Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-11-02
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Mr.. THROCKMORTON's EXPERIENCE.
MIR. Jasper Throckmorton. who lives out
on Summer street, is the father of ten
children. The other morning Mr.. Throck-
morton was just on the point Of putting on
his hat to start for the Office, when Mrs.
Throckmorton called after him from the
kitchen:
''Stop at Soldiers and tell him to come
up and fix the water pipe, and get big
tin dipper and bring it with you this noon.
Don't tell them to send it, they'll forget
it.''
Mr.. Throckmorton said he would, and
then put on his hat and started. AS he
reached the front door, his eldest daughter
shouted from upstairs:
ssPa! pa! pa! Go to Greenbaum &
Schroeder's and ask Mr.. Scott to give you
two yards and half Of brown satin, cut
on the bias to match the dress got last
week; he'll know the kind. Bring it with
you. don't want to wait for it,
And Mr.. Throckmorton pausing with
his hand on the door, said he would get it,
and then sighed and opened the door. Just
then his oldest son shouted from the sitting
room:
''Father! The man was up here twice
yesterday for the money for my new boat,
and just gave him note to you and he'll
call at the office to-day, for his money, and
will give you pair of patent oarlocks and
a dip net. Bring them up with you when
you come to dinner
Mr.. Throckmorton kind of stifed groan
like, and saying he would attend to it,
went out. AS he passed down the porch
steps his second daughter leaned out of
window and cried:
''Oh, pa, do stop at Parsons as you come
to dinner and tell them to send man to
lay the new hall carpet when they send it
up, and you get ten pounds of cotton bat
ting and bring it with you, for we cannot
wait.''
The parent paused with his hand on the
gate latch, and with visible effort pro-
missed to remember the errand and bring
up the cotton batting, and opened the
gate. But the voice of his younger son
from the side yard caught bis ear and held
him for moment:
Pap, oh, pap! Want ten cents % pay
for winder broke in the school house,
and can't 60 to Sunday School till get
a new hat and some shoes, and please can't
1 have quarter to go to the picnic?"
Mr.. Throckmorton silently registered
flogging for the broken glass, negative
for the picnic, and said he would get the
boots and hat. Then he turned to go, but
as he passed down the street his six young
er children came running after him.
:'Oh, pa, don't forget to stop and see if
the old umbrellas fixed, ma says"
''Stop at the dentists and see when he
can fill my teeth.'
Bring my shoe home from the shoe
Makers"
Una says be sure and tell the doctor to
come up to-day and vaccinate the baby"
"Pap, kin go swimmin' in Hawkeye
krick tonight"
''Pa, oh; pa! gimme FIVE cents to ride on
Cne street cars" a
And Mr.. ThrockmOrton went down and
amazed Fred Scott by telling him to cut
him off about thirteen feet of water-pipe.
on the bias; and he asked Mr.. Parson to
let him have eleven dozen skeins of cotton
batting and send him up man with tin
dipper he told DR.. Cochran, the dentist,
to come right up and fill the baby's teeth
and begged the doctor to hurry right away
and puta half sole on the scho0l-house
window, and then he ran to the shoema-
ke.' and asked him if he had vaccinated
his little girls shoe, and amazed street
car driver by asking him for bath ticket,
and when the man came around with the
oar-locks and dlpnet he told him to take
them up and lay them in the front hall.
the girls would show him where. And by
8 O'Clock in the afternoon it had got all
around town that cid Mr.. Throckmoiton
was drinking as bad as ever again, and
hadn 1T drawn sober breath all day.-Bur-
Aagton Hauksye.
Children who have been the pets of the
house are almost invariably afflicted with
jealousy at the advent of a new baby. A
lady asked q little boy under these circum-
stances how he liked his little sister.
Il don't think she agrees with me,' he
replied.
''Why don't she agree with you ?''
81 don't know he said; ''hut couldn't
bear to see mother kiss her."
A magistrate in Iowa refused to fine a
man for kissing girl against her will, be-
cause the complainant was so templlngly
pretty nothing but an overwhelming sense
of dignity prevented the Court from kiss
ing her itself. Justice was not blind in this
case.
John lost his knife. After searching
in one pocket and another until he had
been through all without success, he ex-
claimed; ''Oh dear wish had another
poeket, it might be in that.''
Some men solemnly say: "Give us this
day our daily bregd,' and then loaf all day
on che fence wondering why prayer is not
answered.
.'There's one thing" said seedy look
ing man, sin which am always sure to |
get full measure, and that's a peck Of
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