Daily Republican., 1884-02-20
THE BAD BOY A. A DRUGCLERK.

Bald the grocery man, as he went mp
to the boy, snuffed couple of times,
and then held his hand to his nose
'Tne Board of Health will kerosene you,
II they ever smell that smell, and send
you to the glue factory. What bust.
ness have you gone into that makes you
smell 30 rank?"
"Well, you see pa thought II was
time learned u trade or a profession.
and saw a sign in drug store window,
boy wanted, and as he had boy he
didn't want he went to the druggist and
got job for me.
"This smell on me will 20 off in a
few weeks. You know | wanted to
try all the perfumery in the store, and
after had got about forty different
extracts on my clothes, another boy
that worked there he fixed up a bottle
of benzine and assafGtida and brim-
stone and whole lot Of other horrid
stuff, and labeled it 'rose geranium,
aud guess ! just wallowed in it. 1t Is
awful, amt 1t? 1t kerfiummixed ma
when l went into the diuing-room the
first night l got home from the store,
and broke pa all up. The air seems
fixed around where am, and every
body seems to know who fixed it. A
girl came into the store yesterday to buy
a satchet, and there wasn't anybody
there but me, and ldidn't know what 1t
was, and took down everything in the
store, near, and before found 1t the
proprietor came in. The girl asked the
proprietor If there wasn't good deal of
sewer gas in the store, and he told me
to go and shake myself. Well, she told
me a satchet was something for the
stummick, and l thought the nursing
bottle was the nearest Thing to it,"
:" should think you would drive
all the customers away from the
store" said the grocery man, as he
opened the door TO let the fresh air In.
=" ! don't know but will, but | am
hired for month on trial, and | shall
stay. You nee shan't practice on any,
body but pa for a spell. made up my
mind to that when | gave woman
some salts of powdered bOrax, and she
came back mad. Pa seemed to want to
encourage me, and is willing to take
anything ask him to. He had a sore
the boss drugger teld me to put some
tannin and chlorate ofpotash in a mortar
and grind t,and let pa pound it with
the mortar, and while he was pounding
it dropped in couple of drops of sui
phuric acid, and it exploded and blowed
pas hat clear across the store, and pa
was whittier than sheet.
"He said he guessed his throat was
all right, and he wouldn't come near
me that day. The next day pa came In
ard | was laying for him. l took 8
white seidletz powder and blue one
and dissolved them in separate glasses,
and when pa came | asked him If he
didn't want some lemonade, and he
said he did, and gave him the sour
one and he drank II. He said it was too
sour and then l gave him the other
glass, that looked like water, to take
the taste out of his mouth, and he
drank it. Well, sir, when those two
powders got together in pas stomach
and began to siz and foam, pa pretty
near choked to death, and the suds came
out of his nost,ils, and his eyes stuck
out, and as soon an he could get breath
he yelled out fire, and said he was
poisoned, and called for doctor, but
thought as long as we had doctor
right in the family there was no use Of
hiring one, so | got a stomach pump,
and would had him bailed out in nc
time, only the proprietor came in and
told me to 90 and wash some bottles,
and he gave pa a drink of brandy, an6
pa said he felt better
"Pa has learned where he kept the IL
quor, and he comes in two or three
times day with pain in his stomach.
They play awful mean tricks on a boy
In drug store. The first day they put
a chunk of something SOFT of blue into
a mortar, and told me to pulverise 1t,
and then make it up into two grain
pills. Well, sir, l pounded that chunk
all the aft rnOon and it never pulverised
at all, and the boss tod me to hurry up,
and the woman was waiting for the
pills, and l mauled it till was nearly
dead and when 1t was time to 60 to
supper the boss came and said
"You have been pounding all day on q
chunk of India rubber instead Of blue
mass = Well, how did know But
will get even with them if stay long
enough, and don't you forgetit. If you
have prescription you want filled you
come down 10 the store and l will put
it up for you myself, and then you
will be sure to get what you pay for"
Yes," said the grocery man, as he
cut off o piece of limberger cheese and
pat on the stove, to purify the air in the
room. L" should laugh to see myself