Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-25
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the steps 10 az uncertain sort oil a
WAY. as though he did not know whe-
ther he would be welcome or not. Il
tell you, boy, / pity you. | under-
stand your pa has got to drinking
again. II Is too bad can't think
oil anything that humiliates boy,
md makes him 30 ashamed, as TO
have father that Is 10 the habit OF
hosting In too much benzine. A boy
feels as though everybody was down
on him, and / don't wonder that
such boys often turn out bad. Wha
started your pa 10 drinking again
20, ma thinks il is losing money
on the Chicago races. You sec, pa -
treat on pointers. He don't usually
Bet unless he gets what they call
pointer, that 10. somebody tells him
= certain horse that Is sure 10 win.
because the other horses are 10 be
pulled back, he thinks q JOB has been
made up, and IL he thinks he isisside
the ring he will bet lie saysit don't
do any hurt TO bet, you win, and
he argues that man who wins lots
Of money can do great deal OF good
with 1t. He had TO walk home from
the Chicago races all the same, and
he hes been steaming over ever since.
Pa cant stand adversely. Bat guess
We have got him all right new. lie
Is the scartest man You ever saw,
and the boy took can opener and
began 10 cut the zinc under the stove
iust TO see ii it would work as well on
zinc rs on tin.
whist, you haven't been dissect-'
ing him again, have your said the
groceryman. as he pulled his stool mp
beside the boy 10 hear the news.
''How did you bring him back to his
sensess'
well. ma tried to have the minis
ter talk TO pa, but pa talked Bible
about taking little wine for the sto-
mach sake, and gave illustrations
about Noah getting full, so the minis.
ter couldn't brace him up, and then
ma had some of the sisters come and
talk TO him, but he broke them all
up by talking about what an appetite
they had for champagne puneh when
they were in camp last summer, and
they couldn't have any effect on him,
and so ma said she guessed ! would
have to exercise my ingenuity on pa
again. Ma has an idea that / have
got some sense yet, SO / told her if
she would Go just as / said. me and
my chum would scare pa
he would sweat of. She
said she would. and went TO wotk
First | took pas spectacles down TO
On opsician, Saturday night, and had
the glasses taken out aud q pair put
In their place that would magnify.
and took them home and put them
in pas spectacle case. Then / got a
suit OF clothes. My chunl's uncle Is
. very small man, aud pa is eorpu-
lent. got q plug hat three sizes
smaller than pas hat, and took the
name out Of pas hat and put 1t in the
email hat. / got shirt about hall
big enough for pa. aud put his initi.
als on the thing under the bosom.
and got Q number fourteen collar.
Pa wears . seventeen. Pa had pro-
missed 70 brace up and go to church
Sunday morning. and ma put these
small clothes where he could put
them on. / told ma. when pa woke
up. to tell him he looked awfully
bloated, and excite his curiosity, and
then send for me"
"You didn't play such q trick as
that on poor old man, did yeug''
cold the grocery man, VS. smile came
over his face.
"You bet. Desperate diseases re-
Quiros desperate remedies. Well,
ma told pc that he looked awfully
bloated, and that his dissipation was
killing him, aud all the rest Of the
family. Pa said he guessed he WASH,
bl0Ated very much. but he got up an 1
put on his spectacles aud looked Il
Almself In the glass. You'd . dido "a
- him look q himself. His face
looked - big a. two faces. through
he glasses, and his nose Was . sight.
IN looked scared, and then he held
up his hand and looked st that. His
hand looked like q ham. Just then
oame 10, and turned pale. with some
chalk upon my face. and / begun te
CRY. and ! said, 70. pa. what ailI
your You arc % swelled. up hard
u knew YOU Pa looked sick to bis
stomach. and then he tried 10 get or
The pants. ., my. Il was Ill I could
do 10 keep from laughing to see him
pull those pants on. He could JUS
ga his legs In. and when | got q shos
horn and gave L TO him, he was mad
He said Il was . mean hoy thu,
would give his Pc Q shoe horn to pul
On pants With. The pants woulda'
come around pa into ten inches, and
- said he must haye eat something
that disagreed with him, aud he laid
Il 10 watermelon. Ma stuffed hei
handkerchief in her mouth to keer
nom lsfiiing. when she see pa look
y hisself. The legs of the pants
were 90 tight pa could hardly breathe
and he turned pale. and said, Hen.
merry, your pa Is mighty sick man,
End thea me and ma both laughed,
and he said we wanted him to die so
We could spend his life insurance In
riceous living. But when pa put on
that condensed shirt, ma she laid
4ownlon the lounge and fairlyNelled,
ono I laughed till my side sched. Pa
GOT 4 over his head. and got bis
hands In the sleeves. and couldn'i
oet e either way. and no couldn',
- ~ laugh. but he could hear Us,
md no said. its darned funny, ain't
y 10 : have parent swelled up in this