The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-09

through the door at once. tipping over everything that was loose. and scream ing, while the old man, when he saw the snake, got into the front show win dow and trembled and yelled for the police A policeman rushed into the store and when he saw the snake he backed out of the door, and the bad boy sat down on box and began to eat some raisins out of box. as though he was not particularly interested in the commotion.
 Arrest that boy with the snake said the groceryman.
 Come out of that wid your menag- erie" said the policeman. shaking his club.
 Come in and get the snake If you want it." said the boy. T don't want it any more anyway" and he took the stuffed snnke up by the head and laid it across his lap. and began to shake the rattles. and laugh at the grocery man and the policeman and the crowd that had collected in front of the store. The policeman came in laughing. and the old groceryman crawled cut of the show window, and all breathed free again, and finally the policeman went out and drove the crowd away, and went on his beat again. after shaking his club at the boy, and the boy, the groceryman, the snake and the cat re- mained in the store. The groceryman took swig out of a bottle of whiskey to settle his. nerve. and the boy took up his snake and pushed 1t towards the cat, which ran up step ladder and yowled.
 DO you know, kind of like you" said the old groceryman, as he went up behind the bad boy ana took him by the throat, "and 1 think 1t would be g good thing for the community If ! would just choke you to death. You are worse than a mad dog. and you are just running my business"
 T will give you just ten seconds to take your hand off my neck" said the bad boy pulling out dollar watch. and when the time is up. and you have not let loose of me. I will turn loose a couple of live snakes I have in my pocket, and some trantulas. and you will probably be bitten and swell up like poisoned pup, and die under the counter"
 "Ail right. let's be friends" said the old man, as he let go of the bad boy If your parents and the rest of the community can stand having you around. alive, probably 1t Is my duty 70 be a martyr and stand my share. but you are very trying to the nerves By the way put that confounded stuffed snake in the ice box and sit down here and tell me something. saw your father on the street yesterday, and he Is a sight. His stomach is twice as big as it was, and he looks troubled. What has got into himf"
 Well, I'll tell you; dad has got what they call a morbid appetite. whatev- CT you do, old skate. don't you ever get a morbid appetite"
 "what is a morbid appetiteT" asked the old man, as he peeled q banana and began to eat 1t. T can always eat anything that is not tied down. but ! don't know about this morbid busi- ness"
 ..scientists say morbid appetite is one that don't know when 1t has got enough. Dad likes good things. but he wants all there is on the table. Now. at New Orleans, before we came home dad and l went in restaurant to get some oysters. and you know the oys- ters there are the biggest in the world When we got there dad was hungry. and the thought of raw oysters on the half she'll made him morbid. He had g. bIue-point appetite. and ordered four dozen on the half shell, for himself and one dozen fer me. Well. yov