The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-05-26

| up 10 look on her uCdu l.lcc-d strange
fancy OF hers-she had set all about
the foot of the bed, where she could SEE
them. all the flowers had sent her, the
withered ones and all. There was quite
half Il trunk full of papers which she had
brought and intrusted to Inc, some OF
them suggesting wonderful things, great
thoughts and good and new: for much
that she wrotc-anl may be this is not
just praise-was better than any writing
oi mine. ! bought little bit Of ground
III Evergreen Cemetery, and there the
habd that writes this laid the dear, tried
lady to rest, forgiving aud begging OF
God to be forgiven.
HIS PA HIRES A GOAT FOR a WET
NURSE.
| "WelI, how is the baby" asked the
grocery man of the bad boy; as he came
III and sat down on the chair with the
back gone, and looked very tired.
80, darn the baby. Everybody asks
me about the baby, as though it was
mine. don pay no attention to the
| thing. except to notice the foolishness
going on around the house. Say, guess
tlat baby Will grow up to be a fire en-
| CINE. The nurse coupled the baby Oh to
Il section of rubber hose, that runs down
into bottle of milk, and it began to get
mp steam, and pretty soon the milk began
| to disappear, just Us the water does when
lire engine couples Oh to Il hydrant
! IA calls the baby "OlG Number Two
am 'NumberOne, and if pa hal 4 hook
and ladder truck, and a hose cart and Il
| lire gong, he would imagine he was chiet
engineer of the fire department.. But the
| baby kicks Oh this milk wagon, and bowls
like dog that 5 got lost. The doctor
told pa that the best thing he could do
was 10 get Il goat, but pa said since We
'nishiated him into the Masons with the
| goat he wouldn't have goat about the
| house. The doc told pa about the other
kind OF a goat. think it was Il Saman-
tina goat, lac SAID, wouldn't kick with its
mead, and pa sent me up into the PUlaCk
settlement to see if | colldu't borrow a
milk goat for !; few weeks. got IL We
man to lend NE her goat, and paid her a
dollar III advance, and PIT went up i'll the
evening to help me get the goat. Well,
1t was the darndest mistake you ever see
! There was two goats 50 near alike you
| couidn tell which was the chum of our
| goat, but it belonged to an Irish woman.
We got a bed cord and hitchcd it around
the Irish goat, and the goat didn recog-
nze the lease, and when we tried to Jerk
| it, it rared right ~ and made things
real lively fer pa. If there were any
| places on Pa form that the goat didn't
explore with his minly head, Ia don t
know where the places are. O, it damned
linn lively, and when LATED pa GOT mad.
own goats when he had Il baby. and let
80 of the rope and started off, for | saw
the Irish woman that owned the goat
| coming around the corner of the house
with 4 cistc!n pole. Just as pa was get
ting the goat out Of the gate the goat rot
crossWays OF the gate, and pa yauked
and doubled the goat right up. and |
thought he had broke the goats neck.
and the woman thought so too. for she
Jabbed pa with the cistcrn pole Just be-
low the belt, and she tried To get a hold
Of pa $ hair, but he had her there. No
woman can get advantage of pa that ay
cause ma has tried it. Well pa explained
1t to the woman, and she let him off if he
would pay her two dollars damages for
the goat, and then we took the nanny
| goat and he went right along with us.
But have got my opinion of baby that
will drink goats milk. Gracious, it is
| like stuff that comes III spoiled cocoa
nut. The baby hasn't done anything but
blate since the nurse coupled it to the
| goat hydrant. | had to take all my play
things out Of the basement to keep the
goat from eating them. guess the milk
| VIII taste of powder and snged hair now
he goat got TO eating some Roman can
dies my chum had laid away in the
coal bin, and chewed them around the
furnace, and the powder leaked out, and
Il coal fell out of the furnace upon the
hearth, and yo'd dide to see pa and the
hired girl and the goat. Iou see pa can't
milk nothing but Il milk wagon, and he
| GOT the hired girl to milk the goat, and
they were just hunting around the base
ment with tin cup, for the goat, when
the fireworks went off. Well, there was
balls of green, red and blue lire, and
spilled powder blaZed up, and the goat
Just looks ON, as though it was sorry ST
much good fodder was spoiled; but
when its hair began to burn, the goat
gave one snort, and went between pa
and the hired girl as though it was shot
out of Il cannon, and it knocked pa over
the wash boiler into the coal bin, and the
hired girl in among the kindling wood,
and she crossed herself, and repeated the
cateklsm, and the goat jumped up on TOP
OF the brick furnace and shook his head
sassy and paved, and they couldn't gel
it down. heard the celebration and
went down and took pa by the pants and
pulled him out Of the coal BIN, and he
said he would surrender and plead guilty.
| pulled the kindhng wood oil the hired
girl and then she got mad, and said she
| would milk that goat OF die. o, THAI
girl has got sand. She used to work in
Il glass factory. Well, Sir, it was a sig 1t
worth two shillings admission to see that
hired girl get up on a stepladder to mill;
that goat on top OF the furnace, with pa
sitting op top OF the barrel of potatoes
bossing the job. They are going to fix a
gang plank To set the goat down off the
furnace. Pa has got to grow lot of
new hair on that goat, or the woman
won't take it back. She don't want no
bald goat. Well, they can run the goat
and the baby to suit themselves, cause
| have resigned. But must go and UNI
pire that game between pa and the hired
| girl and the goat. Say, can't you come
over and see the baby? faint no bigger
than small satchel, and the boy waited
| till the grocery man went to draw some
vinegar, when he Slipped out and put up
sign, written on a shinsle with white
chalk: yellow sand wanted for maple
sugar