Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-01-02
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A LITTLE BROWN DOG.

IN the large grocery OF Rice, Cloves ~ Go
| Il don't mean the the brown dog, blt llar
ry Jacklowl, and he earned just two dol
lars Il week.
Sixty cents Of this went for ear fare
he lived so far from the store that he wa
obliged to ride to and from it--and th
rest TO lis mother, who, with that and til,
eight dollars week she received from tn,
cloak factory where she worked, support
ed herself, her children--IIauy, twclv.
years Of age, Eddie, sever, and Jennie
two--and Mr.. JacklOw.
Mr.. Jarklow was her husband, and thO
less said about him the better. I'll mere
~ state that he could sit in a rocking
char and smoke and think longer thai
any man ever knew.
But besides this two dollars IL week
Harry, who was Il brightcycd, willing
whlstlng chap sometimes got il two o.
live cent piece, Or, more rarely, dime
from his employers customers when, tn,
grocers wagons being overloaded or tn,
customers in great hurry, he carrlrc
home their purchase for them. And i
was this money he had been saving eve
since the first Of January, for the pwposD
Of having good time on the next holl
day.
On Christmas day they had a real ME,
time at hl5 house. Us boss had given
HIM two dollars, and tine superintendent
of the place where his mother worked ha'
given her one, and somebody lthry In,
never found out whOl had sent them {
| large turkey. and the drps,waker down
,tars had put large boS OF tools in Ed
dlc' $ Stoclung-dnar me! what nm | say
ing! she couldn't have done that; meant
to say she had given Ned a box of tool.
and Jennie doll, in the name Of SAINT.
CIaus---and Harry had prcsrntrd his mann
ma with Il new conce-pot, and his mamm,
presented linn with y wooIcn comforter
and Il pair Of wooIrn glovcS,lnd Mr.. Jack
low h4d bought himself Il new pipr; mO
when Harry saw how happy they all were
he quickly made up llI' mind to give then
Il party ON the very next holiday, whicl
wonId be the Fourth OF July.
1t was the third Of July when my story
commences, and Harry had kept his rc.o
luton Of saving every penny outside Of hi'
wages. He had had to pass many hear
ofr1sy apples without glancjng at thrm
RIM away from many peanut stands, fore
himself not to look into the tempting
windows of the candy stores, and 90 by
ON the other side when he knew him
self near Il wcll-known bakery, to do so;
hut he had done 50, and now his rcwar,
was near,
The house in which he lived was an old
fashioned one in IN uptown street. \
quarter Of Il century ago i. had been .
small farmhouse, surrounded by mead
ows, but now it had Il large tenement
house on each side, and a whole row o.
brick buildings in front of it. Bat on,
splendid old oak tree still stood before tn,
door" Bully TO tack pin-whrrls on, " sal,
Harry to himself, and there was any num-
bcr Of children around to cry "Ohi" an,
"Ah!" as the fireworks went of. hay,
always noticed that when Il boy is setting
off fireworks, the mora ah-ing
and oh-ing there Is, the brighter the fire
works look to that boy. Wen, Harry haC
laid on; the supper in his mind as follows:
Ice cream. whole quart. twelve cent
sponge cake. five sticks Of moIasscs candy
pitcher Of lemonade, apple pie. half +
pound Of cheese and some baked potatoc,
MIR. Jacklow liked baked potatoes. Anc
e meant to get his mother and the rest o
them out of the room and send them down
to visit the dressmaker, (who at the last