The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-25
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"You see, ma was eppointed a com.
mittee to fix up a grabbing" sail the
pad boy to the grocery man. ''Me and
my chum were digging halt that nift,rb. nfrb
ing to 60 fishing, when pa came Out md
sald, Nhennery l don't believe anything
but hard work 'willreform you. / wait
you 70 spade up the ground under the
curranS pushes. asked him II he
wanted O hump-backed, dis6gured boy
made go by hard work. Pa said he
would risk tho hump, and told me to
P,tch IN, aud then went down town
MY chum said 'ho would help me. and
me and him got the job done before two
O'CLOCK. When we got done I came in
ana toond ma had finished the grab. .bao
ana had it all loaded, with the tor tor
1lestened with puckering string, and
hung on the back Of chair. Ma was
upstairs getting her Sunday clothes on.
TO go to the sociable, 30 it didn't take
me and my ehum long to erpty the bag
ana get 1irst choice. Then 1 got our
mouse trap and took it to the barn, and
caught two nice big fat mice and
put 'em In collar. box with holes ont in
1t TO give EN- air, and dropped that in
the bag. Then my chum Remembered
n big swapping turtle he had in the swill-
barrel, and me aud him got that and
wiped it as dry as we could, and tied
1t oil up but its head and put that IN
Just as the deacon's hired man came to
take the bag over to tho sociable. Me
ana my ohum went down to his house
and waited till the people got over tc
the soclable and then we went over and
got up in tree where we could SEQ
that was going on. Pa, he stood over
by the bag and shouted, Ten cents q
grab; don't let any body be backward
in good cause Three or four had
put up their ten cents and made ereb
when an old maid from Oshkosh, who
had been to the springs for Mysteries,
got in her work on the collar boy
When she got the cover off, one of the
mice that knew his business. iumped on
her shoulder and crawled down her
neck, and the other dropped down on
the floor and started around to meet tho
other one. You'd dide to seen her flop
and scream, The deacon's folks thought
1t was another attack of hysteria. and IN
and the deacon got her on the sofa and
held her while they poured paregoric
and cayenne pepper down her. When
she got loose she screamed all the harder.
Then ono of the other women see tho
mouse and got up in chair and shook
her skirts. Just then the bottom of the
chair broke and let her fall over on me-
and tore her bangs all down. Ma called
her hateful thing and told her she
ought to be ashamed of herself Finally
they got things in order, but no one
wanted to tackle the bag, and as here
was where the profits came in, pa bracel
up and said ho'd like to know why every
body acted SO 'spicious, he'd like to see
grab-bag that would give him the hys
terics, and said women are always get
+ tim scared Mt nothin'.' Ho then put
down ton cents and jammed his hand
way down in the bottom of tho bag, but
he didn't keep it there long. He gave
Jump and ynnked his hand out, YELL
ing thunder Then he swung it over
his head to shake it off, and brought It
down on the deacon's head, and smashed
his specs. Then he swung it tho other
way, and struck the woman president of
the sewing society in the stomach and
knocked. her down in tho deacon's lap.
A.. pa had hollered himself hoarse,
and thumped half the people in the
room, the turtle let 60, and pa said he
could lick the man that put that steel
trap in the grab-bag.' Then pa and mo
got mad. and everybody began to jaw,
and they all went home. I guess pa
won't have a hump backed boy, but IN
get even with him, you just sec if l
DON'T"
And the boy went out and took sign,
Warranted Fresh," from the fruit
stand, and hung it on blind horse that
wss hitched to a garbage wagon in front
Of the store.