The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-09-05
ThrockmortOn's Commissions.

A
of ten children. Yesterday morning
Mrs Trockmorton called after him
from the kitchen:
.'Stop at Soldiers aud 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 he put on his hat and start
ed. AS he reached the front door
his eldest daughter shouted from up
stairs:
"Pa pa: pal!! Go to Green.
baum & Shroder's and ask Mr..
Scott to give you two yards and a
half of brown satin, cut on the bias,
to match the dress I got last week,
he'll know the kind. Bring it with
you. / don't want to wait for it,
Mr.. Trockmorton, pausing with
his hand on the 6oor, said he would
get it, and then sighed and opened
the door. Just then his oldest son
shouted from the sitting-room: at
Father! the man was up here
twice yesterday for the money for
my new boat. and. I just gave him a
note to you, and he'll call at the
Office to-day for his money, and will
give you pair of patent oarloelss aud
a dip-net. Bring them up with you
when you come to dinner"
Mr.. Throcl1morton kind Of stihed
a groan like, and saying he would
attend to it, went out. As he pass
ed down the porch steps his second
daughter leaned out of the window
and cried:
stPa. do stop at Parsons as you
come to dinner and tell him to send
a man to lay the new hall carpet
when they send it up. and you get
ten pounds of cotton-batting, and
bring it 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 err
rand and bring up the cotton.bat-
ting, and opened the gate. But the
voice of his yonger son from the
side-yard caught his ear and held
him for a moment:
7"Pap D pap: want ten cents to
pay for window 1 broke in the
schooI-house, and 1 can't go to Sun
day-school till get new hat and
shoes, and please can't l have
quarter to go to the picnic?''
Mr.. Throckmorton silently register
ed fiogging for the broken glaas. a
negative for picnic, aud said he
would get the hat and shoes. Then
he turned to go. but as he passed
down the street his six younger chill
dren came running after him:
20 pa, don't forget to stop aud
see if that old umbrellas fixed ma
says
"stop at the dentists and see
when he can fll my teeth
'Bring my shoes home from the
shoemaker j."
F'Ma says be sure and tell the
doctor to come up today and vacci-
nate the baby
uaPap! kin 1 go svimmin' in
Hawkeye Krfck tonight p -
"Pa'rO pal gimme five cents to
ride on the street cars o.-t.
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 DIR. Parsons to 6
let him have eleven dozen skeins of
cotton batting and send him up
man with Tin dipper; he told DIR.
Cochran, the dentist, to come right
up and fill the baby's teeth, and beg
ed theldoctor to hurry right away and
put half sole on the school house
and then he ran to the
and asked him if he
had yaceinated his little girls shoe,
and amazed q street-ear driver by
asking him for q 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 V
front ball, the girls would show him
where. And by 3 o'clock in the af-
ternoon it had got all around town q
that old Mr.. Throckmorton aWasaa
as bad as ever again. oand oa
hadn't drawn a sober breath all day. 1
Darlington HaaUkeye, 81 .laa ,7agss
,4-sls sfAa joel
) New York Tribune: Mr.. B. p.
Shillaber, otherwise Mrs. Darlington,
vas compositor on the Boston
Post when he wrote several comic :.
sketches. However, his friends nrg-l4
ed him to show them to the editor
and the result vas that Mrs. Par
,ington became very valuable, and
Mr.. Shillabers woke up one morning
and found himself famous. He lives
1t present in retised ease at Chelsea,
near Boston, and might be very
if il were not for rhuma-f.