Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-20
Mnmurnms department.
FAMILY MANS TROUBLES.

Mr. Jasper Throckmorton, who lives out
on Summer street, is the father of ten chill
dren. Yesterday morning Mr.. Throckmor-
ton was at the point of putting on his hat
to start for the Office, when Mrs. Throckmer-
ton called after him from the kitchen:
"Stop at Stodders and tell him to come up
and fix the water pipe, and get big tin dip
per 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 coat and started. As he reached
the front door his eldest daughter shouted
from up stairs:
"Pa! pal! pa!ll Go to Greenbaum &
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, paused with his
hand on the door, said he would get it, and
then sighed and opened the door. Just then
his eldest son shouted from the sitting room:
"Father, the man was up here twice yester.
day for the money for my new coat, and
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 oar-locks and dip net.
Bring them up with you when you come to
dinner"
Mr.. Throckmorton kind of stifed groan
like, and saying he would attend to it, went
on Az he passed down the porch steps his
second daughter leaned out of window and
cried:
ooh! pa, do stop at Parsons as you come to
dinner and tell him to send a man to lay,
down the 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" ....s
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
ward caught his ear and held him for mo-
ment.
"Pap, oh pap. Want ten cents to pay for
winder broke in the school-house, and l
can't 90 to Sunday school till I get a new hat
and some shoes and please can't have q
quarter to 60 to the picnic p
Mr.. Throckmorton silently registered fog.
giug for the broken glass, negative for the
picnic, and said he would get the shoes and
hat. Then he turned to 60, but as he turned
to pass down the street 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 at the dentists, and see when he
can fix my teeth"
"Bring my shoes home from the shoems.
ker's." .a.
"Ma says be sure to tell the doctor to come
up to-day and vaccinste the baby"
Pap! Kin go swimmin iu the Hawkeye
creek" Ef
Pap, gimme FIVE cents to ride on the street
cars?"
And Mr.. Throckmorton went down town
and amazed Fred Scott by telling him to cut
of about thirteen feet of water pipe on the
bias, and he asked Mr.. Parsons to let him
have eleven skeins of cotton batting and send
him up man with tin dipper; he told DR..
Cochran, the dentist to come right up and ill
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 vaccina-
ted his little girls shoe, and amazed street
car driver by asking for bath ticket, and
when the man came around with 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 had been drinking as
bad as ever again. and hadn't drawn sober
breath all day.-Burlington Ha~keye.