The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-17
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CHAPTER XVIII.


II AdAflE 0 ANlll.
HIS PA GETS MAD.
II was down to the drug store thi
morning and saw your Ma buying 10
Of court plaster, enough to make shirt
l should think. What's she doing wit
so much court plaster" asked the gro
Gerry man Of the bad boy as he came il
and pulled of his boots by the stove an,
emptied out lot Of snow that had col
lected as he walked through drift.
"Oh, I guess she is going to patch Pl
up 50 he will hold water Pas temper
got him into the worst muss you ever Sc,
last night. If that museum was her,
now, they would hire Pa and exhibit him
as the tattooed man. tell you l have
got too old to be mauled as though was
8 kid, and any man who attacks me
from this ont wants to have his peace
made with the insurance companies and
know that his calling and election is
sure, cause l am bad man and don't
you forget it," Ard the boy pulled on
his boots and looked so cross and des-
perate that the grocery man asked him
II he wouldn't try little new cider.
Good heavens" said the grocery man
as the boy swallowed the cider, and his
face resumed its natural look, and the
piratical frown disappeared with the ci-
der. you have not stabbed your ia
ther. have you? have feared that one
thing would bring on another with you
and that you would yet be hung"
Nav, haven't stabbed him. 1t was
another cat that stabbed him? You see,
Pa wants me to do all the work around
the house. The other day he bought al
load OF kindling wood and told me to|
carry 1t into the basement. have not
been educated up to kindling wood. and
/ didn't do it. When supper time came
and Pa found that had not carried inI
the kindling wood, he had a hot box, and
he told me II that wood was not in when
he came back from the lodge that he
would warm my jacket.
well, / tried to hire some one to carry
it in and got q man to promise to come
In the morning and carry it in and take
his pay in groceries, and was going to
buy the groceries here and have them
to Pa. But that wouldn't help
me out that night. ! knew when Pa
came home he would search for me, 90 /,
'lept in the back hall on cot. But
1idn't want Pa to have all his trouble for
nothing. 90 ] borried an old tom cat that
my chums old maid aunt owns and nut
The cat in my bed. Thought il Pa came
n my room after me and found that by
his unkindness had changed to tom cat
ie would be sorry. That is the biggest cat
Tou ever see and the worst fighter in curl
ward. 1t isn't afraid Of anything and
an whip a Newfoundland dog quicker
han You could put sand in barrel oil
ugar. Well, about II o'clock heard Pa
umble over the kindling wood, and II
new by the remark he made as the wood
lid around under him that there was go
ng to be cat fight real quick. He GOMEZ
p to Mas room and sounded Ma as to
Thether Hennery had retired to his yir.
nous couch. Pals awful sarcastic when
Q tries to be. could hear him take off
is clothes and hear him say as he picked
p trunk strap: Iguess will go up to
Is room and watch the smile on his face
he dreams Of angels. Iyearn to press
Inn to my aching bosom
II thought to myself mebbe you won't /
earn SO much directly. He come up| ,
airs, and could hear him breathing !
ard. l looked around the corner and ,
'uld see he just had on his shirt and .
lnts, and his suspenders were hanging /.
own, and his bald head shone like n
icium light just before it explodes. Pa
ent in my room and up to the bed, and !
could hear him say, Come out here !
I'd bring in that kindling wood or I !
III start fire on your base burner with r
is strap And then there was q yowl- q
z such as never heard before, and Pa
i'd, Helen Blazes,' and the furniture g
my room began to fall around and q
eak. Oh, myl ! think Pa took the :
m cat right by the neck, the way he :
'es me, and that left all the cats feet
ee to get in their work. BY the way
e cat squawled. as though it was being
oked, know Pa had him by the neck. .
nppose the cat thought Pa was a whole :
ok Of Newfoundland dogs, and the cat !.
=
d record on dogs, and II kicked =
'ful. Pas shirt was no protection at q
in cat fight, and the cat just walked n
around Pas stomach, and Pa yelled, Il
olice' and Fire and Turn on the
Sc, and he called Ma, and the cat n
WED. II Pa mad had the presence Of W
nd enough to have dropped the cat or n
lied ii up in the mattress, it would h,
We been all right, but a man always Ia
s ratified in time Of danger, and he !,
ID onto the cat and started down stairs g,
ling murder, and he met Ma coming !,
! guess Mas nightcap or something "
ghtened the cat some more, cause he ~
bbed Ma on the nightshirt with one er
ID foot, and Ma said Mercy on u.s. q,
4 she went back, and Pa stumbled on
hand sled that was on the stairs, and q
y all fell down, and the cat got away &c
4 went down in the coalbin and th
rlod all uiUht Do acl NJ. ..x =