The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-03
XVI.

"Got any vaseliney' said the bad boy
to the grocery man as he went into the
store one cold morning. leaving the dool
open, and picked up q cigar stub thai
had been thrown down neal the stove
and began to smoke It.
shut the door. dunn you'll Was you
brought up in q sawmill? You'll freez<
every potato in the house. No, I haven't
got vaseline. What do you want Of
vaseline?' said the grocery man as he
set the strip key o. q chair by the stove
where It would thaw out.
want to rub 1t on Pas legs" said the
boy a. he tried to draw smoke thror gh
the cigar stub.
What Is the matter with your Pa's
legs? RheumatixY'
"Wuss nor rheumatic" said the boy
- he threw away the cigar stub and
drew some cider In . broken tea cup.
"Pa has got the worst looking hind legs
you ever saw. You see, since there has
been 20 many fires Pa has got offul
scared, and he has bought three fire es-
capes made Of rope with knots in them,
and he has been telling Us every dsy
how he could rescue the whole family in
case Of fire. He told rs to keep cool
whatever happened and to rely on him.
II the house got on fire, we were all to
rush to Pa, and he would v us. Well,
last night Ma had to go to one Of the
neighbors where they was going to have
twins, and we didn't sleep nth, cause
Ma had to come home twice in the night
to get saffron and an old flannel petit.
coat that ! broke In when / was . kid,
cause the people where Ma went did not
know a. twins wa on the bill Of fare,
and they only had flannel petticoats for
one.
PA was cross at being kept awake
and told Ma he hoped when all the chill
dren in Milwaukee were born and got
grown up she would take in her sign
and not 60 around nights and act a.
usher to baby matinees. Pa says there
ought to be . law that babies should ar
rive on the regular day trains and not
wait for the midnight express. Well,
Pa he got asleep, and he slept till about
8 o'clock In the morning, and the blinds
were closed, and 1t was dark in his DOM,
and l had to wait for my breakfast till /
was hungry as a wolf, and the girl told
mo to wake Pa mp, 30 I went up stairs,
ard ! don't know what made me think
Of II. but I had some Of this powder they
make red FIRE with In the theater that
me and my chum had the Fourth Of July,
and / put II in . wash dish In the bath.
room, and I touched IL of and hollered
0re. ] was going to wake Pa up and tell
him Il was all right and laugh at him.
I guess there wa too much fire or I
yelled too loud, cause Pa jumped ont OF
bed and grabbed q rope and rushed
through the hall toward the back WIN.
dow that goes out on a shed.
Il tried to say something, but Pa ran
over me and told me to save myself, and
I got to tho back window to tell him
there wss no Gre just M no let himself
out the window. Ho had one end Of the
rope tied to the leg Of the washstand,
and he wa climbing down the back side
Of the shed by the kitchen with nothing
ON but his nightshirt, and he was the
horriblest looking object ever was, with
his legs flying and trying to stick his
toe nails into the rope and the side OF
the house. / don't think . man looks
well IN society without nothing on but
his nightshirt. I didn't blame the hired
girls for being scared when they NV Pa
and biz Leg coming down Qntsids. ~