Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-03-04
sRAssER,s SON cLAuDIus.
THE rUs>HE, MADE FOR 4 sEleHBoR's
BoY-RIsFuRRlNa THE. OLD FOLKS =
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fFrom the Detroit Free Press+l
Mr.. Brasser, who lives on Ninth ave.
nue., has son about twelve Yeas of
age, named Claudius. and, the other
evening this boy received permission
to allow neighbours boy to stay all
night with him. The old people sleep
down stairs in the sitting room, and
the boys were put in room directly
above. When they went up to the
bed Clsudius had the cfothesline under
his coat and the neighbor's boy had a
mask in his pocket. They didn't kneel
down and say their prayers like good
boys, and then jump into bed and tell
bear stories, but as soon IS the door
was locked the Braaser boy remarked +:
"You'll see more fun around here
to night than would lie in a ten-acre
lott"
From a closet they brought cast
OF: su it of Brasser's clothes, stuffed
them with whatever came 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 ty.
ing 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, and old Brass
er was heard to leap out of bed with
great jar, He was just beginning to
doze when he heard sounds under his
WIN dow, and his VI life suggested that it
was COW in the yard. He got up,
pulled the curtain away, and as he be-
held man standing there he shouted
out:
"Great bottles but it's a robber!"
and he jumped into bed.
''Theodorious Brasser are you
fool!" screamed the wife as he monop.,
olized all the bed clothes to cover up
his head
'Be auiet, yog old jade, you'll" he
whispered !; 'perhaps he'll 60 away!"
''Don't you call me jade!" she re-
piled, reaching over and trying to find
his hair "Git up and git the gun and
blow his head off,
ooh! you do it'll"
EGit up, you old coward" she
snapped. "Ill never live with you
another day if you don't do it"
Brasser turned up up the lamp, sat
up in bed and cried out:
':fs--thas you boys.j:'
''Mercy on me! git up!" yelled the
wife, az the straw maH was knocked
against the window
"Ill blow his head off as clean as
milk !" said Brasser in loud voice as
he got up. He struck the stove threee
or four times, upset a chair, and
reached behind the foot of the bed
and drew out an old army musket.
"Now, then, for blood!" he continued,
as he advanced to the window and lift
ed the curtain.
The man was there, face close to the
glass, and he had such a malignant
expression of countenance that Brass
er jumped back with a cry of alarm.
"Kill him = Shoot him down you
old modlehead !! screamed the wife.
81 wildly thunder! I will" re-
piled Brasser, and he blazed away,
and tore out nearly all the lower
sash.
The boys upstairs uttered vel!
and groan, and Brasser jumped for
the window to see If the man was
down. He wasn't. He stood right
there, and he made leap at Brasser.
Giles coming in !-perlice !-boys
no! perlice !" roared the old man.
The tattered curtain permitted Mrs.
Brasser to catch sight of a man
jumping up and down and she yelled
''Theodorious, I'm going to faint!"
'Faint and be Edarned! Boys IL
perlice!" he replied, walloping the sheet
iron stove with the poker.
"Don,t you dare talk that way to
me!' shrieked the old woman, rs,ov
ering from her desire to faint,
'tPoleece Poleece /" now came from
the boys up stairs, and while one con
tinued to shout the other drew the man
Up, tore him limb from limb and Sc.
creted the pieces.
Several neighbors were aroused, an
officer came Up fromthe station, and
search Of the premises was made. Not
so much as track in the snow was
found. and the officer put on an
injured look and said to Mr.. Brasser:
"a guilty conscience needs no ac~
cuser."
''That's SO, chorussed the indignant
neigbors as they departed.
As Mr.. BrAsser hung auilt before
the shattered window he remarked to
his wife;
.''Now see what an old cundurango
you made Of yourselfl''