Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-06
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~, y 10y man y, hc came III with his
sunday sat on and a lo,.g'i,1 in liz IL
tunt.,r a'l lri'd IF a crui.- # ti-s
from "a n.w took that hal bon just
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n. ~.r." sd thr grocery man rs IL
i.re' Of tie strip HAT i,iri"l from q
,-;4-' :. .:.~;::,. from which he had been
t.-l- a il. Il hold that man vino
-a;- :.,.! a alractical Jokc-th hat i. one
t..t DOS I.,t injurr him is a fol. and
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H.. That's i mo- be lGuct You have in
y,.r roar. What l-ii IAnsic,: L., me
snl,N f IT" And III. -,ruc..rv man nj
over i'll front &c the 10y t. take wn;tf
al thu houGu,t. ~ he did 50 a stream
# Wa'"r Shot uU; Of The innocent looking
l.ufu't and struck linn full in the face
AN! run down over his SHIRT. and the
grocery i,:.,. yc.lc,i murder ana fell over
q. barrel Of AK h,lvrs and scythe snaths
and then groped around for "A towel to
wipe his face.
You condemn skunk said the gro
cory man to the boy as lie took mp an ax
h'ly, and started for him. What kind
If Il goihia~t"i -I,dri gun havr VA got
f"'r Viii maui you. by ii.unde-,"
and hr ro!l'ri up us shirt sleeves.
There, keep your temper. I took test
vote of You on the subject of practical
jokes before the machine began TO play
upon the contiagration that was raging
on your whisky nose, and You said that a
man who would get mad at joke was a
fool, and now | know it. Here, let me
show it to you. There is a rubber hose
runs from the bouquet inside my coat t.
my pants rocket, and there is a bulb of
rubber iil;.t holds about half a pint. and
when Teller smells of the posy squeeze
the bulb, and you see the result. It's fun
where You don't squirt it on person
that gets mad"
The grocery man said he would give
the boy half pound of figs if he would
lend the bouquet to him for half an hour
to play it on a customer, and the boy
fixed 1t on the grocery man and turned
the nozzle so it would squirt right back
into the grocery mans face. He tried it
on the first customer that came in and
got it right in his own face, and then the
bull in his pants pocket got to leaking,
and the rest of the water ran down the
grocery mans trousers leg, and he gave
it up in disgust and handed it back to
the boy.
"How was it your Pa had to be carried
home from the sociable in hack The
other night" asked the grocery man as
he stood close to the stove so his pants
leg would dry. HE has not got to drink
ing again, has he?"
''Oh, no." said the boy as he filled the
bulb with vinegar to practice on his
chum. ut was this bouquet that got Pa
into the trouble. You see, got Pa to
smell of it. and I just filled him chuch,
full of water. He got mad and called
me all kinds of names and said was no
good on earth and / would fetch up in
states prison, and then he wanted to Dor
row it to wear to the sociable. He said
he would have more fun than you could
shake stick at, and asked him if he
didn't think he would fetch up in states
prison, and he said it was different with
man. He said when 4. man played a
joke there was a certain dignity about it
that was lacking in boy. So Ilent it to
him, and we all went to the sociable in
the basement of the church. never see
Pa more kitteny than he was that night.
He filled the bulb with ice water, and
the first one he got to smell of his button
hole bouquet was an old maid who thinks
Pa is a heather, but she likes to be made