Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

The grocery man said he had better let
the boy go, as his parents would not like
to have their little pet locked up. So the
policeman let go his ear, and he threw
the empty bottle at a coal wagon. and
after the policeman had brushed the
champagne off his coat and smelled OF
his fingers and started of the grocery
man turned to the boy, who was peeing
q cucumber, and said:
'Now, what kind Of circus have you
been having, and what do you mean by
destroying wine that wey, and where
are your folksr'
"Well, I'll tell You. Ma she has got
the hay fever and has gone to Lake Su-
perior TO see Il she can't stop sneezing,
and Saturday Pa said he and me would
20 out 10 0con uowoo and stay over
Sunday and try and recuperate our
health. Pa said It would be o good ioke
for me not to call him Pa, but to act as
though was his younger brother, and
we would have real nice time.
'T knowed what he wanted Heis an
old masher, that's what's the matter with
him, and he was going to play himself
for bachelor. Oh, thunder, ! got onto
his racket In minute. He was In
troduced to some Of the girls, and Satur-
day evening he danced till the cows come
home. At home he is awful 'fraid Of
rheumatic, and he never sweats or sitsin
draft, but the water just poured ofn
him. and he stood In the door and let
girl fan him till was afraid he would
freeze, and just as he was telling a girl
from Tennessee, who was Joking him
about being mold bach, that he was
not sure as he could always hold out q
woman hater If he was to be thrown into
contact with the charming ladies Of the
sunny south pulled his coat and said:
Pa, how do you s'pose Mas hay fever is
tonight2 III bet she Is just sneezing the
top OF her head off, Wall, sir, You just
oughten seen that girl and Pa. Palooked
at me as Ft was total stranger and
told the porter If that freckled faced
bootblack belonged around the house he
had better be fred out Of the ballroom,
and the girl said the disgustin thing, and
Just before they fired me I told Pa he
had better look out or he would sweat
through his liver pad.
IT went to bed, and Pa staid up till the
lights went out. he was mad when be
went to bed, but he didn't HEX me cause
the people In the next room would hear
him, but the next morning he talked to
me. He said might go back home Sun
day night, and he would stay day or
two. He sat around on the veranda all
the afternoon talking with the girls, and
hen he would see me coming along he
/. .uld look cross. He took girl out
boat riding, and when asked him If !
couldn't go along he said he was afraid !
would get drowned, and he said if went
home there was nothing there too good
for me. and so my chum and me got to
firing bottles Of champagne, and he hit
me in the eye with cork, and | drove
him out doors and was just going to
shell his earthworks when the police
man collared me. Say, what's good for
a black eyer"
The grocery man told him his Pa would
cure it when he got home. "What do
you think your Pas object was in pass
Ing himself of for single man at Oco-
nomowoc," asked the grocery man as he
charged up ',e cucumber to the boys fs-
ther.
"Thats what beats me. Oh, I suppose
he does 1t for his health, the way they all
do when they go to summer resort. but
1t leaves a boy an orphan, don't it, to
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