Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-29

sidewalk the boy filled his pockets with
raisins and loaf sugar, and then went
out to watch the man carry in his kin
ding wood.
CHAPTER XIX.
HIS PA AN INVENTOR.
"Ha, ha! Now have got you," said
the grocery man to the bad boy the other
morning as he came in and jumped upon
the counter and tied the end Of a ball of
Irvine to the tail of dog and sicked the
dog on another dog that was followinga
passing sleigh, causing the Irvine to pay
out until the whole ball was scattered
along the block. Condemn you, I've a
notion to choke the liver out of you.
Who tied that Irvine to the dogs tail?'
The boy choked up with emotion, and
the tears came into his eyes, and he said
he didn't know anything about the Irvine
or the dog. He said he noticed the dog
come in and wag his tail around the
Irvine, but he supposed the dog was a
friend Of the family and did not disturb
him. Everybody lays everything that
is done to me-" said the boy as he put
his handkerchief to his nose, land they
will be sorry for it when die. have
good notion to poison myself by eating
some Of your glucose sugar."
"Yes, and you do about everything
that is mean. The other day lady came
in and told me to send up to her house
some Of my country sausage done up in
muslin bags, and while she was examin-
ing it she noticed something hard inside
the bags and asked me what it was, and
opened it, and / hope to die if there
wasn't little brass paddock and piece
of red morocco dog collar Embedded in
the sausage. Now, how do you suppose
that got in there?" And the grocery man
locked savage.
The boy looked interested and put on
an expression as of deep thought and
finally said: Il suppose the farmer that
put up the sausage did not strain the
dog meat. Sausage meat ought to be
strained"
The grocery man pulled in about half
block of Irvine after the dog had run
against fence and broke it and told The
boy he knew perfectly well how the
brass paddock came to be in the sausage,
but thinking it was safer to have the
good will Of the boy than the ill will he
offered him handful of prunes.
mo-" said the boy, II have swore of
on moldy prunes. am no kindergarten
any more. For years have eaten rot
ten peaches around this store and every
thing you couldn't sell, but have turned
| over a new leaf now, and after this moth
ing is too good for me. Since Pa has got
20 be an inventor we are going to live
high"
whats your Pa invented? l saw
hearse and three hacks go up ON your
street the other day, and thought may
be you had killed your Pa"
mot much. There will be more than
three hacks when I kill Pa, and don't you
forget it. Well, sir, Pa has struck for
tune If he can make the thing work. He
has got an idea about coal stoves that
will bring him several million dollars if
he gets a royalty of IS on every cook
stove in the world. His idea is to have q
coal stove on castors, with the pipe made
to telescope out and in and rubber hose
for one joint, SO you can pull the stove
all around the room and warm any par
ticular place. Well, sir, to hear Pa tell
about it you would think it would revo-
lutionize the country, and maybe it will
when he gets it perfected, but he came
near burning the house up and scared us
half to death this morning and burned
his shirt off, and he is all covered with
cotton with sweet oil on, and he smells
like salad dressing.
"You see, Pa had a pipe made and
some castors put on our coal stove, and
he tied rope to the hearth of tn" stove
and had me put IN some kindling wood
and coal last night, so he could draw the
stove up to the bed and light the FIRE
without getting up. Ma told him he
would put his foot in it. and he told her
to dry up and let him run the stove biz
ness. He said it took q man with brain
to run patent right, and Ma she pulled
the clothes over her head and let Pa do
the fire act. She has been building the
fires for 20 years and thought she would
let Pa see how good it was. Well, Pa
pulled the stove to the bed and touched
off the kindling wood. Iguess maybe l
got a bundle Of kindling wood that the
hired girl had put kerosene on, cause it
blazed up awful and smoked, and the
blaze bursted out the doors and windows
of the stove, and Pa yelled fire, and
jumped out of bed and rushed in, and he
was the scartest man you ever see, and
you'd died to see how he kicked when
threw pail of water on his legs and
put his shirt ont.
| INA did not get burnt, but she was
pretty wet, and she told Pa she would
pay the S. royalty on that stove and take
the castors off and let it remain station
airy. Pa says he will make it work if he
burns the house down. think it was
real mean in Pa to get mad at me
cause threw cold water on him instead
of warm water to put his shirt out. If
had waited till l could heat water to
the right temperature. Iwould have been
an orphan, and Pa would have been q
burnt offering. But some men always
kick at everything. Pa has given up
bizness entirely and says he shall de-
vote the remainder of his life curing him
self of the different troubles that get
him into. He has retained doctor by
the year, and he buys liniment by the
gallon"
what was it about your folks getting
mp in the middle of the night to eat? The
hired girl was over here after some soap
the other morning, and she said she was
going to leave your house."
well, that was picnic. Pa said he
wanted breakfast earlier than we was in
the habit of having it, and he said
might see to it that the house was awake
early enough. The other night awoke
with the awfulest pain you ever heard of.
1t was that night you gave me and my
chum the bottle of picked oysters that
had begun to work. Well, couldn't
sleep, and thought l would call the
hired girls, and they got up and got
breakfast to going, and then raped on
Pa and Mas door and told them the
breakfast was getting cold, and they got
up and came down. We eat breakfast
by gaslight, and Pa yawned and said it
made man feel good to get up and get
ready for work before daylight-the way
he used to on the farmland Ma she
yawned and agreed with Pa, cause she