Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-08-01

soon turned the hose inside the gro
Gerry. There was not very much fire.
and after tipping over every barrel
and box that had not been blown sky
high the flremen gave one last look at
the inside Of the grocery, one last
squirt at the burned and singed cat,
that had crawled into a bag of cinna-
mon on the top shelf, and they went
away, leaving the doors and windows
open; the crowd dispersed, and the
lad boy went in the front door, peered
around under the counter pulled the
cork out CT a bottle CT olive oil and be-
gan to anoint himself where he had
been scorched. Hearing a shutting. as
Of arctic overshoes filled with water, in
the back shed, and a still small voice.
saying, well, I'll be condemned" he
locked up and saw the red face of the
old groceryman peeiing in the back
door.
Have all the forts and war ships
come down YETI" said the cid man,
looking up toward the ceiling holding
up his elbow to ward off any possible
descending barrel or stove lid. 81 now
realize the truth Ct Gen. Sherman's re-
mark that war is hell. GOSH how 1t
smarts where the skin is burnt off.
i've me some of that salad Oil" and
the old man sopped the oil on his face
and head. and the boy rubbed his lips
and ears. and they looked at each
other, and tried to smile two cracked,
and 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 want you to get out
of here, and never come back"
Say you are unreasonable Do
you think l will go off and leave you
( to die here under the counter of blood
poisoning, like dog that has eaten
a 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? / never heard about it,
said the old groceryman, as he took
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. ''Geel but
you would make a boy laugh If his lips
were chapped You look like a 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 a graf, he
said he wanted to go fishing. and get
tanned up, so we hired a boat and
rowed while dad fished asst him
Why he didn't try that new prescrip-
ton to raise hair on his bald head that
I read of in magazine, to go bare
headed in the sun He asst me If any
body ever raised a:S' hair on bald
head that way, and 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 it made his brain ache. Dad
said If 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
hair Well you'd dide to see dads
head after the blisters began to raise.
First, he thought the blisters was hair,
bnt when we got back to the hotel and
he looked in glass. he see 1t wasn't
lair worth cent His head and face
looked like one OF these hippopota-
muses., and dad was mad If | could
have got dad in side show could
have made barrel Of money. but he
| won't never make a show of hisselr.
not even to make money, he is so
proud. There is more proud flesh on
Cad than there is on any man l ever
unused Well, dad asst me what was
good for blisters. and 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 to cut one in two and soak
the Juice ON his head and face, and |
V ont to supper, cause dad looked SO
disreputable 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 q
doctor Say. you know how perslm-
mon Fuckers your mouth up when you
eat Il? Well. dad had just sopped
himself with perslmmon juice. and
his head was puckercd up like the hide
a an elephant, and his face and
cheeks were drawn around sideways.
ana wrlnkled so | was scarf. I gave
him q mirror to look at hisaelf. and
when he got one look he said: "EIen.