Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-24

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FAMILY HAMS TROUBLES.
How mr.. Jaspar ThroekmortOn,s
Reputation was RuIned.
Mr.. Jasper Throckmorton, 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 aud 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 OH his hat and started.
As he reached the front door his
eldest daughter shouted from up
stairs:
"Pa! pa! pal! Go to Green
baum & Schroder's and ask Mr..
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 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 old
est 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 a
note to you and he'll call at the of
fee to-day for his money, and will
give you pair of patent oarlocks
and dip-net. Bring them up with
you when you come to dinner"
Mr.. Throckmorton kind of stified
groan like, and saying he would
attend TO it, went out. As ne pass
ed down the porch steps 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 man to lay the new hall car
pet when they send it up, and you
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 a visible
effort promised to remember the err
rand and bring up the cotton bat
ting, 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 pap! Want ten cents to
pay for a winder l broke in the
school house, and l can't 90 to Sun
day school till get a new hat and
some shoes, and please can't I have a
quarter to go to the picnic ?"
Mr.. Throckmorton silently regis
tered a fogging for the broken
glass, a negative for the picnic, and
said he would get the boots and hat.
Then he turned to go, out 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 fiji my teeth"
"Bring my shoe home from the
shoemaker's. -
"Ma says be sure to tell the doc
tor to come mp to-day and vaccinate
the baby"
"Pap! Kin I 90 swimmin' in
Hawkeye krick, tonight 9'' aar
opal oh pa! give me five cents to
ride on the street cars"
And Mr.. ThroekmortOn went
down town and amazed Fred Scott
by telling him to cut off about thir-
teen feet off water pipe. on the bias,
and asked Mr.. Parsons to let him
have eleven dozen skeins of cotton
batting, and send him up a 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 win
dow, and then he ran to the shoe
makers and asked him if he had
vaccinated his little girls shoe, and
amazed a street car driver by ask
ing him for a 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
afternoon it had got all around town
that old Mr.. Throckmorton was
drinking as bad as ever again, and
hadn't drawn sober breath all day.
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