The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-03-31
FISHING BAREHEADED TO MAKE
HIS HAIR GROW.

other. and tried 10 smile two cracked.
and wrinkled and scorched smiles.
across the unt at each other.
Now. you little japanese monkey. |
hope you are satisfied. after you have
wrecked my store. and fitted me fer
the hospital. and l want you 10 get out
OF here. and never come back
say. you are unreasonable. Do
you think I will 20 of and leave you
to die here under the counter Of blood
poisoning. like a dog hat has eaten
2 loaded sausage Never. | am going
to nurse you through this thing, and
bring you out as good as new. | know
how you feel towards me. Dad felt
the same way towards me. down in
Florida, the time he got skun.
What about your dad getting skun
in Florida I never heard about it,
said the old groceryman. as he took a
hand mirror and looked at his burned
face.
Why. that was when we first got
down there said the boy, looking at
the old man and laughing. Gee. but
YOU would make a boy laugh If his lips
we're chapped. You look like a creased
bic at a barbecue. Well. when We
/ struck Florida. and dad got so he
/ could assimilate high balls. and eat
/ oranges of the trees. like a GRAF. he
said he wanted to 20 fishing. and get
tanned up. so we hired a boat and
l rowed while dad fshed. ! asst him
Why he didn't try that new prescrip-
lion to raise hair on his bald head that
I read Of in a magazine. 70 go bare
/ eaded in the sun. He asst me II any
BODY ever raised any hair on a bald
sead that way. and I told him about
Mr. Rockefeller. who had only M
haii on his head. and be played golf
bareheaded and in two weeks had 10
have his hair cut with a lawn mower.
cause ID made his brain ache. Dad
said il Rockefeller could raise hair by
the sunshine method he could. and he
threw his straw hat overheard, and
began 70 fish in the sun for fish and
hair. Well. you'd a dide 10 see dads
head after the blisters began 10 raise.
First. he thought the b~listers was hair
Int when we got back TO the hotel and
ke looked in a glass. he see il wasn't
hair worth a cent. His head and face
looked like one Of these hippopota-
muses.. and dad was mad. II | could
have got dad In a side show | could
have made a barrel of money. but he
won't never make a show OF hisselr
not even TO make money. he is Sc
proud. There is more proud flesh on
dad than there is on n man | ever
nuised. Well. dad asst me what was
good for blisters. and I told him lime
juice was the best thing. SO he sent
me TO get some lines. They are a
little sour thing. like a lemon. and |
told him 10 cut one in two and soak
the juice on his head and face, and |
went TO supper. cause dad looked so
dssreputable he wouldn't go To the
dining room. When / bought the
lines the man gave me a green per-
Summon. and of course dad got the
persimmon instead Of the lime, and
when / came back to- our room after
supper dad was in bed. yelling for a
doctor. Say, you know how a persim-
mon Fuckers your mouth up when you
: eat Il? Well, dad had just sopped
! himself with rersimmon juice, and
his head was puckered up like the hide
q an elephant. and his fsce and
D cheeks were drawn around sideways
I and wriEkled so | was scarf / gave
linn a mirror 10 look at hlsself, and
I when he got one look he said: Hen.
e merry, it is all over with your dad, you
D might just as well call in a lawyer &c
8 take my measure for a will, and an
= undertaken to fill me with stun so
{ will keep till they get me home By ex.
Dress. with handles on. What was tina
o You called that fruit | sopped my heac
/. with?' and he groane6 like he was a
I a revival. Well. | told him he ha,
q used the persimmon instead OF III,
lime juice ! told him to. aid that
would cure him. so | got a cake o
i dog soap and Numbered dad. and pu
On stun to take the swelling out. an,
the newt day he began to notice things.