Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-12
he QUITS TIE DEUG BUSINESS.

here for says the grocery man to
the bad boy one morning this week.
1t is after nine O'Clock. and | should
think you would want to be down to
the drug store How do you know
but there Will be somci'. :. living for
a dose of pills"
20, darn tho drug 81; ~. | have
got sick of that business, and | have
dissolved with tho ,irugger. l have
resigned. The policy Of tho store
did not meet with my approval, and
| have stepped ont and am waiting
for them To come and tender ne "a
better position at an increased sal
ary," said the boy. as he threw Il
cigar stub into a barrel of prunes and
lit fresh one.
"Resigncd. EN-" said the grocery
man as he tshed out the cigar stub
and charged the boys father with
two pounds OF prunes. Didn't You
aud the boss agrce?"
Not exactly. [ gave an old lady
some gin when she asked for camphor
and water, and she made "a show of
herself. l thought l would fool her.
but she knew mighty well what it
was. and she drank about half pint
Of gin, and got to tipping over bottles
and kegs of paint, and when the drug
man came i'll with his wife, the old
woman threw her arms around his
neck and called him her darling, and
when he pushed her away and told
her she was drunk, she picked M a
bottle of citrate of magnesia and
pointed it at him, and the cork came
out like Il pistol and he thought he
was shot, and his wife tainted away,
and the police came and took the old
gin refrigerator away, and then the
drug man told me to face the door,
and when wasn't looking he kicked
me four times, and l landed in the
street, and he said if l ever came in
sight of the store again he would kill
ne dead. That is the way l resigned.
| tell you, they Will send for me again.
They never can run that store with
out me"
Il guess they will worry along
without YOU" said the grocery man
How does your pa take your being
fired ont! | should think it would
break him all up"
20, | think pa rather likes it. At
first he thought he had a soft snap
with me in the drug store, cause he
has got to drinking again, like fish,
and he has gone back eli the church
entirely, but after l had put a few
things in his brandy he concluded it
was cheaper to buy it. and he is now
patronizing barrel house down by
the river One day put some cas-
tile soap in drink of brandy, and pa
leaned over the back fence more than
an hour, with his finger down his
throat The man that collects the
ashes from the alley asked pa il he
had lost anything, and pa said he
was only "sugaring off," l don't
know what that is. When pa felt
better he came in, and wanted a little
whisky to take tho taste out of his
mouth, and l gave him some. with
about teaspoonful of pulver-
lied alum in it. Well, sir, you'd Il
died. Pas mouth and throat was so
puckered up that he couldn't talk.
l don't think that drugman will make
anything by firing me out, because
l shall turn all the trade that CON
troll to another store. Why, sir,
some times there were eight and nine
girls in the store all To wonct, on ac-
count of my being there They came
to have me put extracts on their
handkerchiefs, and to eat gum drops
He will loose all that trade now.
My girl that went back on me for
the telegraph messenger boy, she
came with the rest of the girls, but
she found that l could be as hawty
as dock. L got even with her
though. l pretended l wasn't mad.
and when shc wanted me to put some
perfumery on her handkerchief l
said all right, and 1 put on Il little
geranium and white rose, and then |
got some tincturc of assafety and
sprinkled it on her dress and cloak
when she went ont. That is about
tho worst smelling stuff that ever
was. and l was glad when she went
out and met the telegraph boy on
the corner They went off together,
but he came back pretty soon, about
the homesickest boy you ever saw,
and he told my chum he would never
go with that girl again because she
smelled like spoiled oysters or sewer
gas. Her folks noticed it, and made
her go and wash her feet and soak
herself. and her brother told my chum
it didn't do any good, she smellel
just like glue factory, and my
chum. the darn fool, told her brother
that it was me who perfumcd her,
and he hit me in the eye with Il
frozen fish down by the fish store,
and that's what makes my eye black,
but | know how to cure black eye
l have not been in drug store eight
days and not know how to cure Il
black eye. And l guess l learned
that girl not to go back on boy
cause he smells like Il goat"
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