Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

From the Detroit Free Prols

From the Detroit Free Press
Mr.. Brasser who lives on Ninth avenue.
has son about twelve years old. named
Claudius, and the other evening this boy
received permission to allow ncighbor's
boy to stay all night with him. The old
people sleep down stairs in the sitting
room, and the boys were put into a room
directly above. when they went M TO
bed Claudius had the clothes-lhe under
his coat, aud the ncghbor's boy had n
mask in his pocket. They didn't kneel
down and say their prayers like good bows
and then jump into bed and tell bear sto-
riCs, but as soon rs the door was locked
the Brasser boy remarked:
You'll see more fun around here to-
night than would lie on ten-acre 10, -
From a closet they brought out cast
of suit OF Brasser's clothes, stuffed them
with whatever came handy, tied the masl,
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, and old Brasser was heard to lean
out of bed with great jar. lie was lust
beginning to doze when he heard sound,
under his window, and his wife suggested
that it was COW in the yard. He got UP,
pulled the curtain away, and as he beheid
a mau standing there he shouted out
" Great bottles but it's robber -
| and he jumped into bed.
Thcodorius Brasscr, are you a fool -
screamed the wife, as he monopolized all
the bed-clothes, to cover up his head.
" BE quiet, you old Jade, you :" he whis-
pered perhaps hen 20 away -
Don't you call me a Jade - she re-
piled, reaching over and trying to find his
hair Cit up and cit the gun and blow
lis head orr
Oh you do it -
Cit up you old coward, " she snapped
I'm never live with you another day if
you don t do it -
Basser turned ilp the lamp, sat up in
bed. and cried out
Is that You. bOys;"
:, Mercy on me ! git up :" yelled the
wife, rs the straw man was knocked
against the window.
I'm blow his head off as clean as milk"
said Brasser, in loud voice. us he got I'D.
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 =" ne continued.
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 Brassar
jumped back with a cry of alarm
" Kill him Shoot him down. you old
noodlc-head - screamed the wife.
" | wildly thunder! | will :" replied
Brasser, and he blazed away. and tore
ont nearly all the lower sash.
The boys upstairs uttered yell and a
groan, and Brasser jumped for the win
dow to see # the man ~as down. He
wasn't. He stood right there. and he made
a leap at Brasser.
He's coming in .-perlice boys =
no perlicc - roared the old man.
The tattered curtain permitted Mrs.
Brasser TO catch sight of man Jumping
up aud down, and She yelled:
Iheodorius, IN going to faint -
Faint and be darned. Boys per
lice - he replied, wolloping the sheet-iron
stove with the poker.
Don't you dare talk that way to me -
shriekcd the old woman. recovering from
her desire to faint.
Po-lecce Po-leece - 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 secreted
the pieces.
Several neighbors were aroused. an GA
ticer came up from the station, and f.
search OF the premises was made. Not so
much as a track in the snow was found.
and the officer put on an injured look. and
said to Mr.. BrasSer:
" a guilty conscience needs no accu-
SER
That's so - chorused the indignant
ncighbors, as they departed.
As Mr.. Brasser hung quilt before the
shattered window he remarked to his
wife:
= Now see what an old cundurangO you
made of yourself! -
Don't fling any insults at me, or I'll
choke the 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-
dent -