The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-30
Patornal Duties.

MIR. JASPER AHKOCkMOkTON, VINO lives
out on Summer street, is the father of ten
children. Yesterday 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
tin dipper and bring it with you this noon
Don't tell them to send it, they III forget It,"
Mr.. Throckmorton said he would, and
then he put on his hat and started. As he
reached the front door his eldest daughter
shouted from upstairs:
"Pai pail pa!!i Go to Greenbaum &
Schroder's anu ask MIR. Scott to give you
two yards and half of brown satin, cut
on the bias, to match the dress l got last
week; he'll know the kind. Bring it with
you. don't want to wait tor it,"
And Mr.. ThrOckmortOn pausing with
his hand on the door, said he would
get it, and then sighed and opene ed the
door. Just then his Oldest son shouted
from the sitting-ro0m:
"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 a pair of patent oar. locks
and q dip-net. Bring them up with you
when you come to dinner"
| Mr.. ThrockmOrton kind of stifled q
groan like, and saying he would attend to
| It, went out. As he passed down the porch
steps his second daughter leaned out of q
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 hail carpet when they
send il up, and you get ten pounds of cot
ton 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 q visible effort prom
Used 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
moment:
Pap, oh pap! Want ten cents to pay
| for q winder I broke in the school house,
and l can't 60 to Sunday School till get
new hat and some shoes, and please
can't have quarter to gOtO the picnic ~
Mr.. Throckmorton silently registered a
flogging for the broken glass, negative
for the picnic, and said he would get the
boots and hat. Then he turned to 60, but
As he passed down the street his six
/ yOuukCI V0AuC uuuluS 0AtC1 nun =
"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"
INA says be sure and tell the doctor to
come up to-day and vaccinate the baby!'
"Papl Kin 60 swimming in Hawkeye
"Pa, oh, pa! gimme five cents to ride
on the street carsp'
And Mr.. Throckmorton went down
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.. Par
sons to let HIM have eleving DOING skeina
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 tOhur.
ry 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 streetcar 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 hall, the girls would show him
where. And by three O'Clock in the after.
noon it had got all around town that old
Mr.. Throckmorton was drinking ~ bad a
ever again, and hadn't drawn q sober
breath all day.-Burlington Hasok-Eys.