The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-11
A Family Mans Troubles.


Jasper Throckmorlon, who lives on
Summer street, is the father of ten chill
dren. Yesterday morning Mr.. Throck.
morton 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 and fix the water-pipe, and gel
q big tin dipper and bring it home with
you this noon. Don't tell them TO send
it, they'll forget it,"
Mr.. Throckmorton said he would, and
then he put OH his hat and started. As
he reached the front door his eldest
daughter shouted from up-stairs:-
'Pa! pa! pa! Go to Grecnbaum &,
Schrodcr's and ask Mr.. Scott to rive vo,,
two yards and half of brown satin. cut
on the bias. to the dress got last weel, :
he'll know the kind. [ don't want To
wait for it." "
And MIR. Throckmorton, pausing with
his hand on the door, said he would pet
it, and then sighed and opened the door.
Just then his oldest son shouted from
the sitting room:-
rather! the man was up here twice
Yesterday for the money for nv now
boat, and just gave him note to YOU.
and he'll ca ii at the Office to-day for his
money and will give you pair OF
patent oarlocks and dip-nct. Bring
them:up with you when you come to
dinner
Mr.. Throckmorton kind Of stiflcd n
9roan like, and saying he would attend
to it went out. AS he passed the porch
step his second daughter leaned ont of
the front window and cried: =
"Oh, pa; do stop at Persons as Won
come to dinner, and tell them to send n
man to lay the new hall carpet whe,,
they send it up, and you get len ponnds
of cotton batting and bring it M with
you, Tor 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 and bring up the
cotton1 batting,l and opened the gate.
But the voice of his younger son from the
side yard caught his ear and held him q
moment:-
"Pap, oh pap! Want ten cents to pay
tor winder L broken in the school
house, and l can't go to Sunday-school
till get new hat and some shoes, and
please can't have quarter to 90 TO
the picnicW
Dir. Throckmorton silently registered
a ifogging for the broken glass, a mega.
tive ior.the picnic, and said ho would
get the boots and hat. Then he turned
to go, but as he passed down the street
his six younger children came running
after him:
"Oh, pa, don't forget to stop and sec
If the old umbrellas fixed, ma saws"
"Stop at the dentists and see when
he cansfll myiteeth.v
Bring my shoes home from the shoe.
maker's".
"Ma says be sure to tell the doctor TO
come up to-day and vaccinatc the
baby"
"Pap. Kin go swimming in Hawk.
eye Krick to night?"
"Pa, oh, pa! gimme five cents to ride
on the street carsy'
And Mr.. Throckmorton went down
town and amazed Fred Scott by tellino
him to cut off thirteen feet OF water
pipe, on the bias, and he asked Mr.
Parsons to let him have eleven dozen
skeins of cotton batting and send him mn
man with tin dipper: he told DR..
Cochran, the dentist, to come RIGHT nm
ana I'LL the babys teeth, and begged the
doctor to hurry right away and put a
half-solc on the school-housc window
and then ran to the shoemaker's and
asked him if he had vaccinated his little
glrPs shoe, and amazed the street-car
driver by asking him for bath-tickct,
and when the man came around with
the oar-locks and dipper he told him to
take them up and lay them in the front
hall-the girls would show him where
And by three in the afternoon it had
got all around that old Mr.. Throckmor-
ton was drinking as hard as ever again,
ana hadn't drawn sober breath ali
day Burlington Harkeye.