The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-06
Drinking Hard.

jasper Tmockmorton, who lives out or
Sumner street, Boston, is the father of
ten children. Recently, Mr.. Throckmor-
ton was just Oh the point vf putting on his
hat to start for the office, when Mrs.
Throckmorton called after him from the
kitchen.
stop at Soldiers, and tell him to come
up and fix the water pipe and get big, tin
dippcr and bring it with you this noon.
Don't tell them to send it, they'll forget
It,"
Mr.. Throckmorton said he would. and
then he put on his hat and started AS he
| reached the front door his eldest daughter
shouted from up stairs
"Pa! pa! pa! Go to Grcenbaum &
Schroders and ask Mr.. Scott to give YOU
two yards and a-half of brown satin, cut
on the bias, to the dress got last week.
he'll know the kind don't want to wait
for it,"
And Mr. Throckmorton, pausing with his
hand on the door said he would got 1t,
and then sighed and opened the door.
Just then his oldest son shouted from the
sitting room:-
'Father! the man was up here twice yes
terday for the money for my new boat,
and [ just gave him a note to you, and
he'll call at the office to day for his money,
and will give gu a pair of patent oar
locks and a dip net. Bring them mp with
you when you come to dinner"
Mr.. Throckmorton kind of stiilcd a groan
like, and saying he would attend to it,
went out. AS lie passed down the porch
step his second daughter leaned out of the
front window and cricd:-
''Oh, pa; do stop at Parsons as you
nn to n,,l knn
man to lay the new hall carpet when they
send it up, and you get ten pounds of cot
ton 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, and with visablc effort prom
ised 70 remember and bring up the cotton
batting, ard opened the gate. But the
voice of his younger son from the side
yard, caught his car and held him mo-
mcnt:-
"Pap, oh pap! Want ten cents for a
winder broke in the school house, and
can't go to Sunday school till get new
hat and some shoes, and please can't have
quarter to 60 to the picnic2"
Mr.. Throckmorton silently registered a
fioggng for the broken glass, a negative
for the picnic, and said he would get tho
boots and hat. Then he turned TO 20, but
as he passed down the street his six younger
children came running after him.
ooh, pa, don't forget to stop and SEQ if
the old umbrellas fixed, ma says"
stop at the dentists and see when he
can fill my teeth"
s'Bring my shoe home from the shoe
Makers"
"Ma says be sure to tell the doctor to
come up to-day and vaccinate tho baby!"
.Pap! Kin! 60 swimming in Hawkeye
Krick tonight" ..:~a.
''Pa, oh, pa! gimme me five cents TO ride
on the street cars2" e.
And Mr.. Throckmorton went down
town and amazed Fred. Scott by telling
HIM to cut off thirteen feet of water pipe,
on the bias, and he asked Mr. Parsons to
let him have eleven dozen skeins of cot
ton batting and send him up man with a
tin dipper; he told DR.. Cochran, the den
tist, to come right up and fill the baby's
teeth, and begged the doctor 10 hurry right
away and put half-sole on the school
house window, and then ran to to the shoe
makers and asked him if he had vaccin-
atcd his little girls shoe and amazed a
strect-car driver by asking him for bath
ticket, and when the man came around
with the oar-locks and dippcr he told him
to take them up and lay them in the front
hall-the girls would show him where
And by three in the afternoon it had got
all around that, old Throckmorton was
drinking as hard rs ever again and hadn't
drawn q sober breath all day.