Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-22
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1T was down to the drug store this morn. | ing, and saw your ma buying lot of court | plaster-enough to make shirt, I should ! think. Whats she doing with so much court plaster?' asked the grocery man.
 ''Oh, guess she is going to patch pa up SO he will hold water. Pas temper got him into the worst muss you ever see. last night"
 F'Good heavens, " said the grocery man, as the boy swallowed the cider, and his face resumed it's natural look, and the piratical frown disappeared with the cider. ''You have not stabbed your father, have you ?''
 s'Naw, haven't stabbed him. It was another cat that stabbed him. You see, pa wants me to do all the work around the house. The other day he bought load of kindIing wood, and told me to carry it into the basement. When supper time came, and pa found that had not carried in the kind ling wood, he had hot box, and he told me if that wood was not in when he came back from the lodge that he would warm my jack ct. We'll, I tried to hire some one to carry it in, and got man to promise to come in the morning and carry it in, and take his pay in groceries and was going to buy the groceries here and have them charged to pa. But that wouldn't help me out that night. I knew when pa came home he would search for me. So I slept in the back hall on a cot. But didn't want pa to have all his trouble for nothing, so borrowed an old tom cat
 
 the cat in my bed. I thought if pa came in my room after me, and found that by his unkindness that I had changed to 8 tom cat, he would be sorry. That is the biggest cat you ever see, and the worst fighter in our ward. It isn't afraid of anything, and can whip Newfoundland dog quicker than you could put sand in barrel of sugar. We'll, about II o'clock heard pa tumble over the kndling wood, and knew by the remark he made, as the wood slid around under him, that there was going to be a cat fight real quick. He come up to mas room, and sounded ma as to whether Hennery had re- tired to his virtuous couch. Pa is awful sar- castle when he tries to be. I could hear him say, as he picked up trunk strap, T guess will go up to his room and watch the smile on his face as he dreams of angels. yearn to press him to my aching bosom Ithought to myself, mebbe you won't yearn so much directly. He come up stairs and I could hear him breathing hard. I looked around the corner and could see he just had on his shirt and pants, and his bald head shone like cal cium light just before it explodes. Pa went in my room and I could hear him say, Come out here and bring in that kindling wood And then there was rowling such as never heard before, and pa said, Helen Blazes, and the furniture in my room began to fall around and break. Oh, my! I think pa took the tom cat right by the neck, the way he does me, and that left all the cats feet free to get in their work. I suppose the cat thought pa was whole flock of Newfound land dogs and the cat had 8 record on dogs and it kicked awful. Pas shirt was no pro- lection at all in cat fight and the cat just walked all around pas stomach, and pa yelled police and fire and turn on the hose,' and he called ma, and the cat yowled If pa had had presence of mind enough to have dropped the cat or rolled it up in the mattress it would have been all right, but l -G and he held on to the cat and started down | stairs yelling murder, and pa stumbled on l hand-sled that was on the stairs, and the cat | got away and went down in the coal bin and yowled all night. I went and got into my bed cause it was cold out in the hall, and the cat had warmed my bed as well as it had warmed pa. This morning came down the back stairs and haven't been to breakfast cause I don't want to see pa when he is vexed. I have passed the kindling wood pc riod in boys life and have arrived at the coal period. will carry in coal, but draw the line at kindling wood"