Show TREMONTON Nearly Killed by Four Bad Editor Utah Our busy little city was great ly shocked the other day by the sad intelligence that old Mother Brindle-Berry was not expected to live that she had been nearly killed by five young ruffians who hear our church bell ring every Sunday and who have been taught to respect the aged and The circumstances relating to Brin-dle-Berry's almost tragic end occurred in the following and Snipe went up to Garland the other day to make a and left their three sons and Henry at home to keep As soon as the old folks were gone the boys invited the Smith boys so that they could have a big After eating two mince pies and opening a can of John said he could disguise himself so that no one could tell who he The other boys told him to try So John left the Charley said he knew what John was going to do he was going to dress up like an old woman then come around to the front door and if he continued will fix He has tried that old game too many I will get an old gunny sack and a When Charley he kept the gunny sack and gave the rope to then all the boys went into the dark Charley keep still when John comes I will draw this sack over his head and tie it tight around his then you fellows tie his hands so ho won't be able to wriggle or Presently a knock was heard at the door and the boys fixed themselves for the When the Smith boy John opened the door and stepped Charley drew the sack over his head j and tied while the other boys tied his hands was a perfect disguise for he looked for all the world just like an old They then threw himi on the and Smith's taking Johnny's feet under his used Johnny's legs for a pair of and drew hira around the while the other boys got on to John is not a favorite in and the boys thought they were using him too so wishing to play Putnam rode him down the stairs into the They then drew him the mud on the cellar then through some rotten till he smelled worse than the skunk under hack They now proceeded to take him by the belt and hang him on one of the metal Later they amused themselves by throwing potatoes at They concluded that he must bo so they took him upstairs and laid him on the back of the and gave him a good hot Smith's boy thought he ought to have a bath and his own clothes put on They took him to the bath filled tub full of hot sat him in that and commenced to undress keeping the bag over his head all the time so that he could not make any First took off his then his under skirt then his when lo and the next minute four boys were on a dead run for the Drug It was not for when he went out to disguise himself he saw a dog after a rabbit and went to help catch But it was old who had come over from Point Lookout to borrow the Utah and when she stepped into the dark the boys thought surely it was the Drug Store man got to the bath tub was the first to get there after the boys made the he found Brindle Berry almost parboiled and nearly suffocated by the gunny sack over her The Drug Store man swore a blue streak at such awful Then he thought what a lot of liniment and plasters he would sell to cure and he quieted The doctor and the post master soon they made a very careful They found that two of Brindle Berry's ribs were her back wrenched as a result of being pulled down and one of her knees was The last spark of life was nearly The candle of her earthly existence had burned nearly down to the and before this gets to the printing press I am afraid it will be Yours F. G. |