Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-05
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POOLING THE OLD MAN.

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POOLING THE OLD MAN.
"Variegated dogs" said the storekeeper,
sswhat kind of a game is that? You have
not played another Daisy trick upon your pa,
have your"
90, no it was nothing of that kind. You
know pa thinks he is smart. He thinks be-
cause he is forty-eight years old that he knows
it all, but it don't seem to me as though men
| of his age, that had sense, would let tailor
palm him off a pair of pants so tight that he
would have to use a button-hOok to button
them, but they can catch him on everything,
lust as though he was kid smoking ciga-
retts. Well, you know pa drinks some. The
night the new club opened he came home
pretty fruitful, and next day his head ached
so he said he would buy me dog if | would
90 down and get a bottle of polly nurious wa
| ter for him. You know that dye house on
Grand avenue, where they have got the four
white Spitz dogs. When went after the Pc
nurious water noticed they had been coloring
their dogs with the stuff, and I put up job
with the dye mans little boy to help me play
it on pa. They had one dog dyed pink, an
other blue, another red, and another green,
and told the boy 1 would treat him to ice
cream if he would let out one at time, when
I came down with pa, and call him in and let
another out, and when we went away to let
them all out. What wanted to do was to
paralyze pa and make him think he had got
got 'em, got the dogs the worst way.
$50, about ten o'clock, when his head got
cleared off, and his stomach settled, he chang
ed ends with his cuffs, and we came down,
and told him I knew where he could get a
splendid white Spitz dog for me for five dol
lars, and if he would get it, would never do
anything disrespectful again, and would just
set up nights to please him and help him up
stairs and get seltzer for him. So we went by
the dye house, and just as told him didn't
want anything but a white dog, the door
| opened and the pink dog came out and barked
at us, and l said that's him. and the boy
called him back. PA looked as though he had
the collie, and his eyes stuck out, and he said,
'Hennery, that's pink dog, and l said mo,
| it is white dog, pa, and just then the green
dog came out, and asked pa if it wasn't a
pretty white dog, and pa, he turned pale and
said, "why boy, that's green dog. what's
got into the dog?' told him he must be
color blind, and was feeling in my pocket for
strap to tie the dog, and telling him he must
be careful of his health or he would see some
thing worse than green dogs, when the green
dog went in and the blue dog came rushing
out and barked at us. Well, pa leaned against
tree box and his eyes stuck out like stops on
an organ, and the sweat was all over his face
in drops as big as kernels of hominy. l think
a bow ought to do everything he can to make
it pleasant for his pa, don't you? And yet
some parents don't realize what comfort a
boy u.s. The blue dog was called in, and just
as pa wiped the perspiration off his forehead,
and rubbed his eyes, and put on his specs, the
red maroon dog came out Pa acted as II he
was tired and sat down on horse block.
Dogs do make some people tired, don't they?
He took hold of my hand, and his hand trem-
bled as though he was putting gun wad in
the collection box at church, and he said, my
child, tell me truly, is that a red dog p A
fellow has got to lie little if he is going to
have any fun with his pa, and told him 1t
was white dog and l could get it for live
dollars. He Strengthened up, just as the dog
went in the house, and said, well, I'm demd,'
and just then the boy let all the dogs out ana
sicked them on cat, which run up slaae
tree right near pa, and they rushed all around
us, the blue dog going between his legs, and
the green dog trying to climb the tree, and the
pink dog barking, and the red dog standing
on his hind feet. Pa was rs weak as cat,
and told me to 60 right home with him and
he would buy me bicycle. He asked me
how many dogs there were and what was the
color of them. suppose did awfully wrong,
but told him there was only one dog and
cat. and the dog was white. Well, sir, pa
acted just as he did the night Hancock was
beat, and he had to have the doctor give
him something to quiet him (the time ne want
ed me to buy a hundred rat traps but the
doctors said never mind, | need not go.)
took him home, and ma soaked his feet and
gave him some ginger tea, and while | was
going after the doctor he asked ma if she ever
saw a green dog. That was what made all the
trouble If ma had kept her mouth shut !
would have been all right, but she up and told
him that they had green dog, and a blue dog,
and all colors of Spitz dogs down at the dyer's.
They dyed them just for an advertisement,
and for him to be quiet, and lie would feel
better when he got over it. Pa was all right
when got back and told him the doctor had
gone to Wauwatoso, and l had left the order
on his slate. lie took harness tug and used
it for breeching on me. don't think boys
pa ought to wear out harness on his son,
do YOU? He said he would learn me to play
rainbow dogs on him. lie said | was liar,
and he expected to see me wind up IN Con-
gress, No, 1 can't stay, thank you, l must
20 down to the Office and tell pa | have reform
ed, and freeze him out of circus ticket. lie
is a good enough man only he don't appreciate
a boy that has got all the modern improve
ments. Pa and ma are going to enter me in
the Sunday school. | guess III take first
money, don't you?''
And the bad boy went out with visible
limp-a look of genius cramped for want OF
opportunity.