Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-13

YELLOW SAND WANTED
FOR
MAPLE SUGAR.
CHAPTER XIV.
TIE CID MAN MAKES 4 SPEECH.

THE CID MAN MAKES 4 SPEECH.
There, you drop that" said the gro
Gerry man to the bad boy as he came
limping into the store and began to
tumble around box of Strawberries.
Il have never kicked at your eating my
Goldfish and crackers and cheese and
herring and apples. but there has got
TO be a dividing line somewhere, and /
make it at Strawberries at shillings
a box and only two layers in box. i
only bought one box. hoping some
plumber or gas man would come along
and buy it, and, by gum, everybody that
has been in the store has sampled a
strawberry out of that box, shivered as
though it was sour and gone off with
out asking the price," and the grocery
man looked mad, took a Ratchet and
knocked in the head Of barrel of ap-
pies and said, There. help yourself to
dried apples!"
"Oh, don't want your strawberries or
dried applesy said the boy as he leaned
against showcase and looked at bar
of red, transparent soap. Il was only
trying to fool you. Say, that bar of soap
Is old enough to vote. ! remember See
ing it in your showcase when l was
about a year old, and Pa came in here
with me and held me up to the showcase
to look at that tin tobacco box, and that
round zinc looking glass, and the yellow
wooden pocket comb, and the soap looks
just the same, only little faded. If
would xx-oe1, x,o,,rco1Q
your soap wouldn't dry up on your
hands," and the boy sat down on the
chair without any back, feeling that he
was even with the grocery man.
"You never mind the soap. 1t is paid
for, and that is more than your father
can say about the soap that has been
used in his house the past month";" said
the grocery man as he split up box to
kindle the fire. But we won't quarrel.
What was it heard about band sere-
nading your father and his inviting them
in to lunch?"
Don't let that get out or Pa will kill
me dead. 1t was joke. One of those
Bohemian bands that goes about town
playing tunes for pennies was over on
the next street, and told Pa guessed
some of his friends who had heard we
had baby at the house had hired q
band and was coming in few minutes
to serenade him. and he better prepare
to make speech. Pa is proud Of being
a father at his age. and he thought it no
more than right for the neighbors to
serenade him, and he went to loading
himself for speech In the library, and
me and my chum went out and told the
leader Of the band there was family up
there that wanted to have some music,
and they didn't care for expense, so they
quit blowing where they was and came
right along. None of them could under
stand English except the leader. and he
Only understood enough to go and take
drink when he is invited.
my chum steered the band up to our
house and got them to play Babies on
Our Block and Baby Nine and
stopped all the men who were going
home and told them to wait q minute
and they would see some fun; so when
the band got through the second tune
| and the Prusslans were emptying the
beer out of the horns and Pa stepped out
on the porch there was more nor hun
dred people in front of the house. You'd
a. died to see Pa when he put his hand in
the breast of his coat and struck an atti-
tude. He looked like a congressman or
tramp. The band was scared, cause
they thought he was mad, and some of
them were going to run, thinking he was
going to throw pieces Of brick house at
them. but my chum and the leader kept
them. Then Pa sailed in. He COM
menced, Fellow citizens and then went
way back to Adam and Eve and worked
up to the present day, giving a history OF
the notable people who had acquired
children and kept the crowd interested.
I felt sorry for Pa. cause knew how he
would feel when he came to find out how
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