The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-05-02
HIS Pa Fights Hornets.

ing 70 draW some cider out OF a bar
rel intoa pint measure that had
flies in 1t. sect right out Of this
place, and don't let me see you
around here until the Health
Officer says your father has got
over the smallpox. I saw him
this morning, aud his face was ali
covered with postules, and they
will have him in the pesthouse
before night. You getI" and he
picked upa butter-tryor and went
for the boy, who took refuge be.
hind q barrel Of onions, and held
up his hands as though Jessie
james had drawn a bead on him.
"oh, you go and cheese yourself.
That is not smallpox pa has got
He had fight with a nest Of hor.
nets" said the boy.
"HOrnetsl Well, III be cussodl"
remarked the grocery man, as he
pat up the butsSttryer and han.
Odd the boy slice Of rotten musk.
mellon. allow in the world did
he get into a nest Of hornets? l
hope you didn't have anything to
do with it?"
The boy buried his face in the
melon until be looked as though a
yellow cash had been cut from his
mouth to his ears, and after swal.
lowing the melon he said: "Well,
pa says l was responsible, and that
settles it, and can go my way and
he will go his. He says he was
willing to overlook everything
that | had done to make his life
unbearable, but steering him into
q nest ofhornets and then getting
drunk, is too much, and | can CO."
What, you haven't been drunk"
Gays the grocery man. Great heav.
ems, that will kill your poor old
father.
"oh, I guess IL won't kill him
very much. He has been getting
drunk for twenty years, and he
says he is healthier to day than be
ever was, since his liver's got to
working again. You see, Monday
was regular Indian summer day,
and pa said he would take me and
my chum in the woods to gather
hickory nuts if we would be good.
l said l would and my chum said
he would, so we got a couple Of bags
and went out to WauwatOso, in the
woods. We dubbed the trees and
got more nuts than anybody, and
had n lunch, and pa was enjoying
his religion first'rate, While pa
was taking nap under a, tree, my
ehum and me looked around and
found a hornets nest on the lower
limb Of the tree we were sitting
under, and my chum said it would
be a good joke to get pole and
run it into the hornets nest and
then run. Honest, l didn't think
about pa being under the tree, and
] went into the field an got hoop.
pole, and put the small end into
the nest and gouged the nest a
couple Of times, and when the boss
hornet came out Of the hole and
looked sassy and then looked back
into the hole and whistled to the
other hornets to come out and have
a circus, and they began 10 come
out; my chum and me run and
climbed over a fence and got be.
hind pile Of hoop.poles that was
stacked up. ! guess the hornets
saw my pa just as quick as they
got out Of the nest, cause pretty
soon We heard pa call to "Helen
Damnation," or some other woman
We didn't know, and then he took
his coat, that he had been using for
pillow, and whipped around, and
he slapped himself on the shout.
derS, and then took the lunch bask.
ct and pounded around like he was
crazy, and bime'by he started on u
run towards town, holding his
pants up, cause his suspenders was
hanging down on his hips; and |
never saw fat man run oand fan
hisself with a basket. We could
hear him yell, "Come on boys
HI is out for noOn," and he went
over a hill, and we didn't see him
any more. We waited till near
dark because we was afraid to go
after the bags Of nuts till the hor.
nets had gone TO bed, and then we
come home. The bags were awful
heavy, and I think it was real
mean in pa to go of and leave Us
aud not help carry the bags"
81 swan" said the grocery man,
you are too mean to live. But
what about your getting drunkP'
"oh, / was going to tell you.-