I have passed the
kindling wood period in a boy's life, and have arrived at the coal period.
I will carry in coal, but I draw the line at kindling wood."
"Well, you are a cruel, bad boy," said the grocery man, as he
went to the book and charged the six shillings.
"O, I don't know. I think Pa is cruel. A man who will take a poor kitty by
the neck, that hasn't done any harm, and tries to chastise the poor thing
with a trunk strap, ought to be looked after by the humane society. And if
it is cruel to take a cat by the neck, how much more cruel is it to take a
boy by the neck, that had diphtheria only a few years ago, and whose
throat is tender? Say, I guess I will accept your invitation to take
breakfast with you," and the boy cut off a piece of bologna and helped
himself to the crackers, and while the grocery man was out shoveling off
the snow from the sidewalk, the boy filled his pockets with raisins and
loaf sugar, and then went out to watch the man carry in his kindling wood.
SPURIOUS TRIPE.
Another thing that is being largely counterfeited is tripe. Parties who
buy tripe cannot be too careful. There is a manufactory that can make
tripe so natural that no person on earth can detect the deception. They
take a large sheet of rubber about a sixteenth of an inch thick for a
background, and by a process only known to themselves veneer it with a
Turkish towel, and put it in brine to soak.
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