, 1883-05-26

"YOu see, / heard ma tell Ia TO
bring up another bottle of liniment
last night. When ma corks her
self, or has pain anywhere. She |
just usesliniment for all tha, i, cat. |
Aud pint bottle don't last more than
a week. Well, told my chum. and
we laid for pa. This liniment ma
uses is offul hot; and almost blister.
Pa went 10 the Langtry show. and
didnot get home till eleven o'cksE.
and me and my Chum decided 10
teach pm Il lesson. don't think il
is right for man To go to the the
aters and not take his wife or hi1 Iit-
tie boy. So we concluded to hura.lc
pa. We agre, d to lay ON the s;air-
and when he came up my Chum wa,J
To hit him on the head with a drig1
bladder, and | was to stab him N
the breast pocket with stick md
break the linimcnt bottle and. Il I.r
him think he was killed. II coulAn't
have worked hrttcr if we had IT,
hearscd it. We had stalked ahout
burglars at supper time, and pi got
nervous, so when he came up stair,
and was hit ON the head with the
bladder, the first thing he Slil wa
burglars by might and he started
to 90 back, and then hit him on the
breast pocket, where the bottle was.
and then we rushed by him, down
stairs, and said in Il stage whisper:
Il guess he's II dead man. and We
went down cellar and up the hack
stairs to my room and undTcs~td.
IA hoIlcrcd to me that he WAS mUr-
dcred, and ma called me, and | csme
down In my night shirt, and the
hired girl she came down, a1d "a
was on the lounge, and he sid hi
life blood wIs fast cbhing away.
He held his hand ON the wound aud
said he could feel the. warm blood
trickling clear down to hi- boots. |
told pa 10 stuff some tar inn, the
wound, such a, he told me To rDi on
my lip To plSc mustlchc gTJW, aud
pa said: 'My boy this i NJ time
for tritling. Your pa i on his 1T
legs. When come up Stair ! met
six burglar, and | attacked them
and forced four Of Them down and
va, going to hold them and send for
the police, when two more that |
did not l:nuWnahoui, jumped ON ne
and i was getting the best "f them,
when one Of them struck me over
the head with a crow lar aud the
other stabbed me 10 my heart with a
butcher knife. have received my
death wound, my 10y, and my hot
SOuthcrn-bluod that | offered up ~
freely for my country, in her time "i
need, is passing from my body. aul
soon your pn will hc only piece 81
poor clay. Get some ice and put on
my stomach, and al the way down,
for am burning up went to the
water pitcher AMI got a chunk Of ice
and put inside pas shirt, and while
ma was tearing up IN old shirt To-
stop the flood of blood, asked IA Il
he felt better and II he could describe
the villains who had murdered him
Pa gnspcd and moved his lcgs To ct
them cool from the clottcd blood,
he said, and he went on: 'Onr II
them was about six foot high and
had'a sandy mustachc. | got him
down and hit him in the nose. anG
II the police find him his nose will le
broke. The second was thick set
and weighed about two hundred. /
had him down, and my boot Wa on
his neck, and | was knocking two
more down, when ! was hit. The
thick set one will have the mark Of a
boot heel on his throat. Tell the po-
lice when ! am gone, about the boot
heel marks by this time ma had
got the skirt tore up and she stuffed
it under pas shirt, right where he
said he wa- hit, and pl Ml, telling
Us what To do Ia scttlC>lfs estate.
when ma began 10 smell the lini-
mcnt, and shc found the broken bot
tie in his pocket, and searched pa for
the place he was stained, and then
she hcgin to laugh,an pa got mad
and said he didn't see A. a death led
scene WIS such an almighty funny
affair, and then she told him he was
not hurt, but that he had fallen on
the stairs and broken the bottle and
then he said, do you mean to tel
me my body and leg, are not tower
cd with human gore and "a got up
and found il W0- only the linimcnt.
lie got mad and asked ma why She
didn't fly around and get something
To take that linimcnt oil his legs, rs
tnas eating them right through 10
the c.hOne, and then he saw my chum
put his hcnd in the door, with one
gallus hanging down. and pa looked
at me and then hG said: Ionka-
hcrr, il find out ii was you loyS
that put up this job on me, I'll make
II so,hot fof you that you will think
linimcht j. ice cpam in comparison
! told pl IL didn't look reasonable
that mn aud my cifum could be six
burglars, six feet high, with our
moses broke and boot heel marks IN
our neck, and pa he said for us to go
to bed alfred quick and give him a
chance to rinse of that liniment, and
we retired. Say, docs my IA strike
you as good single-handcd liaT -
and the boy went up to The counter
while the grocery man went after a
scuttle Of oal."-Rck's SIN.