The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-04-04
THE FLORIDA AaRICULTURIsT.

rs all covered with cotton with sweet
oil on, and he smells like salad dress.
ing. You see pa had pipe made
and some castors put on our coal
stove, and he tied rope to The
hearth OF the stove and made me put
in some kindling wood and coal last
night, so he could draw the stove up
to the bed and light the fire without
getting up, Ma told him he would
put his foot in it, and he told her 20
dry up, and let him run the stove
business. He said it took man
with brain 10 run patent right,
and ma she pulled the clothes over
her head and let pa do the fire act
She has been building the fires for
twenty years, and thought she would
let pa see how good it was. We'll pa
pulled the stove to the bed, and
touched off the kindling wood. /
guess maybe got bundle of kind
ling wood that the hired girl had put
keIosine on, cause it blazed up awful
and smoked, and the blaze bursted
out the doors and windows OF the
stove, and pa yelled fire, and jumped
| out of bed and rushed In and he was
the scartest man you ever see, and
you'd dide to see how he kicked
when l threw pail Of water on his
legs and put his shirt OUT. Ma did
not get burned, but she was pretty
wet, and she told pa she would pay
the five dollars royalty on that stove
and take the castors off and let it re
main stationary. Pa says he will
make it work if he burns the house
down. think it is real mean in pa
to get mad at me because threw cold
water on him instead OF warm water,
to put his shirt out. If had waited
till ! could heat water to the right
temperature would have been an
orphan and pa would have been
burnt offering. But some men ale
ways kick at everything. Pa has
given up business entirely and says
he shall devote the remainder nf his
life curing himself of the different
troubles that get him into. He has
retained doctor by the year, and he
buys liniment by the gallon"
"What was it about your folks get.
ting up in the night to eat The
hired girl was over here alter some
soap the other morning, and she said
she was going to leave your house. 4
"Well, that was a picnic Pa said
and ne slid rflaFsf fnigdt see to It
that the house was awake early
enough. The other night | awoke
with the awfulest pain you ever
heard OF. 1t was that night that you
give me and my chnm the bottle of
picked oysters that had begun TO
work. Well, couldn't sleep, and
thought would call the hired girls,
and they got up and got breakfa fast to
going, and then raped on pa and
mas door and told them the breakfast
was getting cold, and they got up
and came down. We eat breakfast
by gas light, and pa yawned and
said it made man feel good to get
ready for work before daylight the
way he used to on the farm and ma
she yawned, and agreed with pa,
cause she has TO or have a row. At
ter breakfast we sat around for an
hour, and pa said it was long time
getting daylight, and bimeby pa
looked at his watch. When he be-
gun to pull out his watch | lit out
and hid in the store room, and pref
ty soon I heard pa and ma come up
stairs and go to bed, and then the
hired girls, they went TO bed, and
when it was all still and the pain
had stopped inside OF my clothes, /
went to bed, and I looked to see what
time it was and it was two O'Clock in
the morning. We got dinner at eight
o'clock in the morning and pa said
he guessed he would call up the
house after this, SO | have lost an
other job, and it was all on account
OF that bottle ct picked oysters you
gave me. My chum he said he had
collie, too, but he didn't call up his
folks 1t was all he could do u get
up hisself. why don't You some>
times give away something that is
not spiled?"
The grocery man said he guessed
he knew what to give away and the
boy went out and hung up sign in
front OF the grocery, that he had
made on wrapping paper with red
chalk, which read. Rotten eggs,
good enough for custard pies, for 18
cents dozen"
know Whereof L Speak,