The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-03-13
His Pa an Inventor.
Peck's Sun,

said the grocery man 10 the pad Doy,
the other morning, as he came in and
jumped upon the counter and tied
the end of ball of twine to the tail
of dog, and "sicked" the dog on
another dog that was following
passing sleigh, causing the twine to
pay out until the whole ball was
scattered along the block. "Con-
demn you, I've notion to choke the
liver out of you. Who tied that
twine,to the dogs tail?"
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 around the twine, but he sup
posed the dog was friend Of the
family, and did not disturb him.
Everybody lays everything that is
done to me-" said the boy, as he put
his handkerchief to his nose, "and
they win be sorry for it when / die.
| have a good notion to poison my
self by eating some of your glucose
sugar."
Yes, and you do about everything
that ia mean. The other day lady
came in and told me to send up to
her house some of my country sau-
sage, done up in muslin bags, and
while she was examining it she
noticed something hard inside the
bags, and asked me what it was, and
hope to die if there wasn't little
brass paddock and a piece of red
dog collar embedded in the sausage.
Now, how do you suppose that got
in thcre?' and the grocery man
looked savage.
The boy looked Interested, and put
on an expression as though in deep
thought, and finally said, 81 suppose
the farmer that put up the sausage
did not strain the dog meat. Sau-
sage meat ought to be strained"
The grocery man 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
we'll how the brass paddock came to
be in the sausage, but thinking ii
safer to have the good will of the
boy than the i'll will, he offered him a
handful of prunes.
"No," says the boy, "I have swore
off on mouldy prunes. l am nc
kindergarten any more. For years
| have eaten rotten peaches around
this store, and everything you
couldn't sell, but l have turned over
a new leaf now, and after this moth.
| ing is too good for me. Since pa has
got to be an inventor, we are going t.
live high
What's your pa invented? / saw
a hcarse and three hacks 60 up OIL
your street the other day, and
thought maybe you had killed youl
pa
| "Not much. There will be NOR,
than three hacks when kill pa, ant
don't you forget it. Well, sir, pa hal
struck fortune, if he can make th'
thing work. He has got an ides
about coal stoves that will bring hin
in several million dollars, if he gets |
royalty of five dollars on every stow
in the world. His idea is to have
coal stove on castors with the pip
made to telescope out and in, ant
rubber hose for one joint, so you cal
pull the stove all around the room
and warm any particular place. We'll
sir, to hear pa tell about it, yol
would think it would rcvolutioniz
the country, and maybe it will whcl
he gets it perfected, but he came nea
burning the house up, and scared u
: all half to death this morning, an
burned his shirt oil, and he is a
covered with cotton with sweet o.
on, and he smells like salad dressing
You see pa had pipe made an
8 some castors put on our coal stow
t and he tied a rope TO the hearth {
a the stove, and had me put in som
kindling wood and coal last night,
he could draw the stove up to the be
and light the fire without getting vi
: Ma told him he would put his foot 0
d it, and he told her to dry up, and Il
Q him run the stove business. He sal
u it took man with brain to run
< patent right, and ma she pulled Il
n clothes over her head and let pa d
(, the fire act. She has been buildin
e the fires for twenty years, an
g thought she would let pa see no
good it was. Well, pa pulled Il
stove to the bed, and touched Il
:, kindling wood off. ! guess maybe
II got bundle of kindling wood TIL
e the hired girl had put Kerosene o
A. cause it blazed up awful and smoke
u and the blaze bursted out the doc
it and windows of the stove, and |
yelled fire, and l jumped out of bt
and rushed in, and he was the scar
K est man yon ever see, and you'd
l; dide to see how he kicked when
is threw pail of water on his legs al
is put his shirt out. Ma did not 6
t burned, but she was pretty wet, al