Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-26
COAsTING.
Sanscript RecaHs Recolleetions.


The boys were coasting down Sycamore
street Hill last evening when John San
script and his wife came along. They had
been up on Baltimore street visiting, and
were on their way home.
Gust See them boys, now said John, as
he braced up at the intersection of Null
berry street. ''It really reminds me of the
days when was lad. Do You know. Jane.
that I used to coast down hill on sled that
ways''
ibid you, John?"
.Why, yes: but that's fifty years ago!''
Sanscript scratched his head contempla-
lively, and then muttered, soto cocce: s:Durn
my grandaddy'a buttons, if don't try it!''
Try what, dear?" anxiously asked
Mrs. S.
"I'm going to coast just once, to revive
recollections of fifty years ago.
'sNow, John if were you
s.But you not me, SO don't interfere.
up the bill with his sled] "Rere, sonny,
on your sled once.''
The bargain was eagerly nailed and
clinched.
Y,
Sanscript squatted rather awkwardly on the
sled; ''be keerful, say, and don't let her
funk one way or 'tother till she brings up
or you'll git mashed
"Never mind, younker," assured John;
GIVE been here afore-some years afore,
but"
But what will never be known, for lust
then the sled, of its own accord, started down
hill, and even John himself has not since
been able to recall what he was about to OBJ
serve. The surprise at the sled's unexpected
movement was general.
"Look out!'' yelled the boy.
"Oh, Johnw screamed Mrs. Sanscript.
"Whoa, there!'' yelled John.
But the sled wouldn't whoa. 1t seemed
to have set off down that hill to beat its best
time. John had chance only to clutch hold
OF both sides and hold his breath for fear
the wind would blow eff the top of his head.
The only thought he a,.d time to foster was
that the boy must have creased the sled's
runners as practical joke. And if this was
coasting, he had never coasted, if his recol-
lection served him right
Two-thirds way down the hill the sled
struck an ice hummock, and Immediately his
course was changed to parabolic curve.
Whack! bang. crasn clink!
The bringing up was awfully sudden and
uncertain Sanscript and the sled disap-
Peared as abruptly as shooting star. The
latter lay shivered.. to atoms against lamp
post, and Sanscript lay shivering in the
grocery cellar just opposite. When the off
runner of the sled collided with tho lamp
post and stopped the vehicle, Sanscript
rose like a circus leaper and went right on
turning twenty somersaults to the second.
lie went through the grocery window as the
clrcus-leaper goes through a paper hoop. All
the gingerbread horses and candy apples
and other Christmas luxuries were disar-
ranged, of course. The rubbery part of
Sanscripps body struck a Western Reserve
cheese on the counter, scattering the skip
pers IN CONSERVATION. The old coaster
bounced tive feet at an obtuse angle, touch
ing again for a second at the top step Of the
cellar stairs in the rear of the store, and
then, continuing like diver into the
most through the head of hogshead filled
with something soft. AT first he was I'M
certain whether the contents were Orleans
molasses or melted glucos. Before he had
time to investigate the grocer and two po-
icemen came down. The unhappy old boy
was lifted out of his sweet pickle and hauled
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malicious destruction of property. The
grocer appeared soon after, and compro-
missed, upon John paying the following bill:
Window sash Sl0 On
Crushed cheese. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 70 90
Hogshead molasses. MISUNDERSTANDING s 20
Christmas goods ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. | 16
iotai. .................:.. ST. 36
Then the boy came in with bill Of IS
for his sled, to say nothing OF the loss of a
suit of clothes, a surgeons bill for plastering
sandry skinned surfaces, and the bill of q
hickman who conveyed the fainting wife
home. In the cooler moments of after
thought Sanscript reckoned it up and dis
covered that it had cost him $1O97S to re-
call rscollections OF fifty years ago, and re-
CURED but one minute and five seconds of
old father time in which to do the recollect-