Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-27
CHATTER MIX.

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"'.....>'''N 81 MAY,
"Ii'll'' SAM ':.' grocery man I" til
had h"y a. h" cane III lo"n-nE sick al
marI and al hr"ke NJ. How Is Your
mu>cl" th,> morning:
All rlGht enough, said the boy. with
a look Of inquiry. as though wondering
what was coming next. Why"
"Oh. nothing, only l was going to
grind the hatchot and some knives and
things TIL, morning. andI thought may
he Won would like 10 "a out in the shed
ami turn the birthstone for 1ne to devel-
op your muscles. Turning a yrindstone
Is the hcalthi.-t thing boy can do
That Is all right enough" said the
bad hoy a. IL, took II, a sweet cracker,
lint please take Il good look at me. Do
Hook Ike a grinlsto;ie boy? Do | re-
s-mllr a good little boy that can't say
no and goes off and turns grindstone
half day for some Old duffer who pays
him 10y giving him handful of green
currants or telling him he will be man
SoI.Iu day. and the boy goes off one way
with lame back, while the good man
goes the other way with sharp scythe
and chuckle at the softness of the boy:
You are mistaken in me. have passed
the grindstone period, and you will have
to pick up another sardine who has never
done circular work. Not any grind
stone for Hennery, if you please"
''You are getting too smart" said the
groceryman as he charged a pound Of
sweet crackers to the boys father. "You
don't have to turn the grindsone if you
don't want to-"
That's what Thought" says the boy
as he takes a handful of blueberries.
You grindstone sharps who are always
laying for fool boy to give taffy to and
get him to break his back don't play it
fine enough. You bear on too hard on
the grindstone. l have seen the time
when a man could get me to turn a
grindstone for him till the COWS come
home by making me believe it was fun
and by telling me he never saw a boy
that seemed to throw SO much soul into
turning grindstone as did, but have
found that such men are hypocrites.
They inveigle boy into their nest, like
the spider does the fly, and at first they
don't bear on hard, but just let the blade
of the ak or the scythe touch the grind
stone, and they make boy believe he is
bigger man than old Grant.
They bet him he will get tired, and
he bets that he can turn a grindstone as
long as anybody, and when the boy has
got his reputation at stake then thew be-
gin to bear ON hard, and the bow gets
tired, but he holds out, and when the
tools are ground he says he is as fresh as
daisy when he is tired enough to die.
Such men do more to teach bows the hol-
lowness of the world and its tricky fea-
lures than anything, and they teach bows
to know who are friends and who are
foes No, sir, the best way is to hire a
grown person to turn your grindstone
remember l turned a grindstone four
hours for farmer once, and when got
through he said could 90 To the snrino
and drink all the water I wanted for
nothing. Hewas the highest man I lever
saw. Why, tight! That man was tight
enough to hold kerosener'
"That's all right. Who wanted you
~ S~~ANSeOAAO esAy W oyt Dut Wudt
is it about your Pa and Ma being turned
out of church? l hear that they SCAM
dalized themselves horribly last Sum
day."
"Well, you see, me and my chum put
up job on Pa to make him think Sun
day was only Saturday, and Ma she fell
into it, and 1 guess we are all going to
get fired from the church for working
on Sunday. You see, they didn't go to
meetin last Sunday because Mas new
bonnet hadn't come, and Monday and
Tuesday it rained, and the rest Of the
week was SO muddy no one called, or
they could not get anywhere, so Monday
slid out early and got the daily paper,
and on Tuesday my chum he got the pa
per Oft the steps and put Mondays paper
In its place. Watched when they were
reading it, but they did not notice the
date.
"Then Wednesday we put TUESDAYS