The Dawson journal., 1883-03-08
BY U, L, WESTON & GO.

one joint 50 you can pull the stove
all around the room and warm any
particular place. Well, sir, to
hear pa tell about it,you'd think he'll
revolutionize the county, and may
be twill when he. gets it perfect
ed, but he came near burning the
house up, and scared US half to
death this morning, and burned
his shirt off, and he is all covered
with cotton with sweet oil on it, and
he smells like salad dressing.
You see pa had a pipe made and
some castors put on our coal stove,
and he tied rope to the hearth of
abe stove and had me to put in some
kirdling wood and coal last night, so
he could draw the stove up to the
bed and light the fire without getting
up. Ma tot him L9 would put his
foot in it. and he told her to drv up,
and let him run the stove b siness.
He said it took man with brain to
run patent right, and ma she pulled
the clothes over her head and let ia
do the fire act. She had been build
ing he fires for twenty years, and
thought she would let pa see how
good it was. Well, pa pulled the
stove to the bed, and touched off the
kindling wood. | guess maybe 1 got
a bundle ofsskindliug-wood that the
hired girl had put kerosene on,
caused it blazed up awful and smok
ed, and the blaze bursted ont 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 I
threw a 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 SIS
royalty on that stove and take the
casters off and let it remain stationa.
ry Pa says he will make it work if
he burns the house down. / think
it was real mean in pa TO get mai at
ine because threw cold water on
him instead of warm water, to put
his shirt out. II I had waited until
lcould heat wat'-r to the right TEN
perature | would have been an or
phan and pa Soald have been burnt
Offering. Bat some men always
kick at everything. Pa has given up
business entirely, and says he shall
devote the remainder of his life cur
ing himself of the different troubles
that l get him into. He has retained
a doctor by the year, and he buys
liniment by the gallon
"What was it about your folks
getting up iii the night to eat ? The
hired girl was over here after some
soap the other morning, and she
said she was going to leave your
house"
"Well, that was picnic Pa sill
he wan ed breakfast earlier than we
was III the habit Of having It, and he
said might see to ii that the house
was awake early enough. The other
night / awoke with The awfulest
pain you ever htard of. 1t was that
night that you give me and my chum
the bottle of picked oysters that had
begun to work. Well, l couldn't
sleep, and l thought | would call the
hired girls, aud they got 0p and got
breakfast, 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, aud pa yawn-
ed and said it made man feel good
to get up and get ready for work be-
fore daylight, the way he used 10 do
ON the farm, and ma she yawned and
agreed with pa, cause she has to, or
have a row. After breakfast we sat
around an hour, and pa said it was
a long time getting daylight, and
and bineby he looked at his watch.
When he begun to pull out his vach
l lit out and hid in the store room,
and pretty soon | heard pa and ma
came upstairs and go to bed, and
then the hired girls they went to
bed, and when it was all still and the
pair had stopped Inside ofmy clothes
l went to bel, and [ looked to see
what tine 1t vas, ald it was two
O'Clock in the morning We got
dinner at eieht O'clock in the morn
ing, anl "a said he. guessed he'd call
up the hoase after this. 80 l have lost
another job, and it was all on ac-