Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-18
HE Is roo HEALTHY.

.i Lhere' l knew yea would get into
louoie' saiu the grocery man to the bad
poy' as Policeman came along leading him
ny 1he ear, the boy having an empty cham-
payne bottle In one hand, and black eve.
what has he been doing, Mr.. Police.
man asked the groceryman. as the police
man halted with the boy in front of the
store.
Wen, was going by house up here
wneE TINS kid opened the door with quart
Dottle OF champagne, and he cut the wire
ana hred the cork at another bow. and the
champagne went all over the sidewalk. and
some or 1t went on me, and knew there
was something wrong, cause champagne is
TOO expensive to waste that way. and he
SAID he was running the sheebanp and If I
would bring him here You would saw he
was all right. Ityou say so will let him
Inc grocery man said he had better let
the boy 60, as his parents would not want
their little pet locked up. So the police
man let go his ear, and he throwed the
empty bottle at coal wagon, and after the
policeman had brushed the champagne off
his coat, smeiled of his fingers, and started
OF, the grocery man turned to the bow
who was peeling cucumber, and said
Now, what kind OF circus have Won
been having, and what do you mean by de.
stroylng WINE that way, and where are
your folks ?"
Well, I'll tell you. Ma she has got
the hay fever and has gone to Lake Su.
perlor to see II she can't stop sneezinr, and
Saturday pa said he and me would 90 ont
TO Oconomowoc and stay over Sunday.
and try and recuperate our health. Pa said
IL would be good joke for me not to call
MIN pa, but to act as though | was bis
younger brother, ard we would have real
nice time. l knowed what he wanted.
be ls old masher, that's what's the mat.
ter with him, and he was going to play him.
self for bachelor. o, thunder, l got on to
his racket IN a minute. He was introduced
to some OF the girls and Saturday evening
he danced till the COWS come home. Al
home he is awful fraid of rheumatic, and
he never sweats, or sits in a craft, but the
water just poured off n him, and he stood
In the door and let a girl fan him till was
AFRAID he would freeze, and just he was tell
ing girl from Tennessee, who was Joking
HIM about being mold batch, that he was
not sure, as he could always hold out a
woman hater II he was to be thrown into
contact with the charming ladies of the
Sunny South, pulled his coat and said,
IA, how do you spose mas hay fever is
tonight. III bet she is just sneezing
the top OF her head eff" Wall. sir. Won
Just oug hten seen that girl and pa Pa
looked at me as if l was total stranger.
and told the porter if that freckled. lace
boot-black belonged around the house he
better be fired out of the ball room. and
the girl said the disgustin' thing, and inst
before they fred me l told pa he better
look out or he would sweat through his
liver pad. went to bed and pa staid up
till tho lights were put out. He was mad
when he came to bed, but he didn't lick
me, cause the people in the next
room would hear him, but the next
morning he talked to me. He said
l might go back home Sunday night,
and he would stay day or two. He sat
around or the veranda all the afternoon,
talking with tbs girls, and when he would
see me coming along he would look cross.
lie took girl out boat riding, and when l
asked him IT l couldn't go along, he said
he was afraid | would get drowned, and he
said If went home there was nothing
there too good for me, and so my chum and
me got to firing bottles of champagne, and
he hit me in the eye with a cork, and l
drove him out doors and was Just going to
shell his earthworks, when the policeman
collared me. Say, what's coed for black
eye?"
The grocery man told him his pa would
cure it when he got home. "What do you
think your pas object was in passing him
self of for single man at Oconomowoc ?"
asked the grocery man, as he charged up
the cucumber to the boys father.
= That's what beats me. Aside from
mas hay-fever she's one of the healthiest
women of this town. Oh, l suppose he
does it for his health, the way they all do
when they 60 to GUNNER resort, but it
leaves boy norphin, don't It, to have
such kitteny parents"