The banner-enterprise. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1883-18??, 1883-08-16
THE BAD BOY GETS A FROG.
AND PUTS THE LITTLE JUMPER IN
HIS FA's BED.
The Old Gentleman Thinks He is Struck
with Paralysis and Yells Six Kinds OF


The Old Gentleman Thinks lie Is Struck
with Paralysis and YeIls Six Kinds OF
Murder.
"I'nc,e Ezra says pa used to play
tricks ON everybody remarked the
bad boy to the grocery man. ~ may
lie mean, but | never played jokes on
blind people, a. pa did when he was a
boy. Uncle Ezra says once there was
a party of four blind vocalists, all girls,
gave an entertainment at the town
where pa liyel, and they stayed at the
hotel where pa tended bar. Another
thing, | never sold rum, either, as pa
did. Well, before the blind vocalists
went TO bed, pa caught lot of frogs
and put them in the beds where the
girls were to sleep, and when the poor
blind girls got into bed the frogs
hopped all over them, and the way
they got out was caution. 1t is bad
inough to have frogs hopping all over
girls that can see, but for girls that are
deprived of their sight, and don't know
what anythingis, except by the feeling
of it, it looks to me like pretty tough
joke. | guess pa IS sorry now for
what he did, cause when Uncle Ezra
told the frog story, l brought home a
frog and put it in pas bed. Pa has been
afraid of paralysis for years, and when
his leg or anything gets asleep, he
thinks that is the end of him. Before
bedtime turned the conversation onto
paralysis, and told about man about
ra's age having it on the west side,
and pa was nervous, and soon after he
retired | guess the frog wanted to get
acq uainted with pa, cause pa yelled
six kinds Of murder, and we went into
his room. You know how cold frog
is. Well, you'd dide to see pa, He
laid still and said his end had come,
and Uncle Ezra asked him if it was
the end with he'd, or the feet,
and pa told him paralysis had marked
him for a victim, and he could feel
that his left leg was becoming dead.
lie said he could feel the cold, clammy
hand of death walking up him, and he
wanted ma to put bottle Of hot
water to his feet. Ma got the bottle
of hot water and put it to pas feet,
and the cork came out and paid said
he was dead sure enough, now, be-
cause he was hot in the eXtremities,
and that a cold wave was going up his
leg. Ma asked him where the cold
wave was, and he told her, and She
thought she would rub it, but she
began to yell the same kind of murder
pa did, and she said a snake had gone
up her sleeve, Then | thought it was
time to stop the circus, and / reached
up mas lace sleeve and caught the
frog by the leg and pulled it out, and
told pa l guessed he had taken my
frog TO bed with him, and | showed it
to him. and then he said did it, and
boy that would do such thing
would 60 to perdition as sure as
preachin', and l asked him if he
thought man who put frogs in tie
beds with blind girls, when he was II
boy, would get to heaven, and then he
told me to lite out, and lit. | guess
pa will feel better when Uncle Ezra
goes away, cause he thinks Uncle Ezra
talks too much about old times. Well,
here comes our baby wagon, and
guess pa has done penancc long enough,
and | will 60 and wheel the kid awhile
Say, you call pa in, after take the baby
wagon, and tell him you don't know
how he would get along without such
a nice hey as me, and You can charge
it in our next months bill" ,"-Pech's
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