Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-04-15
Plum AND kI.nlHE.
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She wasn't altar hair-dys. cosmetics.
scented soap or any OF those jimcracks,
but vhsn ths, druggist had finished put
ting up . prescription TO cure Q long
faced boy Of . ahacking cough. she turned
from thsistovs and asked
"Do you keep drugs and medicines
and pixuns and 80 on -
"oh..yss. ws.k.ep. all such things"
"And ki.nins ?" -
"Yss. We have quinins.
"wsll. called In to see about eittin
some pizun and ki.nine. but I dunno.
80 many folks have been slauR by
druegistsl mistakes that I'm eanemost
AFRAID to TO ask for camfur gum, tho l
suppose oan smell camfur gum farther
than any other women in Michigan.
Have you ever killed any body by putting
up morphins.for bakin' powder ?"
Never"
"Bssa in.,hs business lonsf
"0nly tvsnty.ons years.
"wsli. you ortsr know gum 'Rabic
from sweet lie BY this time. but some
men are awful kssrless. I've had
brother pizunsd BY wrong medicine, and
I'm .. little shaky. :. Where is your
ki.nins,'
"This is It," he replied as he took
down the jar.
She vet her finger. pushed II into the
jar. and rubbsn it on her tongue.
"Tastes like IL. but I dunno. Sure
that ain't morphinei" rt
YES. very sure"
"surs your clark washed the jar out
clean afors he put tho ki.nine inl''
"0h. washed II myself"
"N this shouldn't be ki.nine you'd
have the Law put to you the worst kind.
We've got money In the bank. and we'd
never settle for no $4,000"
"I know II to be quinins.'
"wsll. then. gimme fifteen cents
worth. and I want down weight. too.
II I'm treated we'll I'm great hand TO
trade ct one place. but the miunit zee
any stinsiness or ehsatin. . yoke Of
Oxen eouldn't pull me into that store
again"
He weighed out the drug. labelled Il
with great care. and then shs said:
Nov I wan: ten cents worth OF pizsn
TO kill rats
"what kindi'
"why the pixun kind OF course.
Pixun 10 pixun the world over. Don't
seem 40 you was used TO handling 'sm. ="
do you want arsenicp"
"Certainly. but you want to be pow
srful kssrful. I'm woman OF City. and
I've nuss'd the sick ever since was .
girl. but never handle pizun without .
chill creepin' up my back. Where Is
iti"
He handed down the jar and she smelt
OF the stopper. shook her head. turned
the jar around and whispered:
"Thst looks . powerful sight like
cream-a-tartsr T.
"oh. no-that's arsenic and no mis-.
take"
"wsll. I've got to take chances. l
s'poss. I'll take ten cents worth
down weight. Any one who will be
stingy ssllin' pizun will be stingy in
other things. and | DO hate . stingy per-
son. My first husband was powerful
stipgy. and he was struck by lightning"
When the poison had been weighed
and labelled shs carefully took up the
package and said:
"Now. then. write on this that IL 10
TO be kept in the old chine teapot. on
the third shelf In the pantry. aud that
it's for rats. Then write on this ki-
nine thai IL is to be kept in the old
cofYee-pot in the cubbud. and that it's
for chills."
The druggist followed the order. and
the old lady put the opium" In her
pocket and the "ki.nine" in her rsti.
Gale. and went out saying;
eli may Be al right. bat I dunno. IL
my old man 10 took OF instead Of the
rats. I'll begin lawsuit neIt day after
the funeral p