The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-10


were gettin' green stuff all the while
So he rugged up two pair Of big greer
spectacles and fastened 'em onto tn,
| family horse and old Boss, the cow
The result did in way prove thai
| EZra's theory was correct. His father
wore a large bunch of red whiskers
about enough Of them to fill pillow
The evening after Ezra fixed up the
family horse with the spectacles his
father went out to the harm to give
Dobbin feed Of corn. He was think
in about something else and didn't
notice the spectacles til he got right
up to the manger. Dobbin looked
thru them spectacles and concluded
that the old mans whiskers was a
forkful of green grass. He just reach
ed over and bit out about an armful
of the old mans lilacs, Incidentally
takin' about four square inches of
skin with it. 1t made Ezra's father
real warm and when he got his face
patched up he called little Ezra into
the woodshed, saying as he whirled
the blacksnake around that he liked
to see boys enterprising but not too
blamed much so. That discouraged
Ezra some, but he got over it after
awhile and began experimenting on
another line. His father was always
because the hired man did
not get up early enough in the morn
ing and that put an idea into Ezras
head. He commenced working on an
automatic awakener which he could
set like an alarm clock, to go off at
certain hour. When that time come
The machine would reach out an arm
and joggle the bed and wake up the
sleeper Some how or other Ezra
made a miscalculation on the power
and got it about four or five times as
strong as he intended. He finally got
t about to his liking but wanted to
.luded to hide it under the bed old |
nan Summers slept on. 1t seems
hat Ezra had been fooling with the |
lock work that released the machin- |
Try and didn't notice that he had set |
t to go off at 2 o'clock in the morn
ny. The elder Summers was toler-
IDLY heavy sleeper and snored so that |
lie made the shingles rattle on the
oof. He hadn't looked under the bed
When he retired and didn' know that
izra's invention was there He was
-oing good with the exception that
lis breathing tracts would dam up
nee in a while and then let loose
With loud explosion, when all at
nee that machine went off and re-
eased three powerful coiled springs.
hey lifted the bed near six feet from
he floor and threw the old man up
gainst the ceiling. He yelled like
Comanche, thinking, suppose,
nat burglars had attacked him while
e was asleep. When he found out
hat was the matter he kicked the
lachine to pieces and then he warmed
IRA up for a spell. The next thing
IRA tried his hand on was an cleo
'ical machine He got the idea from
icing one of these electric batteries
ork in a doctors office where the
atient takes hold of a couple of
andes and the doctor turns on a
emile current of electricity under
lie impression that this is very help
ii to the human system. Well, Ezra
OF some batteries and wire and acid
nd went to work, and he got the
ling to work too. Then he took it in
, show it to his father and the fam
V. There was an old maid aunt who
ade her home with the family a
ood deal of the time Ezra's father
dn't like her, but he didn't have the
erve to tell her to go away and not
,me back and so she staid. Well,
IRA persuaded his aunt to take hold
{ the two handles just by way OF
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he Juice. He give the old maid a
,rrible shock She yelled but could
t let GO Ezra tried to turn off the
irrent but only got it stronger The
d maid did the Highland fling and
zra's father went out of the room to
eep her from seeing him laugh. 1t
as more than minute before Ezra
,und the right combination to throw
# the current and when he did his
ant was nearly in a state of nervous
rostration She insisted that Ezra
nd done it on purpose and that his
lther should lick him good and plen-
:, but this time the old man felt
frerent from what he did when the
Prise bit out an armful of his whis-
ers and refused to punish the boy.
hat made the old aunt mad and she
acked her buds declaring that she
ould never darken that house again.
fter she had gone Ezra's father
ave him a half dollar, but told him
lat he guessed he had better hide
lat machine. That was the way 1t