The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1883-02-09
His PAS Marvellous Escape.

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| ia the store one cold morning, leav-
| ing the door open, and picked up
cigar stub that had been thrown
down by the stove, and began to
| to smoke it.
| NShut that door, dun you. Was
1 you brQughtup in q saw mill2 You'll
freeze every potato in the house.
No, haven't got vaseline What
/ do you want of gaseline?A said the
/ grocery man, as he set the syrup
keg on q chair by the stove where
! it would thaw out,
Want to rub il on pas legs, said
| the boy, as he tried to draw smoke
through the cigar stub
Why, what is the matter with
your pats legs2 Rheumatiz29
EtWus nor rheumatic said the
boy, as he threw away the cigar
stub and drew some cider in broken
tea cup PA has got the worst
looking hind legs you eyer saw
You see, since there has been 50
many fires pa has got oful scared,
and be has bought three fire escapes,
made out OF rope with knots in
! them, and he has been telling us
every day how he could rescue the
whole family in case OF fire. He
| told lis to be cool, whatever hap
pened, and TO rely on him. If the
4 hpHsg got on fire VIC were all to rush
to pa, and he would save us Well,
last night ma had to go to one Of the
neighbors, where they was going to
have twins, and we didn't sleep
much, cause ma had to come home
| twice il the night to get saffron
and an old flannel petticpat that !
broke in when I wea a kid. cause
| the people where ma went did not
know as twins was on the bill OF
fare, and they only had flannel pet
tiepatH for one, Pa was cross at be-
ing kept awake, and told ma he
hoped when all the children in Mil
waukee were born, and got grown
up, she would take ii her sign ant
not go around nights acting ar
usher to baby matinees. Pa says
there ought to be law that babies
should, arrive on the regular day
trains, and not wait for the mid
night express. Well, pa he got
asleep, and he slept till about eight
o'clock in tho morning, and the
blinds were closed, and it was dark
III his room, and I had waited fol
my breakfast till | was hungry us j
wolf, and the girl told me to wake
pay up, so | went up stairs and
don't know what made me think o.
it, but / had some of this powder
they make red fire with III the the
atre, that me and my chum had tbs
4th of July, and ! put it in wash
dish in the bath room, and | touched
it off and hollered fire. ! was going
to wake pa UP and then tell him i
was all right, and laugh at him.
guess there was too much fire, or
yelled too loud, cause pa jumped
out of bed and grabbed . rope anc
rushed through the hall towards tbs
back window, that goes cut on {
shed I tried to say omething, bu
pa ran over me and told me to save
myself, and I got to the back win
dow to tell him there was ne fir'
Just as he let himself out the win
dow. He bad one end of the rop'
, tied to the leg of wash stand, and
he was climbing doown the bael
side OF the shed by the kitchen, witt
nothing on but bis night shirt ant
he was the horriblest looking obiec
ever was, with his legs flying an
trying to stick bis toe nails into tn
rope and the side Of the house.
don't think a man looks well in SO
ciety with nothing on but his nigh
shirt. / didn't blame the hired girl
for being scared when they saw p
and bis legs come down outside tn
window, and when they yelled
went down 20 the kitchen, and the
said crazy man with no clothes bu
pillow case around his neck wa