Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-02-09

did break.
When Aunt Eliza came TO our house
the last time, she brought steam chair:
hats what she called it. though there
wasn't any steam aboutit She brought
it from Europe with her, and it was the
queereSt sort of chair. that would all
fold up, and had kind of footstool TO
it, so that you put your legs out and just
lie down in it. Well, one day it got
broken. The back of the seat fell down,
and shut Aunt Eliza up in the chair so
she couldn't get ont, and didn't she just
howl till somebody came and helped
heri She was SO angry that she said she
never wanted to see that chair again.
% and you may have it if you want it
Jimmy. for you are 4 good boy some
times when you want to be-
So took the chair and mended it.
The folks laughed at me, and said |
couldn't mend it to save my life; bur |
got some nails and some mucilage, and
mended it elegantly. Then mother let
me get some yarnish, and | vanished
the chair, and when it was done il
looked SO nice that sue said we'd keep
it in the back parlor. Now, I'm never
allowed 10 sit in the back parlor. so
what good would my chair do me? But
Sue said: - Stuff and nonsense, that
boys INDUCED now till he can't rest"
SO they put my chair in the back par
lor, just As if I'd been mending it on
purpose for Mr. Travers. | didn't say
anything more about it; but after il was
in the back parlor took out one or two
screws that thought were not needed
TO hold it together, and used them for Il
boat that was making.
That night Mr. Traverse came as
usual, and after he had talked to mother
awhile about the weather, and he and
father had agreed that it was shame
that other folks hadn't given more
money to the Michigan sufferers. and
that they weren't quite sure that the
sufferers We're a worthy object. and that
a good deal of harm was done by giving
away money to all sorts of people. Sue
said:
perhaps we had better go into the
back paT'lor; il is cooler there. and we
won't disturb father, who wants to think
about something
~ Nilt N'hi liAtp Aif'
back parlor, and shut the door. and
talked very loud at first about whole
lot of things. and then quoted down, as
they always did
l was in the front parlor. reading
Robinson Crusoe," and wishing |
could 90 and do likewise ike Crusoe,
mean; for wouldn't 20 and sit quiet
" in back parlor with Il girl, ike Mr..
Travers. not if you We're 10 pay me for
it. / can't see what some fellows see in
Sue. Tn sure if Mr.. Martin or Mr..
Traverse had her pull their hair once
the way she pulls mine sometimes, they
wouldn't trust themselves alone with
her very soon.
All at once we heard a dreadful crash
in the back parlor. and Mr.. Travers
said Good something very loud. and
Sue shrieked as if she had n needle run
into her. Father and mother and and
the cook and the chambermaid all
rushed TO see what was the matter. ~
The chair that ! had mended. and
that sue had taken away from me, had
broken down while Mr.. Travers was
sitting in it, and it had shut up like a
jackknife, and caught him 50 he
couldn't get out. Ii had caught Sue.
too, who must have run to help him:
or she never would have been in that
fix, with Mr.. Travers holding her by
the wrist. and her arm wedged in so
she couldn't pull it way.
Father managed 10 get them loose,
and then Sue caught me and shook me
till could hear my teeth rattle, and
then she ran up stairs and locked her
self up; and Mr.. Travers never offered
to help me, but only said: I'm settle
with you some day. young man and
then he went home. Bun father sat
down on the sofa and laughed, and
said to mother: