Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-13
"Oh. It Lnnned him.

spunky, but that goat seemed to have q
grudge against Pa from the first. II
there were any places on Pas manly
form that the goat did not explore with
his head, Pa don't know where the
places are.
"Oh, it damned him, and when l LATED
Pa got mad. l told him every man ought
to furnish his own goats when he had a
baby, and ! let 60 the rope and started
of, and Pa said he knew how it was,
wanted him to get killed. It wasn't that,
but saw the Nirish woman that owned
the goat coming around the corner Of the
house with cistern POLE Just as Pa
was getting the goat out of the gate the
goat got crossways of the gate, and Pa
yanked and doubled the goat right mp,
and l thought he had broke the goats
neck and the woman thought so, too, for
she jabbed Pa with the cistern pole just
below the belt, and she tried to get a hold
on Pas hair, but he had her there. No
woman can get the advantage of Pa that
way, cause Ma has tried it. Well, Pa
explained it to the woman, and she let
Pa off if he would pay her g for dam
ages to her goat, and he paid it, and then
we took the nannygoat, and it went
right along with US. But have got my
opinion of baby that will drink goats
milk. Gosh, it is like this stuff that
comes in spoiled cocoanut.
1.-The baby hasn't done anything but
blat since the nurse coupled it onto the
goat hydrant. had to take all my play
things out of the basement to keep the
goat from eating them. Iguess the milk
will taste Of powder and singed hair now.
The goat got to eating some roman can
dies me and my chum had laid away in
the coal bin and chewed them around the
furnace, and the powder leaked out, and
coal fell out Of the furnace on the
hearth, and you'd a. died to see Pa and
the hired girl and the goat. You see, Pa
can't milk nothing but milk wagon,
and he got the hired girl to milk the
goat, and they were just hunting around
the basement for the goat with a tin cup
when the fireworks went off. Well,
there was balls Of green and red and blue
fire and spilled powder blazed up, and
the goat just looked astonished and
looked on as though it was sorry so much
good fodder was spoiled, but when its
hair began to burn the goat gave one
snort and went between Pa and the hired
girl like it was shot out of a cannon, and
it knocked Pa over a wash boiler into the
coal bin and the hired girl in among the
kindling wood, and she crossed herself
and repeated the catekism, and the goat
jumped up on the brick furnace, and
they couldn't get it down.
81 heard the celebration and went
down and took Pa by the pants and
pulled him out of the coal bin. and he
said he would surrender and plead
guilty of being the biggest fool in Mil
waukee. Ipulled the kindling wood of
the hired girl, and then she got mad and
said she would milk the goat or die. Oh,
that girl has got sand. She used to work
in the glass factory. Well, sir, it was a
sight worth shillings admission to see
that hired girl get upon stepladder to
milk that goat on top Of the furnace,
with Pa sitting on a barrel Of potatoes
bossing the job. They are going to fix
a gangplank to get the goat down off
the furnace. The baby kicked on the
milk last night. l guess besides tasting
of powder and burnt hair the milk was
too warm on account of the furnace
Pa has got to grow new lot Of hair on
that goat or the woman won't take it
back. She don't want no bald goat
Well, they can run the baby and goat to
suit themselves. cause l have resigned.
l have gone into business. Don't you
smell anything that would lead you to
surmise that | had gone into business?
No drug store this time" and the boy
got up and put his thumbs in the arm
holes Of his vest and looked proud.
"Oh. don't know as smell anything
except the faint odor of horse blanket.
What you gone into anyway" and the
grocery man put the wrapping paper I'M
der the counter and put the red chalk in
his pocket SO the boy couldn't write any
sign to hang up outside.
You hit it the first time. have &C
cepted a situation of teller in livery
stable" said the boy as he searched
around for the barrel of cut sugar which
had been removed.
Teller in livery stable! Well, that
is new one on me. What is a teller in
q livery stable?" and the grocery man
looked pleased and pointed the boy to
barrel of 7-cent sugar.
Don't you know what a teller is in
livery stable? 1t is the same as teller
in bank. l have to grease the harness,
oil the buggies and curry off the horses,
and when man comes in to hire horse
| have to go down to the saloon and tell
the livery man. That's what teller is.
| like the teller part of it. but greasing
harness is little too rich for my blood;
but the livery man says If l stick to it
will he governor Some day ,cansa most