The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-03-20
He GRADUATES.
The Drug Business Will Have to
Worry Along Without the
Bad Boy.

LILO DFttS buSlneSS VIII sdaVo 10
Worry Along Without the
q Bad Boy.
swell, what are you losfng around
here for ?" says the grocery man to the
bad boy one morning this week sit is
atler nine o'clock, and Ishonld think
you would want to he down to the drug
store How do You know bu, there viii
be somebody dying for dose OF pills2"
30, darn the drug store. / have got
sick of that business, and ! have dis.
solved with the drugger have resigns
ed The policy OF the store did not
meet with ny approval, and I have slsp-
ped out aud am walting. fsr them TO come
and tender me better position at an n
creased salary," as he threw cigar stub
into barrel of pruues and-lit fresh
one
"Resigned, eb ?" said the grocery man
as he fished out the cigar stub and charg-
ed the boys father with two pounds of
pruues "Didu't you and the boss
agree 7"
"Not exactly. l gave an old lady
some gin when she asked for camphor
snd wafer, and che made o show of her.
SELF | thought | would fool her, but
she knew mighty we'll what it was, and
she drank about half pint OF gin, and
got to tipping over bottles and kegs oi
paint, and when the drug man came in
with his wife the old woman threw her
arms around his neck and called him bel
darling, and when he pushed her away
and told her che was drunk, she picked
up bottle of citrate of magnesis an6
pointed it at him, and the cork came ou
Hike a pistol, and he thought he was
shot, and his wife tainted away, and ther
the drug man told me to face the door
and when wasn't looking he kicked me-
four times, and I landed iu the street
and he said il / ever came in sight of th'
store again he would kill me dead. Tha
is the way resigned I tell you, they
will send for me again, They never Cal
run that store without me-"
II guess they will worry along withou
you," said tSe grocery man "How doe
your father take your being fired out
I should tbiuk it would break him al
up"
"Ob, I think pa rather likes it. A
first he thought be had q soft snap will
me in the drug store. cause he has go
to drinking again like fish, and he ha
gone back on the church entirely, but af
ter l had put few things in his brandy
be concluded 1t was cheaper to buy it
and be is new patroniz;ug barrel house
down by the river, Oae day l put some
CASTLE soap in drink of brandy, and p'
leaned over the back fence for more thar
an hour with his finger down his throat
The man that collects the ashes from tbj
alley asked pa If he had lost anything
and pa said he was only 'sugaring off
| don't know what that is When p,
felt better be came in and wanted it'll
whisky TO take the taste out OF hi
mouth, and gave him some with abou
a teaspoonful of pulverized alum in i,
Well, sir, you'd dide. PAS mouth ant
throat was so puckered up that he ceuli
MT talk / don't think that drug mar
will make anything by firing me out, be.
cause I shall turn all the trade that
control to another store. Why, sir. some
times there were eight or nine girls i!
the store all at onct, on account of my
being there. They come to have me pu
extracts on their handkei chiefs and t.
eat gum drops He will lose all that
trade now. My girl that went back oil
me for the telegraph messenger boy, she
came with the rest of the girls, but sh,
found that could be as hawty as {
dook. / got even with her though.
pretended / wasn't mad, and when sh,
wanted me to put some perfumery on he
handkerchief I said all right, and pu
on a little geranium and white rose, ant
then got some tincture of assafety ant
sprinkled on her dress and cloak wher
she went out. That is about the wors
smelling stuff that ever was, and was
glad when she went out and met the tel
egraph boy ON tfe corner. They wen
off together, but he came back pretty
soon about the homesckest boy you evel
saw, and be told my chum that he woul(
never 60 with that girl again because sb
SIN He'd like spoiled oysters or sewer gas
Her folks noticed it and made her go AM
wash her feet and soak herself, and he
brother told my chum it didn't do an,
good, she smelled just like glew iacto
ry, and my chum, the darn fool, told he
brother that it was me who perfumeC
her, and he bit me in the eye with fro
zen fish down by the fish store, and shat
what makes my eye black, but know
how to cure black eye. ] have no
been in the drug store eight days ant
not know how TO cure black eye. AnC
guess | learned that girl not to g
hack on boy cause be smells like 6
! -