The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-28
CHAPTER Xl.
HIS PA IS "NlsH1ATED.'

Cl1ABIEh Al,
HIS PA IS "NIsHIATED."
"Say, are you a Mason or "a Nodfellow
or auything?" asked the bad boy Of the
grocery man as he went TO the cinnamon
bag on the shelf and took outa long stick
Of cinnamon bark to chew.
"Why, yes, of course ] am, but what
set you to thinking Of that?" asked the
grocery man as he went to the desk and
charged the boys father with half
pound of cinnamon.
"Well, do the goats bunt when you
nishiate a fresh candidate
mo, Of course not. The goats are
cheap ones, that have no life, and we
muzzle them and put pillows over their
heads SO they can't hurt anybody" said
the grocery man as he winkod at q broth
er odd Fellow who was seated on a sug-
ar barrel, looking mysterious. "Butwhy
do you ask?'
ooh, nothin, only 7 wish me and my
chum had muzzled our goat with a pill
low. Pa would have enjoyed his becom-
ing a member of our lodge better You
see, Pa had been telling us how much
good the Masons and Odd Fellows did
and said we ought to try and grow up
good so we could jine the lodges when
we got big. and l asked Pa if it would do
any hurt for us to have play lodge in
my room and pretend to nishiate, and
Pa said it wouldn't dOany hurt. He said
it would improve our minds and learn
us to be men. So my chum and me bor-
ried a goat that lives in a livery stable.
Say, did you know they keep goat in a
livery stable so the horses won't get sick?
They get used to the smell of the goat,
. and after that nothing can make them
sick but glue factory wish my girl
, boarded in livery stable. Then she
would get used to the smell.
81 went home with her from church
| Sunday night, and the smell Of the goat
on my clothes made her sick to her stun
/ mick, and she acted just like an excur-
sion on the lake and said if l didn't go
, and bury myself and take the smell out
! of me she wouldn't never go with me
9 again. She was just as pale as a ghost,
and the Precipitation on her lip was just
{ zif she had been hit bya street sprinkler.
9 You see, my chum and me had to carry
! the goat up to my room when Pa and Ma
/ was out riding, and he blatted so we had
? to tie a handkerchief around his nose,
, and his feet made such a noise on the
: floor that we put some baby's socks on
, his feet. Gosh, how a goat smells don't
5 it? / should think you Masons must
have strong stummix. Why don't you
q have a skunk OF mule for trademark?
. Take a mule and auoint it with linn
] burg cheese, and you could nishiate and
. make a candidate smell just as bad as
e with gosh darn mildewed goat
/ "Wen, my chum and me practiced
a with that goat until he could bunt the
g picture Of a goat every time. We bOr-
{ ried q buck beer sign from a saloon man
O and hung it on the back Of chair, and
e the goat would hit it every time. That
night Pa wanted to know what we were
doing up in my room, and I told him we
were playing lodge and improving our
minds, and Pa said that was right.
There was nothing that did boys Of our
age half so much good as to initiate men
and store by useful nollidge Then my
chum asked Pa if he didn't want to come
up and take the grand bumper degree,
and Pa LATED and said he didn't care if
he did just to encourage us boys in iunO-
cent pastime that was so improving to
our intelleX. We had shut the goat up
in a closet in my room, and he had got
over blatting, so we took off the handker-
chief, and he was eating some Of my pa
per collars and skate straps. We went
up stairs and told Pa to come up pretty
soon and give three distinct raps, and
when we asked him who comes there he
must say, "A pilgrim who wants to join
10 your ancient order and ride the goat
y ma wanted to come, up too, but we
4 told her if she come in it would break
= up the lodge, cause a woman couldn't
= keep a secret, and we didn't have any
. side saddle for the goat. Say, if yor
y, never tried it, the next time you nishiatC
a man in your Mason's lodge you sprin
n kle a little kyan pepper on the goats
!, beard just afore you turn him loose
;, You can get three times as much fun t.
!. the square inch Of goat You wouldn'
7. think it was the same goat. Well, W,
: got all fixed and, Pa raped, and we le
- him in and told him he must be blind
u folded, and he got on his knees a-laffing
4 and tied a towel around his eyes, anC
\ then / turned him around and made hin
! get down on his hands also, and then hi
A., back was right toward the closet door
= and l put the buck beer sign righ
: against PAS clothes. He was a-lafinl
all the time and said we boys were a
n full of fun as they made 'em, and w
! told him it was a solemn occasion, ant
. we wouldn't permit no levity, and if h
/, didn't stop laffing we couldn't give hin
a the grand bumper degree
! "Then everything was ready, and m,
= chum had his hand on the closet door ant
4 some kyan pepper in his other hand, an,
/ asked Pa in low bass tones if he felt a
:, though he wanted to turn back or if h
had nerve enough TO go ahead and TAX
q the degree. l warned him that it wa
% full Of dangers, as the goat was loade,
u for bear, and told him he yet had time Il
"a retrace his steps if he wanted to, IL
= said he wanted the whole bizness, and W
- could go ahead with the menagerie. Thel
" said to Pa that if he had decided to e
!, ahead and not blame us for the conse
quences to repeat after me the follow
Fl ing; Bring forth the royal bumper an,
n let him bump