The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-02-06
His Pa Goes Skating.


grocery man 10 tho bad Dov, Ne he
canc into the'gocory tho morning
alter Christmas. ~ "a 49, I
Tho boy looked at his shirt front,pui
liis ihgers on the stuff aud snellei OH
his finyrrs, and then saida y ,that is
nothing but a little of the turkey
dressing ana gravy. * You see alteril
pa and got back from the roller
Mating rink yesterday, pa was ali
Lre.e up and he couldn't carve thr
turkey. and [ had TO do II, and'pal
ELad To- set iu stuffed chair with ,hl'
Fire ID tied Sup, and d pillow samongs'
his legs, and he kept complaining
Tint didn't doit right. Col darn
Turkey any way. l shou.d think they
! would make q turkey fat on the
back, so he w6Mld lay on greasy
platter without skating all around
tthe tablcs 1t looks easy 10 see ps
J eafyc a turkey, but when speared4
-tinto 1.-THE bosom OF that turkey, and
began 10 saw on u, the turkey rolieu
around a.. though It was on casiors'
! and II wns alIIlcould do to keep u
,ut of ma lap. But rasSeled with
II ,ill got oil enough white meat for
IN and mn aud dark meat enough Tor
4 Inc, and dug out the dressing, tui
.Ilnost OF 1t flaw into my shirt bosom
clusc the string that tied up the place
whero the dressing was concealed
,bout the person OF the turkey BROKE
iprematurely, and one oysterihil pa IN
Tho eye, and he said | was as sawk'
. ward rs d cross-oyed girl trying TO
kiss a man with hair lip, II ever
20; to be lie head OF family shall
carve turkeys " ith acorn she.lerr -
Butwhal broke your pa up at the
solletssating rinks asked the gro
cery man,
o, everything broke him up. He
is split up NO ma buttons the topof
pautrto his collar button, like a bi-
Y cycle rider. Well, he hal no busi-
.ness TO have told me and my chun
thst he used TO DO tho best skater IN
North Arncrica, when he was boy
lie said lao onco ska.ud from Albtny
4 10 New York IN an hour and eighty
+uiuutes. Nc and my chums thought
If pa WAS such terror on skates We
would get him to put on y spair o
roller skales,. and enter him as th'
"grcst upknowl,' aud clcan out th'
I,wl,o.e gang. We lold "a that !
must remember That rollcr skate
were different Fom ice skates, ans
j thai ma, ,beLho couldn't skate on lhcin
but he said II didnt make 'any.diifsr
rnce what they were as long as the.
we're skates, and he would ju,t par'
I'VE the whole crowd. SO we got
pair OF big roller skates for him, an
while we were slrappipg them or
pa no looked nj the skaters qua
around on the .meoth waxec foo
s iast as though they were CREASED
pa looked at tho skates on HE fee
alter they were fastened, sort OF to'
oru like, the way a horse lhici doe
,elwhen they put shackles on his leg
o, aad / Z Told him ifhe was afraid !
couldn't Skate with them we woul
take them of, but he sail he woul
i, beat anybody there was there 2
burst a su.peAder. Then we slraig,
,cned pa up and poiuted him toward
The middle of the room,, and Sal
OF "leggo," and we just give him alitt
he push 70 start him, and he began 10 y
lis Well, by gosh, you'd dide TO ha'
Dol .son pa try to stop You sec, yc
Oh can't stick ia your heel aud stop, III
he you can OH ice skaies, and pa soc
so iound that out, and lo began to III
OF sideways, and then he threw his
ng and walked on his heels, aud he 10
OF his hat aud his eyes began TO slit
ler out, cause he was going right towar'
IN. AN iron post. One iurm caught u
res post and he ciroled around ita Ie
to times, and then he lei 80 aud beg'
is TO fall, and, cir nc hept falling
err across tho room, and everybody 3
'le, out of the way, except girl, ana
nd grabbed her by tie pclonaise, ike
led drowning man grabs at straw
tee though there wasn't any siraws
ou, her polonai.e as l know oil, but
nd lust pulled her along rs though 8
,oi was done upiua shawl'slrap, a.
.nll his ieet went out from under IA
BILE and he struck oil his shoulders a
ltly kept a-going, With the girl draggi
,on along like a bundle OF clothes. ~
hey had had ano lher pair Of roller ska
ice Oh his shoulders, aud castcrs on
,r,a ears, he couldn't have slid along a
ted better. Pa is u short, 'big inaii, u
and tas he was rolling along on his oa
hat he looked likeassofa with 'castorS
and being pushed across 3 room by o q
$ to Finally pa camoio the wall aud ,
: OF 10 stop, and tue girlieil across h
gge with her roller skates in his ne
lool and she callea him an old. brute,f
ady told him il he didn't leirgo other
ted. ouaise siTo would lnarder him, .
erly lhen. my ciluui and me got there {
ON WI aliupntaled pa from the glrl,
Mr.. liI,cd her up, and | told him
the hesven's sake 10 let US take on
live skates, cause he couldn't skate
! IN more than o COW, and pa was Il
the aud said Tor US 70 lot him alone,
ome he would skate all right, aud VIC
K to 20 and l.e struck out agaiu, "
May .ir. II W as ashamed. An old man
the pa ought to know better than to
be boy. This last Time pa sale
! the was going 10 spread himself, and
went am any judge Of big spread, ne
Q he spread himself. Somehow Tie sK
8. ~ rot turned around on his feet,
II, of his fee, got to going in different
nmie rections, and pas ieet were geltip
HON far apart that was afraid 1 W.
sdies have two pas, hslf the size, with
pntlyl ~. trjed IN vet him TO