Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-03
PAW BUILDS A SHELF
oR, RATHER, TRIES TO 90 so FOR
GEORGES BENEFIT.

But the Cseful Lesson That He In
tended to Convey Fell With a Dull
Thud, and Little Albert Got Most
of Ii.
What | nead,' paw sed yistady
when He got Home "is more EXer-
rise. Ever sints you got the Fool no.
shen TO Be iellus aud dassent Go out
on my Wheal al mites my liver don't
put in Full time emmy more, and Feel
like the other fellcr the next niornen
after lection. whist | could git some
Rall TEEN er sumthing.
IN tell you what" NAV says. If
YOU mead eyercize 50 mutch. SpOSen
you put up that shelf I've wanted
Back of the sink fer about year and
a HafT."
So paw Told me and NAV and little
Albert 10 Hunt up the Saw and
Hatchet and Some naies and He would
do il, Then He Set down on the Back
steps and whisscld the tiorgy Camp
Inectiu rill we found Them.
''lr's Il Good Thug | WAS Brot up on
Il Farm" paw Says. ';ivin the pupp
kick what uecrly rooned its appetite.
''Thare's WHARF people iur, TO Do en-
nything Look at the Graft men of
our Land Tllay was neerly all Brot
up Oh Farms That's WHARF they lurn
How TO Handle tools and Think fer
Themselves and plan. 1t makes me
sod sumtimes to Thinb our Boys amt
got the chanct | Had WHARF are
they man bred and Brot up in the
sitty what could 30 to work and Do a
Job like this? Thay would Haft TO
go and Spend Doler er so to Git Some
Carpenter TO put 1t up Becos thay nev-
er Had the chanct TO iurn How to Han
del Tools
So He Got the Bord sawed in two,
and when He Held 1t up WHARF the
shelf was TO go 1t was TOO short. and
nav says:
ITS almost pity you Dident lurn
TO maizure things Before Cutten
Them when you was on the Farm"
Say" paw says. IF you woulden't
Talk so much mebby person would
Have time fer serious thots wunst
and awhile. Git me that other Bord
up out of the Seller"
1t was a purity Good Fit the next
Time, and paw got Box and Set it
up on one end and put it on the kitchen
chare. so He could reach WHARF the
shelf was to Be. and Then he told
nav to Steddy the Thing while He
stood on top and nailed
He got one uale Drove in purity
Good and Dident mock Down more
than Il Ealf Il Bucket full of plasterin.
But when He was pounden in the next
one NAV went 10 ketch little Albert
and pull him away SO the Bord
woulden't Hit him if it fell. and she
joggled the Box paw was standen On,
and He missed the male and Hit his
thum. and il Sounded like wien maw
or the Hired guri Hits the BeefSteak
with the butt end of the roilen pin
to make 1t Tender.
felt almost as Sad fer paw as I do
fer the gurl that Teaches our Sundy
SkOOi WDeu SDe tfieS 10 SllS SO low
and. Her Silvery Tones braiks in two
in the middle. SO he drOpt the Hatchet
and the Borii come down. nOckin the
tin wair around so it made Il racket
like when they throw the book agent
out of the up stairs Windo on the
Stage. and paw grabbed His thum
and started to jump. But the Box
and the chare went over rhe other
way. and He lii with one foot in the
Dishpan and the other in the Sink.
After NAV got the thum Soked with
witch HaZle and Tide up and paw was
restin comfortable little Albert says:
Say, paw
well, what is it," paw asst.
Some day when you amt Bizzy
and thay amt emmy other excitement
goin on will you please do that aginY'
Poor little Albert. He's sich sweet
iIlnosunt Child it neerly Braiks my
Hart to see him suffer.-Georgie in
Chicago Times Herald.