The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
THE BAD BOY GETS A FROG.
AND PUTS THE LITTLE JUMPER IN
HIS PAS BED.

The Old Gentleman Thinks lie is Struci,
with Paralysis and YclIs Six Kinds OF
Murder.
"Unc'e Ezra says pa used to play
tricks on everybody" remarked the
bad boy to the grocery MAJ. 81 may
lie mean, but l never played jokes on
blind people, q pa did when he was a
boy. Uncle Ezra says once there was
a party of four blind vocalists, all girls,
gave an entertainment at the town
where pa livel, and they stayed at the
hotel where pa tended bar. Another
thing, 1 never sold rum, either, as pa
did. Well, before the blind vocalists
went to led, pa caught lot of frogs
and put them in the beds where the
girls were to sleep, and when the poor
blind girls got into bed the frogs
hopre1 all over them, and the way
fhey got out was caution. 1t is bad
nough to have frogs hopping all over
girls that can see, but for girls that are
deprived of their sight, and don't know
what anythingis, except by the feeling
bf it, it looks to me like pretty tough
oke. L guess pa is sorry now for
What he did, cause when Uncle Ezra
odd the frog story, l brought home a
roy and put it in pas bed. Pa has beer
lfraid of paralysis for ars, and when
his leg or anything gets asleep. he
kinks that is the end of him. Before
bedtime | turned the conversation onto
paralysis, and told about man about
as age having it on the west side,
nd pa was nervous, and soon after he
etired guess the frog wanted to get
Lcq TAINTED with pa, cause pa yelled
tx kinds of murder, and we went into
is room. You know how cold a frog
). Well, you'd a dide to see pa. He
hid still and said hi, end had come,
nd Uncle Ezra asked him if it was
be end with a he d, or the feet,
nd pa told him paralysis had marked
i'm for victim and he could feel
hat his left leg was becoming dead.
lie said he could feel the cold, clammy
and of death walking up him, and he
,anted ma to put bottle of hot
7ater to his feet. Ma got the bottle
hot water and put it to pas feet,
nd the cork came out and paid said
e was dead sure enough, now, be-
huse he was hot in the eXtremities,
nd that cold wave was going up his
Fg. Ma asked him where the cold
rave was, and he told her, and she
bought she would rub it, but she
egan to yell the same kind of murder
did, and she said a snake had gone
p her sleeve. Then thought it was
o. 4. Il. Il. 4
b mas lace sleeve and caught the
Fog by the leg and pulled it out, and
bld pa l guessed he had taken my
Fog TO bed with him, and l showed it
him, and then he said | did it, and
boy that would do such thing
ou.d go to perdition as sure as
Feachin', and 1 asked him if he
fought a man who put frogs in t. e
Pds with blind girls, when he was Il
by, would get to heaven, and then he
I'D me to lite out, and l lit. | guess
will feel better when Uncle Ezra
pes away, cause he thinks Uncle Ezra
llls too much about old times. Well,
IRE comes our baby wagon. and l
less pa has done penance long enough,
hd will go and wheel the kid awhile.
by, you call pa in. after take the baby
agon, and TIL him you don't know
Pw he would get along without such
nice boy as me, and you can charge
in our next months bill."-Ptch ' S
IN.