Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-11
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There is an Old woman on Catharine street
VINO delights TO find Case that all the doctors
nave Jailed to cure and then go to work with
Eerbs and roots and strange things and try to
effect at least an improvement. 4 few days ago
she got hold OF girl with stiff neck, and she
offered an OLD negro named Uncle Tom Kelly
MY cents to so to the woods and bring her
hornet S nest. This was 10 be STEPPED In vinegar
and applied 10 the neck. The Old man spent
several days along the Holden road, and yester-
day morning he secured his prize and brought 1t
home In a basket. When he reached the Central
Market be had few little purchases to make,
ana aver getting some tea at a grocery he
placed bis basket on barrel near the stove and
went out to look 70 a beef bone.
II was Gull cay for trade. The grocer sat
by the stove rubbing his bald head. Hts clerk
stood at the desk balancing accounts and three
or four men lOunged around talking about the
new party that is to be founded on The ruins OF
democracy. 1t was serene hour. One hun
dred ana nfty hornets had gone to roost In
that nest for the winter. The genial atInos-
phere began to timber them up. One old vete-
ran opened his eyes, rubbed his legs and said 1t
was the short st winter he had ever known In
all his hornet days. second shook Off his
lethargy and seconded the motion, and In i've
minutes the whole nest was alive and Its own
erS were ready to sail out and investigate. You
don't h@ve to hit hornet with the broadslde of
an axe to make him mad He's mad all over all
the time, and he doesn't care q picayune
whether he tackles humming bird or an ele-
plant
The grocer was telling one Of the men that
he and Gen. Grant We're boys together when
he gave sudden start OF surprise. This was
followed by several other starts. Then he
jumped over barrel OF sugar and yelled Ike
pawnee. Some smiled, thinking he was after d
1unny climax, but 1t was only a minute before
solemn Old farmer jumped three feet high
and came down to roll over a job lot OF wash
boards. Then the clerk ducked his head and
made rush for the door. He didn't get there.
One OF the other men who had been looking up
and down TO see what could be the matter, felt
suddenly called upon to so home. He was 60
Ing at the rate OF forty miles an hour when he
collided with the clerk and they rolled on the
floOr. There was no use to tell the people In
that store to move on. They couldn't tarry, to
save EN-. They all felt that the rent was too
high, and that they must vacate the premises.
A yell over by the cheese. box was answered by
a War-WhOOp from the showcase. A howl
from the kerosene barrel near the back door
was answered by Wild gestures around the
show window.
The crowd went out together. Uncle Tom
was just coming in with his beef bone. When a
larger body meets smaller one the larger body
knocks 1t into the middle OF next week. The
old man laid around In the slush until every
body had stepped on him all they wanted to,
and then he sat up and asked:
"Hev dey got de fab all put out yit?"
Some OF the hornets sailed out OF doors to fall
by the wayside, and others waited around on
tered. 1t was half an hour before the last one
was disposed OF, and then Uncle Tom walked
in, picked up the nest and said:
"Mebbe dis Will cure de stiffness in DAT gals
neck, jist de same, but tell you Tze got banged
an bumped, an sot down On till it Will take
hull medical college all winter long to git me SO
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