The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-03-25

other, and tried to smile two cracked,
ind wrinkled and scorched smiles,
across the counter 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 to get out
Of here, and never come back"
Say, you are unreasonable. Do
you think will go OF and leave you
to die here under the counter of blood
poisoning. like dog that has eaten
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. n
What about your dad getting skun
in Florida? never heard about it,"
said the cid 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 boy laugh IL his lips
were chapped. You look like creased
pig at barbecue. Well, when we
struck Florida, and dad got so he
could assimilate high balls, and eat
oranges off the trees, like GRAF, he
taid he wanted to go fishing. and get
tanned up, SO we hired boat and
rowed while dad fished asst him
Why he didn't try that new prescrip-
lion to raise hair on his bald head that
read of in a magazine, to go bare
feaded in the sun. He asst me II any
body ever raised any hair on q bald
head that way, and I told him about
Mr.. Rockefeller. who had only one
hair on his head, and he played golf
bareheaded and in two weeks had to
have his hair cut with lawn mower,
cause 1t 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 to fish in the sun for fish and
hsir. Well, you'd dide to see dads
head after the blisters began to raise.
First, he thought the blisters was hair,
Int when we got back to the hotel and
lie looked in glass, he see II wasn't
lair worth q cent. His head and face
looked like one of these hippopota-
muses., and dad was mad. II I could
have got dad in side show I could
have made barrel of money, but he
wont never make show of hisself,
not even to make money, he Is 80
proud. There Is more proud flesh on
dad than there is on any man ever
nui sed. Well, dad asst me what was
good for blisters, and l told him lime
juice was the best thing, SO he sent
me to get some lines. They are a
little sour thing, like lemon, and I
told him to cut one In two and soak
the juice on his head and face. and
went to supper, cause dad looked 80
d.sreputable he wouldn't 60 to the
dining room. When bought the
lines the man gave me green per-
Summon, and of course dad got the
persimmon instead of the lime, and
when l came back to our room after
supper dad was in bed. yelling for q
uCSeoI' cny Nho" nov PSioih-
mon puckera FUR mouth up when you
eat It? Weff, dad had just sopped
himself with persimmon juice, and
his head was puckered up like the hide
Of an elephant. and his face and
cheeks were drawn around sideways,
and wrinkled SO was scarf. l gave
him q mirror to look at hisself, and
when he got one look he said. Hen
merry, It is all over with your dad, you
might just as well call in lawyer to
take my measure for a will. and an
undertaken to all me with stun so I
will keep till they get me home by ex-
press, with handles on. What was that
you called that fruit sopped my head
withf" and ne groaned like he was at
. revival. Well, told him he had
used the persimmon instead OF the
lime Juice told him to. and that ]
would cure him, 20 got = cake OF
dog soap and Numbered dad. and put
on stun 10 take the swelling out, ana
the next dny he BEGAN to notice thinRn %