Sharp County record., 1882-08-24

the cOal-scuttle 60 OIL III Vlo SlV' ouo
and mother and were to open the win.
Snws M and scream, while he got up and
''TT Tbe first night, after father had fixed
everything nicely for the robbers, ne
went to bed, and then mother told him
that she had forgotten to lock the back
door G So father he said. "Why can't
women sometimes remember some
tbino,n and he got up and started to 60
Jow1,stairs in the dark. He forgot ali
about the string, and fell over it with an
awful crash, and then began to fall
down stairs. When he got halfway
down he met the coal-scuttle, and that
went down the rest of the way with him,
and YOU never in your life heard any
thino like the noise the two OF them
made. We opened our windows and
cried murder and fire and thieves, and
some men that were going by rushed in
and picked father up, and would have
taken him off to jail, he was that dread
fully black, if l hadn't told them who he
was.
But this was not the awful time that
I mentioned when l began to write, and
if | don't begin to tell you about it, |
sha'n't have any room left on my pa
per. Mother gave diner party last
THURSDAY. There were ten ladies and
twelve gentlemen, and ont of them was
that dreadful Mr.. Martin With the cork
leo, and other improvements, as Mr..
Travers calls them. Motler told me
not to let her see me inthe dining
room. or she'd let me klow; and
meant to mind, only forgo, and went
into the dining room just to look at
the table, a few minutes betre dinner.
1 was looking at the rav oysters,
when Jane-that's the cir. that waits
on the table-said "Run, Master jim
my; here's your mother coming" Now
l hadn't time to run, so | justdived I'M
der the table, and thoughtP dstay there
for minute or two, until mcher went
out of the room again.
1t wasn't only mother that anne, but
the whole company, and they'at down
to dinner without giving me aE chance
to get out tell you it was adreadful
situation. | had only room cough to
sit still, and nearly every time[ moved
hit somebody's foot. Once ltried to
turn around, and while | was ding it |
hit my head against the tableso hard
that l thought had upset solething,
and was sure that people wouldknow |
was there. But fortunately evrybody
thought that somebody else hd jog
gled, so I escaped for that time.
1t was awfully tiresome waiting for
those people to get through diner. 1t
seemed as if they could nevr eat
enough, and when they were mt eat
ing they were all talking at one. 1t
taught me a lesson against glutony,
and nobody will ever find me sting
for hours at the dinner table. Fihlly |
made up my mind that must havsome
amusement, and as Mr.. Martin cork
leg was close by me, thought | would
have some fun with that,
There was big darnlng-needle il my
pocket, that l kept there in cae |
should want to use it for anything l
happened to think that Mr. Matin
couldn't feel anything that was don, to
his cork leg, and that it would be graf
fun to drive the darning-needle into it
and leave the end sticking out, so that
people who didn't know that his leg WIS
cork would see it, and think that lie
was suffering dreadfully, only he didn't
know it, So l got out the needle, AMI
iammed it into his leg with both hands
so that it would go in good and deep.
Mr. Martin gave yell that made my
hair run cold, and sprang up, and near
ly upset the table, and fell over his chai1
backward, and wasn't there a circus il
that dining-room! | had made amistakt
about the leg, and run the needle into
his real one.
I was dragged out from under the ia
BILE, and - But | needn't say wha
to me after that 1t was ''th'
old, old story" as Sue says when sh'
sings a foolish song about getting up a
five o clock in the morning-as if she't
ever been awake at that time in he
whole life.-Harpers Young People.