The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-14
His Pa Is Nishiated.

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bad boy Of the grocery man, as be
went to the shelf and took ont long
place of cinnamon bark to chew.
"Why, yes, of course am. hut
what set you to thinking of that p
asked the grocery man, as be went
to the desk and charged the boys
father with a half pound of
cinnamon.
"Well, do the goats bunt when you
nishitiate fresh candidate ?"
mo, of course not. The goa s
are cheap ones. that have no life
and we muzzIe them, and put pillows
over their heads, SO they can't hurt
anybody" says the grocery man as
he winked at a brother Odd Fellow
who was seated on sugar barrel,
looking mysterious. but why do
you ASK"
so, nuthin, only l wish me and
my chum had muzzled our goats
with pillow. Pa would have
enjoyed his becoming a member of
our lodge better. You see. pa had
been telling us how much good the
Masons and Odd Fellers did, and said
We ought to try and grow up good
so We Guild jine the lodges when We
got big, and | asked pa if it would
do any hurt for US to have a play
IN my room, and purtend to nisbiate,
and pa said it wouldn't do any hurt.
He said it would improve our minds.
and learn us to be men. SD my
chum and me borried a goat that lives
in a livery stable. Say, did you
know they keep a goat in a livery
stable so the horses went get
sick They get used to the smell Of
the goat, and after that nothing
can make them sick but glue
factory. l wish my girl boarded
ia a livery stable, then she would get
used to the smell. / went home
with her from church Sunday night.
AND THE SMELL OF THE GOAT
ON my clothes made her sick to her
stummick, and she acted just like an
excursion Oh the lake, and said if !
didu't go and bury myself aud take
the smell our Of me she wondn't go
with me again. She was just as pale
as ghost. and the Precipitation OIL
her lip was just zif she had been hit
bv street sprinkler. You see nv
chum and ME had to carry the goat
up to my room when ma and pa was
out riding, and he blatted so we had
to tie a handkerchief around his nose,
and his feet made such noise on the
floor that We nut some baby's socks on
his feet. Cos 4, how frowsv goat
smells, don't il? / should think you
Masons must have strong stummix.
Why don't you have a skunk or a
mule for trade mark? Take mule,
and annoint it with limburg cheese
and you could initiate and make a
candidate smell just as bad as with a
gosh Galh widowed goat. Well, sir,
my chum and me practiced with that
goat until he could bunt picture of
a goat every time. We borried a
buck beer sign from saloen man, and
hung it on the back OF a chair, and
the goat would hit it every time. That
night pa wanted to know what we
were doing up in my room, and 1 told
him We were playing lodge, and i'm
proving our minds. and pa said that
was right, there was nothing that did
boys Of our age half s" much good as
to initiate men, and store by useful
nollidge. Then my chum asked pa if
he didn't want to come up and take
the grand bumper degree. and pa
LATED and said he didn't care if he did
just to encourage us boys in innocent
pastime, and that was so improving to
our intellex.
WE HAD SHUT THE GOAT UP IN A
in my room, and he had got over bla.-
ting, so We took off the handkerchief,
and he wss eating some of my paper
collars. and skate straps. We went
up stairs, and told pa to come up
pretty soon and give three distinct
raps, and when we ked him who
comes there be must say, "A pilgaric
who wants to join your ancient order
and ride the goat. Ma wanted to
come up too, but we told her if she
came i'm it would br" * up the lodge,
cause woman couldn't keep secret.
and we didn't have any side saddle for
the goat. Say, if you never tried it,
the next time you nishiate man in
your Msson's lodge, you sprinkle a
little kyan pepper on the goat's beard
just afore you turn him loose. You
can get three times as much fun to the
square inch of gsat. You wouldn't
think IN was tho came ooaf WILL