Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-02-08

THAT BAD BOY.
His Experience as Clerk In a Drue
Store.

StOTes
Said the grocery man. as he we,
up to the boy, snuffed a couple .
tunes, and then held his hand to h
nose: 1.-THE Board of Health wi
kerosene you if they ever smell til.
smell and send you to the glue factt
ry. What business you gone into t
make you smell so rank?''
"Well, you see pa began to thin
it was time l learned trade or pro
fession, and he saw a sign in a dru
store window, boy wanted and a
he had hoy he didn't want, he wen
to the druggist and got job for me
This smell on me will go off in a few
weeks. You know 1 wanted to tr,
all the perfumery in the store, ant
after ! got about forty different ex
tracts on my clothes another boy tha
worked there he fixed up a bottle ot
benzine, and assafedity, and brim.
stone, and whole lot of other horrid
stuff, and labeled it rose geranium,
and l guess L just wallered i'm it. 1,
is awful, amt it? 1t kerfiummixed
ma when l went into the dining-room
the first night got home from the
store, and broke pa all up. The air
seems fixed around where am, and
everybody seems to know 1 fixed it.
A girl came in the store yesterday to
buy satchet, and there wasn't any,
body there but me, and / didn't know
what it was, and l took down every
thing in the store pretty near, before
L found it, and then 1 wouldn't have
found it only the proprietor came in.
The girl asked the proprietor if there
wasn't good deal of sewer-gas in
the store, and he told ME to 90 out
and shake myself. Well, she told me
satchet was something for the stum-
mick, and l thought a nursing-bottle
was the nearest thing to it,
II should think you would drive
all the customers away from the
store" said the groceryman as he
opened the door to let the fresh air in.
II don't know but will, but 1 am
hired for a month on trial and | shall
stay. You see, / shan't practice on
anybody but pa for spell. 1 made
up my mind TO that when l gave a
woman some salts instead of powder
ed borax, and she came back mad.
Pa seemed to want to encourage me,
and is willing to take anything 1 ask
him to. He had a sore throat and
wanted something for 1t, and the boss
drugger told me to put some tannin
and chlorate of potash in a mortar
and grind it, and 1 let pa pound il
with the mortar, and while he was
pounding l dropped in a couple OF
drops of sulphuric acid, and it ex.
ploded and blowed pas hat cleal
across the store, and pa was whittier
than a sheet. He said he guessed
his throat was all right, and he
wouldn't come near me that day.
The next day pa came in and l was
laying for him. l took a white seid.
letz powder and blue one and dis.
solved them IN separate glasses, and
when pa came in l asked him If he
didn't want some lemonade, and he
said he did, and l gave him the soul
one and he drank it. He said it wa:
too sour, and then / gave him tn,
other glass. that looked like water, tt
take the taste out of his mouth. ant
he drank it. Well, sir, when thos,
two powders got together in pa,
stomach, and began to sis and steam
and foam, pa pretty near choked t,
death, and suds came out of his nos
trils, and his eyes stuck out, and a
soon as lie could get his breath h
yelled fire. and said he was poison
ed, and called for doctor, but
thought as long as we had a docto
right in the family there was no lis
of hiring one, SO l got a stomach
pump, and | would have had bin
bailed out in no time, only the pro
lprietor came in and told me to @
and wash some bottles and he CAV
|pa a drink of brandy, and pa said h
felt better. Pa has learned wher
we keep the liquor, and he comes i
two or three times day with pal
in his stomach. They play awf,
mean tricks on boy in drug stor,
The first day they put chunk {
something sort of blue into mortar
and told me to pulverize it and the
make it up into two grain pills. Wei
sir, l pounded that chunk all the for,
noon. aud it never pulverized it al
and the boss told me to hurry up, /:
the woman was waiting for the pill
and l mauled it till / was near
dead, and when it was time TO 90
supper the boss came and looked I'M
the mortar and took out the chur
and said: You have been poundir
all day on chunk of India rubbe
instead of bluemass Well, how d
l know: But / will get even wi
them if l stay long enough, ar
don't you forget 1t! If you have
,, prescription you want filed You con
down to the store and l win put it |
for you myself, and then you will
, sure to get what you pay for
YES" said the grocery man,
he cut off piece Of limburger chee
; and put it on the stove. to purify Il