out: ''Is that you, boys?"
 Mercy on me! git up" yelled the wife as the straw man was knocked against the window.
 "Pll blow his head off as clean as milkp said Eraser in a loud voice as he got up. He struck the stove three or four times, up- set a chair and reached behind the foot of the bed and drew out an old army musket.
 "Now, then, for bloodn he con- tinued as he advanced to the win dow and lifted the curtain.
 The man was there, face close to the glass, and he had such a malignant expression of cOunten- ance that Eraser jumped back with:a cry of alarm.
 "KilI him! Shoot him down, you old noodleheadw screamed the wife.
 1T wiII-by thunderl I will!p replied Eraser, and he blazed away and tore out nearly all the lower sash. s-i< fs
 The boys up stairs yelled and groaned and Eraser jumped for the window to see if the man was down. He wasn't. He made a leap at Eraser.
 "He's coming in-perlice-boys -ho! perlicew roared the old man.
 The tattered curtain permitted Mrs. Brasser to catch sight of a man jumping up and down, and she yelled:
 "Theodorius, I'm going to faint!"
 "Faint and be darned-boys- perIice!" he replied, wallOping the sheet-iron stove with the poker.
 "Don't you dare talk that way to mel" shrieked the old woman, recovering from her desire to faint.
 "Po-leece! Po-leece" now came from the boys up stairs, and while one continued to shout the other drew the man up, tore him limb from limb and secreted the pieces.
 Several neighbours were arous. ed, an officer came up from the station and search of the pre- mises was made. Not so much as a track in the snow was found. and the officer put on an injured look and said to MT. Eraser
 "A guilty conscience needs no accuser."
 "That's sol" chorused the in- dignant neighbours as they de- parted.
 AS MT. Eraser hung a quilt be. foro thn shattered window he re-