The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-09-08

a policeman came along leading MN Dy
the ear
The grocery man said re had better let
the boy 60, 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 coal wagon, and
after the policeman had brushed the
champagne off his coat and smelled Of
his fingers and started off the grocery
man turned TO the boy, who was peeling
cucumber, and said:
"Now, what kind of circus have you
been having and what do You mean by
destroying wine that way, and where
are your folks:"
"Well, Ill tell you. Ma she has got
the hay fever and has gone to Lake Su-
perior to see if she can't stop sneezing.
and Saturday Pa said he and me would
go out to Oconomowoc and stay over
Sunday and try and recuperate our
health Pa said it would be good joke
for me not to call him Pa, but to act as
though was his younger brother. and
we would have real nice time.
II knowed what he wanted. He is an
old masher. that's what's the matter with
him, and he was going to play himself
for a bachelor. Oh. thunder. got onto
his racket in n 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 off'n
him, and he stood in the door and let
girl fan him till l was afraid he would
freeze, and just as he was telling girl
from Tennessee, who was joking him
about being a mold bach, that he was
not sure as he could always hold out
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 yon s'pose Mas hay fever is
tonight? I'll bet she is just sneezing the
top of her head off. Wall, sir, you just
oughten seen that girl and Pa. Pa looked
at me as III was total stranger and
told tho porter if that freckled faced
bootblack belonged around the house he
had better be fired out of the ballroom,
and the girl said the disgustin thing, and
just before they fired me / told Pa he
had better look out or he would sweat
through his liver pad.
II went to bed, and Pa staid up till the
lights went ont. He was mad when he
went to bed. but he didn't lick me cause
the people In the next room would hea.
him, but the next morning he talked to
me. He said might 90 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
when he would see me coming along he
would 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 Invent
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 a 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
black eye:"
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 off for single man at Oco-
nomowoc," asked the grocery man as he
charged up the cucumber to the boys ia
Their.
"That'swhat beats me. Oh, suppose
he does it for his health. the way they all
do when they 20 to asuminer resort, but
it leaves boy an orphan. don't Il, tc
have such kitteny parents"
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