The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-08-13

" SO the doctor thinks your pa has rup-
tured a blood vessel, ell, says the streetcar
driver to the bad boy, as the youngstcr was
playing sweet Oh him to get u free ride down
town.
"Well, they don't know. The doctor at
Pewaukee said pa had dropsy, until he found
the water that they wrung out of his pants
was lake water, and there was doctor on
the cars belonging to the insane asylum
when we put pa on the train, who said from
the looks of his face, sort of red and blue,
that it was apoplcxy, but horse doctor
that was down at the depot when we put pa
in the carriage 10 take him home said he was
off his feed and had been taking too much
water when he was hot, and got foundered.
o, you can't tell anything about doctors. No
two of 'em guesses alike" answered the boy
as he turned the brake for the driver to stop
the car for Sister of Charity, and then
punched the mule with iish-pole, when the
driver was looking back to see If lie couldn't
jerk her of the back step.
Well, how did your pa happen to fall
out of the boat Didn't he know the lake
was wetl
81 He had Il suspicion that il was damp,
when his back struck the water, | think.
I'll tell you how il was. When my chum
and run away to Pewaukee ma thought we
ldu boho VII w pc piiutS, anu bHc lOlu pa IL
was duty he owed to society to so and get
MS TO como back and be good. She told him
if he would treat me rs an equal, and laugh
and Joke with me, wouldn't be so bad. She
said kicking and pounding spoiled more
| boys than all the Sunday schools. So pa
| came up to our camp, about two miles up the
| lake from Powaukee, and he was Just as
good natured as though we had never had
| any trouble at all We lot him stay all night
| with MS and gave him napkin with red
| border to sleep on under tree, cause there
| was not blankets enough to go around, and
| in the morning | let him have one of the soda
| crackers | had in my shirt bosom, and liz
wanted to go fishing with Us. He said le
would show MS how to fish. SO he got
piece of pork rind at a farmhouse for bait
and put il ON hook, and we got in an old
| boat, and my chum rowed and pa and
| trolled. In swinging the boat around pas line
| got under the boat and come right up near
me. don't know what possessed me, but
took hold of pas line and gave it 'yank, and
| pa jumped 80 quick his hat went off in the
lake. STOPPER says pa, I've got q whale.
It's mean in a man to call his chubby faced
| little boy q whale, but the whale yanked
again, and pa began to pull him in. hung
on and let the line out little at a time, inst
zackly like a fish, and he pulled, and sweat
and the bald spot on his head was getting
sun burnt, and the line cut my hand, so
wound it around the oar lock, and pa pulled
| hard enough TO tip the boat over. lIo thought
he had a forty pound musculunger, and Ii,
stood up in the boat and pulled on that oar
lock, as hard as he could, ought not I,
have done it, but loosened the line from Tia,
oarlock. and whenit Stacked up pa went righ
out over the side of the boat, and struck on
his pants, and split hole in the water a,
big as n wasll-tub. His head went dow
under water, and his boot-heels hung over
in the boat. What you doin'l Diving aftel
the fish p says |, as pas head came up amd
he bowed out the water. | thought pa be
longed to the church, but he said you damid
yut. | guess he was talking to the fish
Wall, sir, my cbum took hold of pas foo
and the collar of his coat, and held him I,
the stern of the boat, and padded the boat t,
the shore, and pa orawled out and shook him
self. never had no lice n mans pants could
hold somuch water. / twas Just like whcnthel
pull the thing ON street sprinkler. Thel
pa took of his pants, and my chum and m,
took hold of the legs and pa took hold of TIA,
summer Kitchen, and we rung the water out
Pa wasn't SO sociable after that, and he Wen
back in the woods with his knife, with moth
ing ON but linen buster and neck-tie
while his pants We're drying ON a tree, to en-
4 switch, and We hollered to him that a party
! of pienieers from Lake Side were coming