The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-01-12
PRACTICING ON PA.
Peck:'s San.

Peck's San.
Said the grocery man, as he went up to the
boy, snufIed couple of times, and then held
his hand TO his nose: "The Board of Health
will kerosene you if they ever smell that
smell, and send you TO the glue factory.
What business have you gone into to make
you smell so rank?"
"Well, you see, pa began to think il was
time learned trade or persession, and he
saw sign in drug store window, Boy
Wanted and as he bad boy he didn't want,
he went TO the druggist and got a job for me.
This smell on me will 60 of In few weeks.
You know, wanted to try all the perfumery
in the store, and after / had got about forty
different extracts on my clothes another boy
that worked there he fixed up a bottle of
benzine, and assafety, and brimstone, and
whole lot of other horrid stuff, and labeled
it rose geranium,' and guess just wallered
in it. 1t Is awful, amt it? 1t kerfummixed
ma when went into the dining room the
first night that l got home from the store,
and broke pa all up. The air seems fixed
around where am, and every body seems to
know who fixed 1t. A girl came In the store
yesterday TO buy sachet, and there wasn't
anybody there but me, and didn't know
what it was, and took down everything In
the store pretty near before found 1t, and
then wouldn't have found 1t only the pro-
prietor came in. The girl asked the proprie-
tor if there wasn't a good deal of sewer gas
in the store, and he told me to go out and
shake myself. Well, she told me a sachet
was something for the stummick, and l
thought a nursing bottle was the nearest
thing to it,"
~ should think you would drive all the
customers away from the store," said the
grocery man, as he opened the door to let the
fresh air in.
81 don't know but will, but | am hired
for month on trial, and shall stay. You
see, l shan't practice on anybody but pa for
spell. l made up my mind to that wh en-
gave awoman some salts instead of pow dered
borax, and she came back mad. Pa seemed
take anything ask him to. He had sore
throat and wanted something for it, and the
boss drugger told me to put up some tannin
and chlorate of potash in mortar and grind
it, and l let pa pound il with the mortar,
and while he was pounding / dropped IN a
couple of drops of sulphuric acid, and it ex.
ploded and blowed pas hat clear 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 again that day.
The next day pa carle in and was laying
for him. l took white seidletz powder and
a blue one and dissolved them in separate
he didn't want some lemonade, and he said
he did, and gave him the sour one and he
drank it.. He said it was too sour, and then
gave him the other glass, that looked like
and he drank it. Well, sir, when those two
powders got together in pas stummick, and
began to sis aud steam and foam, pa nearly
choked to DEATH and the suds came out of
soon as he could get his breath he yelled
fire. and said he was poisoned, and called
for doctor, but thought that as long as
we had a doctor right In the family there
was no use Of hiring one, so I got stomach
pump, and would have had him bailed out
in 10 time, only the proprietor came in and
told me to 60 and wash some bottles, aud he
gave pa a drink of brandy, and pa said he
felt better. IA has | a"ned where we keep
the liquor, and he comes in tNo or three
times q day with a pain in his stomach.
They play awful tricks on boy in a drug
store. The first day they put chunk of
something sort of blue into mortar, and
told me to pulverize it, and make 1t in two
grain pills. Well, sir, pounded that chunk
all the forenoon, and It never pulveriyed at
all, and the boss told me to hurry up, as the
woman was waiting for the pills; and l
mauled 1t till was nearly dead, and when
1t was time to 60 to supper the boss came
and looked into the mortar and took out the
chunk and said, you have been pounding
all day on q chunk Of India rubber instead
of blue mass y Well, how did know? But
l will get even with them If / stay long
enough, and don't you forget it. If you
have prescription you want filed, you
come down to the store ami l will put it up
for you myself, and then you will be sure to
get what you pay for"
EYES," said the grocerynan, as he cut off
a piece of llmberger cheese and put 1t OH the
stove to purify the air in the room, ~ should
laugh to see myself taking any medicine you
put up"