Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-17

She wasn't after hair dye, cosmetics
scented soap, or any of those gimcracks
but when the druggist had finished put
ting upa prescription to cure a long.
faced boy of hacking cough, she turned
from the stove and asked:
"Do you keep drugs and medicines
and pizuns and soon2'
20, yes, we keep all such things"
sand ki-ninea"
"Yes, we have quinine."
swell, I called to see about gittin'
some pizun and some ki-nine, but dun
no So many folks have been slaugh-
tered by druggists mistakes that I'm
eanemost afraid to even ask for csmfur
gum, though I suppose can smell cam
fur gum father off than any other woman
in Michigan. Have YOU ever killed any
body by putin up morphine for bakin'
powder2"
"Never."
'Been in the business long9"
Only twenty-one years."
swell, you orter know gum 'Rabic
from sweet oil by this time, but some
men are awful keerless. I've ha a
brother pizuned by wrong medicine, and
I'm little shaky. Where is your XII.
nine2"
This is it." he replied, as he took
down the jar.
She wet her fuger, pushed it into the
jar, and then rubbed it on her tongue
"Tastes like it, but I dunno. Sure
that amt morphene9"
eyes, very sure.:'
"Sure your clerk washed the jar out
clean afore he put the ki-nine int"
20, washed it myself"
1T 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 ten Thousand dollars!''
II know it to be quinine."
We'll, then, gimme fifteen cents werta,
and 1 want down weight, too. If I'm
treated we'll, I'm a great hand to trade At
one place; but the mint I see any
stinginess or cheatin', a yoke of oxen
couldn't pull me into that store again"
= He weighed out the drug, labeled It
with great care, and then she said:
SNOW I want ten cents worth of pizua
to kill rats.
"What kind2"
"Why; the pizun, OF course. Pizua
is pizun the world over. Don't eeem IS
you were used to handling EN-"
do you want arsenic2''
'"Certainly; but you want to be pow
erful keertull I'm woman of SO, and
I've nussed the sick ever since I was a
girl, but never handle pizun without a
chill creepin' up my back. Where is
in"
He handed down the jar; and she smelt
OF the stopper, shook her head, turned
the jar around, and whispered:
"That looks a powerful sight like
cream-a-tarter!"
80, no-that's arsenic, and no mis-
lake."
"Well, I've got to take the chances,
spose. I'll take ten cents worth.
down weight. Amy one who will be
stingy sellin' pizun will be stingy in
other things, and do hate stingy per-
son. My first husband was powerful
stlngy, and he was struck by lightning"
When the pois' n had been weighed
and labelled, she carefully took up the
package and said:
"Now, then,write on this that it is to be
kept in the old china teapot, on the third
shelf in the pantry, and it's for rats: Then
write on this ki-nine that is to be kept in
the old cctfee-pot in the cupboard, and
it's for chills."
The druggist followed orders, and the
old lady put the ''pizin" in her pocket
and the ''kl.nine" in her reticule, and
went out saying, 1T may be all right,
butt dunno. lfmy old man is took off
instead of the rats, I'll begin lawsuit
next day after the funeral !"-De~oit
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