The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-20
CHAPTER XIV.
HIS PA DISsECTED.

understand your Pa has got to drink
ing again like . fish" says the grocery
man to the bad boy as the youth came
in the grocery and took handful Of
dried apples. The boy ate dried apple
and then made up terrible face, and
the grocery man asked him what he was
trying to do with his face. The boy
caught his breath and then said:
Say, don't you know any better than
to keep dried apples where a boy can get
hold Of them when he has got the
mumps? You will kill some boy yet by
such dunn carelessness. thought these
were sweet dried apples, but they are
sour as a boarding house keeper. and
they make me tired. Didn't you ever
have the mumps? Gosh, but don't it
hurt though? You have got to be darn
careful when you have the mumps, and
not go out bob shedding or skating, or
You will have your neck swell up bigger'n
. milk pail. Pa says he had the mumps
once when he was o boy and it broke
him all up.
well, never mind the mumps; how
about your Pa spreeing 1t? Try one u
those pickles in the jar there, won't you?
! always like to have boy enjoy him.
self when he comes to see me-" said the
grocery man, winking to man who was
filing an old fashioned tin box with to-
bacco out of the pail, who winked back,
as much as to say, If that boy eats q
pickle on top Of them mumps, we will
have a circus sure.
you can't play no pickle on me, not
when ! have the mumps. Ma passed the
pickles to me this morning, and took
one mouthful and like to had the lock.
jaw. But Ma didn't do 1t on purpose,
guess. She never had the mumps and
didn't know how discouraging a pickle
Is. Darn II didn't feel as though l had
been struck in the butt Of the ear with
brick. But about Pa. He has been
fuller'n Q goose ever since New Years
day. ! think it's wrong for women to
tempt feeble minded persons with liquor
on New Years. Now, me and my chum
we can take drink and then let Il alone.
We have got brain, and know when we
have got enough, but Pa when he gets
to going don't ever stop until he gets SO
sick that he can't keep his stummick in
side Of hisself. It Is getting 30 they look
TO me to brace Pa up every time he gets
On tear, and guess l fixed him this
Eime 80 he will never touch liquor again.
scared him SO his bald head turned
gray In single night"
"What under the heavens have you
lone to him nowT' says the grocery MAJ
n astonishrent. II hope you haven't
lone anything you will regret in after
1ears."
Regret nothing!" said the boy as he
urned the lid of the cheesebox bsch
md took the knife and sliced of piece
4 cheese and took few crackers out Of
barrel and sat down on soapbox by
way from tho dissecting room before
70 could turn him loose. He said that
'as all right, and so we blindfolded
i'm and made him take q bloody oath
18th his hand ON a piece Of ice that we
I'D him was piece Of another corpse,
nd then we took him out Of the house
nd walked him around the block four
mes and left him on q corner after he
I'd promised to send the money to an
ldress that I gave him.
I'VE told him to stand still Eve min
les after we left him, then remove the
indfold and go home. We watched
IN from behind board fence, and he
ok of the handkerchief, looked at the
sme ON q street lamp and found he
as not far from home. He started Oh
ying: That's q pretty narrow escape,
d man. No more whisky for YOU.
d not see him again until this morn
9, and when asked him where he
a. last night he shuddered and said:
lone OF your darn business. But
'ver drink any more, you remember
at Ma was tickled and she told me
was worth my weight In gold. Well,
'od day. That cheese is musty." And
Q boy went and caught on passing
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