New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-18
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scented soap, or any of those gimcracks,
but when the druggist had finished
putting up q prescription to cure
1ong-faced boy Of hacking cough. she
turned from the stove and asked:
Do you keep drugs and medicines
and pizuns and so on?''
Oh, yes, we keep all such things.''
stAnd ki-nine?''
Yes, we have quinine.''
Well, I called in to see about gittin'
some pizun and some ki-nine, but 1
dunno. So many folks have been
slaughtered by druggists mistakes that
I'm eanemost afraid to even ask for
camfur gum, tho suppose can smell
camfur gum farther off than any other
woman in Michigan. Have you ever
killed anybody by putin up morphine
for bakin' powder?'
.sNever."
Been in the business longP''
Only twenty-one years.
"We1l, you orter know gum 'Rabic
from sweet oil by this time, but some
men are awful keerless. I've had a
brother pizuned by wrong medicine,
and I'm little shaky. Where is your
ki-nine?''
"This is it," he replied, as he took
down the jar.
She wet her finger, pushed it into
the jar and then rubbed it on her
tongue.
.'Tastes like it, but dunno. Sure
that amt morphinep''
"Yes, very sure"
"Sure your clerk washed the jar out
clean afore he put the ki-nine imp
Oh, washed it myself
''H this shouldn't b. 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 dol.
lars!'
II know it to be quiniue."
"Well,. then, gimme fifteen cents
worth, and want down weight, too.
If I'm treated well I'm great hand to
trade at one place, but the minnit see
any stinginess or cheatin' yoke Of
oxen couldn't pull me into that store
again.
He weighed out the drug, labeled i,
with great care, and then she said:
Now l want ten cents worth Of
1 pizun to kill rats.
"What kind?''
"Why the pizun kind, of course
Pizun is pizun the world over. Dom
seem as you were used to handling
'em.'
Do you want arsenic ?"
Certainly, but you want to be pow
erful keerful I'm woman of fifty.
nine, and I've nuss'd the sick evel
since | was girl, but I never handle
| pizun without chill creepin' up my
back. Where is it?
He handed down the jar, and sh(
smelt of the stopper, shook her head
turned the jar around and whispered
That looks powerful sight like
cream-a-tartar -
'tOh, no-that's arsenic. and no mis-
take.''
"Wel, I've got to take the chances
'spose. I'll take ten cents worth
down weight. Any one who will b<
stingy sellin' pizun will be stingy il
other things, and do hate stingJ
person. Ny first husband was power
full stingy, and he was struck by light
ming"
When the poison had been weighed
and labeled she carefully took up tn.
package and said
snow, then, write on this that it il
to be kept in the old china teapot, OF
the third shelf in the pantry, and thaI
it's for rats. Then write on this
ki-nine that it is to be kept in the ole
coffee-pot in the cupboard, and tina
/ it's for chills."
The druggist followed orders, ani
the old lady put the opium" in hel
pocket and the '.ki-nine" in her reti
Guile, and went out saying:
It may be all right, but dunno
If my old man is took off instead o.
the rats, I'll begin q lawsuit next day
after the funeral r'-Detroit Free Press