Smyrna times., 1883-08-08
The Bad Boy Gets a Frog.
And Puts the Little Jumper in His
Pas Bed.
The Old Gentleman Thinks He Il SrWcE
With Paralysis and Yells Sir
Kinds Of Murder.

Uncle Ezra says pa used 10 play
tricks on everybody. remarked the
bad boy TO the grocery man. j may
be mean. but never played jokes on
blind people. as pa did when he was a
boy. Uncle Ezra says once there was
Z party Of four blind vocalists. all girls.
gave an entertainment az the town
where pa lived. and they stayed at the
hotel where pa tended bar. Another
thing, never sold rum. either. as pa
did Well. before the blind vocalists
went 10 bed. pa caught q lot Of frogs
and put them in the beds where the
girls were 10 sleep. and when the poor
blind girls gor into bed the frogs hop
ped all over them. and the way they
got out was a caution. Il Is bad
enough TO have frogs hopping all over
girls that caR see. but for girls that are
deprived Of their sight, and don't know
what anything Is. except by the feeling
of it, il looks 10 me like pretty tough
joke. guess pa i sorry now for what
he did. cause Uncle Ezra told the frog
story. brought home q frog and put il
inpa's bed. Pahas been afraid ofparal-
ysis for years. and when his leg or any
thing gets asleep. he thinks that Is the
end Of him. Before bedtime l turned
the conversation onto paralysis, and
told about man about pas age hav-
ing il on the West side. and pa was
nervous, and soon after he retired
guess the frog wanted 10 get ac9uAin-
ted with pa. cause pa yelled six kinds
OF murder, and We went into his room.
You know how cold frog is. Well
you'd dide TO see pa. He laid still
and said his end had come. and Uncle
Ezra asked him if il was the end with
head. or the feet. and pa told him
paralysis had marked him for a vic
lin. and he could feel that his left les
was becoming dead He said he c0ult
feel the cold, clammy hand Of deatl
walking up him. and he wanted ma L
put a bottle Of hot water 10 his feet
Ma got the bottle Of hot water and pu
. il 10 pas feet. and the cork came ou
and pa said he was dead sure enough
: now. because he was hot in the ex
tremities. and that a cold wave va
: gong up his leg. Ma asked him wher
. the cold wave was, and he told hel
and she thought she would rub il, bu
: sae began TO yell the same kinds G
E murder pa did, and she said a snak
i had gone up her sleeve. Then
thought il was time 10 stop the circus
j and reached up mas l=Oe sleeve an
caught the frog by the leg and Pulle
4 it out, and told pa guessed he ha
= taken my frog TO bed with him, and
showed it 70 him, and then he said
0 did 1t. and boy that would do such
r thing would go 10 perdition as sure ,
= preachin' and / asked him if
Il thought man who put frogs in th
? beds with blind girls, when he was
p boy, would get 10 heaven, and then
y told me 10 lite out. and I lit. ! que
II pa will feel better Ehea Uncle Ez
d goes away. cause he thinks Uncle Ez
2 talks too much about old times. We,
,e here comes our baby wagon, aRd
IT guess pa has done penanoe lol
: enough. and I will 90 and wheel Il
,e kin awhile. Say, you call pa IN, aft
Of l take the haAy wagon, and tell Il
IA Foa don't know hew he would 9
' along without such q nice boy as n
= and you can charge ii in our ne
tv months bill. l.''-Pecks Sra.