HE BECOMES A DRUGGIST.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4411, 22 February 1883, Page 4

HE BECOMES A DRUGGIST.

... "Whew.!- What is it ttafc smells sp about this store? It seems as though ererything had turned frowzy," said the. grocery man to his clerk, in the presence of the bad boy, who was standing with his back to the store, his coat-tails parted with his hands and a cigarette in his mouth. ; "Maybe it is nte that smells frowzy," said the boy, as he put his thumbs into ite.MmhQle^of hisrestand spit at'the the keyhole in the door. " I hate gone : into business." fyt'ißifi thfcnder! ■: Ivbeiieve it is -yon," • titi&thb grocery man,' as he weqft up to the ; boy, snuffed* a couple of times,'and then held hia hand to' his nose. " The Board of health will kerosene you, if they ever smell that, smell, 'anil aenff yon Ho the glue v" factory. What business are you.gone" into to;make you smell so rank' f" '' ' ' -you- see-pa^begun^tauUßink-it was time I learned a trade or a profession, and.te saw a sign in'kdrug stoic window,' ' Boy wanted,' and as he had a boy he , didn't want, he went to the druggist and .got a job for me. This smell will go off - is a few weeks. You know I wanted to 4ry all the perfumery in the store, and after I had got about forty different extracts on my clothes, another boy that worked there he fized up a bottle of ben- , zinc, and as>safety, and brimstone, and a whole lot of other stuff, and labelled it , rose generanium," - and I guess. I just wallered in it. It is'awful, ain't it P. It kerfiummixed ma when I went into the dining room the first night I got home i fiom the store, and broke pa all up. He . said I reminded him of the time they had a litter of skunks around under the barn. The air 1' seems fixed around where I am, and everybody seems to know • who.fitfditff A;girl came fn the store to Buy a satchet, and there wasn't.anybody there but trie, and I didn't know what it was, and I took down everything in the store pretty near before I found it, and then I wouldn't have found it only the proprietor; came, in. The girl asked the w, proprietor if-.there wasn't a good deal of P& sewer gas in the store, and he told me to go out and shake myself. I think the girl vra^made at me. because I got a nurs- ., ing bottle out of the show case, with a '.. rubber nuzzle, and asked her if that was what she wanted. , Well, she told me a satchet was something for^the stummiok, and I thought a nursing bottle was the ..- nearest thing /to it." < --,'.' " I should think you would drive all the customers away from the store," said the grocery man, ag he opened the door to let the fresh air in. " I don't know but I will, but I am hired for a month' on trial, and I shall stay. You see, I'shan't practice on anybody bnt pa for a spell. I made up my mind to that . wheal gave'a woman some salts instead of pow*dered borax, and she came back ' mad. Fa seems to waut to encourage me, and is, willing to take anything I ask him to. He bad a sore throat and wanted . something tor it, and the boss druggist told mo to put some tannin and chlorate of potash in a mortar, and grind it, and I let pa pound it with a pestle, and while he was pounding I dropped in a couple of drops of sulphuric acid, and it exploded and blowed pa's hat clear across the store, and, pa was whiter than a sheet. He said he guessed his throat was all right, and he wouldn't come near me again that day. The next day pa came in and I was laying for him. I took a white seidlitz powder and next day pa came in and I was laying for him.' 1 took a white seidlitz powder and a blue one and dissolved them in separate glasses, and when pa came in I asked him if he didn't want some lemonade, and he said he did, and I gave him the sour one and he drank it. He said it was too sour, and then I gave him the other glass tbac lobke'd like water, to take the taste out of his mouth and he drank it. Well, sir,' when those two powders got together in pa's stomach, and began to hiss and steam 1 and foam, pa pretty hear choked to death, and the suds come out of his nostrils, and his eyes stuck out, and as soon as he could get his breath he yelled 1 fife,'/ and .said he was poisoned, and called for a doctor, but I thought as we had.a doctor right in the family there was- no me of hiring one,, bo I got a stomach -pump, and I would have had him* bailed out in no time, only, the proprietor came in and told me to go and wash some bottles, and he gave pi'a drink of brandy, and pa said, he felt , better.'. Pa has learned where we keep the liquor, and he comes in two or three times a,day with a pain in his stomach. They play awful mean tricks .on a boy. in £■ a drug store. .The first: day. they put a Xehunkiof something sort.-of £ blue into a "mortar, and: told me to pulverise it, and then make it up into two grain pills. Well, sir; I pounded that chunk all the forenoon, and it never pulverised at all, and the boss told me to b'nrry'up, as the woman . was waiting for the pills, and I mauled it till I was nearly dead, and when it was time to go to supper and the boss came arid looked in.^the mortar, and took out the chunk and 1 saidi,.'You. dum fool, t you have been pounding all day on a chunk of India rubber, instead, of blue mass!' - W t el!,lhow did I,know P. But I will get even with them if I stay there long i; enough, and-don't you forget it. If you have a prescription you want filled,. jrou ■ .'come down to the store, and I will put it up.for you myself, and then you will be , sure you get what yotf pay for." " Yes," said the grocery man? as he cut off a piece of limburger cheese, and put it on the stove to purify the air in the room', "I should laugh, to see' myself taking any medicine you put up. You, will kill some one yet by giving them poison instead of quinine. Bat what has your pa got. his nose tied up for P Me looks as though he bad had a fight." '„ "O, that was from my treatment. ,He had a wart on his nose.' You know that wart. »You remember how the minister told him if other people's business had a button hole in it, pa could button the wart iff the button hole,- he always had his nose tlierev <■ Well; I told pa I could: cure that waft with caustic, and he said he'd give five dollars if I could.cure it, so, I took a stick of, caustio, and burned the wart off, but I guess I burned down into the nose a Jittle, for it swelled, up as big as a lobster, Pa says he.had rather have a whole nest of warts than such-a nose, but it will be, all right in. a year or two."— Peak's Sun. ' ...