The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-09-14
A FAMILY MANS TROUBLES.


ON Sumner Street, is the father of ten
children. Yesterday morning MIR.
ThrockmortOn was just on the point OF
putting ON his hat to start for the Office,
when Mrs. Throck morton called after
him from the kitchen
ssStop, at Soldiers, and tell him to
cQene up and fix the water pipe, ana
get u big tin dipper and bring it witt,
you this noon. Don't tell them to send
it, they'll forget il"
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
stPa pa pa! Go to Greenbaum 4
Schroder's and ask Mr.. Scott to give
you two yards and a-haif of brown
satin, cut ON the bias, to the dress 70,
last week he'll know the kind. l
don't want to wait for it,
And Mr.. ThrOckmortOn, pausiny
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:
'sFather the man was up here twice
yesterday for the money for my now
boat, and l just gave him u note to you,
and he'll call at the Office to-day for
his money, and will give you u pair OF
patent oar-locks and dip-net. Bring
them up with you when you come to
dinner"
Mr.. Throckmorton kind of stifled n
groan like, and saying he would at
tend to it, went out. AS he passed
down the porch step his second daugh-
ter leaned out of the front window and
cried:
ooh, pa do stop at Parsons as YOU
tn innnr AL Nf1 No. -
n man to lay the new hall carpet 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 aud 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 u moment:
"Pap, oh pap! Want ten cents to
pay for Il winder / broke in the school
house, and can't go to Sunday school
till I get new hat and some shoes,
and please can't i have II quarter to 90
to the picnic Pr
Mr.. Throckmorton silently register
ed a hogging for tho broken glass, a
negative for the picnic, and said he
would get the boots aud hat. Then
he turned to go, but as he passed down
the street his six younger children
came running after him
ooh, pa, don't forget to stop and see
ii the old umbrellas fixed, ma says.''
ssStop at the dentists and see when
he can fill my teeth"
ssBring my shoe home from the shoe
Makers"
"Ma says be sure to tell the doctor to
come up to-day and vaccinate the
baby!"
'sPap! Kin go swimming in Hawk
eye Krick tonight ?'
-"Pa, oh, pa gimme me FIVE cents to
ride on the street cars ?''
And Mr.. Throckmorton went down
town and amazed Fred. Scott by tell
ing him to cut off thirteen feet of water
pipe, ON the bias, and he asked Mr..
Parsons to let him have eleven dozen
sEeins of cotton batting and send him
up man with q tin dipper, he told
DR.. Cochran, the dentist, to come right
up and all the baby's teeth, and begg.
ed the doctor to hurry right away aud
put q half-sOle ON the school-house
window, aud then ran to the shoe
makers and asked him if he had vac
cinated his little girls shoe, and amaz
cd q street-car driver by asking him fol
a bath ticket, aud when the man came
around with the oar-locks aud iippel
he told him to take them up and lay
them In the front halt-the girls wouiC
show him where. And by in the
afternoon It had got ali around that ole