The Republican journal., 1883-03-15

mOlnlng, dS he came IN ana jumped ur
on the counter and tied the end of bal
oftwine to the tail of dog, and ''sicked'
the dog on another dog that was follow
ing passing sleigh, causing the tWine tC
pay out until the whole ball was scatter
ed along the block. "Condemn you; i've
a notion to choke the liver out of YOU
Who tied that twine to the dogs tail r
The boy choked up with emotion, and
the tears came into his eyes and he said
he didn't know anything about the twine
or the dog. He said he noticed the dog
come in and wag his tail round the twine,
but he supposed he was friend of the
family, and did not disturb him. every
body lays everything that is done to me- :
said the boy, as he put bis handkerchief
to his nose, land they will be sorry for il
when | die. | have a good notion to
poison myself by eating some of your
glucose sugar
~ es, and you do about everything else
that is mean, The other day a lady came
in and told me to send up to her house
some OF my country sausages, done up in
muslin bags, and while she was eXamin-
ing them she noticed something hard
inside the bags, and asked me what il
was, and | opened it, and hope to die
if there wasn't little brass paddock and
piece OF red morocco dog collar imbed-
ded in the sausage. Now, how do YOU
suppose they got in there p and the gro
ceryman looked savage.
The boy looked interested, and put on
an expression as though in deep thought,
and finally said. Il suppose the farmer
that put up the sausage did not Strain
the dog meat. Sausage meat ought to be
strained"
The groceryman pulled in about half a
block of tWine, after the dog had run
against a fence and broke it. and told the
boy he knew perfectly well how the brass
paddock came to be in the sausage. but
thinking it was safer to have the good
will OF the boy than the i'll viii he offered
him a handful Of prunes
"\n" SAYS the hoy, II have Swore oft
on musty prunes. am no kindergarten
any more. For years have eaten rotten
peaches about this store, and every thing
you couldn't sell, but have turned over
new leaf now, and after this nothing
is too good for me. Since pa has got to
be an inventor we are going to live high "
"W hats your pa invented | saw a
hearse and three hacks 90 up your street
the other day, and thought maybe YOU
had killed your pa"
Not much. There will be more than
three hacks when kill pa, and don't YOU
forget it. Wei, sir, pa has struck for
tune if he can make the thing work He
has cot an idea about coal stoves that
will bring him in several million dollars.
if he gets royalty Of s. on every coal
stove in the world. His idea is to have
4 coal stove on castOrs with the pipe
made TO telescope out and in, and rubber
hose Tor one Joint, 50 you can pull the
stove all around the room and warm anv
particular place. Well, sir, to hear ia
tell about it, You would think it would
revoutioniZe the country, and maybe 1t
will when he gets it perfected, but lie
came near burning the house up this
morning and scared Us all half to death.
and burned his shirt off, and he is all
covered with cotton with sweet oil on.
and he smells like salad dressing You
see pa had pipe made and some castors
put on our coal stove, and he tied 4 rope
to the hearth Of the stove. and had me
put in some kindlng wood and coal last
night, 50 he could draw the stove III TO
the bed and light the fire without getting
up. Ma told him he would put his finger
in it, and he told her to dry up and let
him run the stove business. He said it
took a man with brain to run a patent
right, ana ma she pulled the clothes over
her head and let pa DO the fire act She
has been building the fires for twenty
years and thought she would let pd see
how good it was. Well, pa pulled the
stove to the bed and touched Gt1 the
klndling wood. | guess maybe | got a
bundle Of kindlng wood that the hired
girl had put kerosene on. 'causeit bazed
up awful and smoked. and the blaze
bursted out the doors and windows of the
stove, and pa yelled fire, and | Jumped
out Of bed and rushed in and he was the
scartcst man You ever see, and you'd
died to see how he kicked when | threw
a pail of water on his legs and put his
shirt out. Ma did not get burned, but
she was pretty wet, and she told pa she
would pay the s. royalty on that stove
and take the caStors off and let it remain
stationary. Pa says he'll make it work
II he burns the house down. | think it
was real mean in pa to get mad at me
because threw cold water on him in
stead OF warm water to put his shirt out.
If had waited till could heat water to
the right temperature | would have been
an orpan and pa would have been burnt
offering. But sone mtn always kick al
everything Pa has given up business
entirely, and says he shall devote the
remainder of his life curing himself OF
the different troubles that get him into.
He has retained doctor by the wear,
and he buys liniment by the gallon"
''What was it about your folks getting
up in the night to eat y The hired girl
was over here after some soap the other
morning, and she said she was going to
leave your house"
"Well, that was picnic. Pa said he
wanted breakfast earlier than we had
been in the habit of having it, and he
said that might see to it that the house
was awake early enough. The other
night | awoke with the awfulest pain you
ever heard OF. 1t was that night that
you gave me and my chum the bottle Of
picked oysters that had begun to work.
Well, couldn't sleep, and | thought |
would call the hired girls, and they got
up and got breakfast to going, and then
raped on pa and mas door and told
them the breakfast was getting cold, and
they got up and came down. We eat
breakfast by gaslight, and pa yawned
and said it made man fell good to Get
up and eat breakfast by daylight, the
way he used to do on the farm, and ma
yawned and agreed with pa, cause she
has to, or have a row. After breakfast
we sat around for an hour, and pa said it
was a long time getting daylight. and
bimeby pa looked at his watch When
lie begun to pull out his watch lit out
and hid in the store-room, and pretty
soon | heard pa and ma 60 back to bed,
and then the hired girls, they went to
bed, and when it was all STILL and the
pam had stopped inside of my clothes,
went to bed, and | looked to see what
time it was and it was , o'clock in the
morning. We got dinner at eight o'clock
in the morning, and pa said he guessed
he would call up the house after this, so
| have lost another job, and it was all on
account Of that bottle of picked oysters
you gave me. My chum said he had
cole, too, but he didn't call up his folks.
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