Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-02-19
miscellaneous.
Brasser's Son Claudius
[rrom thc petroIt Free Press

named Claudius. and the other evening
this boy received permission to allow il
neighbours boy to stay all night with
him. The old people sleep down stairs
in the sitting-room, and the boys were PM
in a room directly above When they
went up TO bed Cladius had the clothes,
line under his coat and the neighbor':
boy had mask in bis pocket They
didn't kncel 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 Brasser boy re.
marked:
" You'll see more fun around here to-
night than would lie on ten-acre lot y
From closet they brought out cast
off suit Of Brasscr's clothes, stuffed them
with whatever came handy, tied the
mask and an old straw hat on for head,
and while one boy was carefully raising
the window the other was tying the
clothes around the imam" The image
was lowered down in front of the sitting
room window, lifted up and down once
or twice, and old Brasser was heard to
leap out of bed with great jar. He
was just beginning to doze when he
heard sounds under bis window, and his
wife suggested that it was COW in the
yard. He got up, pulled the curtain
away, and as be beheld a man standing
there he shouted out:
Great bottles but it's robber p
aud he jamped into bed.
Theodorius Brasser, are you fool y
screamed the wife as he monopolized all
the bed clothes to cover up his head.
.. Be qaiet, you old jade, youi' r he
whispered; perhaps he'll go awayv'
. Don't you call me a jade y she re-
piled, reaching over and trying to find
his hair. "Git up and git the gun and
blow his head off p
"Oh you do it,"
Git up, you old coward" she
snapped I'll never live with you
another day if you don't do it,"
BrasseT turned up the lamp. sat up in
bed, and cried out
:. Is that you, boys? ?"
q Mercy on me git up r yelled the
wife, as the straw man was knocked
against the window.
I'll blow his head off as clean as
milk p said Brasser in loud voice as
be got up. He struck the stove three
or four times, upset chair, and reached
behind the foot of the bed and drew out
an old army musket.
. Now, then, for blood!' he contin-
ued, as he advanced to the window and
lifted the curtain
The man was there, face close to the
glass, and he had such malignant ex-
preston Of countenance that Brasser
jumped back with cry of alarm.
Kill him Shoot him down. you old
noodle-head !" screamed the wife.
II wildly thunder! will - re-
piled Brasser, and blazed away and tore
out nearly all the lower sash.
The boys up stairs uttered yell and
n 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.
He's coming in !--perlice boys! !
--ho perlice !" roarod the old man.
The tattered curtain permitted Mrs.
Brasser to catch sight Of a man jumping
up and down, and she yelled:
. Theodorius, Tn going to faint!''
/" Faint and be darnea. Boys per
licew he replied, walloping the sheet
iron stove with the poker.
.'Don't talk that way to me p shrieked
the old woman. recovering from her de-
sire 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 Sc
GREETED the pieces.
Several neighbors were aroused, an
officer came up from the station. and a
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-
euser.
That's so = choruscd the indignant
neighbors as they departed.
AS Mr.. Brasser hung a quilt before
the shattered window, he remarked to
bis wife
Now see what an old cundurango
you made Of yoursclf!''
+" Don't ding any insults at me, or I'll
choke tho attenuated life out of you =
she replied
And the boys kicked around on the
bed, chucked each other in the ribs, and
cried:
I'D rather be boy than be Presi-
dentr'
"a sollum kameness steals around,