The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-01-28
PECEk's BAD BOY.
FROM PECK's SUN.

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bad boy, as he rushed in the grocery
store with both hands on the base
ment of his pants, as though a dog
was after him, jumped under the
counter and crawled behind the bar
rel of lump white sugar. "Hide your
self quick or you are a dead man."
The groceryman was cutting a slice
off a cheese for a servant girl with
shawl over her head. His first idea
was to run down cellar, but the girl
slid down there, so the groceryman
simply jumped into a crockery crate
and laid down and perspired, He
wished every dog in the world was
dead. Presently he heard a crunch
ing behind the counter, as of lump
sugar being chewed by boy, and he
raised up out of the crockery crate
slowly, got out of it and walked on
tip-toe behind the counter, and took
the bad boy by the ear led him out by
the stove, and emptied about hat full
of sugar out of his pockets. Then he
looked at the boy. The boy began to
froth at the mouth, and snap, with his
teeth, and he said:
30, yaccinate me, quick. am
bit"
The groceryman gave the boy a
kick in the pantaloons, and said
"There, you are vaccinated. That's
the first application of Pasteur's treat
ment. Ifyou feel spells coming ON
again, will give you more sole leath-
er virus in your system. What you
mean coming in here yelling mad dog,
and soaring my customers down eel
lar? and the groceryman wrapped up
the cheese and called the girl out Of
the cellar and sent her home.
90, only wanted to see if you were
coward. But you amt, 0, no. You
only went into that crockery crate
head first just for fun. Say, do you
believe in vaccinations" and the boy
brushed some straws off the grocery
mans coat.
Eyes, | do" said the groceryman
THE science of vaccination is the
greatest discovery OF this age" and he
turned the boy around to give hin
another kick.
"Well, so do |, said the boy as he
put the stove between himself anC
the groceryman. "The time is com
ing when vaccination is going to bt
used for everything / believe The
time will come when criminals will
be prevented from committing crime
by vaccination. For instance, suppose
you were q thief, and everybody knew
1t. | don't say you are, said the boy
as the groceryman picked up a piec,
of a barrel head, Though your symp
toms are favorable. But suppose yol
were thief. Take an honest man
one everybody knew to be honest, an,
vaccinate him, and when it began t.
work, take some of the virus and vacci
nate you. AS soon as it began t
work on you, your power OF liftin
things that did not belong to yo
, would be gone, You would become a
honest man in spite OF yourself, by vac
cination, ! don't say it could be mad
to work on you, but it might, Ii m
scheme works, and universal vaccine
ton is established there will be no mor
crime. Then they will vaccinate ban
cashiers against defalcations, an
with the virus from an honest mil
lister, say, the cashier can't steal I
save him."
! I'VE can settle the Indian questio
by vaccination. Suppose we take tn
hostile Indians, and vaccinate thel
with virus from these dudes. A
quick as it works on the Indians a
. the fight will be taken out of then
and they will go moping aroun,
afraid to say their souls are the
! own. The virus from a dude--if yc
s can raise virus on dude, and
). seem as though you could, if yo
can make it work on a heifer calf.
would do as much to extermina
Indians, and make them peaceabl
os a whole army. I wouldn't
afraid to fight an Indian myself, aft
he had been vacciuated with the vir
from a dude.
"Say. that will be a GOOD wav