The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-31
rton Goes Shopping.

hlF' JaspeT AuroCkHlOFGou, VINO lives
out on Summer street, is the father OF
ten children. The other morning Mr..
Throckmorton was just on the point of
putting ON his hat to start for the Office.
when Mrs. Thrcckmorton called after him
from the kitchen.
'Stop at Soldiers aud tell him to come
up and fix the water pipe, and get big
tin dlpper. and bring it with you this
noon. Don't tell them to send it, they'll
forget it,"
then he put on his hat and started. As he
reached the front door his eldest daughter
shouted from p-stairs:
Shroder's aud ask MIR. Scott to give you
on the bias, to match the dress I got last
week, he'll know the kind. Bring it with
you. l don't want to wait for it,"
And Mr.. Throckmorton, pauslng with
his hand on the door, said he'd get it, and
then he sighed and opened the door. Just
then his oldest son shouted from the sitting
room:
'Father, the man was up here twice
yesterday for the money for my now boat,
aud Just gave him note to you, and
Y,
and will give you pair of oar locks and a
dip net. Bring them up with you when
you como to dinner"
Dir. Throckmorton kind of stlfled a
groan like, saying he would attend to 1t,
the porch steps his second daughter leaned
out of the window and cried:
''Oh, pal do stop at Parsons as you
pOOn n 61npar and foil fhop, fn oapJ a
man to lay the new carpet when they send
it up, and you got ten pounds of cotton
batting and bring it up with you, for we
want it right away and can't wait"
The parent paused with his hand on the
gate latch, ami with q visible effort,
promised to remember the cotton
batting, and opened the gate. But the
voice OF his youngest son from the side
yard caught his ear and held him for mo-
ment:
'tPap! no, pap! Want ten cents to pay
for winder broke in the schoolhouse,
and can't 60 to Sunday scheol until get
new hat and some shoes, and please can't
have quarter to go to the pic-nic2"
Mr.. Throckmorton silently registered q
floggng for the broken glass, negative
for the picnic, and he would got the boots
passed dewn the street his six younger
children came running after him.
.'Oh, pa! don't forget to stop and see II
the old umbrellas fixed, ma says"
''Stop at the dentists and see when he
can till my teeth"
"Brng my shoe home from the shoe
Makers"
mia says be sure and tell the doctor
to come up to day and vaccinate the
baby"
,.,c1' "Pap! Kin KIM :! 20 swimm'n' in Hawk-eye
tho street cars2"
Aud Mr.. lhrockmorton went down town
and amazed Fred Scott by telling him to
cut of about thirteen feet of water pipe,
on the bias, and he asked MIR. Parsons to
let him have glowing dozen skeins Of cotton
batting and send him up man with tin
dipper; he told Dr. Cochran, the dentist,
to come right up and FIJI the baby's teeth,
and begged the doctor to hurry right away
and put half-sole on tho schoolhouse
window; and then he ran to the shoomak-
er's and asked him If he had vaccinatcd his
little girls shoe, and amazed the street car
driver by asking him for bath ticket, and
when the man came around with tho oar
locks and dip net he told him to take thom
up and lay them IN the front hall, tho girls
would show him where. And by three
O'Clock in the afternoon it had got around
town that old Mr. Throckmorton was
drinking as hard as ever again, and hadn't
drawn sober breath all day.