The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-02-06
PICKS BAD BOY.
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bad boy, as he rushed in the grocery store ,ith both hands on the basement Of his pants, as though dog was after him. jumped under the counter and csawled behind the barrel of lump white sugar. Hide yourself quick or you are . dead man." The groceTyman was cutting a slice of cheese for a servant girl with shawl over Der head. His first idea was to run down cellar, but the girl slid down there, so the groo eryman simply jumped into a crockefy crate and laid down and perspiTed. He wished every dog in the world was dead. Presently he heard crunching behind the counter, as of a lump of sugar being chewed by a boy, and he raised up ous of tue crockery crate slowly. got out of 1t and walked on tip- toe behind the counter, and took the bad boy by the ear aud led him out by the stove, and emptied about hat tull of sugar out of his pockets. The boy be- gan to roth at the mouth, and snap with his teeth, and he said:
 "Oh, vaccinate me quick. l am bit"
 The groceryman gave the boy kick in the pantaloons, and said
 There, you arc vaccinated. That is the first application of Pasteur's treat. ment. If you feel spells coming on again, 1 will give you more sole leather virus in your system. What you mean, coming in here yelling mad dog, and soaring my customers down cellar P and the grocery. man wrapped up the cheese and called the girl out of the cellar and sent her home.
 "Oh, only wanted to sec if you were a coward. But you ain't, oh, no. You only went into that crockery crate head first just for fun. Say, do you believe in vaccination ?" and the boy brushed some straw oil the groceryman's coat.
 "Yes, ] do," said the groceryman The science of vaccination is the great est discovery of this CT any other age" and he turned the boy around to give him another kick.
 We'll, so do l." said the boy as he put the stove between himself and the gro- ceryman. "The time is coming when vaccination Is going to be used for every. thing. l believe the tune will come when criminals will be prevented from commit ting crime by vaccin ation. For in stance, suppose you were thief, and everybody kne~ 1t. don't say you are," said the boy, as the groceryman picked up piece of barrel head, though your symp- toms are favorable. But suppose you were thief. Take an honest man, one everybody knew to be honest, and vacci- nate him, and when it began to work, take some of the virus and vaccinate you. As soon as it began to work on you, your power of lifting things that did not be- long to you would be gone. You would become an honest man in spite of your self, by vaccination. don't say it could be made to work on you, but 1t might If my scheme works, and universal vac cination is established, there will be no more crime. Then they will vaccinate bank cashiers against defAlcations, and with the virus from an honest minister, say, the cashier can't steal to save him"
 "Yes, but suppose the minister hap pens to be one of these kind that runs away with other peoples wives7 Wouldn't the cashier be liable to elope, if the virus worked on him remarked the grocery. man, with wise look.
 "Oh, well, may be-" said the boy. But we will have to be careful where we get our virus. But we can settle the In. dian question by vaccination. Suppose we take the hostile Indians, and vaccin ate them with virus from these dudes. As puck as it works on the Indians all the fight will be taken out of them, and they will go moping around. afraid to say their souls are their own. The virus from a dude-if you can raise virus on a dude and 1t seems as though you could. if you can m Ike it work on heifer calf-woul Id do as nuch 10 exterminate the Indians, and make them peaceable, as a whole army. 1 wouldn't be afraid to 6ght an Indian myself, alter he had been vacci- na;ed with the virus from a dude. Say, that will be good way to whip Sullivan. Let him be vaccinated from virus taken from peaceable 2 iaker, and Sullivan would become man of peace, and any of the boys could go up and spat him in the mouth, -nd he would go off and cry, and say he would tell his mother. The only thing 1 am afraid ol Is that they will get to using vaccination in politics. Sup pose all the Democrats should be vacci mated with virus from Republicans, and it should work, the voters thus operated upon would vote the Republican ticket, and ruin the party in power"
 "Oh, don't go on that way, you weary me" said the groceryman, as he took a wash dish of water and a whisk broom, and began sprinkling the floor, prcpara tory 10 the regular semi-annual sweeping out. "Tell me what the commotion was over to your house last nightI l heard your father had to be dug out of the coal ptle under the sidewalk. How did he get there?'
 "Well, I'll tell you. It was all his fault You see, we have been excited abou, this mad dog scare, and 1 asked pa what he would do if he met a mad dog. 1 told him he would get up and dust, but he said he would grab the dog by the hind legs and beat its brains out. He said men were towards generally. He hated to see men get frightened and run when any calamity happened. thought l would try pa, cause never heard of his show ing much sand. So took our black set fer dog, and took pas lather brush and pu, father all around the dogs mouth for