Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-18
d The Man With a Family.

Mr.. Jasper Throekmorton, who lives
out on Summer street, is the father OF
ten children. Yesterday morning Mr..
ThrockmortOn 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
a big tin Upper 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 daugh-
ter shouted from up stairs:
Pa pa pa ~ Go to Greenbaum
4 Schroder'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. L don't want to wait for it. +"
And Mr.. Throckmorton, pausing with
his hand ON the door, said he would get
1t, and then sighed and opened the door.
Just then his eldest son shouted from
the sitting room:
Father the man was up here twice
yesterday for the money for my new
boat, and l Just gave him note to you
and he'll call at the office to-day for his
money and will give pair of patent
oar-locks and dip-net. Bring them up
with you when you come to dinner"
Mr.. Throckmorton kind of stifed q
groan like, and, saying he would attend
to it, went out. AS he passed down the
porch step his second daughter leaned
out of a window and cried
Oh, pa do stop at Parsons as you
come to dinner and tell them to send a
man to lay the new hall carpet when
they send it up, and you can get ten
pounds of cotton batting and bring it up
with you, for we want it right away and
can't wait"
The parent paused with his hand on
the gate latch and, with visible effort,
promised 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 his ear
and held him for a moment.
"Pap, oh, papl Want ten cents to
pay for a winder L broke in the school
house, and I can't go to Sunday school
till L get new hat and some shoes, and
please can't 1 have quarter to go to
the picnic ?"
Mr.. Throckmorton silently registered
fogging for the broken glass, a mega
tive 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 younger 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"
"Ma says be sure and tell the doctor
to come up to-day and vaccinate the
baby |"
Pap Kin I go swimmin' in Hawkeye
krick tonight"
"Pa, oh, pa gimme five cents to ride
on the street cars %
town and amazed Fred Scott by telling
him to cut him off about thirteen feet of
water pipe on the bias, and he asked
Mr.. Parsons to let him have eleving doz-
ing skeins of cotting 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 put
half sole on the school house window,
and then he ran to the shoemaker's 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 dip-net, he told him to
take them up and lay them in the front
hail. the girls would show him where.
And by three o'clock in the afternoon it
had got all around town that old Mr..
Throckmorton was drinking as bad as
ever again, and hadn't drawn a sober
breath all day.-BawIi'agtom HaaOkeye.