Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-04
PAW BUILDS A SHELF
OR, RATHER, TRIES TO DO so FOR
GEORGES BENEFIT.

But the Useful Lesson That lie In
tended to Convey Fell with Dull
Thud. and Little Albert Got Most
of IL.
"What nead,' paw sed yistady
when He got Home, lis more Exer-
else. Ever slnts you got the Fool no
shen TO BE jellus and dassent Go out
on my Wheal at mites my liver don't
nut in Full time emmy more, and Feel
like the other Teller the next mornen
after lection. / whist | could git some
OF the peepcl around here to join a
Ball TEEN er sumthing.
'Ill tell you what" mawesays. If
You mead exerclze SO mulch, Sposen
YOU put up that shelf I've wanted
Back of the sink fer about a year ana
Half"
So paw Told me and nav and little
Albert to Hunt up the Saw and
Hatchet and Some males and He would
do II. Then He Set down on the Back
steps and whlsseld the Gorgy Camp
meetin till we found Them.
IT'S Good Thing | was Brot up on
a Farm" paw Says, Givin the pup a
kick what neerly rooIned its appetite.
"Thares WHARF people lurn to Do en-
nything. Look at the Graft men Of
our Land. Thay was neerly all Brot
ND on Farms. That's WHARF they lurn
How TO Handle tools and Think fer
Themselves and plan. 1t makes me
sad sumtimes to Think our Boys amt
got the chanel / Had. WHARF are
they a man bred and Brot up In the
sltty what could go TO work and Do
Job like this? Thay would Haft to
90 and Spend Doler err so to Git Some
Carpenter to put it up Becos thay new
er Had the chanel to lurn How to Han
del Tools"
SO He Got the Bord sawed in two,
and when He Held 1t up WHARF the
shelf was to 60 it was too short, and
nav says:
ITS almost pity you Dident lurn
to mazure 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 purity Good Fit the next
Time, and paw got Box and Set it
up on one end and put 1t on the kitchen
clare, 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 male Drove in purity
Good and Diden't mock Down more
than Half Bucket full Of plasterin.
But when He was pounden in the next
one nav went to 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 when nav
or the Hired CURL Hits the Beefsteak
with the butt end of the rollen pin
to make 1t Tender.
felt almost as Sad fer paw as do
fer the CURL that Teaches our Sundy
skool when she tries to sing a so low
and Her Silvery Tones braiks in two
in the middle. So he dropt the Ratchet
and the Bord come down, nockin the
tin WAR around so it made a 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 the other
way, and He lit with one foot in the
Dishpan and the other in the Sink.
After nav got the thum Soked with
witch Halle 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
golr on will you please do that aginY
Poor little Albert. He's SIGH a sweet
innosunt Child 1t neerly Braiks my
Hart to see him suffer- George in
Chicago Times-Herald.