Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1892-01-28
MR.. AND MRS. B6WSER.

Four or five weeks ago, when Mr..
Bowser came home one evening and
found Mrs Bowser in bed, and was
informed that it was case OF grip,
he blurtcd out:
Grip! And you have gone to
bed and had the doctor for a case OF
grip? Humphi'
But l am awfully sick" ,she re-
piled.
Rats, Mrs. Bowser! You just
imagine it! This simply goes to
prove what have often asserted
that no person Of any strength OF
character has ever had the grip. It's
namhy-pamhy thing, which a child
three years old ought to be ashamed
Of"
You may have it before you get
through"
IF | do-~-if l am silly enough to
lay down with any such thing as
that hope somebody will pound
me to death with a fence-ra.l! |
have tie grip? l call doctor for
such nonsensical thing as that!
Not if my name is Bowser!''
Mrs. Bowser was in bed three or
four days, and Mr.. Bowser lost no
opportunity to talk about her fool
ishness in giving up to such tritling
ailment. He likewise remarked to
the doctor that he thought it very
foolish in the medical fraternity to
encourage the public in any such de-
fusion.
you'll probably have it, and when
it comes you'll change your opin-
ion," CURLY replied the doctor
Il will, EN- There isn't enough
grip in North America to pull down
one of my ears. I'd really like to be
attacked, just to show you how
strength of will could throw it off. =
A week ago, at three o'clock one
afternoon Mrs. Bowser heard some
thing fall against the front door.
She called to the girl to open it and
see whether it was bag OF potatoes
or a corn-sheller. 1t was neither.
1t was Mr.. Bowser-not the Mr.. Bow
ser who had gone away in the morn
ing stepping high and carrying his
chin in the air, but the Mr.. Bowser
who had come home shaking and
shiverlng and half bumped over until
he didn't appear to be four feet high.
1t was case of the grip. AS he sat
in his office gaylv whistling "Old
Black Joe" q sudden shiver shivered
up his back. He looked around to
see who had flung it, but it was
followed by two more he jumped up
with feeling that all the ice thus
far cut on the Hudson had been
loaded on his back. A whole drove
of shivers and shakes and chills kept
waltzing from his heels to his neck
and back again, and there was roar
ING in his head as if he stood on the
brink of Niagara. A boy who came
in with telegram, looked Mr.. Bow
ser over and said:
"Old man, you've got it, and got
it bad! If you've any home to go
to you'd better skip. IL | never see
YOU again then farewell"
Mr.. Bowser didn't stop to exercise
any will-power to throw it off. lie
got intolhis over coat and made for
home. The street-car conductor
tried to console him by saying that
he would probably be out in four
weeks, and woman on the car
named over twenty-five OF heI
acquaintance who had been carried
off in week.
Heavens, Mr.. Bowser, but what
does this mean" demanded Mrs.
Bowser, as he staggered into the
hall.
"Tm-r m a dead man" be gasped
as she pulled off his overcoat and
helped him on the lounge in the
back parlor.
Have you got chilli"
Yves, Get forty bed quilts %
cover me up
And does your back ache:"
Does it? Great Scots, but 1 don t
believe | can live half an hour long.
err! It's congestive chill, l sup
pose.
Its simply the grip, Mr.. Bowser,
That's exactly the way everybody is
taken. Hadn't you better exercise
a little will-power?'
Mr.. Bowser looked at her reproach-
fully and shivered and shook,