| Show Accident in the Related by F. G. Shinbone The 3 a de 1 According to agreement with you I send you today my first Very small things sometimes to larger It 1 only a torch that caused e the destruction of old it was only O'Leary's cow caused the great fire in it was only a rejected politician that caused the American party in Salt jand it was only a bad hoy and r i short piece of clothesline that I given use to a great deal of n suffering to family in our quiet though bustling And the following is the way it happened SP Little Johnnie 1 heard some of the men in the hardware store say that when two persons were sleeping the best way to cure of getting up in their v was to tie their feet Little knowing that his folks sometimes ot up in their thought would try the remedy on So last Tuesday night after the old folks had gone to he quietly stole out to the js poal house and cut about three L feet off from a new clothes line his father had bought the he had made iera hangman's noose in end of he slid into the bedroom to the foot of his father's and mother's raised up the quilts i slipped one end of it over father's foot and the other aver his He said to himself as he went back to his pa and ma get up in sleep they will let 1 Wh other know 1 The old clock ticked away on the mantel shelf calmly as the bureau stood in the same and everything was m perfect order until about four 3 when After rubbing his eyes a he went to turn- when Snakes lie yelled he thought one was around his like a Shoshone he leaped from the bed like a football completely turning over the bed in and the When the bureau turned the large looking glass on it hit S. on his which shot through the frame like a circus rider through a hoop and Siss-ing yelled S. he made another pulling S. through the looking glass and leaving her night gown hanging on the projecting glass and Then he dragged her past the wash which she caught and pouring the contents of a pitcher of water over and boa yelled S. as he grabbed the what-not and upset it in the and ran his head into the clock on the mantel at the same time dragging S. through the broken pieces of the vases and sea shells that were on While S. was dragging his loving wife around the room and yelling at the top of his the remainder of the people in the house were not Little Johnnie called the hired man and The hired hearing the awful thought it was crazy and wild so he called loudly to the While the hired man was shouting for the dogs belonging to S. and three from the neighbors ran into the and after chewing and S. awhile they got to fighting among The yells groans and sighs of and shouts of the the and snarling of five together with all the noise that little Johnnie and the hired man and girl could make caused the people of Tremonton to believe that the San Francisco earthquake had struck Bear River It was only a few minutes before two fool kids of one of the neighbors ran over and fired two shot guns into the room which killed two of the while the remaining three took their departure through the carrying glass ana sash with By this time the hired man had a lamp and when he dared to venture into the what a sight met his Pen cannot portray S. had dragged S. through the broken pieces of the the sea the wash bowl and and what was left of the He had dragged her through the looking glass he had dragged her over the the bureau and the what-not until the rope which tied the loving pair together had under the closet where it held When the light was thrown into the room S. lay on one side of the door dressed like while S. was on the other side with nothing on but that garment he changes once a and that looked like the Spanish flag after the battle of San Juan S. was hurt more than for the rope twisted her foot nearly and when she was drawn through the looking glass she was cut from foot to head by the projecting glass and The neighbors did all they could for they cut the rope and sent for the who picked the out of S.'s wounds and bandaged S.'s hopping foot was full of glass and tacks and his head showed a very large swelling where he hit it against the mantle The dogs and guns did much damage for there was not a spot on either of them as large as a postage stamp but showed dog teeth and bird I called later in the day to see how before I sent in this S. was propped up by the old Boston S. lay on the while Johnnie sat on the other side of stove looking very S. declared that he had had a forerunner the week before that something awful would happen to and it was just as he S. was sure that some of the family were to because she saw the Pale Horse without any rider galloping around the Johnnie said he thought the remedy was worse than getting up in Yours till next P. G. |
