Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-05
ANOTHER ONE ON THE DOCTOR.

Doctor Light has had more trouble He
went to the Catholic picnic at Arcade Grove.
His party was made up of himself, G. w.
Rapp and family and T. A. Hornblower and
family. They took with them lot of pro-
visions, among them being big cake, bot
| tie of whisky and some ready-cooked eggs
The Doctor for his contribution brought
that transforms the machine into gun. The
company of temporary emigrants squatted on
bit of land beneath an outrageous oak, and
Hornblower as a lawyer advising that by
possession only could the ground DE held
against trespassers, the Doctor and his long
tailed pistol were detailed as guard, while
the, others went to the platform to
shake hoof in the may Dance
No one knows what happened to the Doctor
that led him to relax that vigilance with
which guard on duty should be filed to
the brim Anyhow he came to the realiza-
ton, after time, of the fact that some
rougish boys had put up and executed a job
on him by slipping up to the camp, and,
sheltered by pile of old brush, had alb.
stracted the cake, the eggs and the whisky.
Then the Doctor in his wrath went on the war
path. With the endless pistol in one hand
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secured the grounds and presently discovered
the mschievous youngsters in bit of under
growth splitting their faces open with wedges
OF cake, and breaking the eggs prepare
tory to dessert to be washed down
by the liquor He commanded sur
render, and compelling his prisoners to bear
the remains of their ill-gotten trophies.
he marched them at the pistols mouth back
TO camp, just in time to meet his returning
companions. He arraigned the boys for trial,
appointed Hornblower Judge Advocate, and
Rapp as the Court, and stood by ready to
execute the sentence. The unusual scene,
and the selections from Solomon's songs and
other books of the Bible which the Doctor
threw about indiscriminately, drew crowd
that was full of merriment, and naturally
took sides with the boys just for the fun of
the thing. Finally some one suggested to the
little fellows that, combined, they might
show citizen Light lively fight, whereupon
the latter became suddenly in favor of peace,
and discharged the prisoners Internationally
But one of the boys, full of the old Nick,
capade with one of the rodentia family,
cried out ''rats!" and then the Doctor, who
enjoys good joke if tisn't carried too far, lost
his balance, and clapping the tail to his pis-
tol again, swore by the blue sky above and
the green earth beneath that he was able,
could, would and proposed at once then and
there, to anihilate and bury the possible re-
mains of man, woman or child, great small
or many, who even whispered the word "rat,n
or shaped his or her lips into the similitude of
an attempt to begin to murmur anything
about that miserable fabrication which lying
and accursed reporter had concocted concern
ing the legs of his pantaloons as a habitation
for rodent mammals and in the midst of his
anathema the boys ran away, the crowd
broke up with cheer, Hornblower cut up
what cake there was left. Rapp opened the
whisky, and the lot sat down to lunch in
merry humor. Even the Doctor, his native
good humor returning, took in the ludicrous-
ness of the situation and laughed heartily
over the adventure, as he called to memory
that he was boy himself once; while
Hornblower related graphically his youthful
suspension on fence palipg one night when
he went on predatory watermelon excursion.
and Rapp recalled the methods he used to
employ when sprouting youth to harvest
the earliest crop of peaches in the entire
neighborhood.