Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-04

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What is this | hear about your
father creating panic in q drygoods
store" said the grocery man TO the
bad boy, as be took . butter fryer
and ran II into pumpkin few
,imes. They tell me that he had
about one hundred female clerks
freed on the shelves and on the
counters, sad all of them screaming
bloody murder, and that floor
walker hit him over the head with q
roll of paper canhr C, and somebody
turned in Ere alarm. How was itF
well. il you will keep q watch
for pa at the door l will tell you all
about IT," said the boy. Somebody
| has told pa tbs, l was q. the bottom
of the whole business, and when q
man loses confidence in his boy, and
rolls up q trusk strap and carries il
hsbi,ually, il stands a boy in hand to
keep his eye peeled. You see. pa
has been in the habit lately Of going
to store q good deal and lally- gag
cing with the girl clerks. Any girl
that will smile on pa, and looks
sweet. catches him, and he would SIT
on a stool in front of the counter ten
hours q day, pretending to want TO
buy some kind of fringe. or corsets,
or something, aud he would fairly
talk the arm off the girls. Ma didn't
like it at all, and she told pa he ought
to be ashamed of himself, cause the
girls wss only making fool of him.
aad all the people in the store were
laffing at him, but pa said for her to
shut her yawp. and he kept on try
| ing to find excuses to go to the store.
Ma told me about it, and she felt real
sorry, and by links it made me mad
to see an old man, old enough to
have govt or paralysis, going around
MASKING clerks In q store. and told
ma IL she would let me l would
break pa up in that sort of business,
aud she told me to 60 ahead and
make him jump like box car. So
tother day ma gave pa piece Of
ribbon to match and q corset to
| change for larger size, end pair of
gloves to return because the thumb
of one of 'em ripped of, and told
him to buy four yards of baby fan
mel. and see how much it would cost
to have her seal skin cloak refined,
and to see il her new hat was done.
Pa acted as if he didn't want to 60 to
the store, but ma and me knew that
he looked upon it as picnic, and he
blackened his boots and changed
ends with his cuffs, and put on his
new red n. exile, and shaved himself,
aud fixed up as though he was going
to be married. asked him to let
me 90 along To carry the packages.
and he said he didn't mind il / did
90. You have seen these iDjv rubber
rats they have at the rubber stores,
haven't your They look so near
like natural rat that you can't tell
the difference unless you offer the
rubber rat some cheese. l got one of
those rats and tied fine thread to it,
with q slipnoose on the end. and
when Do got into the store l put the
slipnoose over the hind button of bis
coat tail and put the rat on the floor,
and it followed him along, and l
swow il looked so natural wanted
to kick it. Pawalked along smiling,
and stopped at ribbon counter and
winked at a girl, and she bent over
tn see what be wanted, and then she
saw the rat, and she screamed and
crawled up on the shelf whore the
boxes were, and put her feet un-
der her and screamed: Take IL
awav! kill it, and she trembled all
over. Pa thought she had gone into
q fit, cause she was paralyzed on his
shape, and he turne! blue, and he
went on. cause he didn't want to kill
her dead; and as he walked along the
rat followed him, and just. as he
bowed to four girls, who were stand
ing together talking about the fun
they had at the exposition the night
before, they saw the rat and began to
veil and climb up things. One Of
them got on stool and pulled her
clothes tight around her ankles. 90
live rat couldn't have got in her
stocking, let alone q rubber rat, and
the girls ali squealed just like when
YOU tickle them in the ribs. Pa he
looked scared. as though he was
afraid he was breaking them all up
with his shape, and he kept on, and
another flock OF girls saw the rat,
and they jumped up on the counter
and sat down on their feet, aud yelled
rat Then the others yelled rat
and In a minute about hundred
girls were getting up on things and
saying shoe. and one OF them got
on a pile of blankets and the pile fell
on the floor with her, and the men
had to dig her out. PAS face was II
study. lie looked at one girl and
then another, and wondered what was
the matter, aud finally the floor
walker came along and seen what it
was. and be took pa by the collar
and led him out Of doors, and told
him II he ever came in there again he
would send the police after him. l
had gone by the time pa had got out
on the sidewalk, and he picked up
the rubber rat and found 1t was
hitched 10 his coat. and he went right
home. Ma says that he was so mad
that he suffered, and she thinks I'd
better board around for day or two.
She tried TO reason with pa that it
was intended for his good, to show
him that he was making fool Of
himself; but he does not look at it in
that light. Say. do you think 1t was
wrong to break him up that way!
He was going wrong entirely"