Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-06
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something of by anybody that wears
pants, and when Pa sided up to her and
began talking about what great work
the Christian wimmen of the land were
doing in educating the heather she felt
real good, and then shenoticed Pas posy
in his buttonhole, and she touched it,
and then she reached over her beak to
smell of it.
PA he squeezed the bulb, and about
half teacupful Of water struck her
right in the nose, and some went into
her strangle place, and, oh, my, didn't
she yell. The sisters gathered around
her, and they said her face was all COW
cred with perspiration and the paint was
coming off, and they took her in the
kitchen, and she told them Pa had slapped
her with dish of ice cream, and the
wimmen told the minister and the dea-
cons, and they went to Pa for an expla-
nation, and Pa told them it was not so,
and the minister got interested and got
near Pa, and Pa let the water go at him
and hit him on the eye, and then dea-
con got dose, and Pa laughed, and then
the minister, who used to 60 to college
and be hazer and boxer, he got mad and
squared off and hit Pa three times right
by the eye, and one of the deacons kicked
Pa, and Pa got mad and said he could
clean out the whole shebang and began
to pull off his coat, when they bundled
him out doors, and Ma got mad to see
Pa abused, and she left the sociable, and
l had to stay and eat ice cream and
things for the whole family. Pa says
that settles it with him. He says they
haven't got any more Christian charity
in that church than they have in a tan
merry. His eyes are just getting over be-
ing black from the sparring lessons, and
now he has got to go through oysters
and beefsteak cure again. He says it is
all owing to me-"
well, what has all this got to do with
your putting up signs in front of my
store, Rotten Eggs and 'Frowy Butter
Speciality" said the grocery man as he
took the boy by the ear and pulled him
around. You have got an idea you are
smart, and / want you to keep away
from here. The next time catch you
in here shall call the police and have
you pulled. Now gitw
The boy pulled his ear back on the side
of his head where it belonged, took out
cigarette and lit it, and after putting
smoke in the face of the grocery cat that
was sleeping on the cover to the sugar
barrel he said:
IF was provision pirate that never
sold anything but what was spoiled SO
it couldn't be sold in a first class store,
who cheated in weights and measures,
who bought only wormy figs and de-
cayed Goldfish, who got his butter from
fat rendering establishment, his cider
from vinegar factory and his sugar
from glucose factory, would not in
suit the son of one of the finest families.
Why, sir, could go out on the corner
and when | saw customers coming here /
could tell story that would turn their
stomachs and send them to the grocery
on the next corner.
Suppose l should tell them that the
cat sleeps in the dried apple barrel, that
the mice made nests in the prime box
and rats run riot through the raisins, and
that you never wash your hands except
on Decoration day and Christmas, that
You wipe your nose on your shirt sleeves
and that you have the itch, do you think
your business would be improved? Sup