Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-10-20

than the rest, and he passed under the
first wire clothcsline in the yard all
right and was going for the henhouse
on a jump when his neck caught the
second wire clothesline just as the minis.
ter and two Of the deacOns caught their
necks under the other wire. You know
how a wire, hitting man on the throat,
will set him back head over appetite.
We'll, sir, l was looking out Of the
back window. and wouldn be positive,
but think they all turned double back
summersaults and struck on their ears.
Anyway Pa did. and the gun must have
been cooked or it struck the hammer on
a stone, for it went off, and it was point
ed toward the house, and three of the
visitors got sailed. The minister was
hit the worst, one piece of salt taking
him in the hind leg and the other in the
back, AMI he yelled rs though it was dy-
Mantle. l suppose when you shoot a
man with salt it smarts like when you
get corned beef brine on your chapped
hands. They all yelled, and Pa seemed
to have been knocked silly some way,
for he pranced around and seemed to
think he had killed them. He swore at
the wire clothesline, and then 1 missed
Pa and heard a splash like when you
throw q cat in the river, and then l
thought of the cistern, and went down,
and we took Pa by the collar and pulled
him out. Oh, he was awful damp. No,
sir, it was no duel at all, but a nandent,
and l didn't have anything to do with it.
1.-The gun wasn't loaded to kill, and
the salt only went through the skin, but
those men did yell. Maybe it was my
chum that stirred up the chickens, but l
don't know. He has not commenced to
lead q different life yet, and he might
think it would make our folks sick il
nothing occurred to make them pay at
tention. / think where o family has
been having good deal of exercise, the
way ours has, it hurts them to break of
too suddenly. But the visitors went
home real quick after we got Pa out Of
the cistern, and the minister told Ma he
always felt when he was in our house as
though he was on the verge of a yawn-
ing crater, ready to be engulfed any
minute, and he guessed he wouldn't
come any more. Pa changed his clothes
and told Ma to have them wire clothes.
lines changed for rope ones. 1 think il
is hard to suit Pa, don't your
"Oh, your Pa is all right. What he
needs is rest. But why are you not
working at the livery stable? You haven't
been discharged, have you?" and the
grocery man laid little lump of con-
centrated lye that looked like maple
sugar on a cake of sugar that had been
broken, knowing the boy would nibble it.
mo, sir, was not discharged. but
when livery man lends me a kicking
horse to take my girl out riding that
settles it. asked the boss if couldn't
have quiet horse that would drive him.
self If l wound the lines around the
whip, and he let me have one he said
would 60 all day without driving. You
know how it is when q fellow takes q
girl out riding-he don't want his mind
occupied holding lines.
well, I got my girl in, and we went
out on the Whitefish bay road, and II
was just before dark, and we rode along
under the trees, and l wound the lines
around the whip and put one arm around
my girl and patted her under the chin
with my other hand, and her mouth
looked so good and her blue eyes looked
up at me and twinkled as much as to
dare me to kiss her, and was all Of q
tremble. and then my hand wandered
around by her ear, and drew her head
up to me and gave her q smack. Say,
that was no kind of horse to give to q
young fellow to take girl out riding.
Just as I smacked her felt as though
the buggy had been struck with q pile
driver, and when looked at the horse
he was running away and kicking the
buggy and the lines were dragging on
the ground. was scared, I tell you.
wanted to jump out, but my girl threw
her arms around my neck and screamed
and said we would die together, and just
Is we were going to die the buggy struck
. fence and the horse broke loose and
went of. leaving us in the buggy, tum-
bled down by the dashboard, but we
were not hurt.
1.-THE old horse stopped and went to
chewing grass and looked up at me as
though he wanted to say 'philopene.' I
tried to catch him, but he wouldn't
catch, and then we waited till dark and
walked home, and told the livery man
what l thought Of such treatment, and
he said il had attended to my driving
and not kissed the girl would have been
all right. He said ought to have told
him wanted horse that wouldn't shy
at kissing, but how did know was 60
ing to get up courage to kiss herr A
livery man ought to take it for granted
that when young fellow goes out with
q girl he is going to kiss her and give
him horse according. But quit him
at once. ] won't work for a man that
hasn't got sense. Goshl What kind Of
maple sugar is that? Jei-salemi Whewl
Give me some waterl Oh, my, it's taking
the skin off my MOUTH
The grocery man got him some water
and seemed sorry that the boy had taken
the lump Of concentrated I've by mistake,
and when the boy went out the grocery
man pounded his hands on his knees and
laughed, and presently he went out in
front of the store and found sign:
FRESH LET'S.